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Looks like the online stores are getting in their B-17 Flying Fortress Leader games, which means my order should be shipping soon.
There’s an option to fly your own personal bomber within the missions, where you command the entire squadron. This makes the game a bit like the old B-17: Queen of the Skies game.
So now I need to come up with a name for my bomber.
Suggestions are welcome.
The only Radiohead song I’m familiar with is “Creep”.
I have a pirated copy of the CD OK Computer sitting at home, but I’ve never listened to it.
In late 2001, I fell hard for a gal who initially was interested in me, but eventually decided that she wasn’t. For reasons lost in the passage of time, it hurt me more than any other rejection before or since. So much so that I actually sought out self-help guides, both in book form and online.
It was a dark time for me. Darkest I’ve ever felt. Really dark. Darkity dark dark.
One of the suggestions, strangely enough, was to listen to the CD OK Computer by Radiohead. I managed to burn a copy of it to a CD, but kept hesitating to listen to it. And eventually I was able to pull myself out of the despair that I was wallowing in.
As a result, I didn’t feel the need to do any more of the things that were suggested to me, including listening to that CD.
So I haven’t, mostly out of a sense of me having defeated those demons so many years ago.
I don’t know if any of this makes sense, but it felt right to post about it now, for some reason.
As for the CD, I know it’s at home, just not sure where exactly I left it. Probably on a shelf in my bedroom.
My interest in the B-17 Flying Fortress was reawakened when I recently started playing B-17: Queen of the Skies, though I’ve just made a quick check of games that I’ve ordered, and I have THREE other B-17/8th Air Force games coming in sometime in the near future.
Even though Memphis Belle is the movie that really made this bomber popular, I remember reading about the 8th Air Force long before that, even before I played my first game of B-17: QotS.
And then there was one of Harrison Ford’s lesser known films, Hanover Street.
Harrison Ford stars as an American WWII pilot stationed in England who falls in love with a married British nurse (Lesley-Anne Down). When his plane is shot down behind enemy lines, he discovers that the secret agent he must protect is her husband.
I think I saw this on on cable, once, in 1979-80(?), and then it was on again recently at a Chinese restaurant near work, of all places. Ford’s character flew a B-25 Mitchell instead of a B-17 Flying Fortress. The newer games appear to have the B-26 Marauder available, which is historically more accurate from what I’ve read.
Anyways, I’m looking forward to these games, as each has a different take on game play. Queen of the Skies put you in command of a single bomber, while a couple of the new ones have you commanding the entire squadron on the bombing run.
And I recently bought a new book on the subject:
Took a long drive around the Bay Area today, running errands from Gator Games to Fry’s Electronics to Game Kastle Fremont, and finally to Nelson’s place in El Cerrito for our Games Night, this time on International Tabletop Day.
*whew*
I lost track of time at Game Kastle, and along with a traffic delay on 880N, I arrived a little later than I intended to, about 20 minutes after our scheduled start time.
Games were played, food was eaten, and I actually won in a game that I had never in the past.
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The Giants lost again. Arrgh.
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I’m behind on a couple of shows for the first time in a while. Arrow and tonight’s Doctor Who, I’m probably going to catch them on Sunday.
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I’m hearing the siren’s call of some of my sports games again, but not enough to set one up. That may change, though.
The rules appear to be identical to Warfighter Modern, with changes appropriate to the time period. For example, there’s lots of different pistol/rifle ammo sizes in the modern version, but only one basic ‘bullet’ type in the WWII edition, called ‘Ammo ‘.
I looked at the available expansions, which I’m holding off purchasing because I’m told that there’s plenty of replay in the core box. If I were to get any of the expansions, I’d probably get the extra US, and UK card decks. Maybe the Germans, but I’d have to see if I don’t mind playing them. I really have no interest in the Russian and Polish expansions.
I’m not sure what the next couple of waves of expansions will be, but I’m hoping for Pacific Theatre card decks for the WWII game. As for the Modern setting, I really don’t know.
I hope to get a game play in sometime this weekend. Luckily the WWII Call of Duty figures were delivered to the office today.
And I may or may not start taking turn-by-turn notes in order to create a mission narrative for an after action report.
