March/April 2004

Good Morning Vietnam!! ~ Robin Williams, Good Morning Vietnam movie

Wow it has been over an entire month since we last talked.  I decided to take a month off to help out with my newborn son Emerson Robert Newhouser Utter.  Click here to see a snap shot.

In roughly a week you will be able to access all the Marduke archived/current newsletters - Myth

Have you registered with Philly to gain access to Marduke's Team Speak server IP: mcserver.us?  Email Philly here! Email the account name and password you want to use.

"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots...." ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1787
And now, let's see the news since the last Marduke.net Battlefield News Letter!


Philly hit the jackpot when he invited 3 of his longtime gaming friends to join us on the battlefield. We have yet to get them to frequent the forums, however, these gents already have lots of war wounds and metals in the name of Marduke.  You can see them on our Team Speak server playing Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Diablo 2 and Ghost Recon.  You can see the thread about them here.  Nathan invited his Zone friend JackHoff!   So the new members from March - present are:

Cliff aka Falcon Jeff aka Messma
Ron aka Wolf Nelson aka JackHoff

If you are still showing inactive it's because we haven't gamed with you or found you listed on at least 2 of the tracking sites.  Please try to game with the rest of us Mardukes on one of our game-nights.

Just FYI:  You can recruit the minute you are invited into the clan.  However, please understand that we don't mass recruit.  There is a reason for that!!  So make sure the person you invite is either a personal friend, family member, gaming buddy or has some very mature qualities about him/her that left an impact on you.  So don't be bashful or shy and invite your friends, family and buddies online.  It's okay if they don't play battlefield or any of the other current games in Marduke.  We have other alternate forms to communicate (forums), to share and to help each other out.  If you think the clan or the one your inviting can benefit from Marduke then by all means get them on board.


Who's busy playing on the battlefield?  And who is playing what now that BFV is out?

BFV - Battlefield Vietnam   bf1942 - Battlefield 1942 (Mods & Expansions)    GR - Ghost Recon

Active Members:

 
  • AllaXul999 [BFV & bf1942]
  • Anyonethere (AKA Kamikaze)  [BFV & bf1942]
  • Aryana [BFV & bf1942]
  • Bogart   [BFV & bf1942]
  • Dark_Jedi (AKA Von Stinky Jedi) [BFV & bf1942]
  • Falcon  [BFV & bf1942]
  • JackHoff [BFV & bf1942]
  • Marvel  [BFV & bf1942]
  • MasterChef  [bf1942 & GR]
  • Messma  [BFV, bf1942 & GR]
  • Mits  [BFV, bf1942 & GR]
  • Mugatu  [bf1942]
  • MythoLogy (AKA Myth)  [BFV & bf1942]
  • Nathan [bf1942]
  • Philly  [BFV & bf1942]
  • Tank  [BFV & bf1942]
  • Unknown Hero  [bf1942]
  • Wolf  [BFV & bf1942]
  • Yehoshua (aka Josh)  [BFV & bf1942]
  • Zericon  [bf1942]
  • Members we can't wait to see on the battlefield again:

  • 77Nightwings
  • Chimera
  • Darkluke
  • DeViL
  • Dey-Bwah
  • Exabyte
  • GreyDeath
  • Guido
  • Light
  • Magician
  • Raz3
  • TMan
  • Vicks
  • V1P3R
  • Xena
  • ??? Somebody left ???
  • Get your butt off this list!!
  • Join us on a game night!!

  • We ask that you try make one hour available a month to join us on our busiest night of the week - Saturday from 7:00pm (Central Time) - 2:00am (Central Time).  Anybody can arrange that!! If you can't then check our battlefield page for the other nights we game.  In addition you can keep up-to-date tabs on gaming members by reading the Marduke shoutbox on the main www.marduke.net page.

    Below are new mods/patches that were released from March to present for bf1942 & BFV.  Please make sure you update your game to the latest 1.6 patch.  Reference the battlefield forum room here if you have any questions on the recent mods/patches or just want to get in touch with the battlefield gamers.  Also check out our forums for information on any of the latest mods.

    Check them out, download them so you are ready to play!! Do give any complaints or viewpoints on any of them:

    BFV Downloads
    Mods

    Tour of Duty Can be found here
    Panis Mini-Mod Can be found here
    Recruit Snyder's Vietnam Can be found here  Recommended!!
    Fixed Vietnam Can be found here 
    Front-Line Can be found here  Smaller maps  for slower PCs
    Operation Junction City Can be found here

    Bf1942 Downloads
    Patches & Mods

    Official 1.6 patch Can be found here
    Official incremental 1.6 patch Can be found here
    Desert Combat Mod 0.7 patch Can be found here  Recommended!!
    Galactic Conquest Mod 0.2 Can be found here or here  New - Star Wars: Update from 0.1e
    Pirates Mod 0.23 Can be found here  New - Updated again Now more galleons
    Eve Of Destruction 0.3 Can be found here  Don't have BFV? Get this Vietnam mod for bf1942
    Forgotten Hope v0.6 Can be found here
    GIJOE Forbidden Alpha Mod Can be found here - Mod shutdown by Hasbro

    Don't miss out!! Make sure you have the latest patch installed before you get on to game with us.


    Anybody want to post about new strats for bf1942 or BFV?  Post them in the Battlefield forums or email the webmaster@marduke.net with them.  I will continue to ask!  With BFV out we definitely can help each other by sharing tips with each other.

    Marvel found Chopper School.  We are asking everyone to become the best pilots they can.  We want to have an experienced air team compared to our extraordinary talents on the ground that occasionally limited us on air maps versus good air opponents when playing bf1942, DC, BFV, etc.

    I need help with this!!  Please if you are an active gamer and know a map from the top to the bottom please make a new post about it in our battlefield forum room.  Even if it is not a new map.  We did not release a single new team strat last month or the month before (one area where I am asking help from volunteers).  Please submit all the intel you have in our battlefield forums located here.


    I am going to be interviewing some of our active members so make sure to check out next month's battlefield newsletter.  We'll get to know each other better together!

    Okay so should you get Battlefield Vietnam or not? Well if you haven't bought it yet then you are in no hurry to get it.  Wait until the first patch.  Some members are having problems with game play due to the issues that we hope the next patch fixes.  For anybody that has BFV click here for some tweaks to implement to help with lag and game performance.

    Battlefield Vietnam Helicopter Contest - Check this contest out by Marvel.

    If you haven't noticed in the member status section above we have several members playing Ghost Recon.  Yes it's old but everyone is able to play it!!  To try the game out get access to GreyDeath's FTP by following information here and then go to MythoLogy/Games folder where GR & Island Thunder should be waiting by next week.  Make sure to download cd clone & winrar in order to extract the files and make the disc.

    What are you missing??? -- Volunteers needed!!  - Can you spare 2 hours a month??.  If so check here.

    If you have anything you want shared via the battlefield newsletter please email the webmaster@marduke.net.

    As always I would like to remind you that we have an open door policy......if there is anything you can suggest to make your battlefield experience more enjoyable please let us know!


    Thanks to your support our clan community is growing day by day. We are always in search for new ideas and contributions to share with each other...
    The place to post your games, articles, tutorials, prototypes, ideas, questions… is always the same: Marduke Forums!

    That's all, folks!

    MythoLogy - Battlefield Daimyo

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