I'm curious…

[st.patrik]

…where are you avid Dominions fans located? It seems like there's quite a big European following, which I guess makes sense since Illwinter is a Swedish company.

I myself am from Ireland, living in USA

[MythicalMino]

Coldwater, Mi, USA

[Pocus]

Lyon, France

[Mortifer]

Budapest, Hungary

[PDF]

Paris, France
Hi Pocus, looks like we Frenchies are in overwhelming numbers here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif !

[Pocus]

I try to maintain a list of french speaking player of dominions. If interested, I will contact you to play in pbem with us ?

do you happen to knows more frenchmen which plays doms I or will play doms II ?

[Nerfix]

Hyvinkää, Finland.
Did you know that Finland has the biggest amount of Dominions I sold per capita?
HYVÄ SUOMI!
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[PDF]

Originally posted by Pocus:
I try to maintain a list of french speaking player of dominions. If interested, I will contact you to play in pbem with us ?

do you happen to knows more frenchmen which plays doms I or will play doms II ?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ok, count me in (my mail address is in my profile), but for the moment I still suck big time, the game is *quite* complex to master http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
I'll try to entice some new French players to play - not only by contacting friends, but also with a review of Dom2 in the next PC4War mag issue, hope it helps ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ September 22, 2003, 13:45: Message edited by: PDF ]

[Treebeard]

Originally posted by Pocus:
I try to maintain a list of french speaking player of dominions. If interested, I will contact you to play in pbem with us ?

do you happen to knows more frenchmen which plays doms I or will play doms II ?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Philippe Malacher, huh? I was wondering if I could find some DOM I veterans around here - I've always thought the game would greatly profit from a forum.

Tell me, how did that game ended?

[licker]

Well I may not be French per se... but I am married to one http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif For some strange reason I always try to seek out other French gamers, living in New Mexico kinda puts a dent in that though, oh well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I'd appreciate it if you'd consider me for any French type activities, if nothing else it helps me keep up my vocabulary http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I think I'd greatly enjoy a French PBEM or some such, maybe my wife would get a kick out of it too when she has to come help me translate the insults I'm sure to generate http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Psitticine]

Dia dhuit, a Padraig!

I'd suggest a Gaelic PBEM game, but my Irish is so rusty, I spit out red iron flakes every time I try to say something in it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Where in Ireland are you from, if you don't mind me asking? My family is originally from Donegal.

Psitticine, the Celtic Cockatoo

[Bimbo63]

Seattle, WA

[Hurmio]

Helsinki, Finland

[Rollo]

Kiel, Germany

[Pocus]

Licker : no problems. In fact I wanted to say : 'anybody able to speak french is welcome'

Pdf : you write articles in Store4war? cool, you will help tremendously IW in France in doing so.

both :
email being grabbed.

Treebeard : There is also Jacques(Nagot Gick Fel). The game is still running, albeit at a slow pace.

[WraithLord]

Tel Aviv, Israel.

[PDF]

Originally posted by Pocus:
Licker : no problems. In fact I wanted to say : 'anybody able to speak french is welcome'

Pdf : you write articles in Store4war? cool, you will help tremendously IW in France in doing so.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The mag is PC4War, Store4War is the Online store of the publishing company.
And yes, I write articles and hope we'll have 2 pages for Dom2 in a next issue ! The game deserves it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
But with the delayed release I think we'll miss the November issue deadline, so it'll be published in early 2004...

Brussels, Belgium (I speak Français too).

[Jasper]

Corvallis, Oregon (US)

Je aussi parle Français... si pas bien.

[Pocus]

hello Jasper.

You should know that french is a garbled language... when you think french, you should invert all the words, nearly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I too speak french

je parle aussi francais

simple. Just try to be logical, then revert all your logic. Like if you try to think 'womanish'.

sorry. I like women.
They are so useful.
sorry again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[st.patrik]

psitticine: I'm from County Derry - up north, just the other side of the border from Donegal. Of course, being on the other side of the border I never learned Irish, something about which I am pretty regretful. So a PBeM game in Gaelic wouldn't do me too much good! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Where in Donegal do you hail from? (my mother's hometown is Moville [sp?], up in the northeastern corner of Donegal)

[ September 23, 2003, 18:07: Message edited by: st.patrik ]

[Jasper]

Originally posted by Pocus:
hello Jasper.

You should know that french is a garbled language... when you think french, you should invert all the words, nearly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I too speak french

je parle aussi francais

simple. Just try to be logical, then revert all your logic. Like if you try to think 'womanish'.

sorry. I like women.
They are so useful.
sorry again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I know at least _that_ much. ;-) I was trying (and failing!) to make a small joke...

Thanks for the tip though; I know some people get offended when their language usage is corrected, but I find it's the only way to improve.

-Jasper
Qui mal parle Français ;-)

[Pocus]

yes I hesitated a bit but I knew you would react intelligently, which is, for an American a ra.. oops sorry. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Psitticine]

Originally posted by st.patrik:
psitticine: I'm from County Derry - up north, just the other side of the border from Donegal. Of course, being on the other side of the border I never learned Irish, something about which I am pretty regretful. So a PBeM game in Gaelic wouldn't do me too much good! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Where in Donegal do you hail from? (my mother's hometown is Moville [sp?], up in the northeastern corner of Donegal)<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My family came from a place called St. Charles, which may no longer exist. We've got loads of records all pointing to a place that doesn't seem to be on any modern maps.

But with a name like that, and being it is/was in Donegal, maybe they just renamed it to something Gaelic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ September 24, 2003, 01:26: Message edited by: Psitticine ]

[st.patrik]

that's pretty interesting… St. Charles… It definitely doesn't sound Irish. Any idea where in the county it was located? How long ago was this, BTW?

[Psitticine]

It was somewhere on or near the Donegal coastline, possibly even on one of the Atlantic-side islands. It was in the late 1600s and early 1700s that my ancestors emmigrated, and that's where the specific placename appears as a place-of-birth as well as a point of departure. The records of their forebearers go back to the 1300s, but there's no record of earlier birth- or deathplaces beyond just "Donegal, Ireland".

I've wondered many times if the records got muddled and "St. Charles" was never really a place name. It would, indeed, have been a weird thing to name a town in Ireland. It's only the fact the references to it are scattered through several unrelated documents that makes me think it is a valid reference.

Ah well . . . the search continues. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif