Hello!

[Horatius]

I've been lurking about looking at this forum for a while- I made some posts, but maybe I should introduce myself here as well.  The main project I'm working on now is a small VSF mars campaign, though I might get into some other periods as well, which is tempting after looking around here.  This is really my first departure from the enfolding bat-wings of GW and I have no regrets.

Thanks for all the inspiration guys.

[Calimero]

Welcome to LAF

[Snate56]

Just miniatures or role playing also?


SteveN

[Horatius]

I do some role-playing, but inconsistently- I write alot of beginnings of things, but never go anywhere with it...

[Sheerluck Holmes]

I do some role-playing, but inconsistently- I write alot of beginnings of things, but never go anywhere with it...

I hear you on that one.. I have written so many different backgrounds for interesting games but never actually gamed any of them that it isn't funny.

[kingpin]

Lots of great ideas here!  And its a great crew to associate with!

[Belgian]

Welcome to the LAF!

Some new VSF minded are always welcome! (well, every wargamer!  )

Greets,

[Hammers]

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Sorry, folks, I just could not resist... 

[Plynkes]

Winston Churchill's favourite poem.

Then out spake brave Horatius,
    The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
    Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
    Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
    And the temples of his Gods?'



'Now who will stand on either hand,
    And keep the bridge with me?’


Welcome, brave Horatius!

[Plynkes]

This version is better:

Then out spake brave Horatio,
The man from CSI:
'Cause of death – three gunshot wounds,
The blood is yet to dry.
Upon the floor shell cases,
The walls spattered with brain…'
Then he took off his sunglasses,
And put them on again.

[Horatius]

Thanks Plynkes!  I appreciate the verse you guys!

[Horatius]

I mean, it's pretty great in a nearly over-wrought way.  Great heroes of Republican virtues and what not.  I wish I had been made to memorize more poetry when I was 12.  Damn American education system.  Hell, I would have thought this poem was the greatest thing ever at age 12, so maybe that's why you memorized it Bezzo.

[Plynkes]

That little bit I quoted sounded great when Brendan Gleeson delivered it in a Winston Churchill voice.

Not sure I'd want to sit and listen to him reciting the entire thing, though.