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[House of Mustard]

Just so you know SE, here are the articles I'm writing:
1) a review of Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, a new RTS about tank battles in Northern Africa.
2) a review of Warhammer WWII, an unofficial variant of the Warhammer 40k rules.
3) if I have time, I'll also write an editorial

[Spriggan]

I'm also going to be starting the contest for Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, i've got a copy sitting on my TV to give away.  Me and Entropy have discussed a bit on what to do for the contest but nothing has realy struck me as a "fesable" contest.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hrm... Monday would be a good time to start it, y'know.

[Spriggan]

yep, that's why I posted that.

[House of Mustard]

I don't know if this will affect the give-away, but I'm going to give it a bad review.  Maybe three or three and a half stars.  If I give it a bad review, no one will want to go to great lengths to recieve a copy.  Do you want me to hold off on that?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I will want it!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

3 is not really a bad review anyway

[House of Mustard]

True.  I'm not going to trash it.  It's just kind of average.  I got a real kick out if for the first few missions, and then it got boring.

[Entsuropi]

Uhm, you already did an article on Warhammer 40k WW2 mustard.

And that contest, idk. Make everyone tell us why hitler was doomed to lose ww2 - most amusing result wins.

[House of Mustard]

Actually Ent, this is something else.  The article you're referring to was an editorial about Historical Accuracy(and there's only three paragraphs about the WWII rules).  After writing that article, and talking about those rules, some reader (I can't remember who--it was like 2 years ago) emailed me and let me know of another set of rules that are really incredible--there are actually 63 different, highly-detailed army lists.

EDIT:  Holy crap.  I just went back and looked, and it looks like I have talked about these rules before.  Still, it wasn't a review--only a couple editorial comments, so I think we're okay running a review.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Ok its in... but it needs a little editing Saint. Especially the HTML. Im afraid Im really pressed for time this week. Still all the links are there so if people want they see the pics.

and if anyone wants a sneak peak...
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v97/maddrjeffe/WWII/

[stacer]

Wow, Jeffe, you got some GREAT shots. Great lighting.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Yeah, just after dawn.... or at dawn for some of the river shots.
Sony Mavica Camera with a telephoto lens.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ok, I have Gemm's essay edited, the GURPS WWII review edited, and the WWII book Stacer reviewed edited. The photoessay is edited but not formatted. I was hoping to put them in the essay itself, but the picture's dimensions are too large to fit comfortably in our format. Maybe I'll work soemthing out where pictures will show in a popup of a regulated size, and then always in the same window. anyway, I have to work too, so I put this off, since it was more work. It'll still be running with all the others, no worries.

Counting my Attack! review that makes five articles. Plus two or three more from HoM. Honestly, I say we make this D-Day week. We can put one or two new articles up each day plus link to an archived article. Farewell to the King, Gear Krieg, Sudden Strike, and the Pianist will also get linked to as "old articles," as well as a possible two more essays by Fell.

Any objections to World War II week instead of day?

[House of Mustard]

I must have misunderstood--I thought it was a week.