Crimson Skies Forum

Crimson Skies Six weeks is a MontanaRaiders.com sponsored project. It has been begun by myself, the administrator of these forums and website.

I started Montanaraiders.com and associated forum to attempt and gather together as many fans of Crimson Skies as possible. Uniting those who still played, and attempt to draw in new players.

My project as of now is a 6 week campaign to bring on new players, reinvigorate the old ones, and at the least, get new material out there!!!!!

Projects include a a JORDAN WEISMAN INTERVIEW! Radio show program, a upload of the old crimsonskiesuniverse website, a Pacific Sourcebook of fan origination, and fan contributions by ANYONE.

ANYONE who joins the forums can contribute!! It is not only appreciated, in the six weeks you get prizes!!!



First, the Six weeks runs from December 1st, to January 15th. The extra 2 weeks being because of the Holiday season in which it runs through, when many people travel for a week at a time.

Below is the list of events and prizes for them:

November 29th will be a PC Crimson Skies game. This will be an attempt to gather ANY AND ALL of those who like to play the PC game, to get together, and figure out how it works. This is when we will figure out and make sure your computer is set right, and everything works.

First prize is a Airfix Dogfighter CD. It is an older (Circa 2000) game, and if CS runs, it does! Included will be a link to a website specializing in it, and there tips can be found if it don't run.

December 1st is the official kick-off. Although it won't be much more than a ribbon-cutting

December 4th is the beginning of the first contest. Any of the old members, and any new members, will be put into the pool for a Crimson Skies miniature.

December 5th. I'll release the "South Pacific Sourcebook", for public consumption. It'll be mostly text, with a few doctored photo's in it. Also released will be my reworked and revised versions of "Crimson Steel Ground combat" and "Crimson Bar Rooms and Red Headed Dames", which will involve personal combat, with a minor RPG upgrade.

December 6th, I'll upload a batch of new stuff to my CS site, including my 4 modified CS Aircraft (Fiat CR40, Sanderson-Potez Heavy fighter, a turrented Warhawk and I am working on Patterson's HA77 Warwolf).

December 11th will mark the beginning of a Q&A session with JORDAN WEISMAN! Members can post questions on the forum, and depending on arrangement. Regardless Mister Weisman will answer the questions after the submission period ends on the 20th.

Keep it up folks! Here's your chance to speak to the creator of Crimson Skies!!

Of course some rules will abound, and will eb posted on the introductory thread.

December 12th, will be the start of a Crimson Skies character and Unit contest. Players can create units and characters for them. At the end of 2 weeks, they will be put up for vote, and the winner will recieve a prize of miniatures. I will release "The Lakota Wars" essay and campaign, which will involve the Lakota Raids of '36/Lakota War/Great Lakota Raids,etc, war in the Disputed Territories.

December 13th will be another PC game competition, up for grabs will be another CS Prize (Ain't got the exactications worked out yet though)

December 19th, a forum contest will begin, going two weeks, which will involve Unit Logos, Noseart, and doctored/newly created photographs, which will run 2 weeks.

December 20th another PC game with contest.

December 26th, will mark a contest beginning then and ending on the 16th of January. This will be a character RPG/Unit RPG linear thread interaction. There will not be any official rolls, interactions,etc. I will be the GM, people will interact with the game world by posts, and each other, and may use created units and characters for it. I will have a line in mind, and if people stray off, the wrong path, I'll direct them back. But alot will depend on how "Noting" you are. If you're supposed to go to XXXX Bar, you might end up talking to the busty...er....lovely barmaid, and ignore the drunk in the corner. Wise? Maybe not.


Some of the prizes MIGHT vary. However that is the scheduale!

Welcome to the Crimson Skies!

Sounds like it will be an interesting time to be on the forums. I'll volunteer to help!

Well we'll see what's all happening. I am going to try and organize a few things early, and we'll see how they pan out.

I'll probably post a scheduale a week or so before it begins.

... and my axe!

Igor

Okay, I'll spend the next week tryin to figure out exactly "What's up" in the plans.

Among the things I HOPE...to have done is a "South Pacific" PDF sourcebook, but..I am slow. I got alot of it done, but formatting,etc.

Okay, guys, not everything is included as I got a couple of things out there, but here's a rough scheduale of the "Crimson Skies Six weeks"!!!!

November 29th will be a online Crimson Skies PC game tournament. This will serve two purposes.
#1, Try and organize people, and "Attune them" into getting together for PC games.
#2. As a secondary thing, up for prize will be a disc of "Airfix Dogfighter" a game released around the same time as Crimson Skies, and if CS can be run, so can AFD normally

November 29th will also see the arrival of the CSUniverse Mirror site. It'll take some work, and it may be up sooner so I can test stuff, but that's the OFFICIAL date.

December 4th, will be the beginning of the first contest. The contest will run the entire length of the 6 weeks. This will be where all old forum members, and any new ones joining in that time, will be entered into a pool to win a CS Miniature.

December 5th. I'll release the "South Pacific Sourcebook", for public consumption It'll be mostly text, with a few doctored photo's in it. Also released will be my reworked and revised versions of "Crimson Steel Ground combat" and "Crimson Bar Rooms and Red Headed Dames", which will involve personal combat, with a minor RPG upgrade.

December 6th, I'll upload a batch of new stuff to my CS site, including my 3 modified CS Aircraft (Fiat CR40, Sanderson-Potez Heavy fighter and I am working on Patterson's HA77 Warwolf).

December 12th, will be the start of a Crimson Skies character and Unit contest. Players can create units and characters for them. At the end of 2 weeks, they will be put up for vote, and the winner will recieve a prize. I will release "The Lakota Wars" essay and campaign, which will involve the Lakota Raids of '36/Lakota War/Great Lakota Raids,etc, war in the Disputed Territories.

December 13th will be another PC game competition, up for grabs will be another CS Prize (Ain't got the exactications worked out yet though )

December 19th, a forum contest will begin, going two weeks, which will involve Unit Logos, Noseart, and doctored/newly created photographs, which will run 2 weeks.

December 20th another PC game with contest.

December 26th, will mark a contest beginning then and ending on the 16th of January. This will be a character RPG/Unit RPG linear thread interaction. There will not be any official rolls, interactions,etc. I will be the GM, people will interact with the game world by posts, and each other, and may use created units and characters for it. I will have a line in mind, and if people stray off, the wrong path, I'll direct them back. But alot will depend on how "Noting" you are. If you're supposed to go to XXXX Bar, you might end up talking to the busty...er....lovely barmaid, and ignore the drunk in the corner. Wise? Maybe now.

There will be a few more things I might do, but alot of it will hopefully, be run as "Loose" as possible. Being the holiday seasons, I know some people travel and will be away,etc. If we can get alternate dates for say competitions,etc. organized, we'll do them then.

But a rough scheduale leastways!!! Somewhere along the line, I'll hopefully have any 28mm miniatures I ordered painted, and able to be photo'd and shown, along with alot more painted airplanes.

Sorry guys!!

I ain't been posting any updates/letting anyone know what's happening.

I am working on my sourcebook (Barely), working on a few other projects, and trying to finalize the Great Lakota Raids of 1936, along with a campaign for that.

Stuff is coming along amazingly fast!!! First of october the first planes will be painting and 28MM miniature orders will be placed.

I am hoping to get the 28MM's, and the planes,etc. and maybe photo-shopping some stuff together We'll see, my skills have "Improved" but are far from great.

I'm in. What are your orders, sir?

Get some stuff together, and around October 15th (When it's actually close enough for people to remember) start telling people!!!!

I plan to make official "CS week" postings on to name a few:
classicbattletech.com
theminiaturespage.com
boardgamegeek.com
and a few other places, I just ain't at my peak to name them all right now
Main thing is, when it comes, I'm gonna try and deluge the site with fan material. if we get a good boost of stuff, and then keep a moderately regular update of skins,etc. Or even gaming reports!!!! we should be able to garner some interest,.