Wow, it was 1997 that Eric died, so 17 years ago. He went the same week as Lady Diana and Mother Teresa if I recall correctly.
Derek Stanley
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> On Apr 4, 2014, at 6:29 AM, DEREK STANLEY <> wrote:
>
> Eric was my GM when I was playing TNE, if you didn't talk to him while you were at GDW it would have been soon there after. He died about 15 years back, a month before his 30th birthday.
>
> He was an interesting and adventurous guy who I still think about on occasion to this day. He had one grandfather who fought in the Pacific and both knew and disliked "Pappy" Boeington intensely, and another who was part of the army group that liberated Dachau. He had the camp flag in a box in his attic, very creepy.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 1:05 AM, wrote:
>>
>>
>> Uxi--
>>
>> While looking for Derek's BARD page I came across your COALINFONET page
>> which is dedicated to Eric Bould. I recognize that name, did I know him
>> while I was at GDW or thereafter?
>>
>> Also, I saw that you destroyed Coral Sea Victrix. DUDE! She was my
>> favorite one, I never would have destroyed her.
>>
>> > I wrote the thing rationalizing the two names. Gabriella Ramastan and
>> > Christian Overtak or something very like that. The rationalization is in
>> > the BARD pages somewhere.
>> >
>> > Derek Stanley
>> > Sent from my iPhone...
>> >
>> >> On Apr 3, 2014, at 21:53, wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Just for the record, there was...an issue with the quotes in Vampire
>> >> Fleets.
>> >>
>> >> Everything in there is true, and happened as written, but Frank put
>> >> some
>> >> of those in at the last minute without my seeing them. I loved them
>> >> all,
>> >> but when I saw the dates on a couple of them I said, "Holy Crap, Frank,
>> >> that wasn't going to happen so soon!"
>> >>
>> >> But we would have found a way to make it work. For example, the "first
>> >> contact between RC and Regency" was like 1205 or 6, but we could easily
>> >> massage that, where that date was the first contact of the
>> >> way-way-advance
>> >> scouts, not the main bodies where the disagreements began.
>> >>
>> >> I had to do that sort of thing all the time. Not only were there huge
>> >> numbers of inconsistencies and contradictions in the CT and MT material
>> >> that I had to rationalize or bury, but stuff like the time Frank gave
>> >> two
>> >> at least two different names to the Queen of Solee, which I had to
>> >> rationalize, I think in COALINFONET in Challenge 76 at least.
>> >>
>> >> So yes, the VF quotes are real and true, just not indicative of what I
>> >> believed the timeline would be, VF made them appear a little sooner,
>> >> but
>> >> we would have found a way to make it work.
>> >>
>> >> > Doesn't that occur after Promise gets liberated? I recall a statement
>> >> at
>> >> > the end of vampire fleets that the operation was going to be run on a
>> >> > shoestring. With that, it's hard to see ships able to be spared to
>> >> > intedict those who go on the run.
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> > --------------------------------------------
>> >> > I think that's where the Solee
>> >> > ships come in. The RCN is going to be pretty formidable by
>> >> > 1205 - 1206 when they're pumping out Sandman destroyers
>> >> > out of the automated Guilded Lilly shipyard.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Sent from my SM-N900T
>> >> >
>> >> > On Apr 3, 2014 8:28 PM,
>> >> > "Eamon Watters" <>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > True, though how effective a hunt for those on the
>> >> > run could be is up for question. The EC value disparity
>> >> > reminds me of a scenario I plotted with a very special
>> >> > inflitration team taking over the Evangelical Doomslayer
>> >> > Virus which is the origin of the corewards traffic on the
>> >> > Vampire Highway.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
>
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPad
> On Apr 4, 2014, at 6:29 AM, DEREK STANLEY <> wrote:
>
> Eric was my GM when I was playing TNE, if you didn't talk to him while you were at GDW it would have been soon there after. He died about 15 years back, a month before his 30th birthday.
>
> He was an interesting and adventurous guy who I still think about on occasion to this day. He had one grandfather who fought in the Pacific and both knew and disliked "Pappy" Boeington intensely, and another who was part of the army group that liberated Dachau. He had the camp flag in a box in his attic, very creepy.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Apr 4, 2014, at 1:05 AM, wrote:
>>
>>
>> Uxi--
>>
>> While looking for Derek's BARD page I came across your COALINFONET page
>> which is dedicated to Eric Bould. I recognize that name, did I know him
>> while I was at GDW or thereafter?
>>
>> Also, I saw that you destroyed Coral Sea Victrix. DUDE! She was my
>> favorite one, I never would have destroyed her.
>>
>> > I wrote the thing rationalizing the two names. Gabriella Ramastan and
>> > Christian Overtak or something very like that. The rationalization is in
>> > the BARD pages somewhere.
>> >
>> > Derek Stanley
>> > Sent from my iPhone...
>> >
>> >> On Apr 3, 2014, at 21:53, wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Just for the record, there was...an issue with the quotes in Vampire
>> >> Fleets.
>> >>
>> >> Everything in there is true, and happened as written, but Frank put
>> >> some
>> >> of those in at the last minute without my seeing them. I loved them
>> >> all,
>> >> but when I saw the dates on a couple of them I said, "Holy Crap, Frank,
>> >> that wasn't going to happen so soon!"
>> >>
>> >> But we would have found a way to make it work. For example, the "first
>> >> contact between RC and Regency" was like 1205 or 6, but we could easily
>> >> massage that, where that date was the first contact of the
>> >> way-way-advance
>> >> scouts, not the main bodies where the disagreements began.
>> >>
>> >> I had to do that sort of thing all the time. Not only were there huge
>> >> numbers of inconsistencies and contradictions in the CT and MT material
>> >> that I had to rationalize or bury, but stuff like the time Frank gave
>> >> two
>> >> at least two different names to the Queen of Solee, which I had to
>> >> rationalize, I think in COALINFONET in Challenge 76 at least.
>> >>
>> >> So yes, the VF quotes are real and true, just not indicative of what I
>> >> believed the timeline would be, VF made them appear a little sooner,
>> >> but
>> >> we would have found a way to make it work.
>> >>
>> >> > Doesn't that occur after Promise gets liberated? I recall a statement
>> >> at
>> >> > the end of vampire fleets that the operation was going to be run on a
>> >> > shoestring. With that, it's hard to see ships able to be spared to
>> >> > intedict those who go on the run.
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> > --------------------------------------------
>> >> > I think that's where the Solee
>> >> > ships come in. The RCN is going to be pretty formidable by
>> >> > 1205 - 1206 when they're pumping out Sandman destroyers
>> >> > out of the automated Guilded Lilly shipyard.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Sent from my SM-N900T
>> >> >
>> >> > On Apr 3, 2014 8:28 PM,
>> >> > "Eamon Watters" <>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > True, though how effective a hunt for those on the
>> >> > run could be is up for question. The EC value disparity
>> >> > reminds me of a scenario I plotted with a very special
>> >> > inflitration team taking over the Evangelical Doomslayer
>> >> > Virus which is the origin of the corewards traffic on the
>> >> > Vampire Highway.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Eamon
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
>