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Every few weeks I look at the pristine sealed copy of naploeon’s triumph on my shelf purchased for $40 from CSI and I think, “you rest a little longer.”
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ketchup vs catsup posted:Every few weeks I look at the pristine sealed copy of naploeon’s triumph on my shelf purchased for $40 from CSI and I think, “you rest a little longer.” Your stickers won’t stick if you ever try to play it.
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Nov 22, 2019 20:03
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Your stickers won’t stick if you ever try to play it. That's what a little dab of glue is for.
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Nov 22, 2019 20:06
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silvergoose posted:That's what a little dab of glue is for. I’ve also heard people do a spray sealant, but I can’t imagine that would be necessary after gluing the flags.
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Nov 22, 2019 20:10
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I am fed up and I have had it. I am making a custom box for MBT that will actually fit all the pieces
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Nov 22, 2019 20:55
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If you want to play NT just on Vassal. I've gotten in like two or three games with Cenotaph and we've never had any issues with it. Hell, it's a lot easier to play online anyway because there's no cleaning up to do. Unless you're one of those people who has some inexplicable hatred for Vassal.
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Nov 22, 2019 22:20
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Phi230 posted:I am fed up and I have had it. Ammo cans and wine crates/boxes have been a popular grog solution for storing system games. Also if you have other entries in MBT you could divy things up per box? Like books in one box, maps in another, counters in another... Speaking of, my wargame wishlist is to just sort through the stuff I have. See what exactly is in some of those system boxes.
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Nov 22, 2019 23:25
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Rutibex posted:Copyright infringement is not theft. Under Canadian law it is perfectly acceptable to copy anything you want, so long as the copied portion is for the purposes of private study or research. Printing out a rule book you found on BGG is not against the law, and neither is printing a map for your private non-commercial use. So your cunning plan, if sued, is to lie about why you infringed on the copyright, pay for a lawyer, and hope you don't lose? You could just get the game for less than that.
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Nov 22, 2019 23:57
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homullus posted:So your cunning plan, if sued, is to lie about why you infringed on the copyright, pay for a lawyer, and hope you don't lose? If they sued me in Canadian court they would have to prove damages. Seeing as the game is not for sale that would be pretty challenging. Ithle01 posted:If you want to play NT just on Vassal. I've gotten in like two or three games with Cenotaph and we've never had any issues with it. Hell, it's a lot easier to play online anyway because there's no cleaning up to do. Unless you're one of those people who has some inexplicable hatred for Vassal. Playing games on Vassal is theft and you should be ashamed of yourself 
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Nov 23, 2019 00:00
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Who the gently caress is going to get sued for a personal copy of a game
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Nov 23, 2019 00:06
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Nobody, of course. Someone just woke up wanting to play an agitprop card during his/her move in the COIN we call "Armchair General HQ" Let's hope they fail their roll. Or whatever. I'm not sure how these COIN thingies work, exactly. Do I have to play a "magic missile " spell-card to negate? Pretend I just did that, then.
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Nov 23, 2019 00:31
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AARP LARPer posted:Nobody, of course. Someone just woke up wanting to play an agitprop card during his/her move in the COIN we call "Armchair General HQ" Let's hope they fail their roll. Or whatever. I'm not sure how these COIN thingies work, exactly. Do I have to play a "magic missile " spell-card to negate? Pretend I just did that, then. I mean your username would imply a spell of a very specific sort.
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Nov 23, 2019 00:38
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I mean, I guess I can appreciate taking a moral stand on the principle of publishing rights even in the instance of a private-use one-off, but I would have thought the moral quandry of "playing a game" based on real-life scenarios of mass slaughter, genocide, and various crimes against humanity, etc., etc., would have filtered out the pearl-clutching types far earlier (to connect back to an earlier thread).
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Nov 23, 2019 01:27
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It's Rutibex so I'm not going to bother to respond to him because why the gently caress would I ever do that particularly when he's just trolling, but to the other people in the thread I'll just say that I really don't think Rachel Simmons gives a poo poo. If you feel bad mail her like $20 or something. She knows the game is really hard to get and has tried to deliver it to people in the past. If anything I'd think she's happy someone is enjoying her work. Also, Cenotaph owns the physical game so like, yeah, this is extra loving stupid. If Vassal didn't exist I'd probably spend much less money on boardgames so if the boardgame industry wants to bitch about people free playing their niche products then they're loving idiots.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:27
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Krazyface posted:The upcoming second expansion to Labyrinth does have a Trump tweets card, yes. Whyyyyy. As in whyyyyy am I pre-ordering this expansion for a game that didn't even make sense before the first expansion and has gone increasingly off the rails since then?
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Nov 23, 2019 03:44
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What's the story behind NT anyway? Why won't it get reprinted?
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Nov 23, 2019 09:08
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Because people in the groggame business are bad at business, op
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Nov 23, 2019 09:19
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Couple years ago when she was selling the last of it via ebay there was a typo in the title so unless you looked for what parses as "Napoleon is Triumph" all you would find were the usual $450 ones. I only found it by following an ebay link from the Simmons Games page and goddam do I consider myself blessed.
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Nov 23, 2019 09:27
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More like because wargames are niche and most of the people that want Napoleons Triumph probably already have a copy, so it's not worth doing another full print run.
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Nov 23, 2019 09:41
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That assumes no one else is gonna pick it up though which is a kind of self limiting thing doing the hobby zero favours.
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taser rates posted:More like because wargames are niche and most of the people that want Napoleons Triumph probably already have a copy, so it's not worth doing another full print run. This is specifically Rachel's reasoning, at least what she shared. It would be a decent amount of work, for what she suspects would not be much money.
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Sleekly posted:That assumes no one else is gonna pick it up though which is a kind of self limiting thing doing the hobby zero favours. She had the game up for 150, clearing out stock, and it moved so slowly that she did some math and it reinforced her conclusions. 
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Nov 23, 2019 12:57
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Arguably it was a much longer tail than it should’ve been because she priced so high. She said it was “priced to market” but...well if you increase the supply... how much was the game’s retail price originally? In any case, yeah there’s no real reason to print more aside from a made-to-order model. I can only imagine how much that will cost when Hollandspiele’s small boxes with maybe 100 counters costs $50 already.
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Nov 23, 2019 15:28
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I just wanna play BaM 2nd Ed and Stavka
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Nov 23, 2019 15:33
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If anyone’s in Lansing, MI and wants to play it, I have a copy e: NT that is
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Nov 23, 2019 15:33
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Yeah that's a fuckload of wood just on the face of it. I bet it would need to be somewhere around $150-$200 for a publisher to actually publish it. and "I want it at normal BG prices" and "I want it at middle/top end wargame prices" are very different things. Look how much Euro gamers bitch about paying $100 for FCM.
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Nov 23, 2019 16:20
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I bet if she pitched it to GMT as a P500 it would have a chance. They produce plenty of copies of Sekigahara and C&C at reasonable prices, and their marketing reach is enormous by wargaming standards.
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Has anyone played Hollandspiel’s Supply Lines of the America Revolution series?
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Nov 25, 2019 19:25
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Ropes4u posted:Has anyone played Hollandspiel’s Supply Lines of the America Revolution series? No, but almost their entire catalogue is on my wish list, and they're having a holiday sale. They have games on some wonderfully odd topics, like Westphalia, a negotiations game for exactly six players. https://hollandspiele.com/ I think I'm in for Table Battles, NATO Air Commander, and An Infamous Trade.
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Nov 25, 2019 20:18
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I'll say that I was unimpressed by the shields and swords series. In particular the Grunwald Swords seems to be completely broken.
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mllaneza posted:No, but almost their entire catalogue is on my wish list, and they're having a holiday sale. They have games on some wonderfully odd topics, like Westphalia, a negotiations game for exactly six players. I’m debating Supply lines or Marcus Aurelius. I want to like NATO commander but I don’t need more acronyms in my life.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:12
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NATO Commander is fun but relentlessly grim. Technically the game doesn't end in nuclear armageddon unless you lose, but thematically the game definitely ends in nuclear armageddon.
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My favorite part of NATO Commander is how it gives you multiple missions but you can only realistically complete one. Get 5 strike hits on 2 separate zones? Lol good luck stretching your Escord/SEAD assets thin, and then having every flight fail
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mllaneza posted:No, but almost their entire catalogue is on my wish list, and they're having a holiday sale. They have games on some wonderfully odd topics, like Westphalia, a negotiations game for exactly six players. I want to get An Infamous Traffic, especially since Cole tweeted that it won't be available for a couple of years, but the only place selling it outside the UK is a shop in the Wirral that won't post games; you have to pick them up at a convention or the shop itself. I suppose I'm getting the PnP...
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I picked up NATO air commander and This Guilty Land a while back. Great games
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Safety Biscuits posted:I want to get An Infamous Traffic, especially since Cole tweeted that it won't be available for a couple of years, but the only place selling it outside the UK is a shop in the Wirral that won't post games; you have to pick them up at a convention or the shop itself. If you're talking about Second Chance Games, they absolutely do post. We got a copy of Pavlov's House from them like last week.
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CaptainApathyUK posted:If you're talking about Second Chance Games, they absolutely do post. We got a copy of Pavlov's House from them like last week. I am, and I stand corrected, then. That's an obtuse website.
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Nov 26, 2019 13:59
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Ropes4u posted:Has anyone played Hollandspiel’s Supply Lines of the America Revolution series? This isn't helpful at all, but Supply Lines North has been sitting unplayed on my shelf since last year's sale. I just haven't got around to it yet. Charlemagne is the best States of Siege/whackamole solitaire game I've ever played, but ultimately it has the luck issues endemic to that whole genre. Ukrainian Crisis is just OK? Everyone should try An Infamous Traffic. It's a unique and fascinating experience, if not a mechanically rock solid game.
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CaptainRightful posted:I love Paths of Glory and really want to try Pursuit, because you can easily play an entire game of Paths without doing anything at all in the Mideast Theater. I have played it five times with friends who are fairly inexperienced (as am I) with wargames. Honestly a couple of games ended with disappointment for both victor and loser because they were decided by ridiculous cuts to supply lines that went unnoticed because trying to play in a single session had fried both our brains. But also because of our low level of play I got to experience winning by taking Constantinople with the MEF since my friend at that point had decided that he could safely ignore the Near East despite how openly I focused on it. Certainly a fun narrative for a victory.
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There is a US$30 Thunderbolt Apache Leader expansion on Kickstarter if you ever wanted more of eveything for that thing. I do lol.
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