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10 months ago ::
Aug 28, 2012 - 6:55PM
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If you still check this forum give a hello! The first step to getting activity back up and running again is to prove to eachother that people are still looking at this site, lol.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 28, 2012 - 11:11PM
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Date Joined:
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I still visit this site - hough motivation to post is low. There are larger and more active sites out there - and they even offer new product 
...,... and Rock'n Roll - but Minis are fun too...
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10 months ago ::
Aug 29, 2012 - 5:47AM
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Still here. Feeling like the Maytag Repairman.
GW
Your Avalon Hill VCL 
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10 months ago ::
Aug 29, 2012 - 7:34AM
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Still here. Feeling like the Maytag Repairman. GW
Well, maybe it's time to 'beat the drum' again. Future expansions or not, we can still give the game a future. I'm thinking of starting up a sistership/aircraft variant project. I've seen some other attempts at making unofficial expansions for the game and was overall less than impressed once I saw all of the cards. What I'm suggesting would be far more casual, no official deadlines or 'expansions', just put a card or two out a week for others to enjoy.
Also, there's a sight called Shapeways that does 3-D printing, and some people have been making 1800 scale miniatures available on there, plus Mongoose Publishing plans to release 1800 scale miniatures if I've heard right. Problem with all of these sources though is, you have to paint the minis, and in the case of Mongoose, you'll have to assemble them.
So, if I took the time to dig up WWII miniatures off Shapeways and put them in a post here, would it be okay? Or would that be considered soliciting? My intent is only to keep the game and the site alive until WotC comes to it's senses.
In any case, I don't know how far we'll get with the card project in the end, going to need some help with that... But I do have some fantasy set lists in the works that will hopefully generate some talk, whatever that talk may be...
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10 months ago ::
Aug 29, 2012 - 9:09PM
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I still lurk in these forums.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 30, 2012 - 11:54AM
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Ent, people have used other miniatures to augment their collections for AAM and posted them since day one. Go for it. There is a clear line between hawking competitors product and supporting the game and fan base. Now if this was Games workshop,,,,,,LOL, Hey that left arm isn't from our product line, your banned!!! (Lol)
GW
Your Avalon Hill VCL
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9 months ago ::
Aug 30, 2012 - 11:07PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 22, 2008
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I still check the site periodically. Nice to see some life beginning to come back after the shock of Wizards letting things drift. I don't plan to give up on the game any time soon. In fact, I just today received my HotzMap sea blue hex map (quite a wait though - I ordered it in mid June).
I have to say that by the time July rolled around, I thought I might be the last holdout that had not moved anchor, turret, and keel to Forumini. (Ent, I never did hear back from you on the destroyer Johnston Card that I posted on the Siterships thread; I couldn't get all the SAs on that you suggested but I think it looks pretty good).
Discovering the Shapeways site (thanks to Weeds posting on the Java contest) was like having a Set 7 release. A bit expensive but they are nice sculpts and I look forward to painting them and generating a set of cards to go with them. Hope to get to some of that soon and I'll probably post them here. Maybe that will help bring some life to the site I never quite figured out how to break into Forumini with these cards but it is so easy to do on this site.
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9 months ago ::
Aug 31, 2012 - 6:51PM
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I have to say that by the time July rolled around, I thought I might be the last holdout that had not moved anchor, turret, and keel to Forumini. (Ent, I never did hear back from you on the destroyer Johnston Card that I posted on the Siterships thread; I couldn't get all the SAs on that you suggested but I think it looks pretty good).
I saw the Johnston card and liked it, I meant to reply to you but I probably got sidetracked before I pushed 'post reply' and it was never left.
I'm almost done typing up my speculative expansion lists, all 8 of them. Wishful thinking you say? Well, that's all we have left ATM anyways.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 04, 2012 - 11:52AM
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Date Joined:
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Still lurking every now and then, been busy the past few months with my new job and have been a little more active in the forumini forum.
Too bad Shapeways items will be sent as commerical items to my country, adding another 30% import tax to the price. Still looking for a european seller with similar items.
Pen
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9 months ago ::
Sep 04, 2012 - 2:49PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 16, 2008
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Sad really, there was a young man in our FLGS actually intrested in the product Saturday; Didn't know what to tell him, it is obvious WIzards/Hasbro has no interest in ANY product without a Hollywood licencing tie in.
According to the WSJ, Hasbro's total sales are significantly off for this year. And the lackluster Hollywood summer means things will not be improving.
At least I scored some nice modestly priced naval miniatures for other naval games, and Shapeways will eventually produce other product.
As an introductory naval game, it is/was OK; How do I convince people to stretch their imaginations to a better product?
Oh yeah, doesn't Shapeways have a UK office/Shipping point?
Or maybe it is just that the corporate masters of the universe want to flush all of History down the memory hole.
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