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New member · remus on Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:57 pm

Hi All
My username is Remus and I am also registered with SOW. I have been interested in war games from all eras for too many years that I care to remember. Napoleonic and seven years warfare are the periods that interest me most at the moment as played on SOW. I play mainly Sandbox games and mod the Napoleonic and SYW period. I have been unable to get a multiplayer game mainly because I live in Australia and finding time at 6.30 am is sometimes difficult with real life interfering most of the time. I would love to get involved with multiplayer whenever possible although I am limited in the amount of games I have played. I would appreciate any assistance in getting involved within this forum as i have received positive feedback from the various posts I have read here and at SOW

Remus

Re: New member · Khryses on Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:45 pm

Hi Remus,

It's a shame I didn't hear from you sooner!

I'm also Australian, and found it very hard to find matches when I lived in Sydney (usually getting up at 3:30 am for the occasional match Shocked

).

Welcome to the forum - hopefully we'll be able to get you involved soon!

Best,

Khryses

new member · remus on Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:50 pm

Thank you Khryses.

I look forward to any further involvement .
Good to know someone else perhaps feels my frustration with the tyranny of distance.

Remus

Re: New member · Khryses on Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:23 pm

Which part of the country are you in?

Perhaps we can bring back some the the face-to-face kriegsspiel materials we're enjoying here and set up some kind of Australian get-together...

Re: New member · Uncle Billy on Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:41 pm

Welcome Remus. You live in a tough part of the world for finding games at a reasonable hour. There is a game today and another one two days later. Games usually start at 19:30 or 20:30GMT. Some of us in the western part of the US could play later in the day which might allow you to have breakfast with your battle.

new member · remus on Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:40 pm

Hi Khryses

I am in Perth Western Australia and would appreciate any input from yourself.

Hi Uncle Billy

Yes it is difficult with time schedules. I managed once to get a game on SOW but it was about 6.00 am on a Sunday morning. However once I get familiar with KS I will make an extra effort to make some of the games.

Thank you both for input
Remus

Re: New member · Khryses on Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:51 am

If nothing else, then we should be able to get some games in when we return in 2015 - but I'm sure we can arrange something before that!

Do you attend EPIC at all?

new member · remus on Fri Nov 01, 2013 11:26 am

Sorry Khryses but I am not familiar with Epic

Remus

Re: New member · Khryses on Fri Nov 01, 2013 11:43 am

Ah sorry, I meant CanCon (which is AT Epic) - probably the biggest boardgaming convention in Australia, and the likeliest way of getting people together from different cities in a venue.

Again, this probably won't be something we can get moving until my wife and I get back to Oz in a couple of years, but this is the site if it's something you want to look into: http://www.cgs.asn.au/cancon/

With regards to getting into SoW, you're 8 hours ahead of us in the UK. Probably the latest I can play on a weeknight is an 8:30 start (and that with some grumbling from my Lady), which is an early 4:30 start for you, allowing you to finish your glorious victory with breakfast. The weekend might be a better bet, but we're still looking at an early start for you unless we try to get a game going in our mornings.

Possibly 8-9am our time to your 4-5pm?

We wouldn't normally be on then, but it's certainly doable with some pre-planning afaiaa...

Again, I can't speak for our American cousins Wink

Re: New member · Mr. Digby on Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:13 pm

Midday in the UK/13:00 in Europe vs 20:00 in Perth would also work.

Re: New member · Khryses on Fri Nov 01, 2013 1:11 pm

This is true - a number of my upcoming weekends I'm occupied from 11:30-12, but certainly not all of them.

And even so, I'm sure there are enough enthusiasts to get a game or two going without my involvement being necessary Wink

new member · remus on Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:53 am

Almost made the game on Sunday morning. Had a look at MP lobby and saw KS game but my setup for a game seems to be faulty so I had to give it a miss. Will have to tweak my settings and get organised for something in the near future.

Remus

Re: New member · Leffe7 on Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:00 am

Ah, too bad you couldn't join. The 4 of us had a nice little coop game.
What kind of error did you get when you tried to join the room?

new member · remus on Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:45 am

Leffe7 wrote:Ah, too bad you couldn't join. The 4 of us had a nice little coop game.
What kind of error did you get when you tried to join the room?

Hi Leffe7

I had been trying to play MP solo to see if the game would play but it kept crashing at loading graphics

Remus

Re: New member · Uncle Billy on Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:21 pm

Take a look in the sowgb.log file, it's in the \Work folder. It should tell you what went wrong.

Re: New member · Mr. Digby on Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:37 pm

We can arrange a time for some of us to get on Teamspeak and talk you through fixing this.

new member · remus on Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:53 am

Mr. Digby wrote:We can arrange a time for some of us to get on Teamspeak and talk you through fixing this.

Thanks for your offer Mr Digby. I have managed to get the Road to Wagram@Peninsula mod to work on MP Solo and I have managed to get onto the Teamspeak channel. I think I need to practice a few Hits games though as it is something I have only tinkered with in sandbox. Hopefully I will be able to join a game in the very near future

Remus

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