The locations on the short list, are not withtin a 10 hour drive of my house. I can not afford $300-400, and an extra travel day, for a flight across the country. Others will have to confirm, or else the game would have to be in Colorado or Nebraska or Kansas or Oklahoma.
Is the point of FTF to be FTF with your allies, or your enemies. Could we not run a 4th age game, with 3 teams (6 + kingdom, 6 + Kingdom, 9), with only one team gathering at each location, and the moderators staying in England?
The odds of getting 7 or 9 in one location is much better than 25. Costs would be WAY down! We'd still be able to process turns at a rate of 1 every hour-and-a-half. And we'd still be Face-to-Face with all of our team mates.
MEPBM moderators wouldn't get an all-expense-paid trip to the U.S., but as they said, there would be little time to see anything anyway.
I figured that I would lend some support to Clint...
Well, when the discussions were being held as to where in the US we
should hold the face-to-face competition, many of you were jumping in
very vocally about where it should be.
It is time to put your money where your mouth is. Clint has
requested firm reservations but has only had four responses (at the
time of his update).
I know that I have committed to him assuming the event will be held
in either Chicago or Minneapolis. It is time for the rest of you to
jump in.
Chris
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The locations on the short list, are not withtin a 10 hour
drive of my house. I can not afford $300-400, and an extra travel
day, for a flight across the country.
Am I right in thinking that the US doesn't really have much in the way
of passenger train (railroad) transport? Not that ours is brilliant,
but it's often the best way of travelling long distances without
paying the sort of fares airlines charge.
Colin.
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"Long" distances in Europe are something entirely different from "long"
distances in the United States. Most European _countries_ would fit
inside a moderately large American state. (Wargamers tend to make much
of the distance between, say, Berlin and Moscow. It's about the same
as the distance from Chicago to Washington... about a third of the
way across the U.S. -- taking the train from the West Coast to the Midwest
is much more akin to taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad than to catching
the overnight to Rome.)
In areas where we have European-level population densities (like the
Boston-Washington corridor) we have semi-decent train service, but
in areas where the density doesn't really support train service,
and really for anything over about 500 miles, planes are almost always
faster and cheaper.
Tony Z
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:35:17PM -0000, loraelin wrote:
Am I right in thinking that the US doesn't really have much in the way
of passenger train (railroad) transport? Not that ours is brilliant,
but it's often the best way of travelling long distances without
paying the sort of fares airlines charge.
--
"The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,
And he that stays will die for naught, and home there's no returning."
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.--A.E. Housman
