Michael Dorosh
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It was a rule stating that after 1943, all ordnance and AFVs had their BD (breakdown - odd choice of abbreviation) numbers increased by 1. Didn't read through this until you asked. This does seem chrome-y, because the rationale is that Japanese soldiers were using the same weapons from 1941 or earlier (MGs exempted). Excessive Speed Breakdown (which he does not abbreviate as ESB, but as BD also) is also increased.Interesting. What the heck was "Dated Japanese Play" about?
I agree with you about cult followings - Franko had the same aura in the CM world. Can't say I agreed as I never played his stuff. "Tank Warning" was supposed to be quite good. I hated the way he posted on the forums. I'M BACK AND I'M BETTER THAN EVER in the subject heading in all caps. Some guys really played into that. There were others, whose name I can't even remember - posting dreck like OMFG MASS-KILLING AT DUBRONOVISKOLAV NOW AT THE SCENARIO DEPOT!!!! posted like it was the second coming. Like, give it a rest, did you even playtest it? "OMFG". What is this, a porn film?Oh, his name was golden, all right -- just like Rune's... and IIRC I have a general idea what you think of his golden aura. :devious:
Both of them had the same sort of cult-like following. :hail::hail:
That's always a turn-off for me.
What you said about the SPR design pretty much sums up all WBW's designs, from my POV -- mostly fantasy, rave reviews, fun, loosely inspired. I wasn't impressed, but then, I wasn't really the target audience.
Franko's "Iron Man" rules had a big following too, which were unique - basically he worked out a system where you played CM from camera angle 1 the whole game. Interesting and challenging (tough to really do since all the terrain was identical to each other, being the same bitmaps) and you had to do it on the "honour" system if PBEMing, but he was remembered for that as well. I remembered him for basically bragging about ripping James Coburn off on his death bed. I posted about how some guy was on ebay with one of those Dragon 12" action figures done in the likeness of Sergeant Steiner, and the guy selling it had gone in to visit Coburn in the hospital and gotten autographs on two or three boxed action figures, and while Coburn was still ill was selling them for an obscene amount of money. Coburn didn't know they were being sold when he signed them, and I asked the seller, IIRC, if any of the money was going back to the family or to charity, answer was no. Writing it now, it doesn't seem so heinous, but at the time it seemed kind of dastardly that he would elicit autographs from a dying man just to turn around and sell them for a huge profit. Anyway, I posted my reaction to this at BFC and Franko piped up that he "had to have one" and immediately went out and started bidding on one, which went up into the thousands of dollars. I forget if he prevailed, but I was not a fan after that...
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