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GenericRX posted:If you're starting another game of Warsaw to Paris I could take a minor role, I'm not very good. Don't worry, none of us are.
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uPen posted:Don't worry, none of us are. Reassuring! I just don't want the pressure of actually being useful - something like the Slovakian Army in Case White is more my ability. Also, in the Case Yellow scenario, is Manstein's attack not simulated? It only shows the Belgian border.
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GenericRX posted:Reassuring! I just don't want the pressure of actually being useful - something like the Slovakian Army in Case White is more my ability. No, it should all be there. There are actually neat variants to cancel the plan or allow both sides to use free set-up.
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Yeah, I'd like to get in on one of the DC:WtP games if only so I can finally learn how to play the thing well (or at all really). Plus, commanding a smaller part of the army seems more my speed anyway since when I started Case Yellow I closed it after one turn of moving the ridiculous number of counters.
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blackmongoose posted:Yeah, I'd like to get in on one of the DC:WtP games if only so I can finally learn how to play the thing well (or at all really). Plus, commanding a smaller part of the army seems more my speed anyway since when I started Case Yellow I closed it after one turn of moving the ridiculous number of counters. Ditto on my part. Is this the version I would need to buy? I noticed the game uses event cards, is it akin to theater options in TOAW? Fake Edit: Just wanted to mention that I've really been enjoying Battle Academy's Operation Sealion expansion, lots of fun defensive missions and even some enjoyable Auxiliary unit missions. iPad version has been helping me pass the time on my commute a lot recently. Debating which one to get next. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Aug 2, 2013 |
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Aug 2, 2013 18:33
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gfanikf posted:Ditto on my part. Is this the version I would need to buy? Yes, that's the correct one. The event cards are only sometimes like TOAW's theater options: You have big, (alt) historical options such as flooding the Dutch polder, but most of it are army-level cards such as boosting your tank attacks for 1 turn or making your troops move slightly faster.
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I'm going to try this Decisive Campaigns game. I like the idea of event cards and the graphics hit that 2D sweet spot, at least better than most of these other games do. I would probably be down for a goon game with the caveat whoever I play is probably going to be comically inept.
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Aug 2, 2013 23:29
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Decisive Campaigns Comically Inept Battalion reporting in as ordered!~
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Aug 3, 2013 00:12
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What happens when us newbies fight each other? It's just going to be catastrophe after catastrophe, I tell you. 
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Aug 3, 2013 00:54
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Given how the last two games have gone, it certainly has been a catastrophe for some of us.
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Aug 3, 2013 01:02
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So its not much but shrapnel games is having a sale. http://www.gamersfront.com/store/hot_sale.html I'm eyeing war plan pacific but the demo wouldn't run on my pc so I dunno.
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Aug 3, 2013 01:35
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I love their retarded marketing graphics. Hell yes close ups of pixelated crap sure makes me excited about war games.
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Alchenar posted:To be clear: I'm sure that the blurriness is a problem with my system setup, but that doesn't really excuse white-on-white text choices. I am still up for playing you in Cross of Iron, you should really buy PMs, or post your email and stuff on the spreadsheet.
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Aug 3, 2013 02:10
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BBC has an article on HG Wells' Little Wars. Games Workshop, eat your heart out:  quote:Phil Barker says: "Combat was based on shooting solid projectiles at the figures. Today, this would be discouraged because of the risk of someone getting a projectile in the eye, but it was the chance of damage to the finish of lovingly home-painted figures that led to the switch to less lethal dice."  quote:"You only have to play at Little Wars three or four times to realise just what a blundering thing Great War must be," wrote Wells.
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I've written up my plan from the current Warsaw to Paris PBEM. These screenshots are from the start of my second turn and they detail my initial dispositions and plan. In the North:  In the Centre:  In the South:  e: typo instantly spotted in my MS Paint skills, the objective of my troops is always to defend Warsaw, not Moscow 
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Aug 5, 2013 23:10
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Think I'm gonna grab Case Blue to get in on the goon game. Also thoughts on Germany at War? Worth it?
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Jakse posted:Think I'm gonna grab Case Blue to get in on the goon game. Also thoughts on Germany at War? Worth it? There is no team play in Case Blue, the only options are 1v1's.
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Nenonen posted:HG Wells' Little Wars.... That is awesome!
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Aug 6, 2013 00:51
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http://www.armchairgeneral.com/new-games-coming-from-the-slitherine-group-part-1.htm News from Slitherine and Matrix. quote:The group has experienced 480% growth over the last three years, and a chain of Matrix retail stores will be opening in Europe in a few months, McNeil said, noting “The niche market is not shrinking, it is expanding exponentially. We like niche. We are more like a one-to-one with our audience, and are able to engage them and keep them updated with new information” Retail ? What ?
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mllaneza posted:http://www.armchairgeneral.com/new-games-coming-from-the-slitherine-group-part-1.htm So they can charge even more to cover the overhead.
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mllaneza posted:Retail ? What ? Because clearly the PC gaming industry is moving towards more boxed sales. The moment Matrix gets an actual competitor distributing wargames, they will just utterly collapse.
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mllaneza posted:http://www.armchairgeneral.com/new-games-coming-from-the-slitherine-group-part-1.htm Matrix have now discovered the innovation of paying commercial rents and retail staff salaries.
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If a matrix store ever opens near me I will buy all my games from there just so they make less money off it. e: quote:iOS games often outsell PC versions by 10:1, he reported. Of course this couldn't be because the iOS games cost 5x less than their pc counterparts.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:15
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I'm sort of picturing a Matrix 'store' as buying a board/hobby/Magic Card shop and keeping it all the same, but adding a shelf of computer games and changing the store sign? I'm sort of... baffled by this too.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:17
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I picture their retail stores being some guy selling boxes with titles scrawled on them in sharpie out of the back of a box truck in a parking lot.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:55
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I got war plan pacific from that "sale" that I posted and I really enjoy the game. Sort of like a grand campaign version of carriers at war. Sort of wish it was slightly more detailed and had destroyers and subs and refits of ships but then it might take away from its great simplicity.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:24
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Jakse posted:Think I'm gonna grab Case Blue to get in on the goon game. Also thoughts on Germany at War? Worth it? Speaking of goon game, how is the current Warsaw to Paris one going? Would anyone want to do Case Yellow after, it seems to have the most possible players.
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GenericRX posted:Speaking of goon game, how is the current Warsaw to Paris one going? Would anyone want to do Case Yellow after, it seems to have the most possible players. We have failed the Fatherland  And yeah, I'd definitely be in for a Case Yellow game, although someone else besides Netherlands this time.
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GenericRX posted:Speaking of goon game, how is the current Warsaw to Paris one going? Would anyone want to do Case Yellow after, it seems to have the most possible players. We are literally on the last couple of players of the last day, should be finished and setting up the next game around the weekend.
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I'm still in for the next one. Really thought we could pull this off, but by goon schedule we should be in Warsaw right around the US entry to the war. Case Yellow actually only has 6(7). Army Group A, B, OKH (just planes and cards, if you play this separate you will get yelled at by everyone for everything, RIP Alikchi), BEF, France, Netherlands, Belgium. So for sure Case Blue is only 1v1? I really wanted to play it with goons, but for 40 bucks, lot of other games I could try. For reference, MP in the other can be Poland (not sure if the different city groups can be split), OKH, 3rd Army, 4th Army, 8th Army, 10th Army, and 14th Army.
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Jakse posted:I'm still in for the next one. Really thought we could pull this off, but by goon schedule we should be in Warsaw right around the US entry to the war. Case Yellow actually only has 6(7). Army Group A, B, OKH (just planes and cards, if you play this separate you will get yelled at by everyone for everything, RIP Alikchi), BEF, France, Netherlands, Belgium. Yeah, it's a more complex game and the card system is fixed (generals have a wider selection of cards that are always available, they just cost different amounts of Command Points to play and each General has his own pool which increases according to his stats). But without team play I just haven't gotten into it beyond playing the shorter Panzer Army campaign which is quite good.) For Case Yellow it's technically possible to break up the German side to have one player per army but I really wouldn't want to do that because I think it would make the scenario unplayable.
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mllaneza posted:http://www.armchairgeneral.com/new-games-coming-from-the-slitherine-group-part-1.htm Is someone who used to run Jim Crockett Productions in the late 1980s or Turner in the late 1990s working for Slitherine now?
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So I'm trying to get into some of the games I haven't played as much and I'm kind of bad at the vanilla Panzer Corps. I think I've gotten to Barbarossa before super ahistorical 12 strength things exist. I have done pretty well on Afrika Korps and achieve the better victories but I suck at vanilla. For the record, I never really played Panzer General so I don't have the hours of experience there. Wanted to buy Germany at War but without a demo/goon review I figure I should get my money's worth out of games I own first.
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 Congratulations to Jakse for whipping me soundly in Kursk.
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gradenko_2000 posted:
I could never win against my friend in any of the PvP scenarios, all of them were draws If we're playing Case Yellow I volunteer to be
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I might be Holland and see if I can hold on all game.
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With these random screenshots appearing in the thread, it makes me wish we had one of those Dominions style LP threads where people post screenshots/thoughts from their turns (after a long enough delay that it no longer harms their strategy).
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Zaodai posted:With these random screenshots appearing in the thread, it makes me wish we had one of those Dominions style LP threads where people post screenshots/thoughts from their turns (after a long enough delay that it no longer harms their strategy). We should do one of those for sure.
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Alchenar posted:I might be Holland and see if I can hold on all game. Hey you big butt, do you still wanna play Cross of Iron?
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ElBrak posted:Hey you big butt, do you still wanna play Cross of Iron? Yes I'm just really bad at being available because we live in literally opposite timezones.
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