I am an optometrist in Waco, TX, and live on the real Mt Carmel, 
not the one most of you saw on TV 4 years ago. (Apparently the 
Davidians owned this real hill years ago, but the city needed a big 
chunk of it for the new water treatment facility, and the Davidians 
sold most of the land, and bought the gopher mound outside of town)


  I've been gaming more than 25 years now, but not nearly as much 
lately.  Waco is not a hotbed of gaming, by any stretch, unless you 
count CCGs.  I have played in one of Alan's previous events, a 
Conquistador game a while back ( assumed an abandoned postion, and 
won.)  My last serious game of RCW was back at the Staten Island 
Origins tournament - the most bizzare game I ever played - I was 
dealt all white leaders, except for one minor red flunky and Lenin 
and Trotsky.  It's is amazing how the Red forces can hurt when you 
forget to have V.I. bring his troops and walk into a white held area, 
followed the next turn by Trotsky.  No red replacements each turn, 
what a shame.  I doubt if anything like that will happen again this 
time, but I look forward to seeing what will happen.