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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 17

The biggest hobby impact that being diagnosed with COPD is that any kind of 3D printing, airbrushing or spray painting is completely out of the question. I'm going to have to focus on brush painting and even then there are going to have to be tradeoffs,

Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 8

I would so be able to work with this logical progression in a courtroom. The use of "reasonable" in this context is hugely persuasive and valid.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 8

Coming very late to The Bear. Holy shit this is good, but christ the episodes are short as fuck. Also hearing Eddy Vedder and Neil Finn's version of Throw Your Arms Around Me was an unexpected trest in the soundtrack (yeah I'm only on series 2).

I needed something good this month.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 6

No, this is not a shawl, it's a zarape.

Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 5

Started the Quit-Line process. This is something new to me.

a soldier is kneeling down in a field holding a gun .

Alt: a soldier is kneeling down in a field holding a gun .

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 5

a group of soldiers are standing in a field holding guns and covered in leaves .

Alt: a group of soldiers are standing in a field holding guns and covered in leaves .

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 5

what do I do now?

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 5

It's now that sort of day

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 5

There's nothing ever good about receiving a call from the doctor's office the day after your last visit regarding the results of your chest x-ray.

Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 4

It's been a while. Had a four day fever flu a couple of weeks ago that ended up causing me major respiratory distress last Sunday. Guess who has COPD, severity to be determined? Hell of a way to have your illusion of personal invulnerability stripped away. Time to quit smoking once and for all.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Jul 4

Post a song from the year you turned 12:

So pleased I came across this particular version
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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

You give them far too much credit to think they'll have purged this out of their system...it's always lurking there,

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

Things are really bad when when Iceland Cricket is throwing absolute shade. #AUSVIND

Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · Nov 24

Bumrah's got talent and chase in tatters!

The Australians are mere shadows of the mighty New Zealanders (Iceland II).

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

Deer, meet headlights. #AUSvIND

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

after finishing this issue of LFT, we going full on Desert with LFT 15

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

Things I was not expecting from the BGT:
Australia to bowl Kohli back into Form
#AUSvIND

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

Poor old John's been on a bad streak lately in our games. actually for most of this series of LFT, he's not had any rub of the green, even in CC where I am a legendary failure.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

My opponent couldn't catch a break all game with his morale checks, failing many of them and box-carring more than few. While his Rally Phases were equally poor.

My 10-2 couldn't seem to miss and there were several rate tears.

This playing was decided by Turn 6 but maybe an outlier.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 24

FT250 Decimation quick and dirty AAR
Played over two sessions with a total play time of ca. 8 hours
Thoughts: The early game is tough on the partisans, low FP, no multi fire groups & facing 2 81mm Mtrs, 3 Brixias, 2 HMGs & 2 MMGs with decent leadership.

#AdvancedSquadLeader #wargaming #VASL

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 23

There is a Solitaire Module (out of print and very expensive) BUT and this is huge BUT, it is effectively a very different game & most importantly you need to know how to play the game already to make use of the solitaire module effectively anyway. IMO SASL loses the cut and thrust of the game.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 22

Some are saying Bumrah was bowling balls with the batters' names on them. I disagree, there were no names, just "To whom it may concern"

#AUSvIND #Cricket

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 22

ASL is not something you pick up and play. It does require a substantial commitment in time and effort just to learn the game & even more to become a good player. There's a reason ASL is seen as a llfestyle game. It's not a good investment for casual gaming nor was it ever designed to be.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 22

That will allow you to determine if the game system is for you at a reasonable cost. If you do enjoy SK1, then you might want to buy SK2 and Sk3 to add Vehicles and Guns. After that you can either move to full ASL or remain in the SK system which TBH I dislike as it's an ersatz version of the game.

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 22

My experience is worthless because I started with SL and progressed through COI, CoD and GI in the 80s and then moved to ASL immediately in 1986.

Howeer my opinion is that you get Starter Kit 1, play every scenario twice, learn how the rules work by playing but also read the rules thoroughly

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Panzer Pete 🇳🇿 🛴 @panzerpete.bsky.social · Nov 22

So for a fair while we've been playing a house rule regarding SAN activations that has lessened the suck.

Upon a activated sniper roll of one, the SAN is reduced by one permanently. This can end up with the SAN being eliminated. It reduces the chance of the SAN destroying the scenario.

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