Steven will be past college when the worst of Vietnam comes, yes, and his sisters and younger friends will be the ones facing it. No, Rosalie would not be happy thinking one of her boys could be sent off to fight. But can you imagine how she’d react to a draft dodger? Oh, the fun I could have.
Yeah, Rosalie is the victim, even if she’s not the nicest person. She deserves better than what she got. And Howard is in between a rock and a hard place. It just suck all around.
Yup, they adopted! And then ACR goes and throws me a pregnancy at long last. Spoiler alert - Dwight now has 2 sisters. Poor guys waits years for a sibling and this is what he gets.
I get the basic rationale behind duck and cover drills, but looking back it seems ridiculous. The kids did need to do something so they could just be kids. I can only imagine how someone who had experienced a nuclear bomb’s devastation firsthand would react, though.
It really was only a matter of time before Rosalie snapped. Bruce would be the target, because he did take all she did for granted. Rosalie probably does more work than Alice or Shirley simply because she’s got twice the number of kids that they do, but the big difference is that Nick and Walter know enough to make sure their wives know how much they appreciate all they do.
It is a great contrast, and I didn’t realize how far it would go. You’re spot on about the differences between the three ladies. Poor Rosalie thought she was getting it all, but then she found out that it wasn’t exactly what she thought it would be. It was quite the shock to her system.
No, Steven is not Pop, but I must obey the dice. I think it will be a good thing to play out that LTW. It’s kind of fun to find something that I haven’t done even after playing the game for as long as I have.
Plot sucks at times, and staging for plots is the worst. I have a megahood that I’m fiddling with too, and it’s so much more fun. That made me realize I need to scale it back some. That, and it’s probably good to have the heirs and the main family feature, rather than all the various cousins and spares.
Oh God, Rosalie is totally going to end up with a draft dodging kid, isn't she? She's got so many, one of them's going to run!
Well, nothing wrong with girls!
Yeah, she did choose to have eight kids, which means taking care of eight kids, but with Bruce not helping at ALL...
Yeah, staging is the sucky thing. Scaling it back isn't bad. And you're right about the cousins and spares not really needing to feature. That's one thing that I think killed some legacies - they liked their spares and cousins better, or they wanted to keep track of everyone, and it really just stopped being important at some point...as well as the hoods becoming too big to be easily manageable. We all have gone from one family to dozens, and that can be a lot of houses to play.
Still, I'll be happy to see anything of the Bradfords, whether it's staged or gameplay or not!
The odds are defiantly not in her favor in regards to having a draft dodging kid, with (pauses to check generation 8 roster) 5 of her 8 being boys.
Nope, girls are good. If I decide to go plotty again, Shirley raising girls will make for good storylines.
Eight kids is a lot for anyone, and with no help from Bruce, Rosalie deserves sympathy.
Constant staging sucks, so I figure if I do mostly gameplay and then stage a few pictures per chapter, it won’t feel like such a task. There are spares that I love and will probably still be background fodder, but I should really keep the majority of the focus on my heirs and their descendants, I should be able to finish up the last 2 generations. I figure with the 60s coming up, I can plop some random spares off on “commune” style lot and not pay them too much mind, cheating them up in age every now and then.
I’m glad to hear that people (or you at least) want to see more Bradfords. With such a long unplanned hiatus, I was worried that people had forgotten about them.
Steven will be past college when the worst of Vietnam comes, yes, and his sisters and younger friends will be the ones facing it. No, Rosalie would not be happy thinking one of her boys could be sent off to fight. But can you imagine how she’d react to a draft dodger? Oh, the fun I could have.
Yeah, Rosalie is the victim, even if she’s not the nicest person. She deserves better than what she got. And Howard is in between a rock and a hard place. It just suck all around.
Yup, they adopted! And then ACR goes and throws me a pregnancy at long last. Spoiler alert - Dwight now has 2 sisters. Poor guys waits years for a sibling and this is what he gets.
I get the basic rationale behind duck and cover drills, but looking back it seems ridiculous. The kids did need to do something so they could just be kids. I can only imagine how someone who had experienced a nuclear bomb’s devastation firsthand would react, though.
It really was only a matter of time before Rosalie snapped. Bruce would be the target, because he did take all she did for granted. Rosalie probably does more work than Alice or Shirley simply because she’s got twice the number of kids that they do, but the big difference is that Nick and Walter know enough to make sure their wives know how much they appreciate all they do.
It is a great contrast, and I didn’t realize how far it would go. You’re spot on about the differences between the three ladies. Poor Rosalie thought she was getting it all, but then she found out that it wasn’t exactly what she thought it would be. It was quite the shock to her system.
No, Steven is not Pop, but I must obey the dice. I think it will be a good thing to play out that LTW. It’s kind of fun to find something that I haven’t done even after playing the game for as long as I have.
Plot sucks at times, and staging for plots is the worst. I have a megahood that I’m fiddling with too, and it’s so much more fun. That made me realize I need to scale it back some. That, and it’s probably good to have the heirs and the main family feature, rather than all the various cousins and spares.
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Well, nothing wrong with girls!
Yeah, she did choose to have eight kids, which means taking care of eight kids, but with Bruce not helping at ALL...
Yeah, staging is the sucky thing. Scaling it back isn't bad. And you're right about the cousins and spares not really needing to feature. That's one thing that I think killed some legacies - they liked their spares and cousins better, or they wanted to keep track of everyone, and it really just stopped being important at some point...as well as the hoods becoming too big to be easily manageable. We all have gone from one family to dozens, and that can be a lot of houses to play.
Still, I'll be happy to see anything of the Bradfords, whether it's staged or gameplay or not!
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Nope, girls are good. If I decide to go plotty again, Shirley raising girls will make for good storylines.
Eight kids is a lot for anyone, and with no help from Bruce, Rosalie deserves sympathy.
Constant staging sucks, so I figure if I do mostly gameplay and then stage a few pictures per chapter, it won’t feel like such a task. There are spares that I love and will probably still be background fodder, but I should really keep the majority of the focus on my heirs and their descendants, I should be able to finish up the last 2 generations. I figure with the 60s coming up, I can plop some random spares off on “commune” style lot and not pay them too much mind, cheating them up in age every now and then.
I’m glad to hear that people (or you at least) want to see more Bradfords. With such a long unplanned hiatus, I was worried that people had forgotten about them.
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