Re: Cool women (was: Re: [Epic] Newbie)

From: Andy Skinner <askinner_at_...>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 07:51:31 -0500

Earl Corbin wrote:
> I should have been more clear. I meant she was patronizing me by playing
> at all, not that she was holding back on her tactics. I gave her advice on
> what she should do to win. I almost played both sides. Now that I
> remember, I picked her army for her, too. It was really to explain the
> rules more than anything. No point in getting her to play and then beating
> her so badly she doesn't have any fun. Then I'd never get her to play
> again. What I was worried about was that she was just playing to make me
> happy, and that she didn't really have any interest in playing again. I
> love to play Epic, and it would be a great thing for us to do together. We
> have very few common interests.

My wife and I are supposed to play Sunday. I picked out an Eldar
and a Space Marine army yesterday, with a variety of troops on
each side. Problem is, the armies are very similar. Both have
a detachment of infantry plus a few tanks, a bike detachment, a
small Titan (still using a Battletech Marauder as a Revenant), and
a bigger tank detachment (2 Scorpions on one side, predators, Land
Raiders, and Whirlwinds on the other). I'm sure I'll branch out
after a while. I'll have to create some standard detachments with
point values pretty close to multiples of 50 and let her choose
from among those--she is definitely not going to want to pick out
the units in the detachments.

She isn't completely patronizing me--she likes to play games with
me, so I'm sure we'll play occasionally. But she's not interested
enough to make it her own hobby, like it is mine.

andy
askinner_at_...
Received on Fri May 16 1997 - 12:51:31 UTC