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anti_strunt posted:Thanks! Birds of Prey's main forum for updates and discussion is still a Yahoo! group. Wargaming, man.
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MikeCrotch posted:Birds of Prey's main forum for updates and discussion is still a Yahoo! group. Wargaming, man. Has BoP gotten proper BVR combat yet
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anti_strunt posted:And apparently the game designer decided to weigh in, and then stick around to drop some development updates of future series games, over a period of several years, in the comments thread of a random BGG review. Facebook's gonna be where you want to go for consistent TSWW module updates. He's been pretty active there.
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WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:Facebook's gonna be where you want to go for consistent TSWW module updates. He's been pretty active there. Has anyone here tried any of the games?
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anti_strunt posted:Has anyone here tried any of the games? I would be very surprised if someone has. Maybe at a con. They're laughably huge and expensive. I dig monster games and own War in Europe and the Der Weltkrieg series, but the TSWW series are too ridiculous even for me. AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Phi230 posted:Has BoP gotten proper BVR combat yet Nah, they said it never will as it's not what the game's designed for. You can try and nail someone with a Phoenix though, but to do it you would need to fire it along the long diagonal of the map since it flies 64 hexes in a straight line immediately after launch.
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Pericles playbook dropped. It's interesting that all games have to have 4 players, using bots to fill any empty seats.
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anti_strunt posted:What's the scope/scale/salient features of SCS compared to the other *CS's? Yeah, OCS TBL is very much a representation of the book in game form. The game is very much allied-favoured, and if the Jerries don't get a good double turn, they're pretty much hosed . I mean, ultimately, the French have an ahistorical ability to respond (+ a much better understanding of the situation than they did historically), but it's not just named after the book!
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Panzeh posted:Pericles playbook dropped. It's interesting that all games have to have 4 players, using bots to fill any empty seats. Well that's sort of an intrinsic element to the game though isn't it? Getting your 'junior' partner to go along with you even when they may not want to, thus forcing you to compromise lest they withhold forces. edit: and now all I need is the vassal module or for my copy to arrive. They said shipping this month so I'm optimistic I'll get to play this soon. Solitaire of course because where am I going to get three other people who can handle this without it turning into a total shitshow of spite?
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Ithle01 posted:Well that's sort of an intrinsic element to the game though isn't it? Getting your 'junior' partner to go along with you even when they may not want to, thus forcing you to compromise lest they withhold forces. The COIN games typically offer 2 or 3 player no-bot options.
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Apr 3, 2017 21:12
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  poo poo, better start prepping for the end times.
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Panzeh posted:The COIN games typically offer 2 or 3 player no-bot options. I've been playing COIN for about three years and this is news to me. I can' imagine playing any of them without the full four and having it remotely work out. edit: forgot about FitL, but other than that I can't think of any that work. And in FitL it's pretty poor too because the ARVN/US team up is a monster. poo poo, I also forgot about LoD. Nevermind then, I was way off. Ithle01 fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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if you are starved for friends and can hold out for a year or longer, the rumors are the Filipino COIN will be a 3 player game.
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In fact, the one time we played Cuba Libre with a bot it decided to hand the game to one player.
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cenotaph posted:In fact, the one time we played Cuba Libre with a bot it decided to hand the game to one player. Back then, the bots were only designed for games where M26 and/or the Government are played by humans. They've greatly improved since then and each play to win now.
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Tekopo posted:
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Tekopo posted:
Can someone who has previously played review the rules and summarize if they are better. I have downloaded them but I cannot read them until later in the week..
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Tekopo posted:
And here I thought that this might call for a SS-Lets Play?
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I can't check right now, but volume 2 might be introducing new radios 
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Oh my god, you can now buy one shot skills for your officers.
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quote:Note that snipers are not governed by the Enemy Activity Hierarchy, but by this section. They know.
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Please don't make this game playable, I don't want to buy it again.
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Has, uh has anyone heard from Cool Corn lately? I'm worried about a relapse...
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pls sen help i can''t keep hllding outtt hnnnnn
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Oh my god the sniper rules are comprehensible now.
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So while initially i wanted to praise the new FoF rulebook, it doesn't really highlight many of the small, conscious design changes between the two editions. So shed away your expectations born out of hours spend browsing BGG only to discover there's critical hits on grenades and bunkers have a minimum range now and platoons activate sequentially and oh my god why won't you just leave me alone why couldn't I have chosen some nice, organized game like Combat Commander why am i doing this to myself
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Lichtenstein posted:platoons activate sequentially u wot m8
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"Mysterious suicide epidemic strikes wargamers, authorities baffled"
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Lichtenstein posted:So. and yeah of course
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COOL CORN posted:u wot m8 You now use/reserve all action points on an officer before activating others.
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Lichtenstein posted:You now use/reserve all action points on an officer before activating others. Oh, I think that's how I was playing it before. I mean, this is a game where you make up half the rules anyway.
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I printed off the rules and the quickstart guide to play it on Vassal, but my next free block of time is on [checks calendar] Good Friday. Sounds like it's gonna be a Good Friday 
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Those of us who've never played the 1st ed will play this and wonder why you all have meltdowns over this game
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Tekopo posted:I'd recommend starting with the starting scenario for the korean war I really really want to know what is wrong with it FoF is such a fascinating beast
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MikeCrotch posted:I really really want to know what is wrong with it
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Tekopo posted:I'd recommend starting with the starting scenario for the korean war I'm glad my words of wisdom live on. MikeCrotch posted:I really really want to know what is wrong with it While Vietnam is the biggest rules clusterfuck by far, the opening mission of the Korean campaign is a PTSD simulation tour de force that both makes you realize the entire WWII campaign was just an extended tutorial and makes you long for the chill, stress-free time you could have iron manning Dark Souls.
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I'm gonna read through the v2 rules and then do a Korean mission playthrough, just you wait and see. I want everyone to suffer with me.
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Oh my god they revamped the way pyrotechnics work, you have to pick from a list of options now, not just "choose what this colored smoke means and just play it out however you feel"
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