28Mm Italian Wars Gendarmes And AHPC

This year, as in the previous two I am taking part in the Analogue Hobbies Winter Paint Challenge, a Group of gamers and painters from across the world who get together, in a virtual sense, once a year. The idea is part competition, with points tables, side duels and part collective support of like minded individuals.

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This year I am taking the opportunity to try and blast through the corner of the lead pile that constitutes my 28mm Italian Wars Project so I can get to the point where I can field a decent sized army and get some game time in on the rule sets I am looking at.

The event started on the 20th December and runs for 3 months. So far for the Italian Wars I have finished a unit of 16 shot, who will appear on here when I finish the accompanying Pike Block. Finished this week is this 6 fig unit of Gendarme.

The figures are from Foundry and although fairly old they are still great figures. The flags come from Pete's Flags on eBay and are representative of the early 15th Century Condottiero Micheletto Attendolo who died in 1451, a little early for my Italian Wars period but that isn't going to stop me using these great banners.

I have used the livery on the flag as a cue for the colour of the units clothing and added the flower motif on the flags to the horse furniture and men. I bought enough for 5 similar units just before Xmas so I am quite excited about how they are going to look en masse.

Above shows the current extent of my Gendarme collection, the 2 other units have featured on the blog before. Even though it's only 18 figures I am more than happy with the look, the flags and colours really give it something.

I have some mounted Crossbow up next as I slog through a Pike Block, looks like 2019 will be the year of the Italian Wars.

ASOIAF: Rodrik Cassel 40Pt Army

Let's get down to business.

Winter has come.  While there are some people out there that prefer to go maneuver-heavy with Robb or face-smashy with Greatjon Umber, I like going Rodrik Cassel.  The reason why is because his tactics cards are absolutely bonkers and making units Vulnerable just makes a smashy faction even smashier.

First, let's take a look at Rodrik Cassel and see what he offers to our army:

A true soldier.

As you can see, Rodrik is a soldier who has an Order to make the opponent's unit Vulnerable after Attack dice are rolled.  The timing for this is exceptionally important because it's what Sworn Sword Captains have as well and it's considered one of the best 1-point attachments in the game.  Vulnerable is huge for someone like Rodrik because it unlocks his Tactics cards and skyrockets the damage potential of all your units.  Having Vulnerable on something after you charge it would mean you re-roll all hits and your opponent has to essentially re-roll all their successful saves.  It pretty much means the Stark army will obliterate units that have low saves or punch through tougher targets that can normally deflect their blows.  Peeling ranks off enemy units will also keep your units around longer as the enemies' damage potential will decrease.

Let's take a look at Rodrik's tactics cards:

All that martial goodness!

Martial Superiority is one of the best defensive tactics cards in the game.  It triggers off when the enemy unit attacks and that dice rolls less dice AND loses all abilities until the end of the turn.  Now, it isn't as powerful as some of the silences we've been before where it lasts until the end of the round, but this card doesn't need any conditionals like expending condition tokens or anything else.  You cast it, boom, and most of the opponent's plans are foiled.  This card is amazing at stopping something like Gregor + Flayed Men from rolling a unit while you set up for a counter-attack.  To make things even more interesting, if you're going after Rodrik's unit, good luck.  Having Weakened on top of this card pretty much means Rodrik's units going to stay around.  Combat Prowess is a great follow-up card when used with Rodrik's unit or with any unit under the influence of Vulnerable.  What if your opponent rolls poorly and you don't need to spend the Vulnerable token?  Guess like he's being silenced and unable to respond with any defensive tactics cards.  It's really fierce when used on the charge as there are fewer things in the game that interacts with that timing window than when a friendly unit attacks.  Lastly, we have Press the Advantage.  This is another one of those cards that trigger off the attack so you can't use a Sworn Sword Captain's Orders and then play this card because it escapes the window.  What this card does is kick your opponents when they're already down because of the Critical Blows on an already Vulnerable target.  That's why I have taken a unit of Tully Sworn Shields with Rodrik because it makes them one of the tankiest units in the game while giving them the opportunity to do bigger damage than their stats suggest.

Here's the list:

Faction: House Stark
Commander: Rodrik Cassel – Master–at–Arms
Points: 40 (4 Neutral)

Combat Units:
• Stark Sworn Swords (5)
  with Sworn Sword Captain (1)
• House Umber Greataxes (7)
  with Robb Stark – The Young Wolf (3)
• Grey Wind (0)
• House Tully Sworn Shields (7)
  with Rodrik Cassel – Master–at–Arms (0)
• Stark Outriders (7)
  with Brynden Tully – Vanguard Infiltrator (3)

Non-Combat Units:
• Sansa Stark – Little Bird (3)
• Petyr Baelish – Littlefinger (4)

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Let me try and explain some of these choices super quick.  The Stark Sword Swords are simply one of the best offensive units in the game for the cost.  With Stark Fury and 8 dice on a 5-point unit and the ability to make someone Vulnerable, the damage potential for this unit is huge.  Great Axes deal a huge amount of damage and can definitely wreck heavy cavalry if they're already engaged with them.  Robb Stark as an attachment makes them regular infantry speed and gives you the ability to launch yourself out there on a Maneuver trigger on the tactics board.  This makes two units that can do it in the army and that will surprise your opponents a lot!  The fact that Robb (and Bran) come with their Dire Wolves is one of the best things about Starks.  These free wolves not only come with great abilities, but they're a free activation and deploy to be used in battle.  Grey Wind is especially good because he is able to apply Vulnerable onto a unit if already used, or apply it beforehand so it can be consumed using Rodrik's own ability or tactics cards.

I already explained a little bit about the Tully Sworn Shields above, but with Rodrik's tactics cards, this unit becomes a very jack-of-all-trades unit.  It's already super defensive with Shield Wall and 3+ save, but cards like Martial Superiority just takes it over the edge.  While the defensive stats normally lower damage expectations, Press the Advantage and Vulnerable tokens in general greatly increases its damage potential.  As for Stark Outriders, I think they're a great, solid unit at 7 points.  With Brynden Tully however, they can be one of the most annoying units in the game thanks for their great flanking ability and healing on retreat.  A lot of the Stark tactics cards play incredibly well with Outriders as well thanks to their unpredictable damage potential.  Just remember that with 7-point units, you can also decide to trade out the Sworn Shields for a unit of Berserkers if you want some more face-smash.

"And yet you betrayed me.."

As for NCUs, I really like Sansa Stark with Rodrik because of her ability to recycle or tutor for exactly what is needed right then and there.  While we all try and anticipate everything that is going to happen in a game, Sansa offers us extra insurance that if an opponent rolls a 6 for a long ass charge you didn't anticipate and is rolling in with crazy Tactics cards in support, you always have a way to Martial Superiority him into the ground.  For my next NCU, believe it or not, I think Littlefinger is a solid choice for the Starks.  It's just comical that I'm taking both Sansa and Littlefinger in the same list, but his ability to claim Combat/Maneuver that unlocks the secondary capabilities for your Stark tactics cards while still reaping the benefit of other unclaimed zones is amazing.

Try out the list and let me know how you fair!

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Tekkyuuman is a new release by prolific Japanese developer Ikiki, famous for a number of controversial games featuring ninjas, bloodbath and outrageous violence. Usually with all three elements at the same time.

In this game, you must make your way towards the green spiky object and smash it with the flail. Use the control key to swing your weapon and tap the left shift key to jump. A wall jump can also be executed by pressing the same shift key when scaling up walls.

Red switches can be activated either by touch or hitting them with your flail. An extra life is awarded after every boss fight. [zip file of Ikiki's games]

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Suzy Cube Update: June 15, 2018

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McGuire House Rules For Cartegena

Cartagena is a board game for 2-5 players. With the simple McGuire house rules modifications described below, it works well as a strategic family game for players as young as five.

The game features teams of pirate markers racing through a random board depicting a tunnel. The pirate theme continues through the main commodities in the game: rum, guns, swords, hats, and flags.

The strategic decisions made by players are largely timing. The two main moves are pushing forward by playing cards, and dropping back to accumulate cards and establish tactical positions. There's no direct player vs. player conflict.



(There is a 2nd edition called Cartagena II that can be played with the same pieces if you're willing to mark the face of a few cards. It differs primarily in the end-game rule and that "dropping back" is now "advancing an opponent". I think that it is a little better balanced but also a little less kid-friendly because of the complexity. You can download the new rules from the Rio Grande site and play with the original set.)

The game suggests two variants in the rules. Even with all adults, I never play the "strategic" variant in which the draw deck is visible. That variant allows (i.e., forces) players to consider too many options and slows the game too much.

McGuire House Rules
Some simple changes make Cartagena a fast and fun game to play with young children without sacrificing its core strategic value.

1. Remove a few tunnel pieces during setup to reduce game length. The base game takes about 20 minutes with handicapped players. It can easily be reduced to about 10 minutes plus setup time by removing two tiles. That means that you can play two games in half an hour, including setup and cleanup.

2. Give weaker players extra cards during setup to give them a lead. Don't change the number of pirates or advance the pirates--because of the leapfrogging mechanic, moving pirates affects the game in complex ways. I currently grant my elementary school children six cards each at the start of the game.

3. For players having a very hard time with strategy, a simple rule change can reduce the worst case that players can get themselves into with poor play. The minor version is to add the retreat rule:

Retreat: A pirate may drop back out of the tunnel to the start and draw one card as an action. A player with no pirates currently in the tunnel may draw two cards as an action.

A more dramatic version also adds the cave-in rule to increase the bonus for retreating:

Cave-In: When a tile at the start end of the tunnel has no pirates on it, it is removed from the game. Any pirates who aren't yet in the tunnel or the boat move up to being just before the end of this tunnel.

I found that using a physical boat instead of the boat card/tile greatly increases the enjoyment of children when moving their pirates off the board. We use a Lego boat hull, but any toy about 8 cm or longer will suffice.

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Morgan McGuire (@morgan3d) is a professor at Williams College, a researcher at NVIDIA, and a professional game developer. His most recent games are Project Rocket Golfing for iOS and Skylanders: Superchargers for consoles. He is the author of the Graphics Codex, an essential reference for computer graphics now available in iOS and Web Editions.

Report To Stakeholders 2018

This is my fourth report to stakeholders of Black Diamond Games, Ltd. We're a private company with a lot of transparency. I'm going to forgo the formality this year and write informally about our year in general. Every store owner has a specific narrative about what happened to them, with generalities about what is happening in the trade.

A lot of stores have recently announced they're going out of business. More than average? Who knows, we have no data. I also have store owner friends with 20-40% sales increases in 2018. Your mileage may vary and your narrative is mostly your own. I think the trade is booming, but it impacts everyone differently. The rising tide lifts some boats. I also think that tide seems to be crushing it online right now, while the water trickles into the brick and mortar harbors. There really is no way to contain general enthusiasm to build up a head of steam in the Internet age. It's all on the store owner to locally build up enthusiasm. Retail is like a tea kettle and when a head of steam builds up, the release is the Internet. If you hear that whistle, it's money being added to Jeff Bezo's bank account.

I think it is increasingly difficult to funnel the bonkers enthusiasm to the friendly local game store. Parallel systems now exist to do what we do. You can buy your D&D books on Amazon at below wholesale prices and the important service of learning how to play those games can be accomplished by watching high production D&D in play videos online for free. This is an example of our Unique Value Proposition, game space, becoming a mere Useful Value Proposition. It's also an example of poor brand value protection by Wizards of the Coast.

These videos are becoming the normative way to play, and players are holding their local DMs to these professional standards. That's not how it's done on Critical Role they say, so it must be wrong. A good number of YouTube D&D channels now have over a quarter million subscribers, the tip of the cultural iceberg. Personally I can't sit through a recorded D&D session without growing instantly bored, I just don't get it. However, I find Matthew Colville's D&D channel addictive and brilliant.

The question of what would happen to your store if millions of people suddenly played D&D? For us it meant an 18% increase in RPG and dice sales and a 200% increase in miniature sales (because WizKids is awesome). I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I was expecting more from the revolution. Whenever I talk about the tea kettle whistle and how we're mostly left out of this building head of steam, a store owner will tell me they sell a metric buttload of D&D books. Yes, that's not the point. Or ... maybe it is.

Something was off for us in 2018. In retrospect, 2017 was a year too good to replicate, although we pretty much did. In 2017, Warhammer 40K was booming, board games were on fire, Magic staggered around like the giant Pillsbury Dough Boy of Ghostbusters, scaring everyone as it lurched about (while making money), ready to destroy buildings (stores). Our 2017 sales, with construction of our Game Center complete, jumped 14%. 2018 was a shadow of 2017 as it struggled to replicate that success.

2018 saw Warhammer 40K cool a bit as the new edition matured and customers tired of the weekly release schedule (down 20%). The board game bubble deflated a bit and it took months to figure out I was over ordering like we were still booming, right about the time the big hits arrived, and I was too gun shy to go deep (down 7%). I was ready to throw my hands up with board games. It was an enigma in 2018.

Magic staggered around as usual, with a tight embrace of the mass market, finishing up with a volatile December release that took everyone by surprise (down 1%). As I write this I have one box of Ultimate Masters left, and the difference between having it and not having it would have been the difference between losing money in 2018 and making money. You could say that about a lot of things, but since I practically wished Ultimate Masters would die in a fire, I can now say thank you, I was wrong (the $10,000 bill is due in 6 days, and there may be a game trade reckoning). We made money, but only because we sipped at the D&D tsunami through a straw to gain a 18% gain in that department.

There was much flailing about in 2018 with this flatness, and much gnashing of teeth about increased expenses. Our payroll costs and rent rose 4%, both somewhat fixed with the rising minimum wage and our lease structure. This led to a tightening of the belt and cost cutting in other areas, marketing taking the biggest hit. Facebook Page promotion has stopped being a functional tool at this point, and we rely on Groups to do the heavy lifting. Marketing is another enigma, but mostly how to spend money effectively, since Groups are powerful and free.  It's more labor intensive but it costs zero dollars, other than directing customers to them. 

In the end, cost of goods decreased significantly and cutting expenses rose profits. Dare I say, it was a better, more profitable year than 2017 by nearly 7%. When we're in boom times we crow about gross, but when it's slow and difficult, we can always talk about net. Cut your costs of goods by 1.5% on half a million dollars of stuff, and you've got a new car.

My book, Friendly Local Game Store released in May of 2018. It's on its fourth (small) print run and sells on Amazon and with game distributors, when they have it. It just received its first bad (2 star) customer review on Amazon! All reviews drive interest and this one has some valid criticisms about the narrative (and some off base ones). Publishing the book hasn't changed anything in my life, but it did help pay for an epic road trip visiting game stores and talking to owners throughout Mexico and Guatemala. 

Thanks to everyone who supported us in 2018. We have many changes in store for 2019. 

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Magnetizing The Cygnar Avenger - Centurion - Hammersmith Warjack Kit!

By Randy
@coffeeswiller

Hiya, folks! I some more miniature hobby stuff to talk about concerning one of my favorite games, Warmachine by Privateer Press. In a recent post I did on playing Warmachine on a budget, one thing that came up after a helpful comment by a reader was that using magnets to be able to quickly convert  one warjack or warbeast to another was one way to save money. I had been itching to try this for months! I finally got a warjack kit, and wanted to share my first attempt at building a model this way. So here's the model:

And here it is all laid out to show the parts:

This kit allows you to build three different warjacks: the Centurion (with spear & shield), the Hammersmith (with 2 matching hammers) and the Avenger (with a sword & a seimic cannon arm). So planning ahead, we primarily need to have the ability to swap out the arms. Each warjack also has a different head, and while this isn't necessary, we'll magnetize those, too. Finally, there are two sets of shoulder pads. It is perhaps completely frivolous, but I'll magnetize those, too.

Here are my tools:

There shouldn't be anything surprising there. From left to right, we have magnets, brass rod, a file for removing mold lines, liquid green stuff, superglue, a pin vise/drill, an X-acto knife and tweezers. Not pictured is epoxy putty (I prefer ProCreate putty) and a Sharpie. Here are the magnets (3mm x 1mm neodymium):

The first step after planning is to drill holes for the magnets. Many model builders will already be doing a bit of this to add pins or brass rods to support heavier parts of models. What I am going to do here is make holes large enough to set in a magnet.

I used epoxy putty and superglue to set them in.

That one is the right arm. That one I pinned to the shoulder, since all the right arm does is hold a weapon in all the possible configurations. Here's one of the weapons (the sword for the Avenger). Each of the right arm weapons has the hand molded to them, and here is what an inset magnet looks like on one of them.

The left arm was a little more tricky. First of all, there are two separate arms: one is a cannon, and the other an arm like the right that has two different weapon combos (a hammer and a shield). The arm and shield combination is fairly heavy, and one magnet (at least of the size I have) will not suffice to hold the whole assembly. So here's what I did

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I drilled a hole for a brass rod, and I set in one of the magnets slightly farther back. I tested positions for where to place them and this seemed the best.  Here are the two arms:

And here is wrist of the left forearm:

The red dot notes where the magnet is (it is covered by putty, which matches the grey of the plastic) and there is also a hole for a brass peg. And here are the shield and the hammer hands:

Each has an inset magnet on the top and a brass peg below. The hammer hand didn't really need it, but I figured it wouldn't hurt. And here is the finished kit, laid out in all its separate pieces:

And here are each of the warjacks it makes:

The Avenger!

The Centurion!

The Hammersmith!

Update! I made a brief YouTube video showing how this works together. The video isn't the greatest but it should give you an idea of how it works:


This was a fun kit to build! It will, of course, be painted and set on a finished base. But right now, my painting queue is pretty large. One observation I will share that you should note for your magnetized projects is that magnets have positive and negative sides, and your pieces will need to match up. I recommend using a Sharpie to place a dot on a magnet, and be sure to test before gluing. That's it!

Do you have any model projects that you are particularly proud of? Tell us below!

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Duff-Up In John'S Shed: The Austrian'S First Outing

Things start to go wrong on the Austrian right- the line is in the process of being shot to bits

I slipped up to Cambridge to John's shed for the day in order to get the Austrians actually on a table for the first time. There wasn't a massive amount of thought put into the game, it was just a bit of an excuse for a duff-up. John is easing his way back into Napoleonics after a lengthy lay-off so we wanted just a quick, low intensity game that wasn't going to tax the brain an awful lot.

Close up of the attack columns on the left. Everything fine at present (sausage roll in support)

It was a pretty straightforwards set-up, a village complex on the (Austrian) right, some skirmish buildings and walls on the left,  a few woods in the centre. No big artillery platforms anywhere, French defending. We didn't have a huge amount of time so the French deployed quite far forwards,which didn't help the Austrian cause much. In retrospect we probably could have been a bit cleverer with the terrain, 

Panorama of the early stages

The only decent area for cavalry was in the centre which unbalanced things somewhat. I concentrated the Austrian's new shiny hussar brigade there and the French had a regt each of Chassuers, dragoons and cuirraisier plus a horse btty.  Each flank had an infantry division to take the respective village areas. The one on the right had a dragoon regt attached.

We used a variable morale system for the infantry, all btns were treated as 1st class line until they took their first morale test,where-upon they rolled to discover their true class: Austrians: 1 to 3- 2nd class line. 4 to 10 1st class line.

French: 1 to 4 -2nd class line 5 to 7 1st class line, 8 to 10, veteran.

French young guard: 1 to 5, veteran. 6 to 10 Elite.

All cavalry was line and all artillery was 1st class.  

The Austrians fielded 1 infantry division of 2 Grenzer, 5 line btns with a 6lb btty and 18 skirmishers, these took the left flank. In the centre was a hussar brigade with 14 squadrons of hussars each of 6 figures.

On the right was an infantry division of 6 line btns with a dragroon rgt of 6 x 6 man squadrons plus a 6lb btty and 12 skirmishers. All btns were 48 man strong. 

5 battalions: should be enough to take a village, surely?

Connoissuer French attempt to outflank the Austrian left

The French had a 2 infantry divisions each of 6 x 36 supported by a 6lb btty, 24 chassuers and 18 skirmishers. One of each occupied each flank.

In addition they had a young guard division of 4 x32's plus a heavy cavalry outfit with 1 x 32 of dragoons and 32 cuirraisier with a 3 gun horse btty.

All in all, I think the French were too tough for the poor old milkshakes.

The Austrian right develops

The Austrians trundled forwards, because of the speed of our set-up it meant the Austrians couldn't really get any artillery preparation, however they manfully pitched into the attack against each village. They actually did ok, they got forwards,got the guns into position and started to work  towards their objectives.

In the centre the massed hussars nullified the french cavalry, a typical ding-dong Grand Manner cavalry scrap continued through the whole game.  A lot of folk can't cope with the cavalry system in ITGM but the more I read of historical accounts the more they turn out like ITGM battles. Units go forwards, battle it out, retire, new ones go in, the original ones rally, go back. Its all about having local reserves. Both sides (typicaly) won the combats they should have lost, and lost the ones they "were certain" to win. The rest of the cavalry was squeezed on the extreme Austrian right, and this went a bit more to the script, with the Austrian dragoons making short work of a chassuer regt, which forced a couple of French btns into square and took them out of the fight for the village. 

A recent new acquisition: Classic Connoissuer infantry painted by Doug Mason, skulking in square.

On the left a grenzer btn waddled in line through a wood on the the extreme flank, it never got anywhere for the whole game but it did tie down 2 French btns (a bit) so it wasn't a total waste of time.

Meanwhile the asault against the skirmisher buildings and the walled compound went in. John concentrated a lot of fire on one unit (always a mistake in my book) but the size of the Austrian units allowed it to be shrugged off. I had some success at first and things were looking rosy.

6lb battery supporting the Austrian right

The French artillery btty retreated when charged and the lead 2 Austrian units crunched into a lone French btn manning the wall. In fact I had a bit too much success. The French btn routed after the first round of combat, with relatively light casualties. I would have much preferred for it to have stuck around for at least a second round of combat as I had 2 more btns to re-inforce with and the French had one. This would have allowed me to ruin 2 French units, as it was it meant the French just pulled back a bit, I couldn't exploit, and the 2 units I had in the front line were badly shot up. They took more and more fire from the flanks and that was about it for my attack on the left village.

Hussars and Grenzer demonstrate in the centre

The right hand flank told a similar story, despite the dragoon's success I couldn't get sufficient  force to bear on the village, I was reasonably successful at clearing the walls but couldn't find room to deploy those big Austrian firing lines. When I finally did, it being Austrian, it took so long to deploy that it was shot down before it could do much damage. Again, the Austrians after initial successes just couldn't finish off those Frenchies.

High point for the left. The Austrians couldn't get over that wall.

Things were coming to close, dinnertime was approaching, and the Austrians had run out of steam. We called it a day.

So in the end it was a suitably inauspicious start for the Austrian army, but then, as we all know, all troops get beat the first time out!

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Re: Financial Services Inc / UK

Ref : ADF/UK/218-22/4C/0119

Hello Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you with this profiting Project.
As the Portfolio manager ADF Financial Services Incorporated, one of the World's Largest Funds management corporations with over 1.2 Trillion Euros Capital Investment Funds.
I have more than 158 Corporate Investors attached to my PORTFOLIO whose capital Investment Funds are been managed and administered by me alone. This Capital Investment Fund has a value of 244Billion Euro FIXED. The Ђ244billion is been used for trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil, lending with Profit Returns and Business financing. Every Year, each Corporate Investor is expected to receive 7-11% interest from his/her Total Investment Capital Funds (TICF) which is released to the Investors annually as their Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) . However, as the Portfolio Manager, I made average of 21.2% from the Investor's Investment Capital Funds (IICF) which has exceeded investors targeted 20% of Total Investment Capital Funds for a personal portfolio. On this note, the extra 1.2% from the 21.2% is being retained by me as my personal profits for managing the Capital Investment and has been redirected to the treasury data account of the establishment and cannot be claim
ed by me without presenting someo

All conformable documents to back up this claim would be made available prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities where the funds could be claimed in any of our 6 clearing houses or paying banks without any hitch.

If you are interested, kindly respond to my proposal for more details and clarifications.



Thanks,

Mr. Raymond Oakes
Portfolio Manager,