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The Rook's Bailey

The Rook's Bailey

Chess and...other stuff!




"Chess is a beautiful mistress to whom we keep coming back, no matter how many times she rejects us." – Bent Larsen

  1. And So It Begins: Part II

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    Ah, Larry Leadhead. I was reading you even when my flirtation with minis was over. I hope we haven't seen the end of such a great comic strip now that I am getting involved in the hobby again!

    (BTW: you can still read the interview I did with LL's creators, Eric Hotz and Doug Hamm, here.)

    Well, today was a great day. After being dead in the water the last week because my paint collection was largely dried up and useless, today my new batch of supplies arrived and I was off painting my set of Ogre minis!
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  2. Something Wicked This Way Comes

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    TC Jameson was doing everything he could to stay awake. It was a long, boring and uneventful night patrolling a shell-pocked sector of the front in his heavy hover tank. Not that he was complaining. It was to nice to see the Paneuropeans quiet for a change. Jameson had heard through the command grapevine that a North American Combine cybertank - or Ogre to those who had to face them on the field of battle - had sneaked ashore near Normandy and was raising Cain in Gaul. Supposedly it was a Mark V, one just off the assembly line no less, and incorporating
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