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Rob I can not do any proper formatting with this new site.  Even if I put in Breaks using HTML as soon as you go to publish or preview it erases them. Leaving everything packed together.

example X is pictures = is text.  I want a picture on the left, picture on the right with text inbetween them

X = X

However no matter how many breaks I put in to get the text to center between the pictures it shoves all the text right to the top (still between pictures) so text that should be on pictures towards the bottom are now way at the top.

Ok we played two massive games yesterday.  One 3 way game and one 4 way game.




The Tyrnids are falling right for my trap.  Behind that rock is a squad of Kroot Carnivores.  However only four survived the assault.  That is ok because the rest of the Tau unleashed a barrage of fire to completely annihilate the Gaunt brood.




We have not had time to paint them all yet.


The Eldar realize they made a grave deployment error.

That game was strictly an Annihilate mission.  I won with two points!  I was amazed on just how good the Tau are, as long as you keep them out of the assault phase.  Lots of rules to relearn and old rules to forget.  No more breaking away out of assault like in the old days, Now you can move your vehicles full speed and deploy your squad with no penalties?  Can't find anything that says they can not do that.  However it was fun.

Directly after that my friend Shane arrive and Chaos joined the fight.  So now we have 'nids, Tau, Eldar and Chaos fighting over a single objective in the centre of the board.  500 points each.


Looks like the big guys take offence to the Demon Prince.  Too bad the Warriors dies being the synapses creatures.  Really ruined the game for the Tyranids after that.


Gene Stealers show Khorne Berserkers exactly what the Assault Phase is about, they slaughtered them and then moved on the the rest of Chaos.


Down my side of the board Eldar learns not to underestimate the range and power of Tau Pulse Rifles.  Within two rounds I had taken out both the Wave Serpent and the War walker.  The Eldar took offence to this and assaulted my Fire Warriors Who survived 3 long rounds of Assault with Dire Avengers!  Lucky rolls!!  :mrgreen:

Cheeky!


The game ended up in a draw between me and Chaos.

Both games had taught me a lot about my army.  

Stay out of close combat.

Pulse Rifles are just as dangerous at 30" as they are at 12" with two shots each (Rapid Fire)

Multi-Trackers (preferably hard wired) are a MUST for Crisis Suits.  Allowing them to fire two weapons in the same turn.

I need more Crisis Suits.

Fire Warriors need to stay out of Assault Phase.

Need to purchase Pathfinders!

Sorry Rob,  

I've been having some real issues.  First my brand new printer died.  Damn print heads have jammed up, lost my receipt so I have to purchase a new one.

I've been trying to upload a pdf.  the first time failed so I had to rename it.  Second time failed as well.  I mailed you the pdf.  I also mailed you a pdf of the missing MKD tiles due to the same type of errors and it still has not been added.  Did you get the pdf's?


Error uploading. - File "Mage_Knight_World_Mercator.pdf" already exists.

I'm beginning to think a shack in Montana with no technology is the way to go. :S

I just had to share this. I went to a lecture at Exeter College in Oxford today titled "From Gough to Google" by John Leighfield (creator of Get Mapping an aerial photography and mapping product business). The lecture was great and Mr. Leighfield brought in a few of his maps from his extensive collection.

All the maps where of Oxford or Oxfordshire and where original prints.

Christoper Saxton 1574 -
Amazing detail! It is thought the maps where painted by children, yeah Cartography sweat shops!

Saxton/Hole 1607 -
Another lovely map, much cleaner than the Saxton and I dare say even the John Speed map!

John Speed 1611-
This map of Oxfordshire was Beautiful! Lovely detail in the borders with the college heraldry and a city map of Oxford.

John Ogilby 1675-
Makes me want that May Annual right now! Great road maps! The background was of a ribbon that wrapped top to bottom left to right with the road drawn on the ribbons (not sure if I'm explaining it properly) I was so glad to be able to see it in person!

Dr. Robert Plot 1676 -
A bit over done on the Heraldry (sponsorship) but an interesting map
Many Ordnance Survey maps from 1800's on which are still nice to look at.

He even had a 1973 KGB (yes that KGB) map of Oxford which was VERY accurate and noted things such as Electrical and water controls and other such non-touristy things.

Mr. Leighfield also had several old Atlas books, and travel books which I unfortunately did not get to look at, some where called "The Miniature Speed" which are Speed maps made very small and bound in a book that included travel distances.

Great lecture, I learned many things that I did not know before such as most of Saxton, Speed, etc. maps are remakes of Agas maps so they (Saxton and Speed) did not even re-survey the area (Although the town maps Speed did survey himself). Sometimes town spellings where done wrong so you could tell who copied from whom by tracing the spelling errors. The example given was the village Ifley near Oxford which on many maps is spelt Isley.

In one of John Speeds maps he noticed that there was a picture of a town with no name, he wrote a note "Quaere" which is Latin for ask, meaning he was going to ask later to find out the towns name. Well he forgot and the town was labelled Quaere on his maps and consequently every one who copied from him until much later when the error was spotted and corrected!

It was an hour worth my time!!

The WizKids website has been down for a few days, but the forums are still up.  Of course you can not comment or post new messages because you need to log in from the main site...which is down.

Is this the nail in the coffin or a sign of new ownership?

This is one of the funniestthings I have watched in a while!  :lol:

Years ago there was nice site called Paper Forge that had this great idea for Mage Knight ships.  Alas when I returned months later the site was gone.  

But thanks to Khamsin it has returned!!  I have uploaded the MK ship in the download section Games->Mageknight.

THANK YOU Khamsin!!  

Paper Forge had a few other Mage Knight and Mage Knight Dungeon resources.  If you have them saved please share with us!