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I would love to be able to get my daughter into model rocketry....so much fun and like you said, high on the "Bang for your buck" meter. I had a huge AIM-54 Phoenix replica that I would take down to a place called 60 Acres. Literally 60 acres of soccer fields.....and was just about the only place around to launch the big D engines and have enough room to recover. My buddy and I would go down there with full kits and between the AIM-54 and his Mean Machine probably do 20 launchings a day.

Damn....there's just no winning with a Jedi. On a lighter side.....imagine being an actor with a "little extra padding" and landing the role of "Porkins"....what are the odds?

Not true. He was also a Lt. for the Gotham Police department in the late 80s when Mr. Mom put on a Bat suit "Hey Eckhardt! Think about the future!"

TI 99/4A here...went to the C128 after that.

No....I work with Porkins. I would get in trouble for posting a pic of him....but he is a spot on dead ringer for Porkins. I mean dead on....same face, same thin nasty looking beard. I swear if I did not see Porkins on the big screen 30 years ago, it was the same guy We even call him Red Six.

Have a funny April 1st!

Hey all, are there any big mouth Vipers out there for SF2? All I can find are NSI equipped A's....would REALLY love to fly a modern CJ

Nice. the Dambusters finally traded in their baby bugs, huh? I have a couple projects in the pipe currently, but I can add this to the list.

Got back into table top war gaming and got hooked on Battletech. Any other players in CA land? (Note....talking about the table top game..NOT the PC games)

Battletech uses "Z-scale"....about 1:285th. Pretty close to Micro Armor stuff. In fact, I use GHQ micro armor for tanks and infantry and stuff in our games. We have a 4 foot by 6 foot board that gets stacked against the wall when games aren't under way and we have held some pretty large scale battles on there and never run out of room. BTW....I hear your gripes about PDF....they are a hassle. Luckily I have access to a decent printer that does double sided printing so it isn't a huge factor. If you are interested in checking out Battletech again and want to play a few games but don't have the new books or players or whatever....check out Mega Mek. It's a cool Java based version of Battletech....has all the updated rules and most of the new mechs. The cool thing is you can create your own mechs in Solaris Skunk Works and import them in Mega Mek. Definitely worth a look

I got something even better than that...... Miniatures!

Nice! Never played Rifts, but played the Robotech and TMNT RPGs quite a bit. The big rage among game publishers is PDFs now. Many of the publishers offer their books in PDF format at a reduced price. I purchased Total Warfare in PDF form and used my printer at work to double side print and put it in a binder for easy reference during games. Saved more than half the cost of buying a hard copy of the book

There is no Aerotech anymore, it's all been integrated into one book. Check out Classic Battletech - Total Warfare....that will give you everything you need to play...mechs, infantry, aerospace, vehicles...the whole sha-bang. Then look into Tactical Operations and Strategic Operations. TactOps gives you advanced rules like environmental and atmospheric conditions....stuff like wind, rain, low viz and gravity and stuff, advanced weaponry like retractable blades, etc. The StratOps gives you even more advanced rules for stuff like drop ships, and capital ships, mech salvaging and includes Battleforce rules. They just recently released "A Time of War", which is the updated RPG....basically like Mechwarrior 4th Edition

Nope....there was never a stoppage of releases. The licenses were bought by a company called Wizkids and they continuted to release source books and also created the Dark Age/Age of Destruction miniature game. Then Catalyst bought the rights and have been putting out new stuff ever since. They are just releasing a new intro box set and word is they are bringing back LAMs

They balanced the clans quite a bit now. Clan weapons are more powerful, but their mechs are typically less armored. Any decent Inner Sphere player can wipe a clan player off the map with sound tactics.

That's why I have it on the PS3....no hardware issues

No reason for FASA to be resurrected from the grave. A company called Catalyst Games took over the Battletech and Shadowrun lines.

Chuck Norris wipes his back side with Charlie Sheen ~WINNING!~

There will be.......hint cough hint hint

OK...so my buddy and I used to go to this place in Seattle called "The Other Side". They had these pods they built that were kinda like those old sit down arcade machines, and they had a full compliment of CH flight controls....throttle, stick rudder peddles with a 33 inch screen and headset for communications. They used to run the old "Jane's Fighter Anthology". We would go in for 2 hour sessions and fly a mission. Usually we would finish up early and the "Mission Controller" (he was the dude that sat in the room where all the computers were running the game) would let us do whatever we wanted for the rest of the time....that time was always spent dogfighting each other. Here is a recount of one of those encounters. The mission controller first asked my buddy what plane he wanted to fly and he choose his fave...F/A-18. Then, he asked me. I had a knack of choosing odd planes, so I called out "A-10". I heard chuckles over the radio from both the controller and my opponent. We started with a head on pass. I called out "Guns, Guns, Guns". The Hornet replied "Roger"...what an idiot. I lit up my cannon, filling the Bug with milk bottle sized shells. I scored my first kill before we even completed the pass. 2 other times he tried the head on, this time rather than coming straight in, he tried bobbing and weaving. Same result. Then, on the fourth round, we tried advantage Hornet. He was BVR, about 8 miles out but coming up fast. I ducked into a cloud bank. I popped out too soon and he found me. I dove for the deck and pulled up with about 200 feet to spare. He lost me in the dirt and I scored another guns kill on his underbelly as I came back off the deck. Score so far....Warthog 4 - Bug 0 The fights went pretty much just like this until he discovered he had a serious vertical advantage over me. Once he went vertical...it was game over for the A-10. Out of 10 engagements, the A-10 came out on top 8 times.

Hey guys, I have been playing the X series since it came out. REALLY addicted to X3. Any X3 players out there?

I am building a F/A-18E and F/A-18F, F-14A and an A-4F....how about you? What are you building right now or what have you got on your "to do" list?