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Starcraft

The greatest real-time strategy game yet made; a sequel to Warcraft. Try my maps:

Metropolis for 2-4 players. Small map with strong defensive positions and inner city fighting.
The Nevermind's Challenge for 2 teams of up to 4 players each. Teammates start near each other on a large, resource-rich map.
The Nevermind's Playground also for 2 teams of up to 4 players each. A fair, strategic map with 8 mesa and 8 valleys; sort of a cross between The Hunters and The Lost Temple. Use map settings for great team games.
Team Marine Wars v3.1 for up to 6 players. Marines, marines, and more marines. Destroy your opponents' bunkers to win.
Simpsons vs. South Park v2.1 for 2 teams of up to 4 players each. All the best characters in a wild melee. Everything is cheap and builds super fast.
3v3 and 4v4 Shared Twilight are simple, high-resource maps for teamplay with huge armies fighting across a single bridge.
Amazing Turret Defense Gold for up to 7 teammates. Build turrets, marine bunkers, ghost bunkers, and traps to stop the intruders from getting to the end.

On Battle.net I am known as TheNevermind. In other games I go by variants of "Pig".

Magic is a collectible card game depicting a world of creatures, people, and spells. The basic idea is to summon creatures and cast spells to defeat your opponent. The creatures and spells available to you depend on which cards among your collection you construct into a deck. I love Magic for its artwork, fantasy creatures, and strategic thinking (it was developed by a mathematician). Check out a couple of my favorite cards.

This is a typical picture of me and my family playing Magic. From left to right: my brother Rob, my brother-in-law Brian, and me. I'm playing a blue and white Sleight of Mind/Justice deck. I won.

My cousin and I playing Magic Since first playing on Easter 1995, I've collected over 12,000 cards and competed in many tournaments. The first prize I won was a booster pack of Fallen Empires. That's not much. Try, try, try again.... Since then I've finished in the top 8 of a few tournaments and won as much as a quarter box of booster packs.

For all the Magic info you could possibly care for, go to the Official Magic Web Page.

Most of my Magic playing these days is through Magic Online. I have recently switched from PC's to an Apple PowerBook G4 and written a guide for running Magic Online on a Mac.

Warcraft

If you play Magic and own a computer, you've probably also played Warcraft. Here are some custom sounds I recorded to add to the game (or listen just for fun):

Ogres: Huhuhuh
Ogre-Mages: GetOutOfMind, TurnYouIntoPig, WeHaveMagic, WereReady
Death Knights: Buujeebuu, ThisBetterBeGood, RingAround (death coil)
Zepplins: HereWeGo, WooHoo
Peons: ImDone, UhNo

Rick Wagner ( rjwagner@writeme.com ) 18 Oct 05

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