h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today I finally decided to get my two Macs talking to each other. The iMac would happily connect and grant access to the HDD and DVD of the Powerbook, but the powerbook refused to even acknowledge the existence of the iMac. In the end I turned everything on, getting the PB to now grant access to the iMac, and then turned stuff off until it stopped working.
I now have two computers which will happily talk to each other

As many of you know, I write poetry and prose, lots of poems but less prose as it takes longer, and some of it isn't complete dross. Well I've decided to write a collection of childrens poems, hopefully enough for a book, with the aim of getting them published and earning me some of that money stuff I keep hearing about.

I've also been learning the rules for Warhammer 40k 5th Ed, which is released later this month, as I've managed to obtain a copy of the boxed set rule book and myself and a friend who lives in our road have decided to get back into playing now that we both have someone to play against. The new rules are, like 4th Ed before them, merely a refinement and neatening up of the previous edition rather than a major overhaul, as happened between 1st and 2nd and again between 2nd and 3rd. The differences seem designed to simplify and decomplicate the game, removing some of the abstraction and adding realism. However you still have to declare your targets before measuring for range, as it seems in a futuristic sci-fi setting nobody would have developed the range finder, schmucks.
The new box set, replacing Battle for Macragge, is called Assault On Black Ridge and in the box you get, 1 Space Marine captain, 1 Dreadnought, 5 Terminators, 10 Tactical Marines, 1 Ork Warlord, 20 Ork Boyz, 5 Kommandos and 3 Deffkoptas. So even if you already play then if you collect either of the two armies featured, or if you are considering collecting one of them, it's everything you need for a starter army and many pounds worth of kit.

I don't pretend to understand the games; but look forward to the poems with bated breath TBF

They've revised the rules again? Bet this book of minor tweaks is going to cost forty quid too, isn't it?

Glad I'm out of that - it's now just a way of separating the gullible from their cash.

It's £30 for just the rules, or £60 for either a limited edition of 4000, which is all prettyfied and fancy lookin', or a non limited edition which comes with all the counters and templates and a handy ammo case to keep it in. Frack knows how much the box set is gonna cost, £50 maybe?

I'm not sure whether to buy the new rules, I like them over 4th Ed, but as you say it's as much an experiment in stripping people of their cash.
I remember, back when GW cared about their customers, when for changes which now warrant a completely new edition you used to get a page in White Dwarf to cut out and paste in your rule book.

Whooooooosh goes all this gaming and computer chat - right over my head - you're really are clever things here.


Enjoy whatever it is you've achieved T.B.