From: bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: A really Stupid Idiot
Date: 12 Jan 1993 04:01:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bo033@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe E. Stainbrook)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


well, common opionon seems that this person is really annoying. (I don't
know why)  The best  way I see to remove him from the game without being
too mean would be to find out exactly what bugs him the most.  
  Like this one player I used to have would always hate to have to prepare
and figure out tactics.  Well, since I always work with some tactic in mind
(even though it may not look like it to even myself) but this would in turn
also bug the living hell out of him when my green units would blast away at
him having to roll lower  skill rolls than his vets.  He got totally
perturbed and left my games.  (although it wasn't only mecause as soon as
one of the other players found out what I was doing they used tactics
against the guy like I did) We all are still friend s but he now doesn't
play btek anymore.
  All you have to do is find some sort of way to annoy him and keep at it. 
One way may to make him a leader in the unit and have commnications travel
through him thus showing him as the best target. This would give a good
reason to have his mech sonstantly under fire from the heaviest enemy units
in the area. 
Juss a thought but thats me thinking.. (God help us now)
Catch yals later...

In a previous article, wongrr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Ryan R Wong) says
>Get this, 
>
>	My friends and I are playing BattleTech with 3025 stuff.
>We grudgingly let one of my friends roommates play because he
>always says he knows so much about BattleTech....blah,blah,blah...
>So the game is in the third round and the kid has his Archer with a 
>1-1 pilot and declares a called shot on a moving mech. "What the
>hell do you think you're doing?!?" we all say.
>
>"Well, my 1-1 pilot can do that and the modifier is only +3 you morons,
>I know, I played this so much, I know the rules inside out!" he says.
>
>Obviously this Phil Hochgesang kid doesn't know what the hell he
>is doing. The stupid F**K insists that he is right despite printed proof  
>from the Compendium.
>
>Since my friend has to put up with the kid for the rest of the year,
>he won't tell the kid off( Phil's ego extends into everyday life )
>because the kid is the type who'll do something psychotic. The same reason  
>none of the rest of us will tell him off. Unfortunately, on a
>small campus like Rose-Hulman, its hard to always avoid the kid.
>
>Any suggestions on how to get rid of Phil would be welcome.
>Just e-mail them to me.
>
>And if you want to anonymously flame him, here's HIS e-mail address:
>
>		hochgegp@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
>
>Any suggestions and/or 'evil' letters to him will be appreciated by
>all seventeen of us.
>
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