Old Stuff, Old People :)

> My God, someone remembers these..... :-)

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> If you can scan the pic, by all means put it up!

Yes, please!

> magic..?), but mainly stayed with minis wargaming. Published first GZG

Hmm. My interest has been piqued. For the sake of history, Jon, is there
any master list/timeline of GZG rulesets?

To get the (apparently) obligatory bio out of the way:

Born '68. Introduced to SF by my father at about... age 6 I think. Tom
Swift -> Asimov & Heinlein -> Niven & Pournelle by the time I got
through high school. Introduced to D&D in '80 by a friend, moved on to Star
Frontiers, Gamma World, Paranoia and GURPS (and Monty Python, my one and only
campaign world was called Njorl's Saga. Set in the Barony of North Malden.)

Collected and read a LOT more than I ever played (reams of old Dragons, WDs
and misc rulesets fill my apartment.) While I played my first game of
Microarmour about the same time I started up with D&D, my wargaming urges were
limited pretty much to Squad Leader (once or twice) Panzer Blitz (way beyond
my depth, but it only cost me $3) and Starship Troopers (has anyone ever
gotten beyond the third programmed scenario?)

Re-discovered micro armor when a game store opened in KC about 5 years
ago...co-owner of the store at that time was Harold Coyle. Got to play
with him once (my one brush with gaming fame) but the rules were sooo slow..
and I always seemed to end up as Russian infantry charging into artillary
barrages.:P Picked up DSII because of the cover, and the 'color' text on page
one hooked me (the real reason I game: I'm a Sense of Wonder junkie. I *live*
for color text.) Liked the system pacing and
the hard-SF feel. Tracked down FT and discovered I liked it even better.
Have since discovered that minis gaming is ideal because: a) you don't have to
dedicate your life to them to enjoy the hobby and get the odd game going, b)
the players are typically more intelligent or at least
have more depth c) my tastes in reading have moved from Hard SF ->
Military SF -> Military History and mini games feed that interest much
more so than most others. Now presently lurk on the GZG mailing list, live in
a small Kansas town entirely without gamers, play occasionally
back in KC, and am trying to teach a Star Wars-crazed high school friend
of mine what *real* SF is all about.:)

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> In a message dated 6/10/99 10:09:20 AM EST, jiji@my-deja.com writes:

<< in a small Kansas town entirely without gamers, play occasionally back in
KC, and am trying to teach a Star Wars-crazed high school friend of mine
what *real* SF is all about.:)
> [quoted text omitted]

Let me invite you down to Oklahoma City sometime - we'll find you a
game, I
betcha! Check into our historical CON every March - TwisterCon VI (or
will it
be VII, I forget). E-mail

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> In a message dated 6/10/99 10:09:20 AM EST, jiji@my-deja.com writes:

<< in a small Kansas town entirely without gamers, play occasionally back in
KC, and am trying to teach a Star Wars-crazed high school friend of mine
what *real* SF is all about.:)
> [quoted text omitted]

Let me invite you down to Oklahoma City sometime - we'll find you a
game, I
betcha! Check into our historical CON every March - TwisterCon VI (or
will it
be VII, I forget). E-mail
***

And, though, if memory serves me, Lincoln, NE, is closer, I believe I already
invited you up. Also, local gamers I hang out with are mostly GW devotees,
with occasional outbreaks of variety from German board games to FTII to
Flintloque
to Man O' War. ;->= Some of us won't even admit it came from the same
company.

And, yes, I'm on: The Unofficial GZG Player Location Page.

The_Beast

> In a message dated 6/10/99 10:52:52 AM EST, devans@uneb.edu writes:

<<
And, though, if memory serves me, Lincoln, NE, is closer, I believe I already
invited you up. Also, local gamers I hang out with are mostly GW devotees,
with occasional outbreaks of variety from German board games to FTII to
Flintloque
 to Man O' War. ;->= Some of us won't even admit it came from the same
company.
> [quoted text omitted]

At Twistercon we hardly admit the existence of GW - some rep always does
a
40K game session for kids, but other than that we follow a 10% sci-fi
90% historical format for the convention. Great stuff! I've run FT and DS II

there a couple of times (also Battle Tech, thirty Years War and Napoleonics
and Navals).