From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:41:28 -0500
Subject: Quotes - some extra info
"The sound of death is small plastic cubes rattling against each other" - - Aaron Neuman watching Stuart Murray rolling 28 dice. =====> That's a darn good quote. "I have NO staying power." - Bren =====> I remember one that happened in the lobby at 2.00 am ish when Tom, Jim, Bren, JP, Dean and I were playing Nuclear War.... Tom described his policy: "When I'm offending someone, I generally don't spread around my attacks. I pick one person and offend them until they aren't around anymore." and of course "I have a secret!" (followed by) "You can keep your secret!". "I'm thinking you want to roll a d8 and get a really high number to be even moderately scared......'3' is not it." - Tom Barclay to Indy in A Grey Day To Die ======> Clarification: A high high number was needed to pass the Terror check, and 3 wasn't close. (a little later) "I need someone to roll a ten-sided die. You want high...give it to Kochte. He'll get a good number." - Tom Barclay, A Grey Day To Die ======> I believe the <sarcasm dripping> tag needed applied here. You rolled (amongst other ones almost uncountable) two 1's in a row for comms attempts if I recall correctly Mark.... More from 'A Grey Day To Die': Thomas: "QRC, I need a QRC -- quick, someone give me a SG2QRC!" David: "...Huh?" Ted: "...Uh?" Rick: "...Wha?" ========> Rick in answer to many question "....Wha?..." (I think he was distracted by the thought of his wife's impending return to the country)... :) "It's better than blowing a Phalon." - Tom McCarthy, FB2 playtest session =======> Oh was it now, Mr. McCarthy? <*wink*> "Okay, Kochte. Roll a d8. Do not roll a one." - Tom Barclay to Indy, after which Indy rolled...a one. =======> And you missed "Don't give the initiative dice to Kochte... he's rolled a one last time. He's rolled low repeatedly. He'll roll a one." Silly human persists and the Kochte Probability Skew Demon has its chance.... a one is rolled. "Never give an RV to a guy who rolls '1s'" - Tom Barclay, A Grey Day to Die, recounting Indy's futile attempt to avoid the Kra'Vak from placing limpit mines on his infantry walker's legs. =========> Mark, most of us found your tactic of backing your recon walker into the enemy infested woods so they could reach up and stick limpet mines on was quite humorous... although perhaps militarily a tad questionable... though it did reveal some enemy units...:) Back to A Grey Day To Die: Ted (human): "Key your radio twice if you can hear me." Kr'rt (you-know-who): "<click...> ====> context - Ted tries to comm a squad on a hill he formerly controlled, failing to recall (mind you visual evidence would have been obvious to any observer) that the hill and the squad had been overrun by KV Juves and the squad was....inconvenienced....terminally.... Purple Kra'Vak upon attempting interrogation of first human captives. After dissection and removal of skull caps: "Mmmm. Their tops are full of jelly...and their bottoms full of chocolate. Yum!" (A Grey Day) ======> By the end of the game the KV had about 10-15 prisoners and a whole bivoac area and interrogation section setup at the back of the entry board....;) Returning to A Grey Day, after Dave Raynes' fire team missed hitting the Kra'Vak squad as it close-assaulted his platoon leader's squad: Rick: "How're you doing?" Dave: "I just shot my CO" =======> Context: KV assault squad comes hussling down a cliff face and close assaults and demises one squad. The other formerly broken squad in the woods sees their CO and PSgt cut off in the cave under the hill and try to rescue them. Their fire hurts the KV squad slightly wounding one or killing one, but I look at the map and think "they're firing STRAIGHT into the cave mouth". I attenuated their FP dice a few shifts due to cover and shooting at individuals and made them roll for friendly fire. The CO didn't make it.... (K-Pow!) so only the PSgt could be captured.... <Great Tactic if it had been planned!> "SAW team? I didn't think we were talking about amputations anymore..." - Ted A, A Grey Day ====> I have a mailbomb for Ted just for this singularly awful quote.... Indy (gesturing to the smoking K'V VTOL in the lake): "What happened?" Kr'rt: "I don't know. That's not my side of the board, Monkey Boy." Follow-up comment from Kr'rt to the above: "Our air assets became sea assets." =====> That was the third attack VTOL. The second one went down on top of a human squad (GMS/H Air got it, but it crashed to earth on top of an FSE squad anyway). The third one came down in a small lake. They all flew the same route with the same results.... seemed to be a pattern here the KV just weren't seeing.... Back to A Grey Day: Tom Pope, leader of the Kra'Vak: "We're running low on black skulls." <later> "We've only got 4 left." <later> "We have to borrow some black skulls..." ======> And we had 2 counter sets. Definitely from A Grey Day: David Raynes (on saturday): "I'll give you $1.50 to stop shooting at me." <later> "$3.50" <later> "$7.00" <next day> "$12.00, that's my final offer." =====> I could have sworn I saw Tom taking money from someone.... I wonder if the buyout was a success.... One you missed I like. Last turn of Grey Day. Kr'rt, running Wi'Sel the legendary KV sniper, says "I take a shot at the lone human figure". This figure (picture this) is the leader of the FSE contingent (Major Andrea D'Aubagne) and the 2nd in command of the human Kampfgruppe. All alone, by herself, but behind a one level hill far away from any other figures. We ask Kr'rt the range band. He says "Range Band 1". We look quizically. He places his figure less than 6" from the Human Cmdr along a river bank she is standing beside. He drops her wounded. He reveals he has a Predator Caste KV there to pick up the human and go for his lines.... only he misses something. Rick reveals the mechanics and the clerks and the ambulance. Two squads. One squarely on either side of Wi'Sel (Weasel-Boy the Sniper), both on Overwatch, and both firing at point blank. <The fate of Wi'Sel is ambiguous as of yet and TBD by some FMA Skirmish shortly>. Wi'Sel had legendary stealth to sneak through the human formation to get so close to the human XO, but his observation was subpar (two sets of hidden units interpenetrating). It was VERY memorable.... Great Going, Wi'Sel! Your War Master Gnashes His Hunter-Fangs In Admiration!