Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Ap Biology Lab 5 Controls

Ga Pa

In April, we tested a regulation for the Great Northern War and the War of English Succession, as always with the friends of ' ARSM : Regulation, which called Ga Pa ("The attack" or something like that, it was the war cry of the Swedes in the Great Northern War) is really well done. Perfect knowledge of period by the author, the original system of command and control at all stages of the sequence of play, excellent army list. Maybe not exactly intuitive to some inattentive players is a great system. We ordered via e-mail on Saturday and arrived the following Thursday (less than a week!). The regulation is now in its second edition, while the volume of current army list is still in preparation: however you can still use the first edition with the adjustments mentioned in the book of rules.

amche highly detailed scenario generator that allows you, choose the number of points to be used to dial automatically armies, strategic situation, a situation tactics, terrain and objectives.
also includes a series of random events to spice up the fighting and some "cunning tactics" that players can "buy" with their points provided. The site
and blog author are a little confused and bad graphically, but there is a lot of poking good interesting stuff. In addition, the regulation is supported by a discussion group on Yahoo, accompanied by notes, explanations and scenarios.
The basing is quite compatible with that indicated for other regulations.
Finally, it has just been put online, free, adaptation to the Thirty Years War.

short, a well-Regulation fact and fun: personally I think we should use Ga Pa extensively, limiting " Under the Lilly Banner " only popular events (like conventions) because, in all the tests which we have referred, was quite inadequate and approximate ( as well as, I regret to say, the answers given by the author or other players on the forum ...): short, a giocone. A nice giocone, but a giocone ...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Harold And Kumar Bottomless Party Online

Finally the guns!

But are not those of the long-awaited Zvezda, which, indeed, seems to have postponed the release of the Russian artillery in the summer (! Sigh!) And not those of the Strelets, which, besides being almost impossible to find, have to each box two guns and a sea of \u200b\u200buseless servants.
I managed to fix a box of Cossack infantry and artillery of Orion (see what I have already written about the Cossacks riding the same brand). The box contains two types of guns with 8 crew and a score of Cossack infantry (as well as two priests and 4-tell-4 Ukrainian dancers!). The pieces are very beautiful, to flush with the corresponding cavalry.

The guns are light, but I've basing ciacuno with 4 gunners, because a model with two crew is really a pain ...
Given the shortage of artillery on the market this box is very useful because the Cossacks fought with both sides and can be deployed at will. I'm going to paint the infantry, which will provide an infantry battalion irregular, this available to the highest bidder!

Below, photos of the pieces in the battery posts and realized that I described a few posts ago ...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Airforce Rifles Silencer

The Nazis never existed

I also want to reconcile with the pope, it seems that this is the standard procedure.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Taking Xanax After Mild Concussion

The Microsoft against the world (or this morning, Yahoo has decided to throw me out)

Today I'll talk about one of the successes of the free software community.


know how many of the people who know me, I abandoned Windows a few years to switch to another operating system, especially because I was tired of wasting time to crack programs and install patches and a fistfight with the settings.
I'm still not repentant, and I urge anyone with a computer (and want to save time) to install Ubuntu , if only for one afternoon, just to prove it. I know many of you are too lazy, but remember my words the next time you will crash a program or have to reinstall something.


Back to the story.


morning the messenger server decided to change the protocol for the connection. The official client was ready, but Microsoft has not had the courtesy to inform the part of the world that uses Macintosh or Linux.
Result: This morning my account on msn kicked me without any explanation.


Now, think how long it has taken the developer community to bring out a patch for this slaughter? Less than four hours (and port as a test of the comment Launchpad with the solution of the problem . Launchpad, for the record, is the system for reporting bugs in Ubuntu.)


We compare now the four (4) (still can not believe) hours for a patch against the typical times of Microsoft, who travel on two weeks at best, and reach the years when it goes less well.
The fact that there are people willing to pay for a product that is a monument to poor marketing by Microsoft, and laziness (ignorance? Idiocy? Literary education?) Of the average user.