Yeah, it was insanely stupid, but that was its charm.
Nice sig block. I use that Conrad quote a lot. It's a great Navy-ism.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:28:35 -0400, Jeff Dougherty
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> Nope, innocent of that one. BARD seems to be more or less dead these
> days (which is sad), I don't think any of my stuff made it up there.
> I've got the Challenge magazine with the "Monster" nuclear-powered tank
> in it. Always keep that one in my vest pocket. It makes absolutely no
> sense, but it's the perfect thing for an M. Bison style TED to pull out
> of his pocket to make the players realize exactly how insane he is.
> "It's...a nuclear powered tank. How does he- why would he- how do we
stop
> this thing without forcing the evacuation of the entire province?" The
> last being the really pertinent question. Traditional methods of tank
> busting do not play well with highly enriched uranium.
> -JTD
> "If you can't be good, be colorful"
> - Pete Conrad, Commander, Apollo 12
>
> On Jun 10, 2012, at 2:24 PM, wrote:
>
> Okay, I do remember the "ChaserCaffey" handle, though.
>
> When I was on the BARD page earlier, I saw the design--was it
> Brutus?--that was a TL-12 attempt to counter Trepidas. Was that yours?
> That
> made me think of that design I did for that monstrous looney vehicle in
> TNE
> with the fission reactor in it, and the 120mm gatling gun. That one was
> fun, and another example of seeing some fun-looking miniature someone
> had
> made and trying to figure out what its ratings were in TNE. We
> published
> that one in the Challenge technical updates, I think. We actually put a
> lot
> of good technical designs into Challenge, in order to make Challenge
> more
> valuable to the players. However, I remember it made it tough for me,
> because a lot of them never got compiled into books, and I always had a
> hard time remembering which issue they were in when I was trying to
> find
> them again.
>
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:21:29 -0400, Jeff Dougherty
> wrote:
> > Probably the similarity to MJD. I went by "ChaserCaffey" on the
> boards.
> > See how many favorite people you get when you sign on a TNE list? ;-)
> I
> > always suspected the flak over Hfont-family: Helvetica;font-