The NEW New Boardgames Thread

[Ed Anger]

 

I ordered Case Yellow(killing Zoupas for fun and profit), That solo Alexander game for a friend, that Excalibre Ancient Conquest and almost that Sun of York game. Good thing I looked at BGG. CARD GAME? FAGG0TRY!

[11B4V]

Any good strategic-level ACW games out there? For the People doesn't count.

Civil War by Victory Games???? http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2081/the-civil-war I have always heard good thing about it. Preety big game though.

[11B4V]

My PayPal spooged all over CoolStuffInc's face today.

Do tell.

[dps]

Haven't seen that many colors since AH's Anzio.  Or a pack of Skittles.

Dude, you own Europa titles.  I only see 7 different colors on that countersheet.  In Europa, the Germans and the Soviets each get more color schemes than that.

Yes, but see, in Europa, you still have shades.  Are the Brits & Co. khaki?  Yes;  but they're 8 different shades of khaki.

True, except for the Indians and some other colonials (i.e., not the Dominions) which are white with khaki/black & khaki/etc print, and the Royal Marines, who have apparantly got stuck with grey counters (though technically, that's supposed to be just an interim measure).

[11B4V]

Meanwhile down in the War Room, the playtesting continues to cmplete the review.

This is the initial deployment at start for this..game. It shows the formidable 1st line and 2nd lines of defense. Remember there are only two Russian HQs to control these units. One with a command radius of (4 in the second line) and the other with a radius of (3 in the first line). Right now 50% of the first line defending units will be out of command starting turn 2. You are suppose to pack 3 SS divisions and Corps assests into that little area south of the frontline. I modified that. SS-LAH and SS-Das Reich are deployed on map with their Arty off map. SS-Totenkopf and Corps assests are in reserve still in the counter sheet ready to exploit.



Btw; Elements of two russian rifle divisions are missing that were historically in the second line, but not included in the game. No matter I guess, thay would all be out of command by turn 2 anyway.

[CountDeMoney]

I ordered Case Yellow(killing Zoupas for fun and profit), That solo Alexander game for a friend, that Excalibre Ancient Conquest and almost that Sun of York game. Good thing I looked at BGG. CARD GAME? FAGG0TRY!

I ordered the Axis Empires duo (only because they were on sale), Few Acres of Snow (Hab's rave reviews sold me), and I caught up on a shitload of WH40K books I'd fallen behind on.  I was thinking about Case Yellow, but I think I'm gonna wait for the OCS version they're working on to come out.

[CountDeMoney]

Incidentally, anybody planning on going to ASL Winter Offensive in Bowie in January?  They'll be debuting Festung Budapest.  It looks like it's going to be as big, if not bigger, than Valor of the Guards.

[11B4V]

Finnally found a copy of Bitter End.

I was reading the designer notes (Ive had the pdf copy of the rules for awhile) and he considered Operation Frühlingserwachen first. Decided against it and I agree. The Konrad offensives were more dramatic.

As far as I can tell, most of my grandparents' stories come from the Konrad timeline, as they were caught by the middle of it, as civilians. (IIRC you can find the village of "Zamoly" on the map, which is were my mother comes from. It was more or less completely destroyed during this time, changing hands like a dozen times)

It's there on the map.

I have to say this game has excellent componets.

[Ed Anger]

For those that remember the old SPI games, their 1979 catalog:

http://wargamememories.com/Documents/SPI%20Brochure%201979.pdf

Sigh.

[dps]

For those that remember the old SPI games, their 1979 catalog:

http://wargamememories.com/Documents/SPI%20Brochure%201979.pdf

Sigh.

I have about 20 of those games, depending on how you count some of them that could be either purchased individually or as a set.

Several more, I'd like to get my hands on, especially if I could get them for the '79 list price.

[11B4V]

Gents,

How do this compare to this

[The Brain]

With the first you have to get Operation Garbo.

[11B4V]

Ah, kind of meant  a comparison of the system.

[CountDeMoney]

Can't say;  always wanted the Assault system, never got it.
World at War is a quiet, streamlined system if you don't want to get bogged down too much, and very pretty components, although Monkeybutt hates the font, and I prefer top-down as opposed to profile silohuettes.  But you have to be careful if you want it to remain "authentic", because he starts going off the rails with the system later on:  it's all eventually tied into his fantasy/sci-fi premise.  It's...strange.

Personally, as far as US/USSR stuff goes for tactical West Germany WW3 stuff, I still prefer AH's MBT.  It's got West German OOB in it, I just wish it had a few more NATO nations as well.  It's sister, IDF, is a pip, too.  Get to tear up Syrians with TEH CHOSIN PIPPLES with that one.

Also, AH's Tac Air is a little on the unwieldly side--these games are symptomatic of the late AH design features, which included god-awful rules systems--but still fun when you get it down.  More of a platoon/company level thing.  With A-10s.

[11B4V]

Personally, as far as US/USSR stuff goes for tactical West Germany WW3 stuff, I still prefer AH's MBT.  It's got West German OOB in it, I just wish it had a few more NATO nations as well.  It's sister, IDF, is a pip, too.  Get to tear up Syrians with TEH CHOSIN PIPPLES with that one.

Two very good and top notch choices in IDF & MBT.

I played the shit out of the Assault sytem w/ the add=ons. A good system, but can get intensive. I've been on the fence about getting any new or replacing old NATO/WP games. They had a huge appeal to me back in the day. When the WP broke up the appeal went to zero. Thanks to the Commie Russian fucks. IMO they fucked up a perfectly good category of wargaming.