[ECC] See you in Lancaster

To everybody heading off to GZG-ECC, have a safe journey, and I'll see
you there! (I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, going to spend the extra day
playing tourist around the County.)

JGH

> To everybody heading off to GZG-ECC, have a safe journey, and I'll see

Safe journeys and a good Con to everyone going to Lancaster - wish I
could be over there with you guys, but I'm off down to Southampton for
Minamicon (three hour drive rather than six hour flight! <grin>). If they
hadn't
clashed.......  :-/

Hope it all goes well, have a great time and show us the pictures!

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

Excuse a 'me too' post here - we're all very jealous this side of the
pond!

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

and...

> Tony Francis wrote:

Thank you. And thank you for all the product support for prizes. We'll get the
quotes, AARs, and pictures up when we get back to the real world next week.

Barclay will probably put another bounty on my head for the weekend, so I'm
sure some Viet Cong or NV sniper will be gunning for my commander on Friday
night, or a racer on the Formula De tracks (or Barclay himself), or a vengeful
Ogre Mk V on Saturday evening. All I have to say is...

'Bring it on!  Is that the best you can do!?!?'  :-)

ECC VI will be held on Feb 21-23, 2003.   Can we get British Airways to
book at least two tickets?

> Jon Davis wrote:

> ECC VI will be held on Feb 21-23, 2003. Can we get British Airways

I wish... but I doubt my wife would approve of me spending half the family's
holiday budget on three days in the states 'playing with toy soldiers'...

But then again, if Brigade sell enough of Jeremey's bugs in the next 12
months, you never know ;-)

> Tony Francis wrote:

Well, git'cher butts over here next year! Jon Davis has the dates
already (I have them, too, lost in my backlogged email :-/ ), so
you can start planning!  :-)

Mk

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >could be over there with you guys, but I'm off down to Southampton

Last year Ted came from California and Magic from Puerto Rico....

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:51:01 +0000, Tony Francis <tony.francis@kuju.com>
wrote:

> Excuse a 'me too' post here - we're all very jealous this side of the

Hey, I was planning to go up until I moved South! I'm on this side of the pond
and still jealous.

Have a great con, guys!

(Now if only there were enough people in the Ark-La-Miss/Ark-La-Tex area
for
GZG games...).

> Allan Goodall wrote:

Excuses, excuses. :-p ;-)  I believe Nick is coming from around
the St Louis area, and as Laser-L pointed out earlier, Ted had
attended for the past couple years from Calif.

> Have a great con, guys!

Certainly looking forward to it! And I've got some *great* prizes that people
are going to take home, all very generously the courtesy of Jon
T,
Tony of Brigade, and David of DLDProd.

(btw, that plug was both to thank them publicly now and to give you
hold-outs incentive to come out next year! ;-)

Mk

This year I am not going to make it. I am actually in the states but due to
things will only be able to spend 14 days in 6 months with my family. Much as
I would like to spend 3 of those gaming I don't think I can take the Karma hit
<G>.

Next year I will be stationed in Atlatic City, NJ and will be there.

Magic

--- "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
wrote:
> > Ground Zero Games wrote:

Allan Goodall said:
> Hey, I was planning to go up until I moved South! I'm on this side of

Mardi Gras?

That's too bad... I was looking forward to gaming with you again this year!

-- Rick Rutherford

[quoted original message omitted]

> (btw, that plug was both to thank them publicly now and to

The best reason to show up is to see Indy miss the broad side of a barn with
a P-Torp. That's the reason I go! (and to see Barclay driven off in
Formula De, but hey!)

JP

> Jean-Pierre Fiset wrote:

> The best reason to show up is to see Indy miss the broad side of a barn

> with

I don't know who that's a bigger slam on - Indy for his dice skills, or
his opponents, for having their beautiful sleek starships described as
"Barns."
;-)

2B^2

[quoted original message omitted]

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:44:58AM -0800, Brian Bilderback wrote:

OK, "he couldn't hit the broad side of a Maximilian BC". Better?

(Incidentally, does anyone have a repository for lists of individual
ship names? I've been making up rather a lot recently - and my fleet
record printing software will store and assign them randomly, which is handy
for pickup games.)

Roger Burton West

> OK, "he couldn't hit the broad side of a Maximilian BC". Better?

Better, maybe, not nearly as fun to lampoon....

2B^2

> Roger Burton West wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:44:58AM -0800, Brian Bilderback wrote:

Sure.

US Naval Vessel Register:
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/name.htm

German Navy Encyclopedia (Unofficial site. go to "Kriegsmarine" then
"Shipindex" to get to ship names.):
http://www.german-navy.de/marine.htm

Royal Navy Today:
http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/2204.html

Royal Australian Navy (got to admire a Navy that has a link to order model
maker sheets on the front page):
http://www.navy.gov.au/fleet/fleetmain.html

Russian Naval Ship Names:
http://www.webcom.com/~amraam/shipind.html

Japanese Warship Names:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijnnames.htm

Very useful, thanks. Might want to add these:

Most of WW2 can be found here:
http://www.freeport-tech.com/WWII/000_admin/000oob.htm

Most current navies can be found at:
http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/

And specifics on the US Navy can be found at:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ffiletop.html

> Ray Forsythe wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:29:21AM -0500, Ray Forsythe wrote:

(etc.)

Thanks. Actually, I meant ship names that people have used in the
Tuffleyverse - these links are indeed useful (that Russian one was
particularly good) but not quite what I'm talking about. (When I look at the
NSL ship classes, for example, I find that most of the individual ship names
that were used in the real world have already been used as class names...)

> Roger Burton West wrote:

You could try in here: