Can't Recommend this Site for GZG fans (was Re: Dirtside Miniatures - take a look at these)

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 16:01:21 -0400, "Haun, Gilles, SSG"
> <haung@Eustis-EMH10.army.mil> wrote:

Status: RO

> For all you guys out there looking for sci-fi miniatures, I stumbled

> Give 'em a look, I think you'd like them.

Gil means well with his recommendation of this site, but the owner of the site
raised the ire of GZG fans a month or so back. There were three or four
threads on rec.games.miniatures.misc dealing with Dirtside II and Stargrunt 2.
The owner of the site in question, John McEwen, jumped in and started flogging
his own games, Starguard and Days of Empire.

Now if the threads were general threads about sci fi games, his comments would
be on topic. However, the SG2 thread was a question from someone who wanted
specific information about SG2. McEwen jumped in and told the guy he should
check out Starguard. Okay, we've seen that sort of thing before, but on the
same day in a DS2 thread he
posted, "HI:  If you are looking for a 1/300 sci fi armor game, check
out Days of Empire at http://www.halcyon.com/shamrock" The person was
NOT looking for a sci fi game, he was looking for a European distributor for
DS2 figures. On a third thread (subject: "Dirtside II?") he posted this:

> Claes Wedin wrote:

> already. thanks JM

Note that at no time did he actually mention in his posts that he is the owner
of the web site and the designer of the game; you had to visit the site to
learn this. These posts all came on the same day, targeted at DS2 and SG2
threads. There were some angry messages about this, but he didn't respond.

I personally found his tactics offensive, especially as the threads were for
specific information about GZG products. Everyone else is welcome to their
opinions, but this guy's tactics pissed me off enough that I'm not buying
anything from him. For all the posts, check out
Deja News (at http://www.dejanews.com) and decide for yourself.