THE THREAD!!!

[Grollub]

... oh, and tithe. [;)][:'(]

... and then Good night friends [>:][>:][>:]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

... oh, and tithe. [;)][:'(]

... and then Good night friends [>:][>:][>:]

Hope you're doing well, Per. How's work?

[DuckofTindalos]

So, got my Gatling guns into action. First battle, watched two batteries (eight guns) of them massacre 700 enemy soldiers, none of whom got within range of my riflemen.

Might be a taaaaaaaaad overpowered.

[nashvillen]

ORIGINAL: JWE

Well, found a very nice, reasonable, small plane rental place down to Sonny Callahan AF, in Fairhope. They got a couple Pipers, a Beech, and a Cessna available for rental. So, am developing a reasonable radius to go say howdy. Really want to go East, to Tampa and grease it into Davis Island (like I was a kid again), but my Cert is just VFR and I can't go over-water, so might have to stage through Perry. This is looking pretty sweet. Knavey, watch out.

The biggie, of course, is going West. Lots of nasty air space to avoid around New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Maybe do a deep breath in Lake Charles and then a hop to Galveston (Freeport). From there, Texas is my oyster. Want to try East first though just to get some experience, the Jepsons for Louisiana are like a Los Angeles freeway. Woof !!

Ohhhh, nice, especially if you like golf, looks like there is a golf course on every corner [;)]

Right around the corner from the Alabama. If you ever want to go north into Tennessee, let me know. I am in the vicinity of Murfreesboro, TN.

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Have you received the Stonewall yet?

Terminus, the CSS Stonewall was built in France under the name Sphynx, but was secretly destined for the Confederate Navy. The French government was pressured to block the sale, so it was sold to Denmark under the name Staerkodder. I'm not quite sure what mechanisms were used to then transfer the ship to the confederates, but a CSN crew boarded her in Copenhagen in January 1865 and commissioned her as the CSS Stonewall at sea.

After the war's end her captain turned her over to the Spanish in Havana and the Spanish turned her over to the US government - who then sold her to the Tokugawa shogunate who renamed her Kotetsu (later renamed Azuma).

[DuckofTindalos]

Game doesn't work that way. You build ships by material (wooden, wooden/copper, wooden/iron and iron) and type (gunboat, torpedoboat, corvette, frigate and ironclad). You don't receive specific ships.

[bradfordkay]

Oh... too bad. I used to enjoy using the Stonewall in the old Yaquinto boardgame Ironclads. She was probably the best commerce raider of the war (but being commissioned so late in the war, she would have to be).

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

Morning chaps [:)]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps [:)]

Hello Martin!

BTW, did you see my question about your father the other day?


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps [:)]

Hello Martin!

BTW, did you see my question about your father the other day?


Leo "Apollo11"

No, where was it? The Abe Lincoln thread?

[DuckofTindalos]

It was in here. He wanted to know whether your dad was in the RN or a merchant sailor.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps [:)]

Hello Martin!

BTW, did you see my question about your father the other day?

No, where was it? The Abe Lincoln thread?

Yep it originated there but I copy & paste part of that "Abe Lincoln" thread here...

I asked if your father was in RN (then Mike answered that he thinks your father is in merchant marine)...


Leo "Apollo11"

[USSAmerica]

Good Monday morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[USSAmerica]

I spent some enjoyable time playing around on Ancestry.com this weekend. I know the older the information gets, the less reliable it becomes, but if what I've found is accurate, I was able to trace my grandmother's family back to England, Normandy, and then through "historical stories" back to a line of Vikings. I think the trail ends around 350 AD. [:D]

If there are good enough family records to trace back to England, it's possible to find very good records/histories that were kept there.

The real puzzle for me to figure out is where my father's father's family came from and who they were. My grandfather on that side died when my dad was just a little boy so my brother and I know almost nothing about them..... yet. [8D]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: USS America

I spent some enjoyable time playing around on Ancestry.com this weekend. I know the older the information gets, the less reliable it becomes, but if what I've found is accurate, I was able to trace my grandmother's family back to England, Normandy, and then through "historical stories" back to a line of Vikings. I think the trail ends around 350 AD. [:D]

If there are good enough family records to trace back to England, it's possible to find very good records/histories that were kept there.

The real puzzle for me to figure out is where my father's father's family came from and who they were. My grandfather on that side died when my dad was just a little boy so my brother and I know almost nothing about them..... yet. [8D]

Nice Mike! [:)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Apollo11



Hello Martin!

BTW, did you see my question about your father the other day?

No, where was it? The Abe Lincoln thread?

Yep it originated there but I copy & paste part of that "Abe Lincoln" thread here...

I asked if your father was in RN (then Mike answered that he thinks your father is in merchant marine)...


Leo "Apollo11"

Yep. He's been in the Merchant Navy since he left school, at the moment he's working on container ships. Big uns at that [:D]

[alaviner]

morning tithe [&o][&o][&o]
I have been trying to get into my MATRIX account to download and reinstall AE. The problem is it was still attached to a defunct Email address so when I tried to recover my password it has gotten FUBARed. I have had no luck with Matrix support so far. I registered a new account with Matrix today and started my third ticket with support. Maybe I will get more than the automated email that a ticket was started.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

ORIGINAL: Dixie



No, where was it? The Abe Lincoln thread?

Yep it originated there but I copy & paste part of that "Abe Lincoln" thread here...

I asked if your father was in RN (then Mike answered that he thinks your father is in merchant marine)...

Yep. He's been in the Merchant Navy since he left school, at the moment he's working on container ships. Big uns at that [:D]

RGR!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Chickenboy]

G'mornin' you lot.