On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 9:09:31 PM, "Bruce Macintosh" < ... I think by "game design analysis" he meant realizing that you already had the hex distance between...
... I gave up on those after 'The Book of Lost Tales Vol 2'. Unfinished Tales was okay, but after that it just seemed to be reasons for Christopher Tolkien to...
... I doubt he has made a whole lot of profit from them - he has just been taking the job of literary executor very seriously. I just recently reread the...
... I'm not sure, but I got the impression that before the end of the War of the Ring, Sauron was making Middle Earth a rather unpleasant place to live. After...
... Bringing us nicely back to geopolitics and relative vs absolute decline :> Or, "if you haven't read Paul Kennedy, why not?" ... They're neat to read, but...
shudson@...
Jan 1, 2002 8:51 pm
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... No humans or orcs or dwarves (O my!) to share with :)...
shudson@...
Jan 1, 2002 8:52 pm
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Some time ago, we discussed big vs. small aircraft carriers on this list, and I made some references to a summary report I had seen that summarized the ...
Basically, not long after the Elves were "awakened" by Illuvatar, the Valar met them, and offered them a place in Valinor. Many went, some went part way and...
Joey Browning
jb@...
Jan 1, 2002 9:25 pm
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... Jack Haldeman slipped away quietly today, with his family gathered around him. His web site is at http://www.sff.net/people/jack.haldeman/...
... Basically, the conclusion is that the "other tasks" are really fixed workloads and not (very) proportional to specific offensive sorties to be conducted? ...
shudson@...
Jan 1, 2002 10:12 pm
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... Some (maybe most) of them are fixed. For instance, self-defence (CAP and Early Warning) needs don't really change with carrier size, nor do things like...
... Is "tanker support" security for approaching resupply ships (and thus proportional to a/c avgas use) or something else?...
shudson@...
Jan 1, 2002 11:42 pm
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Is anybody else getting a lot of messages claiming to come from 12/31/2002
(or even Jan 1, 2003)? All the date info on my machine looks correct, but a
lot of...
Rick Baumhauer
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Jan 1, 2002 11:49 pm
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I would say (and perhaps the study addresses this) that you can't consider all these in a vacuum, of course. If the choice is between a 12-ship force of ...
Hi, Happy New Year! Among other projects, I've been working on Grand Fleet and I wonder how other people factor in the human element, those people who are...
... Heh. One of my odder game acquisitions is "the Battle of Helms Deep", circa 1970. It plays remarkably well, for all that the counters are in florescent...
Shameless plug here -- this is the play-online client for DVOL. It's now advanced to the point where it'll work as a "smart" map for DV. More things will be...
(in addition to stats, they have special "perks" that gives them ... does this ... If you're writing an RPG, that's probably fine. For a wargame, I don't...
I got this reply from a non-Listee who was a nuke ... can be...
shudson@...
Jan 2, 2002 4:39 am
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... other ... the ... this ... In a hard-SF setting, for a lot of jobs, I wouldn't go overboard with this at a tactical level - it's not like a really good...
... Well, I did get out to buy this on Boxing Day, and the 20% discount made the price tag acceptable (we're also hurting for ~5% due to the slump in the $CDN...
shudson@...
Jan 2, 2002 5:23 am
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In a message dated 1/1/2002 9:13:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Good point, altough I can't say that my background will be hard-SF, although it will have...
Do to a little bit of insomnia, I have a little better idea of what I think of when I think of "professional" SciFi. It isn't tech based like hard or soft...
... Check out CapLog 23; they have a couple of double sized cards for starbases and planetary defenses, and a modified rule for fighter wings, as well as a...
Greetings: --begin paste-- I gave up on most fantasy because I got sick of most of the pap you see in trilogies these days. --end paste-- Trilogies? I think...
Greetings: Sigh. Now I'll never see the sequel to "High Steel"! While his output was not up to his brother's in volume, I did enjoy his books as much. Damn,...
... Uh, what would be the matter with drawing two perpendicular lines 110 mm long, calling the vertical one the altitude and the horizontal one the range, and...
In general, I agree with you. You really *are* missing some excellent stuff with Martin's books, though - best stuff I've read in the last 3 years, easy. JB ...
