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Valiance The Vanguards Darkwind Guru Civs Faction Group: Storytellers Posts: 1,175 Joined: Jan 15, 2008 Gonna finally admit who I am. Don't why it took me so long. My name is Nicholas. I've been involved in the business of games for a long time, most recently as CEO of GameShadow, a patching utility for PC games that does much more. Currently working on a project with Firefly Studios, non-executive director of nDreams and, of course, an editor of the Darkwind Gazette. I am also a writer. I have written articles for Steve Jackson Games (search in Pyramid under Nicholas Lovell if you are a subscriber) and in trade magazines such as MCV and Develop. I have an article on going aground while sailing in this month's issue of Practical Boat Owner. My personal website is at www.nicholaslovell.com On the gaming front, my all time favourite game ever is Jagged Alliance 2, which I can play and play again. I am also extremely hooked on Medieval II: Total War. I was a big Car Wars fan and have written a fully featured alternate future for Britain at www.greatscourge.co.uk. And I keep a blog of what happens in Darkwind. It is updated relatively frequently at vanguards.wordpress.com. Check it out (and sign up to get an email whenever I update it.) ......................... vet combat1 wv ped1 northernsummer Posted Jul 27, 2008, 11:26 pm Last edited Jul 27, 2008, 11:41 pm by Valiance

darthspanky McSPANKYS LOLLIPOP GANSTAS Darkwind Guru Anarchists Faction Group: Subscribers Posts: 4,008 Joined: Jul 29, 2007 havent posted here so here goes my name is richard solomon im 39. in april i moved back to st louis mo. from tacoma wa i work as a massage therapist love darkwind also a big fan of axis and allies and enjoy car wars currently playing by email with a group from france and our own jimmy and val (gunna get ya val lol). ......................... vet paintball wv1,0,1 Posted Jul 29, 2008, 11:34 am

Nyne Rogers Gun Wolves Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: Jun 20, 2008 My name is Mike and i live South Carolina (United States), im into all sorts of games whether they are online or off. Im 19 as of the 26th of July and a sophomore at Francis Marion University, studying economics. I love to play guitar and go to concerts....my favorite games have to be.....Half-Life, EVE, Call of Duty (any of them), All of the Total War games, Supreme Commander, and there are a lot more for sure...e-harmony here i come ......................... vet Posted Jul 30, 2008, 3:13 am

Skyce MFP Recruits Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: Aug 6, 2008 Hello, my name is Jason and I am an alco.....opps wrong forum I'm a 36 year old Canadian who is married with two children. I'm currently working overseas as a Technology Manager in Asia for the next 2 or 3 years. I'm a big gamer from way back. I love to game, watch hockey, design (games and graphics), listen to music and spend time with family. Darkwind has been a breath of fresh air after watching the gaming industry pumping less and less innovation into it all the time. ......................... vet Posted Aug 17, 2008, 8:50 am

*Zothen* Knights Templar Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 841 Joined: Jun 11, 2007 darthspanky said: i work as a massage therapist The Klingon is     massageing people? Im surprised, hehe! New bullet-rub-technique? I hope I can pay schooling as masseur in the near future, too! ......................... vet marshal wv Posted Oct 2, 2008, 2:08 am Last edited Oct 2, 2008, 2:10 am by *Zothen*

Diabolicboy Blunt Force Trauma Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: Oct 13, 2008 Hey, how are ya? I'm a noob, DLing the client as I type, just thought I'd drop in an say "hi". Anyway, been playing Car Wars for a looooong time and now just recently found this place. Looks like FUN Names Dennis and am in Minnesota (US). Apologies for the rest of my tenure here, I hopefully will be the guy you love to hate Later, Diabolicboy ......................... vet wv Posted Oct 14, 2008, 2:59 pm

*goat starer* Special Circumstances Darkwind Guru Evan Reds Faction Group: Contributors Posts: 10,907 Joined: Oct 29, 2007 Diabolicboy said: hopefully will be the guy you love to hate Now there is a challenge for you Darth!  ......................... vet wv zom pvp4 cont community deathrceL1 marshal pvp3 pvp2 Posted Oct 17, 2008, 3:33 pm

simonmaxhill Drive Backwards BFFs Darkwind Guru Anarchists Faction Group: Storytellers Posts: 1,503 Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Me! Me! Me! I'm simon max hill, a 30 year old slacker in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up with BBSs and Atari ST and Commodore 64 and plenty of Car Wars, Battletech, Warhammer 40k, Shadowrun and other activities that do a better job at preserving ones virginity better than any overbearing parent or religion. I do casting for commercials and movies, which is a freelance kind of job that I do from my house.  This is why I'm able to play the game and also why I disappear for weeks on end (the hours can be brutal.) Additionally, I do photography for money (of course!) I am an aloof hipster who spends half his days laptopping in cafes with his rat-tail mullet and his evenings smoking cigarettes with skinny legged coke dealers.  I own 20 pairs of sneakers and drive the car below, and would do a backflip if that model made it into the game.  It has a 5Lv8 under the hood, btw. [img]null[/img] ......................... vet wv Posted Oct 30, 2008, 10:39 pm

Netzilla Death Jesters Sunday Driver Civs Faction Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: Sep 18, 2008 darthspanky said: in april i moved back to st louis mo. And here I thought I was the only St. Louisian.  The Maryland Heights area, specifically.  I (Deric Page) am a 37 year old Solftware Developer specializing in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Telephony.  Been a CW fan since I was about 12 or 13 and also played a little Battlecars and Dark Future back in the day.  Darkwind's definately been a lot of fun, though I've really only delved into this scouting this past week. Outside of that, my main gaming includes the Hero System (Champions, etc) and the occasional board game. ......................... vet northernsummer wv0,1,0 Posted Nov 15, 2008, 5:40 pm

Bytten The Bytten Squad Autodueller Renegade Group: Members Posts: 449 Joined: Oct 23, 2008 My name is Andrew Williams, and as some of you have figured out, I'm a reviewer for online indie games magazine Bytten. I got into this game in order to review it and I've stuck here since. The social aspect is the biggest reason for addiction - everyone here is so friendly and supportive that it's hard not to pop by now and again and see how everyone is getting on. ......................... vet wv Posted Nov 15, 2008, 7:01 pm

BWGunner DriveByRomance Autodueller Renegade Group: Storytellers + IP Posts: 413 Joined: Mar 22, 2008 I live in Iowa City, Iowa in a 1920s house that I have trouble keeping up with but love working on. I drive an 02 WRX hatchback that I happen to believe is the greatest car ever built. Of course I used to say that about my Miata too. My son is 2, my wife is lovely and kind. I'm a terribly lucky fellow. I'm getting uncomfortably close to 40. I'm a mix of Irish/Swede/German/English/and American Indian. The standard American mutt. I believe deeply in Naturalistic Pantheism. Sadly this leads me to be trite and dismissive of just about everything while remaining convinced that everything is sacred. It's your classic existential crisis....a deep belief in everything and nothing...all at once. FUnny, I'm not sure i"ve ever written it down before. I often swap "God" for "Gravity" Curently I'm the Marketing Director at www.opnarchitects.com and I love it here. Good folks working hard in a design and communication driven culture. I have teaching, graphics, web development, audio and video production and editing, catalog design, and paper airplane folding as professional backgrounds. I'm really glad to be here, and have been a gaming gypsy for a long time. Car Wars, D&D, Shadowrun and all that are in my past as well as virtually every Amiga, C64, PC, Mac, PS1, PS2, XBOX & XBOX360 game....I play them all at least once. Few stick. I'm a rabid fan of what Sam has done here and hope to find a way to help it grow. Just like in my work, my efforts are usually focused on usable and clear communication. Of course there are those nights I stay up too late and make a mess of my thoughts... Anyway, I'm glad to be here and think I will be for a long time. ......................... vet wv cont Posted Jan 21, 2009, 6:40 pm Last edited Jan 21, 2009, 6:46 pm by BWGunner

*Grograt* Grograts Gonads Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 8,377 Joined: Oct 5, 2008 Hi my name is gary and im an alcholic ......................... vet marshal wv community Posted Jan 21, 2009, 7:13 pm

Strybjorn Wasteland Wolves Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: Jan 26, 2009 I thought it was about time to post something on the forum,and I guess this is the best place to start :P My name's Juan Carlos, I'm 17 and I'm spanish. Since I was 6 my dad had me sit on his lap and watch him work on his computer or on any of the cars of the garage. I guess that's why my greatest passions are computers and anything with wheels and an engine . I'm also a metalhead (no, I'm not a robot, I just like music :P) I won't bore you with my gaming history, I'll just say that I've learned english playing online games. I came here after a long search for something to replace interstate 76, something I could play with people. I bumped onto Bytten's review of the game,and other review (can't remember where it was),and they convinced me,so here I am :P. It looks like a lot of people here play tabletop games,so I'll leave it to you to find out where my gang,player and some car names come from ......................... vet Posted Feb 1, 2009, 9:47 am

*Grograt* Grograts Gonads Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 8,377 Joined: Oct 5, 2008 Welcome to you, maybe i need to play some spanish on line games..if you mastered English through them, and always room for metalheads and petrolheads ( just check out my garage and character list lol ) ......................... vet marshal wv community Posted Feb 1, 2009, 11:05 am Last edited Feb 1, 2009, 11:06 am by *Grograt*

Hati Murphys Mercs Racer Merchants Faction Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: Jan 21, 2009 Hi. I'm Shawn, a 33 year old gamer and fulltime contract driver for NAPA, which means I deliver car parts to towns you've never heard of in Arkansas. I found DW through RPG.net and have been playing pretty much daily since then much to the dismay of my GF. I'm oldskool in that I actually owned the original pocket box Car Wars and have since moved on to 3x scale with my kids. ......................... vet wv Posted Feb 1, 2009, 2:57 pm

Fealty Lost Slaughterhouse: Bloody Remains Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Subscribers Posts: 1,258 Joined: Jan 6, 2009 Wow, what austere company. Alrighty then: I'm Gary and I'm not an alcoholic. I'm a killer by profession, a fallen journalist by choice and submissive man-servant to my lovely wife full time. I'm on the other side of 50...grew up on a large horse farm and the women that rode them. Owned my first business at 13, when I leased 4 acres from my dad and opened my own equine exhibition facility. Marine Corps...grass-humper, scout, combat photographer...pick a 'hot spot' in the world during the late 70's and early/mid 80's and my M-14 and I were there, shooting and looting. Opened the first commercial paint-ball field in Europe...made a killing off the crazed Germans...my amateur team handed the Mayhem Tigers their arses...came back to U.S., opened a restaurant (bad idea), lost a restaurant and a hottie wife...opened the first commercial computer education/gaming company of its kind in Erie, PA...lost same to greedy partners when Microsoft got interested in concept...went from a business owner insurance companies didn't know how to insure to a guy with a suitcase and $5 in his pocket (what they bought me out for). Started skydiving, basically travelled the world jumping out of airplanes and bagging hottie skydiving chikkies (and first-time jumpers) for the next 6 years until I met my lovely wife. Now I'm trying to become a productive member of society again. I have an EBay site catering to j-body owners (Cavaliers and Sunfires) and am finally finishing the 4 novels I started back in...'92? Have been a gamer since before gaming was introduced. I used to take large clumps of dirt and pretend they were tanks...throw rocks at them from each side till there was a victor...played the original Car Wars computer game like mad. All the pencil and paper games. I killed Gary Gygax. Went mad for Car Wars...even built Hot Wheel-sized arenas with sliding walls, trap-doors.... One of the three Boat Wars designers. Found Dark Wind while checking through the Steve Jackson forums. I'm hooked. I think the people that made the new Death Race should be hunted down and clubbed to death like baby seals. I have the next greatest MMORPG idea. Call me. ......................... vet wv Posted Feb 9, 2009, 1:41 pm

Jim Pole Position Racer Renegade Group: Contributors Posts: 199 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 lol. Welcome Damon :-) ......................... vet Posted Feb 9, 2009, 2:16 pm

*Fourhand* The Flying Hellfish Autodueller Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 366 Joined: Jan 1, 2008 Hati said: Hi. I'm Shawn, a 33 year old gamer and fulltime contract driver for NAPA, which means I deliver car parts to towns you've never heard of in Arkansas. I found DW through RPG.net and have been playing pretty much daily since then much to the dismay of my GF.  I'm oldskool in that I actually owned the original pocket box Car Wars and have since moved on to 3x scale with my kids. Whoa whoa whoa there.    I'm from Arkansas too.  What part? ......................... vet marshal raceL1 wv Posted Feb 9, 2009, 2:45 pm

*jimmylogan* MADHAT Darkwind Guru Civs Faction Group: Marshals + Rule Council Posts: 5,587 Joined: Jun 11, 2008 Damon_Angel said: One of the three Boat Wars designers. Very cool! As an old school CW player (and ADQ buyer that remembers when "Boat Wars" was in ADQ before the Deluxe edition ) this is very cool news. JL ......................... vet marshal deathrceL1 wv community combatL1 Posted Feb 9, 2009, 3:48 pm

ISHOULDCOCO COCO and the BURPERS Darkwind Guru Civs Faction Group: Storytellers Posts: 1,440 Joined: Jul 5, 2007 Hey I am COCO , I never actually ever posted to the forum Just had a massive forum arguement elsewhere and learnt a lessons. Wanted to share . Thought of you guys. I work for a lot of charities at the moment. making the transistion from  IT support to paid charity - ( additional need Kids and It tutoring for folks with additonal needs) Poor but happy - ten years of the corporate financial/broadcasting It support surrounded by dead faces gave me a clear path Read a wiki last year about quakers - by accident This entry kicked me in the head http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker#Mysticism Scotland is big on Church - did the whole mainstream thing 25 years ago. So sudden I go to a place once a week and listen for an hour - in silence with 250 other people - in silence. Have started to study it more and during one class an advisor described Christ as the "C word" , which is simultaneously the funniest and the most open way to describe the dude. Its almost like that reverse pysch of " we cannot give this stuff away but if we charge for it everyone wants it" except this is reverse reverse Psychology - I am here , under no obilagation or moral imperative or peer pressure , I am alone and I am with you and I am the sum of my beliefs and the sum of my behaviour here on on earth right now. I dig it a lot - closer to the truth Anyway , other people's beliefs  can make folks uncomfortable and I dont want to make anyone uncomfortable  The tweenagers at the charity have started shuffling about with their hands in their pockets ( too cool for school at 11, sigh) I have 3 at the charity who all play FO3 ( cert 18!) The play centre isfull of stuffed toys and action men and giant plastic dinosaurs . I am gonna try to 'engage' them with simple roleplaying  - one set of poly hedral dice a tape measure and some carboard body armour and guns - Big Purple Barney will play a deathclaw ? I had terrible time at school , tunnels and trolls saved my a$$ (TTYF, ZombieZonk!) it improved my english and arithmetic and got me into History. Runequestis my one true love , the one world I would escape to. Lots of Gurps , Globbo, STOMp , Gev,CarWarssince First edition( ziploc not blackplastic case(I remember when VMGs came out ! ),  Microquests (?), fantasy gamer ,Space Gamer , ADQs and Wyrms friends and talkes of the reaching moon, Cyberpunk 2020 a,dTav 2300 , James bond RPG , Dinky toy(die cast) car wars and GURPS AUTODUEL and AUTODULEon Commodore 64 blah blah 20 years of avalon Hill SJG Chaosium  etc etc Still play War hammer fantasy 2nd edition Love war movies I am a trained scavenger - as a child I knew allthe dinner ladiesby first name and today I  recycle the packed lunches that the kids do not eat - which means I get a lot of free fruit and no nice biscuits  - I live out of the reduced section of all my local supermarkets - gets you a good diverse diet. I love TK maxx , Lidl and Army and Navy ( In UK A&N means any colour you like as long as it is Khaki ) Current fave Firearm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaqPowTdqtg&feature=channel_page I dont actually like guns , but i am europeans -If you read this link and especially the comments at the bottom from folks who have 'discharged in anger' you start to understand http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/ammunition/2009/02/petzal-rules-gunfighting For me guns are the stuff of Westerns ( I still maintain that DW is cowboy genre) and wargames Read forensic analysis of realevents always reminds me of the true gravity of these events http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs7.htm http://www.thegunzone.com/11april86.html COCO The forum arguement ? - dull techies stuff about MSCONFIG and SSDs and Netbooks The lesson - Engage people Be honest about what you know and support your arguement Be clear and succinct Be gracious and apologise for even imagined slights Humility is about me verses my ego Makes folks laugh Be clear aboutwhat isbeing argued Never vary from your orginal stance Re-iterate til the other guy comprehends Re-iterate til he is offensive Re-iterate til the thread grinds to a stand still then walk away ......................... vet wv Posted May 23, 2009, 8:46 pm

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