================================================================ Title : Scorpion Ridge Filename : Scorpions.ZIP (ScrpnS.lab/rcm) Author : KrummWaffe (R. Volk, one in Exile) Email Address : KrummWaffe@Bigfoot.com Misc. Author Info : An quick little map. This is a heavy weapon map. There are 5 buffalo guns, 3 sawed-off shotguns, and 2 gattling guns. The map is set up for CTF but all of the nasty weapons allow for nasty quick kills (insert evil laughter). I mainly wanted to play around with making my own Buffalo gun. All the other ones I have tried (other maps) were way too powerful. If you can pick up a medium or heavy plate you at least have a chance to survive 1 hit with my version. I've included a "history" of the Sharp's Buffalo gun with this TEXT file. I was thinking of making the Buffalo gun stationary like a gattling gun because the old timers used a prop, crutch, or tripod to steady the buffalo gun when hunting. But I just made it a #1 weapon so you could carry it around. Description : A canyon with sloped sides and two houses at each end of the canyon. Could say a typical CTF layout. I wanted to play around with the canyon PCX's and mess around with a Weapon Handler. Additional Credits to : Fraggin' Fegerman, DirtyHairy Dave, and Two-Gun Peter for getting me hooked on Outlaws (this is all your fault)- AND PALEFACE for the textures from Die By The Sword and other information from Pale's web site (http://paleface.net/). Last but not least, thanks to my wife Kat. ================================================================ * Play Information * 3DFX Compatible : Yes Mission type : Multiplayer Difficulty Settings : Not implemented New PCXs : Yes New NWXs : Yes New WAVs : Yes New 3DOs : No New ITMs : No New Cutscenes : No * Multiplayer Modes* Kill fool with chicken : Yes DeathMatch : Yes Capture the Flag : Yes Team Play : Yes Secret Document : No Tag n/u ? : No * Multiplayer Security Files * CHK : Yes ITM : Yes Note: For the level to be considered secure for tournament use in multiplayer it must contain .CHK and .ITM files in the Lab.The name of the file should contain a "S" as the last character to denote a secure level. EG: mylevel02S.lab * Construction * Base : None Editor(s) used : LawMaker ver 1.0 beta Known Bugs : There is always a bug...they're watching you right now. * Copyright / Permissions * Authors (MAY) use this level as a base to build additional levels. Heck, I did. What's stopping you? You may do whatever you want with this file as long as you include me in your credits. WHERE CAN YOU GET THIS MAP? HTTP://PALEFACE.NET/ Why do I send my maps only to Paleface? Because I feel it is a great web site that is "neutral". It isn't a Posse or Gang page. Feel free to pick up the map and post it where-ever. (What's all this then?) I hate scorpions... The problem is that in Arizona it's the small ones that are the worst. The Giant Hairy Scorpion, I've seen one about 8 inches long at one of my old job sites, is the least poisonous. The Bark Scorpion, seldom bigger than 2 inches long, can be deadly to children and old people. Bark scorpions' blend in with most backgrounds, love to climb, and like cramped dark places (my mother found one under her pillow). Most bark scorpions that I have killed were about an inch long. Scorpions are the first thing that people from out of State (people from France) ask me about. 2nd is rattlesnakes. We also have many Black Widows here in Phoenix and an even worse spider known as the Recluse. And if you want something else to scare you, we have the only poisonous lizard in North America. The Gila Monster. Still...I can't say enough about Pale's web site (visit http://paleface.net/). During the FIRST 4 months of my Outlaws addiction my main web sites were Mallard's Saddle Bag and Saxter's. Both were good but haven't been updated in a long long time (Mallard's is 6 feet under now). Saxter's ML maps are good and I have always wondered why people don't use them on the Game Zone instead of saying "ML".I have never figured out why the sawed-off shotgun is disliked. Such a short range is a real limitation. THE SHARP'S SPORTING RIFLE: SHARPS BUFFALO RIFLE. Perhaps the principal firearm contributing to the decimation of the buffalo herds in the United States was the Sharps Sporting Rifle, an improvement on the Christian Sharps patent of 1848 for a single-shot rifle with a breech block in a mortise perpendicular to the bore. This innovation provided a breech mechanism strong enough to handle safely the large cartridges needed for adequate killing power on buffalo at great ranges, a property possessed by very few rifle actions available in the early 1870s. Sharps rifles were manufactured in a variety of calibers. The extreme weight of the octagonal barrels allowed numerous shots to be fired before the rifle overheated and also helped to absorb the hard recoil of heavy charges. The double-set trigger helped shorten the lock time of the long hammer-fall and aided long-range shooting by instant discharge. The sight was attached to the metal tang strap behind the breech mechanism, a feature that increased the sighting radius and improved long-range accuracy considerably. The shotgun buttplate was a bit wider and longer than the normal military plate and helped to distribute recoil. Hunters fired from stands, from which they killed as many buffalo as they could before the herd panicked. This called for precise accuracy and a powerful cartridge for instant one-shot kills. The Sharps rifle achieved these qualities with perfectly smooth cylindrical bullets wrapped with banknote paper before loading. This paper was all that engaged the rifling in the bore and fell away after the bullet passed out of the muzzle, leaving the slug unmutilated and smoothing its flight. The Sharps rifle dramatically altered the Great Plains. In the mid-1880s buffalo were estimated to number in excess of twenty million. In twenty years, scarcely a specimen remained from the four great herds in the United States. The original purpose of the buffalo "harvest" was to supply meat to railroad workers, and every herd was touched by rail activity. However, the major stimulus to the slaughter of buffalo came with the development of a method for tanning the hide into leather for luggage and similar articles. Almost overnight an army of hide hunters descended on the Texas herd, which ranged from Dodge City, Kansas, to the Colorado River north of Austin, Texas, and a slaughter began, protected by a line of forts-Fort Griffin, Fort McKavett, Fort Sill, and Fort Phantom Hill. Many buffalo outfitters in Texas were dealers or consignees for Sharps rifles, among them Frank E. Conradqv and T. E. Jackson of Fort Griffin, Texas; Lee and Reynolds of Camp Supply, Indian Territory (see LEE, WILLIAM MCDOLE); Conrad and Rath (see RATH, CHARLES) and Asa Tracy of Fort Concho, Texas; William Hyde of Sherman, Texas; and J. C. Petmecky of Austin. The operation of the Sharps Company itself, in close parallel with the era of the great buffalo hunts, ceased in the late 1800s, when the vast buffalo herds were gone forever. See also BUFFALO, BUFFALO HUNTING. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters (New York: Hastings House, 1954). Frank M. Sellers and De Witt Bailey III, Sharps Firearms (Denver: Chester's Idea Press, 1969). Winston O. Smith, The Sharps Rifle (New York: Morrow, 1943).