Looks like a I called it on the girl exploring the crashed Star Destroyer.
Posts made by frimmel
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RE: Star Wars Lives!
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RE: Four words for you: GAME OF THRONES RISK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Private:
Is GoT Risk the same as any other Risk but with a different map? Or is there something that makes it more interesting?
It is probably more on the lines of “Godstorm” or the “2210” versions of the game.
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RE: Four words for you: GAME OF THRONES RISK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$75 bucks seemed steep until I caught the 650 pieces thing.
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RE: John Ford films
The Blu-ray transfer for “The Searchers” is beautiful.
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RE: John Ford films
I might have watched a Ford film or several. I’m a bit partial to “The Quiet Man.”
And it is becoming a bit of a cliche to say so these days but “The Searchers” is a damn fine movie.
We need a John Ford these days. Somebody who could kick the shakey-cam nonsense out of these so called directors we’ve got these days.
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RE: Star Wars Lives!
All I heard when I learned the name of totally not Tatooine (which I learned via the Battlefront info) was “Frak You.” Jakku/Frak You.
Spoilers?
So Jakku where they meet a force sensitive, spunky, and sassy farm girl longing to leave her boring moisture farm life for adventures amongst the stars. She spends her free time exploring the crashed SD and finds the copies of the long lost plans needed to put an end to the resurrected Empire’s long lost secret weapon. Han and Chewie on a mission themselves to find these plans are led to a cantina in the planet’s “wretched hive of scum and villainy” city where after learning the location Han must shoot first in self-defense because the contact intended to kill them all along.
He then heads off to collect the plans and gets rescued by our spunky heroine who wants the “walking carpet” to get our of her way so she do it better than the “old fossil.” But his handiwork has drawn attention and the bad guys show up and they have to fly into the engine cowling of a crashed space craft in order for the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy to outrun a TIE fighter.
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RE: Supply tokens
You can not use supplies in a hex with enemy combat units.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=26366.0
Also see the FAQ
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RE: Star Wars Lives!
I was watching the trailer for the first time and they get to that long shot of the Falcon being chased by a TIE and I went, “Cue Firefly style crash zoom onto Falcon. TIE crashes. Wow did that just copy and paste that from Return of the Jedi?”
Nothing in it about the story, there will be modern film-making trope shakey-cam (see lightsaber passing scene and the sequence mentioned above.) CGI shot of mass of Stormtroopers like in the hated prequels. No STARS. Everything is in atmosphere.
My fears for this film were not allayed.
Anybody else in the “Han shoots first within ten minutes of the start of this movie” camp? They’ll start if off right away with that which motivates the CGI scenes we’ve seen of the Falcon getting chased. Everybody will be so jazzed they’re not in a Speical Edition or prequel (despite the huge dose of CGI they’ve just witnessed but spent the last 16 years bitching about) it won’t matter what’s in the rest of the movie.
The lightsaber crossguard is still dumb.
I also think the not-Tatooine desert planet being called Jakku is JJ thumbing his nose at fans again because it was going to be Tatooine.
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RE: Supply tokens
No. The Allies can not use Axis supplies brought on in the reinforcement phase.
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RE: Allied focus on St. Lo … . . . ...
You don’t really have time to “backtrack” to Cherbourg and coming in on that beach is the “long way” to St. Lo. Whatever you need to divert to Cherbourg has to go there from he beach.
The stacking limits and locked in combat also have a tendency to gum up the works with regards to pushing everything on St. Lo. If you aren’t pushing on Caen there’s a chance the Axis are going to end up in your UK beach zones.
St. Lo “for last” isn’t so much a tactical decision as geography. I’ve long ago started sending as little as possible to Cherbourg and leaving Caen to the Brits but it still ends up St. Lo last.
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RE: Catan Additions
@Imperious:
Star Trek ?
That is a distinct version of the base game although I think it got an expansion.
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RE: Survival question
@ABWorsham:
Flashback to 2009.
I knew that thread necro over in the D-Day forum was trouble. :lol:
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RE: A&A style American Revolution game?
I think the issue with this is there aren’t really a lot of “pitched battles” in the Revolution. I think this would need to be more on the lines of the AH “Battlecry” or DOW’s “Memoir '44” based on the commands and colors “engine.”
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RE: Would the forum know if… you DIED?
LOL that said, and without getting into politics. I would probably pick trek too…
Tough call.
Luckily you only have to choose which you’d like to partake in on any given day. They are very different things and answer rather different callings in what you want from some viewing or reading.
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RE: Star Wars Lives!
@ABWorsham:
Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?
In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.
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RE: Would the forum know if… you DIED?
@aequitas:
It would take a lot of new topics in the BOTB section and my not replying to them before someone went, “Hey, where’s Frimmel been?”
_There would be a Rift in the Force Frimmel!
Even though you are a Treky_. :-)
I like Star Wars too but I’m certainly a bigger fan of Star Trek.
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RE: Would the forum know if… you DIED?
It would take a lot of new topics in the BOTB section and my not replying to them before someone went, “Hey, where’s Frimmel been?”
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Leonard Nimoy Passes
So there’s this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0
Trek stars have passed before but this is the first time I’ve felt gut punched by it. :cry:
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RE: New Rules Deputy
@Imperious:
I sent a PM to Djensen a looog time ago for that.
It is really no big deal. Anybody who looks into more than a few threads in GCNL and BOTB and still needs to see a badge to show that I know what I’m talking about… well… I don’t think the badge will convince them either.
It may be more important in the global game threads though since those are typically more active than the battle games.