RE: More on ranks, SF, etc.
Raymond Rappaport (RRappaport@mccamish.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:23:52 -0400
I have a copy of the Vermillion game and am willing to send a photocopy
of the rules out to poeple who might be interested intranslating it if
it ever gets translated I would be happy to send complete copies of the
rules and counters and charts to those involved
RAYMOND J. B. TIII. RAPPAPORT
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>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 1997 10:15 AM
>To: logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>Subject: Re: More on ranks, SF, etc.
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>Ditto on the headache; it's always been the assumption that space
>warfare,
>and therefore military culture would be based on navies. As the main
>push
>in the US, at least, has been to involve the air force and naval
>aviation,
>I've always wondered if use of the word 'fleet' and not wing or group
>was
>less than apropos, but always realized that was me showing my
>parochialism
>and quickly shut up.
>
>As for the funny little =08 , I figured that was whatever editor she's
>using,
>not necessarily DELPHI's fault.
>Like I know? I just finished explaining to someone that task names
>under
>IBM's MVS system must be alphanumeric or national characters. He said,
>'National Characters? Like Madonna?' ;->=3D
>
>Ditto on liking Dune the movie, even with flaws and gaffs; never
>claimed to
>be a sci fi(sic) fan, and refrain from judgements on others. Course, I
>also
>never heard of the TV version.
>
>Now, if somebody could give me a mail-order source for this Vermillion
>game... *sigh*
>
>The_Beast
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>cmhung@insti.physics.sunysb.edu on 07/10/97 08:32:59 AM
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>Please respond to logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>
>To: logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>cc: (bcc: Doug Evans/CSN/UNEBR)
>Subject: Re: More on ranks, SF, etc.
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>On Jul 10, 8:42am, CSUE@delphi.com wrote:
>> Subject: More on ranks, SF, etc.
>> (Apl=08ologies in advance: I can't "quote" from Delphi mail, the =
silly
>thing)
>Looks like that's not the only silly thing. Notice the many funny =08
>signs
>that pop up in seemingly random places? ^_^
>
>> Actually, Field Marc=08shal is a German rank. Rommel was a Field =
Marshal.
>> (Although I doubt he was the highest ranking German army officer in =
WW2!)
>I'm having a headache thinking about these military rank thingy.=20
>First,
>could someone explain to me why there's a distinction between army and
>navy in the 20000th century? ^_^ I mean by definition, an army is a
>unit
>that spends most of its time on the ground, but in the age of space
>wars
>like in LoGH, what silly army will spend most of its time on the
>ground?
>I mean in order to reach a planet, you'll have to travel through the
>vast
>sea of space first won't you? Only after that can you fight on the
>ground.
>But that's exactly what the marines in the navy do! So strictly
>speaking,
>there shouldn't be any army in LoGH ^_^
>QED
>Now that I've proven armies don't exist in LoGH ^_^, would someone (Sue
>preferably ^_^) please check out the rank translation of the navy ranks
>in this page:
> http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/LoGH/ranks.html
>and see if it looks reasonable?
>
>> And, BTW, if you got your _Dune_ from WATCHING it and not READING it, =
I
>can
>> state with some authority that you are NOT an SF fan.
>Now why does everybody hate the Dune movie so much? I'm a die-hard SF
>fan,
>and yes I've READ Dune before watching the movie, but I love the movie.
>It's
>as authentic as a 2hr+ movie of a humongous novel can get people! To
>me,
>in
>some places (like that beautiful shot of those giant Spacing Guild
>transport
>ships ferrying the Atreides to Caladan), the movie gives one the
>audio/visual
>mood that even the novel can't match. Overall, Dune is one of my
>all-time
>favorite movies, way up there with Blade Runner, 2001, Alien(s), Empire
>Strikes Back etc. So stop trashing the Dune movie OK! ^_^
>Now Alan Smithee's unauthorized TV version is a different story...
>
>Ming.
>"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
>Ancient Fremen Saying
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