Tactician's Office

Hi I'm Mike Becker the famous tactician around here. I've been playing Games Workshop games since 1991. My First was a game called Mighty Empires. Soon thereafter I began playing Warhammer fantasy battles. I played WFB for about six months and discovered Warhammer 40,000, Epic Space Marine (aka epic 40k) and Space Hulk. Since Moving to Austin, Tx I've discovered the joys of Mordheim, Gorkamorka, And Battle Fleet Gothic. I'll try and post quotes from the real world, and fiction on this page now and again. I've written a little auto biography on my gaming history. You should also check out the RPG section of this site it has some great stuff on it. Any questions? Contact Me.

Quotes

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
---General Douglas MacArthur

" You defeated me! But you won't defeat me again! Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing!"
--- Sir Edmund Hillary about Mt. Everest ---

" Far better it is to dare mighty things, Win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, Than to take rank with those poor souls, who neither enjoy nor suffer much. Because they live on the grey twilight that knows neither victory, nor defeat. "
--- Theodore Roosevelt ---

" It is not the critic who counts, Not that man who points out how the strong man stumbled, Or where the doers of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; Whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; Who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions And spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, Knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who, at worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls Who know neither victory nor defeat."
--- Theodore Roosevelt ---

"How about 'life, liberty and the persuit of happiness'?" "Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed the great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. "The third 'right'?--the 'persuit of happiness'? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'persue happiness' as long as my brain lives--but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."
-- LTCO Dubois "Starship Troopers" PG.119