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Originally Posted by Raellus
Those of you following the tournament are aware that all of the games are being played in either Poland or Ukraine. I like football (soccer) anyway but I feel that this year's Euros are a bit special because I've spent so much time -in my imagination, that is- in Poland. I've learned so much about Polish history and culture over the past five years, nearly all because of my interest in T2K. I really enjoy seeing what I can of the country on the telly.
For example, today's Spain vs. Ireland game was played in Gdansk. For the past three or four years, I've played in a PbP set in Gdansk. During the mandatory aerial shots, I kept looking for landmarks that I might recognize from the game. It was almost surreal. I nearly told my wife "I've been there before" before I fully realized what I was about to say.
Anyway, I figured that some of you might want to chat about the tournament so I figured I would start a thread for that purpose.
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I know the feeling. Since I got into the game in '87 I have aquired a nice selection of books on Poland, culture and history as well as some language books, to help add color to games. I also have a really good set of maps for Poland I aquired pre-internet for me. One I had to aquire a second copy of since the first got so worn it was like a map a grunt might carry in his pocket. And that is the one I actually photo copied for the players in Op Fred. One thing I quickly realized with the more detailed maps was all the farms in the country. It looked like someone had spattered ink dots all over the darn thing marking farms. Gave a whole new perspective of travel and encounters to be sure.
And I've been over there with map recons do much, and with google maps now, I feel I too have 'been there'. It would be nice someday to actually travel some of the routes in RL that I have in games. Oh well something for the bucket list.
Grae