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I simply love Wolfen and this one is really really cool!

hahahaha ... great

That´s one of the iconic Dungeons and Dragons monsters, an aboleth. Evil psionic fishlike creatures ...

cool fish thingy (I guess it´s supposed to be a DnD aboleth). The demon´s not bad, but probably too big for my taste - it would sit forever on the shelf of shame. The gnoll´s a bit too bulky for my taste.

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All i get for the first 6 links is this: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wp-content/uploads/2007/06/chaos-chaosmarines.jpg on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. "

I guess that's what is called "his vital strength" in the description ...

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EFS, you may be able to run the old games under DOSbox or an similar emulator. (I´m currently playing Master of Orion again under DOSbox). Make sure to get a front end for your OS though (D-Fend for Windows XP e.g.) or starting the game is a pain in the a.. A friend of mine has a Wii and I had the chance to play with (or against) him. We played most of the sports pack that comes with it, Madden and I saw him play Zelda. I liked the sports games. They are fun, you can play with many people (if you have enough controllers) and have a low starting threshold. Everybody can play right away and have fun and success. Doing the motions with the controller is a fun way to play, even if you exaggarate the motions at first (when all you really need to do is flicking or twisting your wrist). Well, Madden NFL, that was a pain in the ass for a newbie (Not a football noob, mind you, but this particular game) I played almost all Madden versions since it came out first in the early nineties and the I guess they overloaded the game with features over the time. Unless you spend much time honing your controlling skills, you stand no chance at the game. It´s no fun for casual play - and that´s where the strength of the Wii is IMHO. Can´t say much about Zelda. It looked ok and my friend obviously has fun playing it.

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There´s even a Lands of Lore III ... An old game I really enjoyed and even play sometimes is Master of Magic --- it rocks!

As a German male citizen, I had to do that Army/Civil Service thing. I choose the Civil Service (You can´t actually choose, you have to give reason why you don´t want to be drafted into the military and "they" accept your reasoning or don´t - normally they do, but it´s not a given). My Civil Service lasted 15 months (If I would have joined the miltary it would have been only 12 months) and it was basically a waste of time with one exception, but that depended solely on the job I got there - I went to a special school for young people with heavy learning and mental impairments. I met people, I normally would have never met, but I don´t think I learned something important there. I have deep troubles with military things in general ... and I don´t (want to) see the military as some kind of school for young people to learn decent behaviour. If German history (esp. 1870 - 1945) tells some lessons, then one is surely the role of the military in a society and it´s uselessness as a "school". Receiving orders and following them blindly is clearly not what I want from people. Teach people to think, respect them and teach them to respect others. Military doesn´t do that. I know that "Supporting the Troops" is a staple of US-American political culture - even if the cause for going abroad is wrong. This is something I completely don´t get (which may in turn be a product of German political culture). After Nazi Germany invaded most of Europe, cause and support are tied to together firmly, rightly so, IMHO. There´s no quick fix for the problem, because it´s a problem of the society. A 6 month drill camp doesn´t make anybody a better person - any study on those drill camps for young people shows their uselessness.

Damn. I hoped the next "specialist games" range release would be the new Blood Bowl box set.

History players tend to have a zealous ambition to get things historically correct. (On another historical wargaming forum in Germany, there`s a flaming war on which kind of elephants Hannibal used in his crossing of the alps and which impact this has on gamestats ... It goes on for lots of pages) I think that transfers to their painting habits - which means not painting things which you can´t really see if you would stand far away to get the scale right. Why they - on the same mini - paint small patterns on clothes (tartans e.g.) eludes me, though. Personally I think you should paint the eyes. I don´t like it when the eyes are painted not up to scale and look like anime/manga characters´s eyes. That´s too big for a 28mm mini.

The thing with the nonsense-emails is people trying to proliferate trojans and spyware. As Wren guessed, the nonsense wording tries to circumvent spamblockers who search for certain words or strings of words. As for the spamposts in forums not submitted by bots, yes, there are people who get paid to do this. I don´t know the technical details, but they get paid for other people following their links.

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The wizard on the left with the hourglass looks actually quite good. But you get 2 plastics (!) for 17$ ?! :bird: Don´t care for the rest.

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Funny! Do you know those:

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that´s a cool monowheel: Ok. It´s a drawing and it really doesn´t show much, but anyway .... and an amazing good book, too.