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Ed Anger

#30
June 04, 2009, 08:35:50 AM
I gots this:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18606

Maybe I'll get to play it in about 15 years.
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Habbaku

#31
June 04, 2009, 10:43:32 AM
I would probably pre-order this :

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35614

But the shipping from UK-Land is obscene.  I might do it any way; my desire to recreate a SUN headline is great.
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CountDeMoney

#32
June 06, 2009, 10:08:15 AM
Hey, all you cardtards....check this one out from Clash of Arms:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42560

Habbaku

#33
June 06, 2009, 10:12:27 AM
My pants are a tractor factory.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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Ed Anger

#34
June 07, 2009, 03:56:51 PM Last Edit: June 07, 2009, 03:59:59 PM by Ed Anger
Thinking about ordering the new Omaha Beach and RAF(remake) by Decision games.

http://www.decisiongames.com/html/omaha_beach.html
http://www.decisiongames.com/html/raf_deluxe.html

I really should start preordering these things.

Edit: And Elusive Victory by GMT. Jews in planes? Sold.

http://www.gmtgames.com/p-125-elusive-victory.aspx
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Tamas

#35
June 07, 2009, 04:43:54 PM
RAF is a great solitaire game. Very, very hard, but never the "omg stupid game system won't let me win" type of hard.

Ed Anger

#36
June 08, 2009, 04:19:05 PM
Hey dickfaces, Pazio is having a 50% off sale on some wargames:

http://paizo.com/store/sale/warGameClearance

The shipping is obscene though. 14 bucks on one game? Fuck that shit.
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Tamas

#37
June 09, 2009, 01:46:09 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 08, 2009, 04:19:05 PM
Hey dickfaces, Pazio is having a 50% off sale on some wargames:

http://paizo.com/store/sale/warGameClearance

The shipping is obscene though. 14 bucks on one game? Fuck that shit.

Hm. Blackbeard, Conquest of Paradise, Empire of the Sun, Clash of Giants II, Grand Illusion, perhaps even Successors 3... :mmm: A massive package will be inbound? :shifty:

Delirium

#38
June 09, 2009, 01:48:10 AM
Blackbeard is a disappointment though and I never bothered to get into Empire of the Sun, too much trouble.

If I were you I would check those out thoroughly at gmt's site and/or bgg before investing.
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HisMajestyBOB

#39
June 09, 2009, 03:30:08 AM
I'm rather tempted to pick up one or a few of those solitaire games. One of the ones mentioned in this thread, maybe, or Silent War. Or wait a bit and get Steel Wolves instead, since the German submarine campaign appears more interesting.
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Tamas

#40
June 09, 2009, 11:27:07 AM
So what is the grognard consensus on Empire of the Sun? Looks tempting and a bit daunting. Are people PBEMing this?

Berkut

#41
June 09, 2009, 11:30:15 AM
Me and habs played it a couple times. It is really heavy, with pretty brutal rules, and the game play sometimes leaves something to be desired as far as it feeling historical.

I think I won our first game after sinking 12 Essex class carriers. Seemed a little off...

I suspect it is one of those games that might be very fun if you

1. Get the rules down (not easy), and
2. Don't get hung up on its ability to be a simulation of the Pacific War.
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Berkut

#42
June 09, 2009, 11:32:17 AM
And check your PMs, damnit.
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Tamas

#43
June 09, 2009, 11:33:58 AM
So does it worth 38 dollars? :P And would you play it with me? :P Or maybe I should just ask Habs, the prompt and brutal beatings he gives me with my first tries at games are always a great learning opportunity.  :D

Habbaku

#44
June 09, 2009, 11:35:14 AM
I didn't really care for it.  It struck me as another one of Mark Herman's experiments in making a game that, while allowing historical actions, strongly discouraged them.  Of particular note is the inducement (by the game's replacement system) of wanting the Americans to kamikaze their air units.  Since they get a scheduled amount of steps and any extra steps are lost, the players are placed in a situation where the Americans are attacking at horrible odds with no real chance of losses.

We played with the 1.2 version of the rules, though, and the game is, I think, currently up to 3.0, so...

I doubt I would play it with you or anyone without being assured it was fixed by now.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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