edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Not all that adventurous in the end, sadly. Was sick Sunday, so didn't make it to the game shop. Did get to start the writing class, though, and that's looking like it'll be fun... and drive me nuts, lol. How was yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 It was a great weekend, though an extreme lack of sleep did kind of ruin things..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Aw, I'm sorry. Did you make it to any of the things you were trying to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yeah played the Market Garden campaign on Saturday night and Dust Tournament on Sunday..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 How'd those go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 The end of Market Garden was a blast..... Six? tables end to end, with two rivers..... I lost track of where half my stuff was for a lot of the game. Was Dust tournament was good too, was doing well till my lack of sleep caught up with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 ha, that sounds like it was awesome! Who won the campaign in the end? And did your DUST list work as well as you hoped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 I believe the axis ended up ahead at the end, the allies were storming Arnhem but had just lost Njimegan in the last turn. and the Dust list was interesting, was good in the more scenario missions but in the pure kill missions was lacking a bit. How was the start of the writing course? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 It was good! Got through the first set of lectures which were on setting. Working on the first assignment, which is probably going to take some time, honestly. Setting description has always been my weak point, so doing two pages of it is...going to be something, lol. Any ideas on how you'd want to change the Dust list to fix that problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Two pages of setting description? How Tolkien of you Going to drop a couple of units and add in a couple of walkers most likely..... though will probably just play bigger games so will just add walkers...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Heh, at least I have to do it from the perspective of a character. Does make it a little more engaging. How many points were you playing at the tournament? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 It was 100 points, pretty sure 150 will be the norm..... My army was fun and nicely themed, but lacked killing power at range...... was also susceptible to the MG carrying heavy grenadiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 How long you got to do the assignment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Ah, okay. So a smaller than normal expectation event, to get everyone's feet wet kind of thing? Was this your merc list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Heh, honestly, four months. It's a learn at your own pace kind of thing. I'm aiming to get it done by the end of the week and on to the next lesson. And I'm not totally sure it's two pages, I saw 500 words in there too and that's significantly simpler, lol. Might need to send an email... or do something in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Nah mercs are next years project..... this was my allies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 A learn by mail at your own pace sort of thing?...... I remember those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Ah, gotcha. The Rangers, right? Thought those had rocket launchers and such... would think they'd be an equalizer to powered armor with machine guns. o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yeah, sorta. The lectures are posted online, as are the assignments. Then you email them to the instructor, and wait for feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 The new version of learn by mail then A unit of heavy grenadiers can throw out 30 shots a turn against my units, its enough to kill them before they get to do much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 ...O.o Thirty shots per turn? I thought Heavy Grenadiers were units of three... apparently I was wrong, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Honestly, it's not so different from when I was taking classes online through Liberty University. Although I'm betting I'll be less likely to be frustrated and pissed off at the instructor over stupid little things, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 They are units of three..... ten shot each against my armour level. Hope the course works out for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edonil Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 ...oh! It's been a while since I looked at those rules. Ouch, that's no fun. I can see why walkers would be handy as a counter threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Monkey Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yeah as I say I need to threaten at range..... also a bit lacking in anti tank capability Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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