Mad Russian Wrote:Thanks Paul. I am pretty adamant about getting in touch with Jim or Mark. If you like you could have them get in touch with me. My email is on the site. Or at worst you have it. I know Randy still does. Phone calls or personal meeting is not out the question either. I've gone farther for less than what we are talking about doing here.

Mad Russian Wrote:I will continue my efforts to get in touch with them until I talk with at least one of them or the stone cold silence gets too deafening. But I can stand alot of silence......lol.....I can just come and see if I can get Bootie to buy Forge of Freedom while I wait....he would love that game if he likes strategic mind benders. The resemblances to the war in Russia 1941-1945 are amazing.

Mad Russian Wrote:I appreciate the warning. I didn't mention it to him. It's not about that. If he wants to know about it we can discuss it but this isn't about Blitz procedures...etc....

Mad Russian Wrote:This thread has turned into several things. From asking a simple question to fielding questions by staff members and even TALKING ABOUT WARGAMES! Woo Hoo!!

Mad Russian Wrote:You're the only one that really pretty much knows what this is about. I don't have any desire to make the purpose of my contact with Jim public. All I will say is that it's not about vendettas, Blitz procedures, etc... It's about fowarding the wargame community. And from you told POS earlier, about the reason for their wanting a different kind of club, I feel more inclined to discuss my communications with him than ever before.

Mad Russian Wrote:Since this thread is wandering so much, I asked you before what you play, but we got hit with tangents, and you never answered that. So, again, what do you play here on the site? Have you tried Forge of Freedom by Matrix? Do you have an interest in the American Civil War?

At present I only play CMx1, Forge of Freedom and Panzer Commader: Operation Winter Storm and Kharkov.

Mad Russian Wrote:So it doesn't come as any surprise to you I've asked anyone that may know of Jim on 4 other web sites about being able to contact him as well.

Also, I believe I have a really good idea of how to contact him at work. I'll not do that though unless all other avenues of communications fail. That would mean no communications with Mark either. I figure, in todays world, I should be able to find, and talk with, at least one, if not both of them.

I appreciate all you've done in this matter so far.

Steel God Wrote:It's been almost 2 years, maybe a shade less, since I've had the time to actually play a game of anything , here or anywhere. The price of being an administrator and having to spend all my time fielding questions and fixing stuff.

Quote:When I did play I was in up to my eyeballs on the SP and OpC Ladders. SP was my original game,..... If I had to choose between the two today I'd go back to OpC as I'm more of an operational thinker than a tactical thinker, and I worked on more than half the series and feel some sense of ownership. FoF appeals to me because I loved VG's Civil War (still do), but my old PC wouldn't run it, I haven't the time to learn or play it.

Steel God Wrote::chin: Well, since I'm not really sure what we're talking about here, I don't think I want to volunteer to be your intermediary. I figure if you wanted me to know you'd have clued me in, but you haven't, so I'll not ask you to, but nor will I volunteer to be your go between. No offense intended, just the way I see things.

Mad Russian Wrote:What the heck is OpC?

Mad Russian Wrote:Victory Games Civil War is GREAT! Your machine will run FoF just fine. My machine is a 1.1 ghz and all it tells me about FoF is that I have to run it on low-res. I don't do the detailed combat since I prefer to the strategic game play. That's what I bought the game for not their rendition of the tactical combat.

I do a turn in under an hour. The learning curve isn't bad for those that have played VG's Civil War. The rule book sucks though. They have a pdf file that helps.

tide1 Wrote:If you get the time you should try out a scenario from the H2H section Paul. Darran and his team are doing an awsome job getting scenarios balanced.

Gary

Steel God Wrote:The Operational Campaigns Ladder (OpC). This is good example of what I mean when I tell folks the Blitz isn't about THEIR ladder, it's about all of them. It's human nature to view the world from your own POV I guess. Anyway, the OpC ladder support HPS Simulations Operational Level games. Panzer Campaigns and Modern Campaigns.

Mad Russian Wrote:

Steel God Wrote:The Operational Campaigns Ladder (OpC). This is good example of what I mean when I tell folks the Blitz isn't about THEIR ladder, it's about all of them. It's human nature to view the world from your own POV I guess. Anyway, the OpC ladder support HPS Simulations Operational Level games. Panzer Campaigns and Modern Campaigns.

Don't pat yourself on the back too much I could start throwing alphabet soup at you too......CMBB, CMAK, CMx1, CMx2, PC:OWS, PC:K...etc....

LOL....I've been in wargames along time we don't even want to go down the board game alphabet......PB, PL, SL, ASL, FTL, BoB...and the list goes on. I own more than 200+ board wargames. As you might imagine they cover alot of subjects.

You just need to be ready for when World in Flames comes out. Then I'll have to buy a new computer because I will play that game with full bells and whistles.

Good Hunting.

MR