Tiger Raja

It's nice to be remembered! Thank you! I've been working on other things for awhile, and have only recently gotten back to my Marines (I just played them today, as a matter of fact). As for female Marines, they were just something I did as a lark back in 1998 as I was reconfiguring my army for 3rd Edition (IIRC). I had these "white tiger" figures I had painted and I wanted some fluff reason for why they were a different color scheme. Without putting much thought into it, I said to myself, "Well, maybe they're that color because they're female." It allowed me to do some simple conversions and write up something I hadn't seen before. At the time I didn't think much of it, and as this was before I was on the Internet, I had no idea that "female Space Marines" was such a hotly-debated topic. Without really meaning to, I became its poster child. If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't, because though the conversions and characters were fun to make and the debate was sometimes interesting, ultimately, it turned off many people and it was distracting. They'd hear "female Space Marines" and go , ignoring everything else about my chapter and my site (except maybe the crappy painting ). I wasn't trying to denigrate the fluff of the 40K universe, I wasn't trying to honk people off, and I certainly wasn't trying to be a Social Justice Warrior. I never said that FSMs existed in any army but mine, and I've never insisted that they were canon (which they obviously aren't). All I wanted to do with them--just like everything I've done since 2000 with the Jungle (yes, it's been around that long)--is to try something different. If you think it's great, fine. If you think it sucks, or it's stupid, or b.s., that's fine, too. But now that I'm back on the B&C, I must take a look around and see what's new. Thanks again for the kind words, and thanks again, Kurgan, for pointing out this thread to me.

You fellows who were at Dream Wizards on Thursday, July 24 probably saw Das Devilsquid, who's a member of this board, and my friend Sho-T BigHed. I'll be at Dream Wizards August 9-10, btw.

I've been to Games Day so many times, I've lost count. Having been there, done that, I'm not inclined to spend $40 to be there, do that again...especially for ONE FRIKKIN DAY.

The GW store in Annapolis moved from Westfield Mall to the mall across the street (where the Modell's is). Like I said, it's the third location for that store in 10 years. It started out in the Crowne Harbour Mall (where the Fridays and the Amish market is).

Yeah, the Annapolis store (at its third location since I've moved out this way) is near me. I usually avoid GW stores because I hate the sales pitch.

It's a very good store. I wish I could get there more frequently than I do...

I live in Scenic, Convenient-to-Nowhere, Maryland (aka Kent Island). Any of you go to Dream Wizards, in Rockville?