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Title: LOTR game playing
Post by: Entsuropi on March 22, 2004, 08:10:05 PM
So, i bought, largely at random, 2 ROTK armies. 1 good, 1 evil. Next monday it would appear that we will have 3000 points of stuff on the table, with 4 players. God knows who will use what. But, hey, thats 700pts per person. I'll be taking my gondorians (24 infantry, 10 knights, faramir on horse, knight with banner and a captain and banner on foot) and my mordor army (24 orcs, 12 easterlings, easterling captain and banner, ringwraith on fellbeast). John will probably bring his fellbeast as well, and tim is threatening to bring his Balrog as his entire army.

It'll be fun :D
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Fellfrosch on March 22, 2004, 09:25:05 PM
Sounds cool. Write a battle report.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on March 30, 2004, 11:36:57 AM
take pictures of said battle too.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: masterchief_847 on May 31, 2004, 09:22:47 PM
do you kick there butts
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Entsuropi on May 31, 2004, 09:35:08 PM
Ok, first, someone get a doctor in here - that tense is badly wounded. It's past, not present, tense you want.

And secondly, it was a draw.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Spriggan on June 01, 2004, 02:38:39 AM
and 3rd it's their not there.

(finaly someone who spells worse then me!)
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: JP Dogberry on June 01, 2004, 04:01:18 AM
Well, technically it's spelt right, but it's the wrong word.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Spriggan on June 01, 2004, 04:34:37 AM
Hey! Stop trying to ruin this moment for me!
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Entsuropi on June 02, 2004, 09:27:07 PM
/me stamps on neck
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: EUOL on June 03, 2004, 02:02:14 AM
All right, guys.  Time to back off on the newcomer a bit.  Yes, the 'make a second account' trick was a little silly, but you didn't need to slap him down as hard as you did.  Perhaps he thought that his 'Masterchief' account was irrevocably tarnished, and wanted to start up a new one to try and start over.

Either way, whoever deleted his second account, I'm tempted to think you acted hastily.  I know we're not the most newcomer friendly sight around, but I don't think we should make a policy of deleting accounts except in extreme cases.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 03, 2004, 07:41:38 AM
He was responding to his own posts, EUOL. There wasn't anything like trying to start over. I'll take responsibility for that. I asked JP to do it. And I only asked for one, so he could continue to post.

on top of that, when I explained about no punctuation, AGAIN, he went back and edited his previous post to add a single comma to look 'innocent'
Because, y'know, there's no time stamp on them.

ARGH. No. I think the right thing was done.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Entsuropi on June 03, 2004, 07:56:59 AM
He also removed the post directly above mine, making me look bad >:(
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: EUOL on June 03, 2004, 05:05:19 PM
I read his attempt at punctuation.  I know a lot of people my age who have troubles with punctuation, and his sentence read just like one that Morag had written--and he would look at a sentence like that and honestly think he'd used proper punctuation.  

You deleted the second account before determining, with certainty, that it really wasn't a second person posting from a similar location.  Calling him on the fact that we thought those two were the same would have been embarrassing enough.  Deleting one of the accounts as quickly as you did was, in my opinion, hasty.

Most of the posts I read by him were apologetic and made attempts at doing what you told him.  I didn't see any hostility, just an inability to quite grasp what people were telling him.  

Perhaps it was all a sham.  And, again, you were perfectly within your rights and authority to do what you did.  I maintain, however, that it was an overly-harsh reaction.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on June 03, 2004, 06:29:12 PM
Oh oh oh, I HAVE to catch EUOL on this one.

"I know we're not the most newcomer friendly sight around..." Hah, you spelled it sight, and not site! Oh, got'cha manned.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on June 03, 2004, 07:05:55 PM
I say ban em all and let G. O. D. sort em out...  ;D
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: JP Dogberry on June 03, 2004, 07:34:02 PM
Yes. I acted hastily. I apologise. What's done is done though. I did what I felt was the right action at the time. If you don't think I'm doing this job well, then take away my mod powers, point and throw stones at me, and lead me away from the forum in shame. I just did what I thought was right, and I can't do any better than learn from such a mistake. (It doesn't help that as of yet no-one has given me any guildlines as to *how* is should be moderating, so I've been winging it on intuition and common sense - neither of which I have a lot of).
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Entsuropi on June 03, 2004, 09:04:07 PM
Your doing allright.

/me throws a frisbee with a koalas removed face spread over it.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 03, 2004, 10:49:37 PM
I still think JP did right. The only post with any punctuation in it didn't have punctuation on it till AFTER one of the acounts was removed, even though it had been posted much earlier.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: EUOL on June 05, 2004, 09:07:14 AM
Quote
Oh oh oh, I HAVE to catch EUOL on this one.  

"I know we're not the most newcomer friendly sight around..." Hah, you spelled it sight, and not site! Oh, got'cha manned.


The difference between you and me, G, is I make this look gooood.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on June 05, 2004, 10:23:06 AM
Oh yeah, well I make this look interesting.
Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on June 05, 2004, 12:55:12 PM
Penny Arcade says what we all wanted to about Masterchief

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20021011l.gif

Title: Re: LOTR game playing
Post by: Entsuropi on June 05, 2004, 08:40:13 PM
Yes... I do believe that I linked to that all of 3 days ago. Anyone reading this thread will have probably read the other thread, y'know.

Just a thought.