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2018/03/22 22:00:50
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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The pitter-patter of little feet (STOMP, STOMP, STOMP! Thump, thump, thump *BANG!* Ow! Thump, thump, thump!) marks the return of small people armed with paint brushes and miniatures....
The Auld Grump - the cats have already learned to hide when they hear the sound. The dog is still holding out hope that food will be involved.
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2018/03/29 14:54:25
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Posts with Authority
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Megan, my good lady wife, is amazed that kids make more noise while painting than they do while actually playing the games....
This week is game week. 
The Auld Grump
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2018/04/12 22:36:48
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
Dawsonville GA
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So I popped in here after after almost 2 years of non-GW gaming and my response is.....GW is still around? I switched and haven't looked back. I have so many other opportunities to game with other systems I am really happy I dropped GW.
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2018/04/13 01:17:51
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Krazed Killa Kan
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GW 8th edition lost basically all the steam with my group (hey guys!). They've taken shelter under the wing of Battletech to have something to play that's basically 40k focusing on big robots without the fantasy.
Which is good, because Battletech is still great, just extremely dated.
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2018/04/13 15:47:01
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!
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Well, today marked my first step into 6mm (or possibly 3mm) wargaming! Gonna play through Caesar's civil war...
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2018/04/13 16:22:35
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I'm working on a game that I'm hoping of pushing to KS sometime soon.
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2018/04/18 17:05:05
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Foxy Wildborne
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My group has fallen in love with Gaslands the past few weeks, we had 3 games with up to 4 players each last demo day.
It plays a lot like X-wing flight path but with a more intricate speed and initiative system, and once you buy the book and templates, the forces are practically free.
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2018/04/19 22:14:52
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Fixture of Dakka
West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA
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If you like Gaslands also maybe try out Outrider. It also plays alot like Xwing/Wings of war with a Path system, and is made for Matchbox/Hotwheels cars loaded with guns.
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2018/04/19 23:47:03
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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My group is about to jump balls deep into konflict 47
anyone have any experiences with it?
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 Unit1126PLL wrote: Scott-S6 wrote:And yet another thread is hijacked for Unit to ask for the same advice, receive the same answers and make the same excuses.
Oh my god I'm becoming martel.
Send help!
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2018/04/19 23:57:03
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Maryland
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 Desubot wrote:My group is about to jump balls deep into konflict 47
anyone have any experiences with it?
My group's been getting into it. I've got Germans, and we've got people playing Germans, British, Americans, and Soviets.
It's a pretty fun ruleset with plenty of tactical options. Even if you can't manage to remove enemy models from the table, you can at least put a bunch of pin markers on them and make it harder for the other player to activate them.
It's also heavily infantry-focused if you're not playing Tank War - you get one Armored Car and one Tank slot per platoon, and if you want to take another platoon you've got the take the minimum infantry options.
Oh, and try to keep your non Rift Tech units in cover, because anything not in power armor is going to get shredded in the open.
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2018/04/20 00:58:03
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Dakka Veteran
Seattle, WA USA
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 lord_blackfang wrote:My group has fallen in love with Gaslands the past few weeks, we had 3 games with up to 4 players each last demo day.
It plays a lot like X-wing flight path but with a more intricate speed and initiative system, and once you buy the book and templates, the forces are practically free.
Gaslands is freaking awesome! We've been playing that and having a rad time.
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2018/04/20 01:07:35
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Posts with Authority
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Tonight I discovered that the kids (Ages 9 - 11) are a lot more cautious with the individuals in Vanguard than they are with the big units in Kings of War.
Except for Su who was playing Goblins - she was treating her gobbos as disposable, and racking up the largest number of wins in the process....
Pepper with bow fire, charge in with her troll, then pop in a bunch of gobbos with spears.
She is kind of a brutal player.
The Auld Grump
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2018/04/20 17:52:17
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Wrath of Kings still going good, we added 3 more players to the regular group.
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2018/04/20 19:16:47
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Haughty Harad Serpent Rider
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We wrote:So I popped in here after after almost 2 years of non- GW gaming and my response is..... GW is still around? I switched and haven't looked back. I have so many other opportunities to game with other systems I am really happy I dropped GW.
Yes, they are still around, and are larger and more successful than all other miniatures gaming companies combined, no matter how edgy cool internet guys like to think
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2018/04/21 00:19:55
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Fixture of Dakka
Bathing in elitist French expats fumes
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W40K is still pretty much the dominant game most nights, but for the past few weeks, it has slowly been losing ground to Star Wars: Legion. That DoA game everyone loves to diss.
X-Wing is still going strong, very strong, we get 1-2 newbies every week.
Malifaux, sadly, seems to have completely fallen off the face of the Earth in the city. The only FLGS which stocked it went belly up about 12 months ago and that's been it, pretty much. Infinity has a good community, but they seem to meet at odd hours on weird days, but hey, they're still kicking.
We had a lot of Guildball over the winter, but it seems even hot restic on restic football action can't survive frigid temperatures forever.
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2018/04/21 20:28:00
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Damsel of the Lady
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I've been planning out warbands for frostgrave, hopefully i'll be able to actually get another game in some time.
Though I think I often enjoy the planning stages more than the games, so there's a conundrum. I think i want something with a bit more roleplaying, something that allows for some fun personality building, because wizards should be wild and odd characters, to me.
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2018/04/22 01:31:10
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Fixture of Dakka
West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA
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 Valander wrote: lord_blackfang wrote:My group has fallen in love with Gaslands the past few weeks, we had 3 games with up to 4 players each last demo day.
It plays a lot like X-wing flight path but with a more intricate speed and initiative system, and once you buy the book and templates, the forces are practically free.
Gaslands is freaking awesome! We've been playing that and having a rad time.
I actually just found out about Gaslands myself! I never really was interested in Car Wars-esque games, but I love the flightpath portion of Xwing, and so Gaslands has me really intrigued. Bonus points for the rulebook being 12 bucks on Amazon.
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should." |
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2018/04/22 01:56:08
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Worthiest of Warlock Engineers
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Barring my friends birthday I have not played a GW game in about 2 years now, although the 40K/AoS movement is still strong at my FLGS.
Many of us moved on to other games like BA or Infinity,which cost less to play and are quite frankly far better.
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Free from GW's tyranny and the hobby is looking better for it
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2018/04/27 03:32:03
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Posts with Authority
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Not my game, per se - but I had the incredible pleasure of listening to two young girls talking about stupid players in the RPG games they are running,
I feel so proud!
Both are in my Tuesday night Pathfinder game - one is ten, the other nine, and both are now GMs, complete with war stories!
One had a PC that charged a fire giant while at third level, while the other had a PC that decided that the convenient tray of smoked glasses with a sign reading 'Wear These' was a trick - so got to look a medusa in the face.
The Auld Grump - she stole the medusa encounter from my game - but when she was a player in the encounter, nobody was silly enough not to wear the goggles.
*EDIT* Tonight was the painting session - both of the young women brought monsters to paint for their games - the circle continues for another generation.
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2018/05/04 21:30:47
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Posts with Authority
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Kids of War last night - they liked Vanguard, but prefer pushing armies around.
As for me - I have my character sheet, I have my dice, I have my mini - I'm gonna play Pathfinder!
The Auld Grump - first time playing instead of running a game in over three years.
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2018/05/24 23:08:39
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Posts with Authority
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Painting night.... It looks like Sam's gypsy dancer/summoner for Pathfinder has red hair. (As has her previous three characters, and Sam herself....)
The kids Pathfinder game on Tuesday was a whole lot of fun - one of the kids insisted on roof surfing on a fast moving Gypsy vardo in a mounted combat - and pulled it off, killing the gnoll leader mounted on Hyaenadon with three shots. (I only gave him a -2 to hit, plus he is a ranger with hatred for gnolls and a composite longbow built for STR 16.) *EDIT* To be clear - I heartily approve of this action!
The Auld Grump - the youngest player (Sam) hijacked the party when she saw my mini for a gypsy wagon, telling the other kids that 'gypsies are land pirates!' Suddenly they went from a raggle taggle band of adventures to a raggle taggle band of Gypsies. (There are three leaders for the group - and she is one of them.)
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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.
The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
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2018/05/25 16:04:59
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I have become an expert at losing Candy Land so that the 3 year old Ms. Captain Brown can enjoy winning board games.
Cheers,
CB
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2018/05/25 16:56:42
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Maryland
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Slow grow league for Konflikt 47 will begin its two week 750 point section this Sunday. I'm looking forward to the addition of armored cars/light mechs.
Gangs of Rome continues to be a fun, quick little skirmish game. Of course, being friends with the store owner is convinient when I'm hunting for certain coins in the fighter packs. 
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2018/05/26 04:33:00
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Fixture of Dakka
West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA
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Hoping to get a couple of friends into playing Gaslands. Really slick car combat game from Osprey.
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should." |
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2018/05/27 10:43:36
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Had 9 players participate in FLGS Star Wars Legion tourney.
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No earth shattering, thought provoking quote. I'm just someone who was introduced to 40K in the late 80's and it's become a lifelong hobby. |
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2018/05/27 11:14:12
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Stirring up a lot of interest in Battletech at my local.
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2018/05/27 11:37:30
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Executing Exarch
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My gaming club is suffering from the sunny weather slump a bit but few games soldiering on;
Guildball doing okay but real life seems to meddling with players so getting consistent games can be a pain
MtG, almost flatlined, product overload seems to be the culprit
X-Wing, in cyro-freeze awaiting 2nd Ed
A few people are working on stuff for Gaslands and Drowned Earth but no games played as yet
And whilst its slightly OT a more GW centric club has sprung up in town and is pulling in about similar numbers to us
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"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." |
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2018/05/28 16:46:17
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Member of a Lodge? I Can't Say
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My local gaming club in predominantly sci-if and fantasy games which is annoying because I’m really getting into historical games like Bolt Action and chain of command but very few people play these games, if any, so I have to travel to the next town on the train to reliably get games. I would like to start a black powder era game but there’s no chance of that as the nearest group is 2 hours away by train.
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“Because we couldn’t be trusted. The Emperor needed a weapon that would never obey its own desires before those of the Imperium. He needed a weapon that would never bite the hand that feeds. The World Eaters were not that weapon. We’ve all drawn blades purely for the sake of shedding blood, and we’ve all felt the exultation of winning a war that never even needed to happen. We are not the tame, reliable pets that the Emperor wanted. The Wolves obey, when we would not. The Wolves can be trusted, when we never could. They have a discipline we lack, because their passions are not aflame with the Butcher’s Nails buzzing in the back of their skulls.
The Wolves will always come to heel when called. In that regard, it is a mystery why they name themselves wolves. They are tame, collared by the Emperor, obeying his every whim. But a wolf doesn’t behave that way. Only a dog does.
That is why we are the Eaters of Worlds, and the War Hounds no longer."
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2018/05/29 11:06:15
Subject: Re:How is your non-GW game doing?
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience
On an Express Elevator to Hell!!
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Have you tried contacts in your local club (especially a few of the more seasoned members) to see if they know of any groups? Another good one is if there are any local wargaming, model building or even model railway events which might have some of those members attend.
The reason I say this is that I've found clubs before that have very little online presence - facebook groups or twitter etc. (but might have some anachronistic yahoo bulletin board group or something). Seems remarkable in this day and age but quite often you have to know exactly where to look to find them..
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2018/05/29 15:38:31
Subject: How is your non-GW game doing?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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I think a lot of the historical clubs are mostly older gamers who are not too clued up on the whole internet thing. I'm by far the youngest in my club and I'm not young anymore. Some of our neighbour clubs could be mistaken for retirement homes.
Pretty much the most reliable way to find out about my club is at a local wargames show. Otherwise another club might know about us and refer you. I also know of other clubs that have even less presence.
Pacific's advice is good.
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