The Rook's Bailey

"Sound out the trumpet noise, the cannons bark and jump for joy
Someone's dread and darlin' boy has fallen on his saber"
- Hey Ho, by Tracy Grammer

Nothing says summer like a carriage ride down a wooded path...with an artillery piece in tow. Maybe that is why I like the ACW so much: so many of the battles took place in some wonderfully bucolic venues. Anyhoo...

So here goes another Scourge of War AAR. This time, for a change of pace, I decided to play with the big guns of an ...

Still having fun with NorbSoft's Scourge of War: Gettysburg. I participated in one pre-made scenario and two sandbox scenarios, and each time I had quite the fun time! Here's some screenies of my last sandbox fight, what I like to call The Battle of Ol' McDonald's Farm. This fight took place on a fictional map ('Alpine') - hence, the name. Other details: it was a division vs division fight, with me taking the command of Edmund L.Dana's Second Brigade for the Federals. Here's what happened....

[NOTICE: because the sprite-based ...

I know we all like to idolize teachers, but in my experience the truly good teachers were few and far between in the government-run school system. In fact, out of my 12 year experience, I can only claim to actually having four good teachers (the rest were little different than the surly bureaucrats you meet at the DMV). Not surprisingly, two of the four had doctorates, with a third working on his doctorate at the time I was in his class. The fourth...well, I don't know much about him because he was my sixth grade(?) music teacher and I didn't ...

Here I am again, in another gaming lull. I really have come to hate these post-Christmas gaming doldrums over the past few years. Not only are they so boring, but they get me to make rash purchasing decisions out of desperation. A few years back, for example, I found myself spending good money on the awful GTA4. Three hours on my HDD and it was gone...along with my money. I know...it was a stupid decision from the get-go, but I was desperate!

And now I have done it again.

But don't be too quick to do a face-palm ...

Ready for some more tropical highjinks? Turns out day 3 was more interesting than the previous day!

First, I got attacked by a shark. Ouch. Funny story: I was returning from a night mission when some pirates started chasing me as I drove my hunk of junk. It being dark and all, I got lost and found myself racing along some beach, dodging incoming fire the whole way. I don't recall how, but I wound up driving right off the beach and into the ocean. The engine died and the car just floated there. Having no choice that ...