[Growltigga]

Seems a good time to jump on the bandwagon and introduce myself to all and sundry

Forum name is Growltigga which is actually the name of one of my cats (sad I know). Real name is Rob. Neither of these has anything to do with my game persona as leader of the Solar Federation.

I am 32 and am a lawyer based out of Manchester. I specialise in banking and finance which means (a) I am boring and (b) I have no social life. My wife agrees.

I spend most of my time avoiding the locals and cursing anyone who supports Manchester United (I am originally from Kent and support Chelsea for anyone who cares).

I got into board gaming as a child, primarily Starfire, Starfleet Battles and any of the bookcase games that were produced. Got into SE IV after checking the Starfire forum on Delphi and finding a thread that said SE IV was the closest computer game on the market to the Starfire format - which it is). Also a mate of mine (I think he was on the forum as Khanuk) reccomended the game.

Also a naval history buff so spend a fair chunk of time on the game coming up with names for the various classes of ships I design - sad but I do get perverse pleasure from designing Agamemnon class battlecruiser, Tigris class destroyers etc
I also seem to have a bizarre problem in that everything I design is missile heavy.

I am a bit of a perfectionist - I have only had SEIV for about 3 weeks and have spent a fair chunk of time renaming all the star systems with proper astronomical names - I spend hours trying to come up with decent names for colonised planets and usually end up with derivations of 'New Boston', 'New London', 'New Basra' etc

classic case of anal retentiveness really

Still, SEIV is a top game. I think myself and Dogscoff should pursue the nation challenge I mentioned in my earlier Newby qyestion thread