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The biggest hobby impact that being diagnosed with COPD is that any kind of 3D printing, airbrushing or spray painting is completely out of the question. I'm going to have to focus on brush painting and even then there are going to have to be tradeoffs,

I would so be able to work with this logical progression in a courtroom. The use of "reasonable" in this context is hugely persuasive and valid.

Coming very late to The Bear. Holy shit this is good, but christ the episodes are short as fuck. Also hearing Eddy Vedder and Neil Finn's version of Throw Your Arms Around Me was an unexpected trest in the soundtrack (yeah I'm only on series 2).

I needed something good this month.

No, this is not a shawl, it's a zarape.

a soldier is kneeling down in a field holding a gun . Alt: a soldier is kneeling down in a field holding a gun .

Started the Quit-Line process. This is something new to me.

what do I do now?

It's now that sort of day

There's nothing ever good about receiving a call from the doctor's office the day after your last visit regarding the results of your chest x-ray.

It's been a while. Had a four day fever flu a couple of weeks ago that ended up causing me major respiratory distress last Sunday. Guess who has COPD, severity to be determined? Hell of a way to have your illusion of personal invulnerability stripped away. Time to quit smoking once and for all.

Post a song from the year you turned 12:

So pleased I came across this particular version
youtu.be/316mipUnA-M...

You give them far too much credit to think they'll have purged this out of their system...it's always lurking there,

Things are really bad when when Iceland Cricket is throwing absolute shade. #AUSVIND

Deer, meet headlights. #AUSvIND

after finishing this issue of LFT, we going full on Desert with LFT 15

Things I was not expecting from the BGT:
Australia to bowl Kohli back into Form
#AUSvIND

Poor old John's been on a bad streak lately in our games. actually for most of this series of LFT, he's not had any rub of the green, even in CC where I am a legendary failure.

My opponent couldn't catch a break all game with his morale checks, failing many of them and box-carring more than few. While his Rally Phases were equally poor.

My 10-2 couldn't seem to miss and there were several rate tears.

This playing was decided by Turn 6 but maybe an outlier.

FT250 Decimation quick and dirty AAR
Played over two sessions with a total play time of ca. 8 hours
Thoughts: The early game is tough on the partisans, low FP, no multi fire groups & facing 2 81mm Mtrs, 3 Brixias, 2 HMGs & 2 MMGs with decent leadership.

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There is a Solitaire Module (out of print and very expensive) BUT and this is huge BUT, it is effectively a very different game & most importantly you need to know how to play the game already to make use of the solitaire module effectively anyway. IMO SASL loses the cut and thrust of the game.

Some are saying Bumrah was bowling balls with the batters' names on them. I disagree, there were no names, just "To whom it may concern"


#AUSvIND #Cricket

ASL is not something you pick up and play. It does require a substantial commitment in time and effort just to learn the game & even more to become a good player. There's a reason ASL is seen as a llfestyle game. It's not a good investment for casual gaming nor was it ever designed to be.

That will allow you to determine if the game system is for you at a reasonable cost. If you do enjoy SK1, then you might want to buy SK2 and Sk3 to add Vehicles and Guns. After that you can either move to full ASL or remain in the SK system which TBH I dislike as it's an ersatz version of the game.

My experience is worthless because I started with SL and progressed through COI, CoD and GI in the 80s and then moved to ASL immediately in 1986.

Howeer my opinion is that you get Starter Kit 1, play every scenario twice, learn how the rules work by playing but also read the rules thoroughly

So for a fair while we've been playing a house rule regarding SAN activations that has lessened the suck.

Upon a activated sniper roll of one, the SAN is reduced by one permanently. This can end up with the SAN being eliminated. It reduces the chance of the SAN destroying the scenario.

My regular opponent & I have been playing ASL against each other for close to 35 years. In that time, we've played a lot of scenarios. 1
thing we are agreed on is that the Sniper rules suck so much of the enjoyment out of of the _GAME_
1.
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3. Whack-a-Mole situations
4. Scenarios that allow Poison Pill HIPs to decide the game
5. Defences that are just an exercise in dice rolling

What I DON'T look for in an ASL scenario? 2/

1. Designs that are rooted in the Cross of Iron - Crescendo of Doom Era of turn lengths
2. SSRs that betray the designer & play-tester's lack of familiarity with the actual rules

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What I look for in a good ASL Scenario? 1/
1. Mutual opportunities for attack and defence
2. Manoeuvre options on defence as well as offence.
3. Interesting setup options
4. Variable OBs
5. Clarity in VCs
6. no "hooks" and "tricks"

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#VASL #wargames #wargaming

There have always been concerns about the quantity of scenarios in each product from the beginning and the timeframe in which they were released. Those concerns have become progressively more pronounced with each product release. The Kursk product suffered from some cookie cutter vanilla designs.