New boardgames

[Berkut]

Nice Barney blanket there Seedy.

[Ed Anger]

Nice Barney blanket there Seedy.

It is Velour.

[dps]

I like to receive lots of colorful boxes in the mail, even if they costed a fortune.

Bastards at UPS called me;  it's going to require a signature.  They won't leave it unattended at the door.

Then again, at that price, I suppose I should applaud them for being proactive.

I wish they always required a signature.  I've had stuff left out in the rain by the idiots.  And aa ordered a cuckoo clock a while back;  when they delivered it, they knocked once, then left it on the front steps where I knocked the package over when I opened the door.  Dumbasses.

[CountDeMoney]

Nice Barney blanket there Seedy.

It is Velour.

It's blue, actually.

[Ed Anger]

I wish goddamned Avalanche would send my War Plan Red.

*grumble*

[CountDeMoney]

I wish goddamned Avalanche would send my War Plan Red.

*grumble*

lol, you could've rolled all those dice by now.

[jimmy olsen]

The problem with such a game is that you know, by mere virtue of its size, that it has never been playtested more than once or twice--and both times by the designer, rather than someone objectively judging it for game quirks.  I can't buy a game where there is not even a pretense of quality-control involved.

After further review, and nearly killing the cat with the whole damned thing, I've come to the conclusion that this is perhaps the most unplayable game ever invented.
Not by rules, mind you;  just in logistics alone.

You merely have to put as much time and effort as Admirals Leahy and King put into.

[saskganesh]

The problem with such a game is that you know, by mere virtue of its size, that it has never been playtested more than once or twice--and both times by the designer, rather than someone objectively judging it for game quirks.  I can't buy a game where there is not even a pretense of quality-control involved.

After further review, and nearly killing the cat with the whole damned thing, I've come to the conclusion that this is perhaps the most unplayable game ever invented.
Not by rules, mind you;  just in logistics alone.

You merely have to put as much time and effort as Admirals Leahy and King put into.

you'd need a turn timer clock so as to better mirror the RL decision cycles.

[PDH]

We played 3 years of War in Europe in 9 months of weekend playing...then everyone but Mike discovered girls and the war ended.

[grumbler]

We played 3 years of War in Europe in 9 months of weekend playing...then everyone but Mike discovered girls and the war ended.

We did three years of Drang Nach Osten/Unentshieden back in college, but the fucking Germans quit when they realized they were going to be defending for the rest of the war.

It was: total madness.

[Ed Anger]

We played 3 years of War in Europe in 9 months of weekend playing...then everyone but Mike discovered girls and the war ended.

We did three years of Drang Nach Osten/Unentshieden back in college, but the fucking Germans quit when they realized they were going to be defending for the rest of the war.

It was: total madness.

Wargamers playing krauts can be a hoot.

You mean I can't has blitzkrieg in 1944?

[CountDeMoney]

Wargamers playing krauts can be a hoot.

You mean I can't has blitzkrieg in 1944?

If you can even find one anymore.
Today's German gamer probably wouldn't use anything greater than 2-1 on the CRT, because that wouldn't be fair.

[grumbler]

If you can even find one anymore.
Today's German gamer probably wouldn't use anything greater than 2-1 on the CRT, because that wouldn't be fair.

Back in the day, we had to adopt rules to stop the counter-sifters from spending hours just looking at opposing and own stacks to get that magical 5-1 +2 over-run.

They drove me fucking berserk.  You could fuck their wives whilest they just calculated their 22 June '41 moves, and they would not even be surprised to get home and find out they had a five-year-old daughter they didn't remember seeing before.

[CountDeMoney]

You could fuck their wives whilest they just calculated their 22 June '41 moves, and they would not even be surprised to get home and find out they had a five-year-old daughter they didn't remember seeing before.

LOLZ Tochter aus Elysium pwn3d.

[Berkut]

If you can even find one anymore.
Today's German gamer probably wouldn't use anything greater than 2-1 on the CRT, because that wouldn't be fair.

Back in the day, we had to adopt rules to stop the counter-sifters from spending hours just looking at opposing and own stacks to get that magical 5-1 +2 over-run.

They drove me fucking berserk.  You could fuck their wives whilest they just calculated their 22 June '41 moves, and they would not even be surprised to get home and find out they had a five-year-old daughter they didn't remember seeing before.

One of the touches I love about OCS/SCS - you are not allowed to examine stacks before deciding attacks. Not even your own.