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Petter Hegre is often asked why we have so few American girls on the site.
THERE ARE two reasons: although Petter studied in the United States, both in California and New York, he doesn't spend a lot of time there these days and admits to preferring to shoot the more innocent and unspoiled beauty he finds on his travels in Europe. That doesn't mean we don't receive proposals. We do. A lot.
Annette is a ballerina from Maryland. She sent us a sweet little collection of images and asked if she could pose for the site because she wanted to have a record of her firm perfect dancer body. Four days later she was in Paris in a classic dance studio performing naked in her pink leg warmers.
It was also Annette's first session nude modeling making a second and third look virtually compulsory.
|Adam United Kingdom
Great poser She's not my number 1 model on this site but I really like her willingness to pose so provocatively in this and her ballerina sets. You just can't help but stare :)
|nightwatche Australia
Annette's musical chair Good mix of colour: model & props, bold display of female form tastefully photographed.
|ardunbye United Kingdom
Annette Red Chair MAGNIFICENT! I'm fast becoming addicted to this girl.
|seovat United States
Annette Another nice set... even a peek between her cheeks (14)!
|MrQuick France
Dear U Once more, I hope my complete admiration (I'm trully fascinate) will go to U. I'll be such happy to see U on stage some where sometimes with the undefinitive thought of your pure beauty. If I wont be so undelicate I'll tell U thanks for this … Love to U…Til
|will United States
What a gorgeous American pussy!
|ardunbye United Kingdom
Annette-Balerina If Annette promises to dance for them in this costume, I will take a lifetime membership to the Bolshoi.
|David Taiwan, Province of China
so nice ! she is wonderful girl ! very very very nice body!
|Sandy United Kingdom
Annette American ballerina Absolutely awesome photography!!!! Keep up the good work.
|avogadro France
balerina very good modell more back side!
|David United States
Unfrickinbelievable I'm a proud American, and never so proud as when I see the Gold medalist for the most delectable pussy ever! What an amazing gallery! Hey Petter, get back here to North America. Mexico, Canada and the States are teaming with corn-fed milk maidens just waiting for your lens. Annette, you are fabulous! Thank you.
|francesco Italy
I have joined only some days ago, and I think that Annette is the best model. She is a nude angel with the most beautiful pussy I've ever seen. Just see how her red clit sticks out from her shaven slit, while her blue eyes look at the infinite
|ardunbye United Kingdom
Annette American Ballerina Not the most beautiful girt (a matter of opinion) by Hegre's standards but a body to die for and as 'SEXY AS HELL'.
|toelicker Germany
when a man.. is dreamin... he often dreams about a girl perfomriong naked ballet.. stretch her legs.. open them wiiide... exactly like this beaty here perfectly shows!
|Sam C United States
I don't like the black leggings. I wish she was nude. But I do like the revealing poses.
|seovat United States
Nice A lovely American woman displays athleticism, perfect physique, excellent natural tits and beautiful pussylips. Nice detail throughout, but too bad these are not more recent. Could we please have an encore, perhaps a glimpse between those lovely buttcheeks, Miss?
|valentino United Kingdom
annette The combination of her beautiful innocent face, serious expression, gorgeous body and incredible vagina, all displayed so blatantly, make this one of the best sets EVER! This girl MUST be encouraged to return.
|Simon Allen United Kingdom
a pirouette to my heart what can i say....she is amazing and is the encapsualtion of a fantasy.....a superb film. keep up the good work
|Ck_er United States
Execllent Video! What can I say, that was a wonderfull video, a very erotic fantasy...totally shaved, young girl, streaching like that...would love to see more...thank you!
|Rob United Kingdom
Balletic beauty An absolutely delightful film portraying a young woman who has such elegance, femininity and control of her lithe, supple graceful body. Thank you for contacting Petter, pretty, wonderful Annette.
|Ralph George Germany
A Wonderful Dream Annette is a wonderful dream to me. The way she moves her firm slim body is also artistic and sensual not to mention her extraordinary beauty. To watch this clip is one oft the greatest moments in the history of erotic movie.
|will94485 United States
|joseph United States
your films Your photos are quite amazing, but your films could use alot of work to get up to the quility of most of you photos. some suggestions: more movement and playfullness (of the model), less seeing set poeple by accident or in reflections, better music, no flashes, less hand held footage, etc... thanks for all the great photos!
|Jesse United States
Annette the butterfly Wow! You are so awesome, I enjoyed every moment. Thank you and "The best to you from this moment on". Wow! Truly a beautiful woman.

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Mav: I'm not in ToC 25 yet, but I know several DW frost tanks that are. My threat in Ony 25 as DW frost is fine. I think your question shouldn't focus on whether or not one produces more threat than the other: the question is whether you can produce enough threat to do your job. if blood can put out 10k threat and Frost only pushes 8k, but the DPS never break 7k threat, then the frost tank is no less better off. there is no real bonus to doing more threat than another spec if the other spec can still hold threat, other than making yourself feel more secure.


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I live in Santa Cruz, CA. On sunday this weekend I went up to the local game store in Scotts Valley, and roped three people into playing a game of Federation Commander. One person had played SFB in the distant past, and the other two were brand new to the franchise.
I only have Klingon Border and Booster 0, so I set up the (fleet scale) game as a Fed CA and the Kzin cruiser against a Klingon D6 and D7, with each of us controlling one ship, dueling in open space. The game went pretty well and everyone seemed to have a good time.
Of the three people, one (the guy who played a long time ago) liked it a lot. Another (a teenager) enjoyed it, said it felt very old-school, but that old-school is a good thing. The third enjoyed the game but said the learning curve seemed a bit too steep for him.
We played with most of the full rules, but I didn't introduce them to transporters, shuttles, plasma, etc.
I would love to get more people playing and drum up some interest in the game, so I was hoping some of you might have suggestions as to how I should get people involved? The "scenario" I built was by no means perfect, but it was what I could wrangle up that would give all four people roughly equal-power, direct fire ships with what I have.
What would you all suggest I do in the future when trying to teach a small group of people?
Are there one or two boosters I should buy that would round out my fleet to a good level where I can better teach the game on an even footing for everyone? (Over time I want to buy most of the products, but I can't spend all that money up front.)
Are there any particular scenarios, setups, methods, or formats you all find successful at teaching the game quickly and effectively, and drawing people in?
If I managed to get a local group going, is there any support from the company for local groups?
Does FC have any good campaign rules (and/or accessories?) I could use to set up a campaign in my FLGS? Having a big, color campaign map on the wall of the store could do wonders for drumming up interest.
Well, any help or advice anyone could provide would be appreciated.
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The "experience" people want is not the problems of getting 25 people in the same place at the same time, but rather encounters that require that many people. I don' think anyone in the history of MMOs has enjoyed that part.
Well, I think that blaming Blizzard for the decline of 25-mans by changing them to the same loot ilvl and then wondering about the value of loot is a bit contradictory.
Most of the people who immediately jumped ship to 10-man raiding when the change was made were raiding 25-mans for the loot, not the experience. IMO, anyone who still thinks the way to cure 25-man raiding is to give them better ilvl loot...is raiding for the loot, not the other way around. Don't fool yourselves.
If you're truly raiding for the 25-man experience, then loot ilvls shouldn't be an issue for you, as long as you're equal with other modes of raiding; 25-mans are equal, if not a little better than equal right now. The 'organizational costs' shouldn't be an issue for you, because that's the price of the experience you say you are looking for.
The "experience" people want is not the problems of getting 25 people in the same place at the same time, but rather encounters that require that many people. I don' think anyone in the history of MMOs has enjoyed that part.
There are also a lot of people left in the middle, that just switched to 10 people out of convenience.
The majority of people that raided 25 mans during TBC and WotLK didn't instantly jump over to 10 people when 10 mans dropped the same loot. They already had a team of 25 people together, so they just raided 25 for a while longer. Eventually people quit the game, and sometimes they are replaced, but sometimes you got a bunch of holes to fill, and then the question is "Do we continue raiding 25 man, and worry about recruiting people? Or do we shift down to 10 man to get more or less the same content and gear, and have our 10 best raiders available?"
A lot of those people wouldn't mind switching back to 25 man, if it was easy to get 25 people together.
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Hailmary: There is a difference in "Raiding for the loot", and "Getting good loot to make Raiding easier". Yes, in order to progress in raiding you need better and better loot, as you down harder and harder bosses. So yes, if you want to raid, then of course you have to work on getting better loot, and most people will probably be somewhat happy by getting better loot.
That doesn't mean they're doing it for the loot. Sure, after clearing a raid instance for the first time, the thrill of the first boss kill is over, and you're only returning there for the loot. But that loot is a mean, not an end goal. You farm the instance to get better gear to down harder bosses.
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you raid to get gear. this mythical person who does it for some other reason does not exist. its not that you cant raid for the fun of it- someone who isn't interested in it at all is probably not that into raiding - i saw people fully decked out in raid finder gear inside of the first few weeks of the expansion release mixed with drops from the normals or crafted.. if someone tried to raid with you and they still had on sub par gear you would still drop them like a hot potato ..
the point of what is being changed is how will it effect guilds internally because of the changes is pretty much what lore is talking about even though he goes the long way around in explaining it ..
Ive seen people leave guilds based on loot rolls
Most of my guild was that way as well. We had trouble getting people to show up for farm nights all the time, but progression nights were never a problem.
Of course, the level of gear-grindyness in MoP has basically turned me off from playing at all...
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Hailmary: You've clearly indicated by now that you yourself are raiding for the gear, and I really question your motives. Are you really spending all that time in the game, just to see the ilvl on your character sheet climb up?
It's in my opinion why Looking For Raid failed the goal it was meant to fill: Giving casuals a chance to see the encounters and raid. Sure, they know what the bosses look like now, but the encounters are so undertuned, it basically comes down to zerging all the bosses down. I don't know of anyone who enjoys stepping into an LFR after the first time they've been there.
It seems to lead to the opposite. Casuals run the LFRs once, and since it's pretty dull, and since they don't need the gear, they stop running it, while Raiders keep on running the LFR instances that still drop upgrades, since it helps them with progression.
Honestly, I think the game would be better off without LFR.
No. Contrary to popular belief, I will not conceed that I only raided for the gear:
1) I wanted to see the fights and how Blizzard challenges me to be better at my class
2) I wanted to see the lore behind the zone, and how it ties into the story of that expansion
3) I wanted shiny gear because stats are nice but I enjoy vanity.
In the end, the third option is LAST on my list because I frankly didn't really care about the gear as much; only because it was a means to progress.
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To be fair to Hail, I thought that people only raided for loot too, until I actually started raiding at a decent level.
For a lot of players - specifically those that are casual or semi-casual raiders - it can seem like all you're doing is chasing loot trying to claw your way up to the next rung of the ladder, and eventually it starts to feel like the loot IS the goal. It's understandable I suppose.
one caveat, when i'm going after a transmog peice i raid solely for loot. but then again it is Ulduar.
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Why would somebody that doesn't raid matter when it comes to how loot drops?its not that you cant raid for the fun of it- someone who isn't interested in it at all is probably not that into raiding
I doubt it.- i saw people fully decked out in raid finder gear inside of the first few weeks of the expansion release
If they can put out better dps or heal better or tank better than what we currently have, I would let them have a go in a test raid. No matter what gear they have.mixed with drops from the normals or crafted.. if someone tried to raid with you and they still had on sub par gear you would still drop them like a hot potato ..
That's just sad. And, to be honest, you are probably better off without them in your team if they'll bail out over something that trivial.Ive seen people leave guilds based on loot rolls


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FREEDOM "SPAIN." INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE C.N.T. AND F.A.I. Issued through the International Working Men's Association (I.W.M.A.). C.N.T. - Confederation Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour). F.A.I. - Federación Anarquista Iberica (Anarchist Federation of Iberia). No. 1 AUGUST, 1936 Price 1d. THE TRUTH ABOUT SPAIN. By MAX NETTLAU (The veteran revolutionary historian). All progressive elements in Spain have risen in arms like one man to crush the treacherous attack of army officers, the mercenaries of an African legion, fascists, clericals, monarchists and their dupes. Their success has been remarkable, and they were most successful in places where the ground had been prepared by generations of struggle for autonomy and federalism, association and solidarity, and for the highest cultural aims: free thought, a free social life; for what is now called in Spain, Libertarian Communism. Fighting for these aims are the advanced revolutionaries of the F.A.I. (Federación Anarquista Iberica — the federation of the anarchist groups of Spain and Portugal, founded in 1927) and the members of the C.N.T. (Confederacion Nacional de Trabajo — National Labour Confederation, founded in 1910), workers organised in unions who aim at Libertarian Communism by direct action in the day-to-day labour struggle, and, of course, in the whole struggle for their very existence now forced upon them by the fascist attack. CATALONIA is the region where the advanced political and social life of an anti-State, federalist type described above has its deepest roots. ANDALUCIA is where workers, labourers and small peasants form a firm bond of solidarity. The peasants and fishers in north-west GALICIA, miners of ASTURIAS and the BASQUE Country, the workers and peasants of ARAGON, the rapidly-increasing industrial population of MADRID, the lively workers and peasants of southern VALENCIA, all these are old national units, pursuing, each in their own way, but as their chief aim, independence and the solidarity of free association. Local differences do not mean chaos. Autonomy indeed strengthens the movement, casting aside the centralisation which has for ages been a burden which the Spanish peoples have always desired to throw off, even by open rebellion, and a thing which in daily life they defy as far as they possibly can. Spaniards have always considered central government, whether monarchist or republican, as the people's enemy and simply the support of big absentee landlords, merchant sharks, generals, a clergy whose highest achievement was the Inquisition, the present hotbed of militant clericalism, which turns religious buildings into arsenals and snipers' nests. This may help to explain why the Spanish people has always hated and distrusted the State and all who, under its protection, prey upon it, fleece and coerce it and the clergy's main work - try to suppress its intellectual development. It explains too why Spaniards fight so desperately for what they hold to be the cause of liberation; for it is always a supreme effort for real, complete emancipation from authority and exploitation. Thus it is easy to see that authoritarian state Socialism met with no serious response in Spain while free federalist socialism was eagerly welcomed. The Spanish Branch of the International Working Men's Association was formed under the inspiration of Fanelli and Bakunin in 1870. merging workers' associations widely developed since 1840, and at once adopted collectivist anarchism. The State-socialist fraction was imported by Paul Lafargue, Marx's son in law, in 1871. From it derives the present Socialist Party, divided into a reformist and a more advanced wing. The Communists, divided into several fractions, entirely failed to carry the workers with them in the years following the revolutionary strikes of 1917, and have remained insignificant fractions ever since. But in reality all this party strife has been relegated to history since October, 1934, when Anarchist, Socialist and Communist workers fought side by side in ASTURIAS in a desperate protest against a reactionary regime, and were brutally crushed, murdered, tortured after an heroic resistance. This brought the workers themselves together, and since then their best elements, especially the younger workers, have wanted to throw aside whatever divided them before. This means that they want to emancipate themselves from their political bosses, future deputies and ministers, and work solidly together in the spirit of the C.N.T., which at the May Saragossa Conference held out the hand of friendship to all workers. The C.N.T. and F.A.I, and the Socialist and Communist militants were at their posts confronting
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"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon
I'd give him a respectable B+ btw.
"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon
Just because others have a different opinion of BC's drafting or more specifically the players he drafted, and just because I think he has done an average job, hardly means I think everyone else is an F.
Its hard to compare GMs over 5 years as many have changed, and some of those teams haven't had high picks regularily... but just off hand ones that are better than Toronto:
OKC - Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka
Clippers - Griffin, Gordon, Bledsoe
Chicago - Rose, Gibson, Noah
Portland - Roy, Aldridge, Bantum, Oden
Philadelphia - Holiday, Young, Williams (17, 12, 42 respectively)
I'd take any of those 3 guys over Bargs, Demar and Ed any day (maybe not philly, but those are some low picks). Not suprisingly they are all better teams than Toronto.
Thunder: I actually hold Presti in higher regard than BC, but you cannot possibly say Durant + Westbrook + Ibaka > Bargnani + DeRozan + Davis, therefore Presti gets a better grade. Maybe he does, but not for that reason. The Sonics/Thunder had a 2nd overall, 3rd overall and 4th overall pick, all in decent or strong draft years. Durant was a consensus Top 2. There's nothing hard about picking Portland's leftover. Does Presti get a high mark for Harden? How about Aldrich (who was picked ahead of Davis)? Good job on Westbrook and super good job on Ibaka though.
Clippers: Dunleavy wasn't GM when Gordon was picked, nor was he GM when Bledsoe and Aminu were picked. What grade does Dunleavy get for picking Blake Griffin, the consensus #1, in his one year? Bledsoe was a good pick by his successor, Olshey, but what about Aminu? Neither GM was in office long enough to really compare.
Bulls: Again, who are we judging here? Paxson or Forman? Forman was responsible for Gibson (good pick) and Johnson (was dumped on Toronto after two years, so you tell me), what is his grade? Paxson gets credit for picking Rose over Beasley, and a lot of credit for picking Noah, but what about Gordon, who under your standard might not even be the 10th most valuable player in his draft despite being picked 3rd, and Tyrus Thomas, who Paxson traded Aldridge for? Sefolosha was a decent pick, and though he was traded away not too long after, they effectively got Gibson for him.
Portland: Pritchard gets credit for Aldridge and Batum, but Oden and Roy? I can't possible see how Oden is deemed a positive and Bargnani a negative. Oden earned the entirety of a 1st overall rookie scale contract to play fewer minutes over the four years than a typical starter plays in a year. Pritchard struck gold with Roy performing better than anyone thought he would, but then got bit by Roy living up to his injury concerns and Portland is now stuck with paying Roy franchise player money the next three years if the league doesn't create an amnesty clause. Grade?
76ers: Yes, they did a pretty decent job considering their mid/late picks, but the jury is still out on Turner.
You missed probably the best GM (in terms of draft record) of them all: Buford. Might not have been superstars that he picked, but he got very useful players all in the late 1st round or 2nd round.
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secondly if you say the "jury is still out" on anyone... well that applies to Derozan and Ed to... hence the average rating I gave BC because we don't know. Bargnani was clearly a bust of a pick at #1, but BC gets a break for a terrible draft.
My point was, just because I think BC is a C hardly means anyone or everyone else is an F. But alot of teams have much better guys (through the draft in the past 5 years) than the Raps do right now...
1. Here's an idea: just look up who was responsible for what, and compare if there's a big enough sample size. Remember: you're the one picking the draft records to compare to BC. You can't choose the argument and then fall back on the excuse that some of the GMs you want to pick didn't manage for sufficient years, so let's credit them with other people's picks! If you want to compare organizations, fine, but it's no longer relevant to what ezz_bee asked.
2. Obviously when I say the jury is out, I was being nice in not calling them a bust. Otherwise, almost everyone picked in the last five years would be considered "the jury is still out," however good or bad they look right now, as we have no idea how their careers will look 10 years from now.
3. I think you missed ezz_bee's point. I don't think he actually cares whether or not you give other GMs an F grade; he was just pointing out that you might be overly harsh, because there's probably at least 10 far worse GM draft histories of the 30 active right now, so if BC is a C+, they must be Fs. If anything, saying you don't consider the other GMs as Fs only helps his point. Understand? =P And I agree. A C+ to me means there's 11-13 better draft histories out there, and if you can't even find five better GM draft histories without intermingling records, I'd be surprised if you actually find all 11-13.
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2. If "jury still out" means bust, then BC is F... meaning I was overly nice giving him a C
3. Where did this point system come from? was it posted initially? are we ranking or grading him. I understood grading? In any case I find it hard to believe a C is "harsh"?
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So... story time (It's always story time with me):
We started playing a while back and half of our team, being people who like to tinker with games, started working on a large-scale campaign thing, with characters which influence ship operations and organic objectives (As in tactically this planetary system will be the one most of the fights will be over as it is in a "hole" in a nebulae cluster or is close to the border or has really rich dilithium deposits, etc), stuff like that (I was one of that half... I bear the burden of this).
Naturally, we had only played one or two games at this point, so the complicated rules for characters and "Warp movement" (Moving from one "game board" to another) meant we simply made the entire crew mad at us (arguing over game rules that weren't even part of the game). One burned out and another walked away from Fed Com completely. Um... so perhaps though we had our best intentions at heart, it was too much without knowing the game. We know it was silly, no need to chew our ears on that
We talked last night and between the four of us we have invested a lot of money into FedCom, all of us agree that it's ridiculous to walk away from this cool game and punish FedCom because WE were dinking around with the rules before we even understood said rules (Sorry about that guys!). So we have agreed to play the game "out of the box" for the next year.
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: So what would you say are interesting scenarios that we could play that aren't just "Bash each other to bits"? So we can attract our Cat player back (He's the one who got fed up with FedCom, but is willing to give it a shot so long as we play it out of the box). The players at the moment are Federation, Romulan and Lyran/Kzinti (He's a cat guy, he'll play either race, he doesn't care so long as they are cats). Our fourth will play just about anything. We are long time friends and are just fine playing against each other, in teams of 2 or all of us against an automated opponent. No feelings were hurt (We've been friends too long for that to happen), I just want to make FedCom look awesome again.
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:51 pm
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We did once play a few scenarios, but they all seemed pretty unbalanced. I'm not sure what the newer ones are like, but the early ones were, I assume, ported from SFB and don't work in FC if you are wanting any good balance.
One off bash em games work to help get know the rules.
Campaign are best (IMHO), you could come up with your own campaign (it can be fairly small scale) but leave the actual FedCom games as it is out the box, which is effectively what our group has done for the last 2 or 3 years.
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:55 pm
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Sounds like you need some kind of campaign system to go through. If individual scenarios don't work, you need to set up a small campaign and figure out how things move forward from scenario to scenario. Most campaigns you will see referenced on this board involve things from a fleet perspective (i.e. you and I are at war, we have such and such production, and move so far strategically, and use that to set up battles). This is typically done as it gives a more "realistic" feel to the set up. However, there is no reason you can't do something much simpler where each person takes a ship (or three) and beats each others heads in round-robin, with damage carried forward after some pre-defined set of repairs. (Similar to the old Captain's Campaign in SFB.)
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:03 pm
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Reading your other post, one type of campaign you might try (if people are not really set on playing certain empires) is an Orion pirate campaign.
Basically you need somone (the GM) who comes up with scenarios for a group of small orion ships to play - convoy raids being bread and butter, but assasination, mercenary etc. Each player has a bank account, from which they buy their initial, small, ship. Every time they play they pay a fee that represents the cost of running the ship (bigger more expensive ships cost more). They also pay a fee to repair their ship based on how much damage they took - you need to track that so DamCon doesn't make it free. They can gain money by getting away with cargo or for fees paid for other missions by parties who hire them. If they save enough money they can buy a bigger and better ship.
Apart from a semi random scenarios you can have some back story, I was going to run something like this years ago where the orion players would prevent (without knowing at first) a romulan surprise attack on the Federation, and the romulan commander would then start seeking revenge culminating in an assault on their base. so they would play some scenarios that were pure profit motivated and others related to the back story. We never played the Role playing game, but if you are into the RPG side of things then that could be perfect for the back ground plot part.
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:35 pm
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If you
set on a certain set of empires, do a simplified Captain's Game. Namely, every pick a ship of their favorite empire (or set of ships) based on a certain point value. Set up a sequence of encounters:
- Monster scenario.
- Fight against Orions.
- Two fights against opponents.
- Fight against a convoy.
- Fight against a "surprised" enemy.
The latter two give everyone a freebie (convoy) and a turkey shoot that can turn dangerous quickly (surprised enemy). The others are straight up combat. Randomize the order of the scenarios for each player (I listed six out of convenience). At the end of each scenario you get some number of repair points to repair your ship (shields are automatically refreshed). Once over the whole campaign you can repair all of your ship's damage (and you get some kind of bonus if you never do this).
Obviously, you will have to work out the victory system, the points to use, and the number of repair points per round. But something like this would give you an individual level compaign that lets everyone fly what they want without worrying about everyone else (mostly), but still keeps consequences from fight to fight.
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Joined: 26 Feb 2013
Posts: 15
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:01 am
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I have only played a dozen or so scenarios, but I think the two of that have gone over the best were "Practice, Practice, and then what?" and "Hun in the Sun."
The first one is from Romulan Border. It is a three player scenario where a Gorn and Federation ship were practicing in a simulated battle when a Romulan ship comes by them and attacks. It is a very interesting asymmetrical game where the Romulan starts with an advantage that then begins to dwindle. If the friend is a Star Trek fan there is an added bonus that this scenario happens to be very similar to a Next Generation episode (only it was two Federation ships and a Ferengi ship that attacked).
Hun in the Sun is a two player duel scenario from the most recent Communique (#89). We really enjoyed this one because there are special rules caused by a solar flare that really make the angle of attack important. This really emphasizes the importance of maneuver and created a high risk/high reward scenario since getting to close to the sun "shaved shields" but gave better position.
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:21 am
Post subject: Campaign Game
Based on the Captain Campaign from the old Commander Edition of SFB.
The Campaign Game
This campaign is intended to test your abilities as the captain of a single starship. Selecting any ship in the game, you must play nine scenarios in the specific order given. This campaign represents the typical amount of combat action a ship and its captain would see in a period of about five years of peacetime (wartime is much more active).
Number of Players
Two players in scenarios 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. One or two players in scenarios 2, 4, 6, and 8.
The following scenarios comprise the Campaign Game:
1. (8KB2, 8D) The Duel
2. (8CM3) Cruise Drones (use speed 24 drones)
3. The Duel
4. Any solitaire or monster scenario
5. (8KB6, 8H) Base Assault
6. Any solitaire or monster scenario
7. (8RA1) The Surprise Reversed
8. Any solitaire or monster scenario
9. The Duel (with a Pirate ship) or (8CM17) Diplomatic Immunity
Initial Set-Up
Players choose a ship of a given empire and use it in all nine scenarios. The opponents for scenarios 1, 3, 5, and 7 are shown below. One or more opponents must be found to play the opposing ships.
Player Scenario 1 Scenario 3 Scenario 5 Scenario 7
Fed CA Klin D7 Kzin CS Gorn CA Rom KR + 3xWE
Klin D7 Fed CA Gorn CA Rom WE Kzin CC + 2xCL + 2xFF
Gorn CA Klin D7 Kzin CS Fed CA Rom KR + 3xWE
Kzin BC Rom KR Gorn CA Fed CA Klin D7 + D6 + 3xF5
Rom KR Kzin CS Klin D7 Fed CA Gorn CA + CL + 3xDD
Victory: The level of victory is determined by accumulating victory points for each scenario.
Solitaire or Monster Scenarios: scenarios 2, 4, 6, and 8
> Monster destroyed or contact established or mission accomplished = 5 pts
> Ship disengages without destroying monster or does not complete mission = 0 pts
Duel Scenarios: scenarios 1, 3, and 9
> Enemy ship destroyed, own ship crippled = 3 pts
> Enemy ship destroyed, own ship not crippled = 5 pts
> Enemy ship crippled, own ship not crippled = 3 pts
> Enemy ship received more damage = 1 pt
> Enemy ship captured, own ship not destroyed = 7 pts
> Pirate ship captured = 9 pts
Base Assault: scenario 5
> Each enemy ship captured = 7 pts
> Each enemy ship destroyed = 5 pts
> Each enemy ship crippled = 3 pts
> Each enemy ship disengaged = 0 pts
> Defending ship crippled = -2 pts
> Defending ship lost = -4 pts
> Base crippled = -6 pts
> Base lost = -12 pts
Surprise Reversed: scenario 7
> Marginal or lower = 0 pts
> Tactical victory = 2 pts
> Substantive victory = 4 pts
> Decisive victory = 6 pts
> Astounding victory = 8 pts
Campaign victory is determined by the total points earned through all nine scenarios:
Less than 10 pts = court-martialed and executed for treason (except Fed)
10 - 25 pts = quietly retired at end of cruise
26 - 40 pts = "promoted" to a desk job
41 - 50 pts = assigned to teach at the Academy
51 - 65 pts = promoted to commodore
66+ pts = becomes known as a legendary captain; left in command (he is too valuable to promote)
Special Rules
1. Damage Repair. Almost all damage to a ship can be repaired between scenarios, but there are some limitations. All damage to a ship (except for Frame damage) is completely repaired after each scenario. All damage to a ship's surviving shuttles and fighters is completely repaired after each scenario. All drone racks, probe launchers, and ADDs are completely reloaded after each scenario. All Marine boarding parties are completely replaced after each scenario. One destroyed shuttle or fighter can be replaced after each scenario.
2. Overhaul - once during the entire campaign the ship can be overhauled. This repairs all Frame damage, but does not replace lost shuttles.
A bonus for NOT using the overhaul during the campaign is +5 points.
3. If the player's ship is destroyed in any scenario, he loses 25 points and begins the next scenario with a new ship of the same class.
Force Dynamics
Other players may intermesh their own Campaign games into a group effort. Multiple players may each take a ship from a different empire and play the various scenarios against each other. In the case of duels, it is straightforward. In the Base Assault scenario, players should randomly decide who will be the attacker and who will be the defender. The attacker gets only his own ship; the defender gets a base station. In the Surprise Reversed scenario, each player should play against a player who is not participating in the campaign. Players can only be the defender (the ship played by the Fed cruiser).
"Sometimes our best is not enough. We must do what is required." -- Winston Churchill
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Location: Arvada, Colorado
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 4:33 am
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AWESOME! Thanks guys! I'll report back and tell you how it all rolled out!
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Posts: 189
Location: Colorado
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:03 pm
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Try this-- Instead of one person being your "cat guy" or your "Rom guy"
force yourselves (or rather encourage one another
) to try different races.
Everyone in our group has their preference of race, but we all take turns picking the scenario, then we roll dice to pick sides. It gives every member a chance to be "in command" now and then. Yes, we can predict which player will choose which race when his/her turn comes up, and that forces the rest of us to play unfamiliar or undesirable ships, but we all know that sooner or later our turn will come up. And our "sides" are always different. There's a different dynamic every week.
Dang it, I want that PPD installed NOW!
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Movement 1: Bach-Händel'sche Periode 1720: Largo grave Allegro moderato Pastorale Tempo I
Movement 2: Haydn-Mozart'sche Periode 1780: Larghetto
Movement 3: Beethoven'sche Periode 1810: Scherzo Trio
Movement 4: Allerneueste Periode 1840: Allegro vivace
During the 1820s and 1830s there was a growing interest in music of earlier times culminating in a series of historical concerts directed by Mendelssohn in Leipzig early in 1838. Spohr himself contributed to this movement with his Concertino for violin and orchestra Op 110, 'Sonst und Jetzt' ('Then and Now'), from February 1839, which contrasted violin styles of the composer's youth and the contemporary period. He was also involved in the revival of Bach, and as early as 1809 had acquired the autograph of the 15 Inventions and 15 Sinfonias BWV772–801, part of the Clavier-Büchlein for W F Bach, and from 1823 in Kassel he began performing Bach's motets alongside such composers as Palestrina and Carissimi. In 1827 Spohr obtained the score of the St Matthew Passion and only the obstruction of his ruling prince prevented him from possibly preceding Mendelssohn in the public resurrection of this masterpiece, though he was eventually allowed to perform it in 1832, 1833, 1834, 1845 and 1851.
The opening movement of the Sixth Symphony evoking the period of Bach and Handel begins with a slow introduction, Largo grave, which presents the main theme of the following contrapuntal Allegro moderato. In place of a development section, Spohr introduces a Pastorale reminiscent of Handel before returning to the Bachian fugal material.
Although the two great Viennese classical masters are linked in the E flat major Larghetto's title, and the opening motif slightly resembles the main theme of the slow movement in Haydn's Symphony No 87 (1785), he then disappears from view as Spohr offers a beautiful and touching tribute to his hero, Mozart, with material modelled on the Andante con moto in his E flat major Symphony K543. At one point Spohr reminds us that he stands behind this evocation of Mozart; a dotted Mozartian phrase is shortened and transformed into a motif which instantly brings to mind the opening of Spohr's popular Nonet.
The G minor Scherzo reflects aspects of Beethoven through its use of three timpani at the start plus some abrupt gestures; here Beethoven's use of timpani in his Seventh Symphony is the clear inspiration as Spohr played in its 1813 premiere in Vienna under the composer's direction, recalling that 'the wonderful second movement was encored and made upon me also a deep and lasting impression.' In contrast, the major-key Trio follows a typical Spohr procedure in being based on varied and modified forms of the Scherzo theme, whereas Beethoven's trios are usually independent of the Scherzo proper.
The stylistic differences between the movements are accentuated by a gradual growth in the size of the orchestra. 'Bach–Handel' is scored for the usual strings plus two each of flutes, oboes, bassoons and horns; 'Haydn–Mozart' adds two clarinets; 'Beethoven' brings in three timpani as well as two more horns; and the 'Very Latest' finale expands to a full-blown romantic ensemble with the addition of piccolo, two trumpets, three trombones, triangle, cymbals, bass drum and side drum.
For this finale Spohr adopted a modern style which he deplored—that of Parisian grand opera and ballet. Here he seems to be saying 'anything you can do, I can do better', mixed in with some hints of composers such as Auber and Adam plus a sideways glance at Berlioz and Meyerbeer. It was this movement which most confused the London audience when Sir George Smart conducted the Philharmonic Society's orchestra in the first performance at the Hanover Square Rooms on 6 April 1840, for they would probably have expected something in Spohr's own style as exemplified in his earlier symphonies.
Today we accept compositions which work with musical styles from earlier periods such as Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana, Grieg's Holberg Suite, Stravinsky's Pulcinella or Richard Strauss's Dance Suite after Couperin, but when Spohr pioneered the process with his 'Historical' Symphony contemporary listeners and critics completely failed to comprehend this concept.
However Spohr professed himself well satisfied with this finale, commenting in a letter to a friend that the ambiguous reaction of people to it was exactly the effect produced by the very latest style of music; he pointed out that some thought he was satirizing the modern school while others felt that he meant to show how much more effective the latest compositional style could be.
Schumann, in a well-known criticism of the Sixth Symphony, stated that when it was played in Germany one could hear from every corner of the hall the sound 'Spohr … Spohr', and it is true that the composer's personal fingerprints are present throughout but this is a positive feature. The styles imitated are filtered through Spohr's imagination so giving the symphony its enduring fascination and providing it with a phoenix-like attribute of revival after each critical cremation.
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