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Panzeh posted:It's not as easy to visualize things in it- the Vassal module helps with the AZOI overlay but you still really have to consider the distances between everything because it's extremely well thought out that way and can get pretty intricate. The importance of places like Ceylon, Guadalcanal, and Port Moresby really come to the fore with the distances involved. Yeah it's like, I know that some islands are more important than others, but because I have trouble "seeing" the game so to speak it's like, what is going on? Like I said, looking forward to this. The VASSAL overlay helps a lot.
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Really should have planned better even for a short campaign in Hornet Leader. Like, not relying on one dedicated bomber is good idea, apparently. Also, I should have had a plan for a RoE event limiting engagement range to pissing distance before going all-in with the Tomcats. But they worked so well for carrier defence...
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Time to party (short intro scenario)
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Man playing Cuba Libre solo again reminds me how random that game is. The small map and number of pieces are nice but dang some of those events are brutal. Playing as the Government and get turn 2 Coup and losing 1 Alliance is brutal.
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May 6, 2020 17:51
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COOL CORN posted:Time to party (short intro scenario) i didnt realize how beautiful the maps are. I've only ever seen photos of the whole world spread out and never up close like that
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May 6, 2020 17:56
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SelenicMartian posted:What do the fisting icons represent? Unarmed attack. You can roll that number of d4s to do bludgeoning damage to adjacent units. Nah, it's the level of resistance each country has, which determined how likely they are to have partisan units spawn if they're occupied (I think, something like that)
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Got my order in from Quarterdeck. Here's what I primarily went in for: Red Sun/Blue Cross is a strategic Russo-Japanese War sim. Imported from China, it comes with a translation of the rules to English.    Good looking map ! It's mounted too.  Nice rulebook, pity the translation isn't as well laid out.
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May 7, 2020 01:50
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That looks awesome! The japanese wargaming community is quite active so it's cool to see more stuff coming out of there.
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It'd be interesting to see what strategies the Russian player can come up with or how the game makes it so a historical choice like "send a wildly unprepared armada into the teeth of a Japanese ambush" can be made or unmade.
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Tekopo posted:That looks awesome! The japanese wargaming community is quite active so it's cool to see more stuff coming out of there. Chinese :-) I also got Ty Bomba's Battle For Russia, a Command - China. It's a low-complexity, single map, one countersheet game on Barbarossa (Jun-December). It also has a set of translated rules. Looks like the Bougainville and Manilla games are likewise imported/translated. These last two are part of the Chinese publisher's "Pocket War" series, coming as folio games at about 5x8" size. I'll get photos, these pocket wargames are a great addition to the market. 36 counters, including the turn marker and VP chit for the Bougainville game.
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May 7, 2020 09:32
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mllaneza posted:Chinese :-)
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Tekopo posted:Designer seems to be japanese, though! Language is Japanese too, so I thought the same! I know for a fact that there are really active wargaming scenes in both Japan and China, in fact one of the most fervent ASL players I know is from China, and he runs a big ASL tourney there.
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i follow several japanese accounts on twitter who just post AAR pics or really nice pics of maps or chits. its cool seeing wargaming stuff and having no loving idea what system or title it is.
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May 7, 2020 11:49
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Is there a mechanic to representing the divine intervention of sacred wind, cause that would rule
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Is there a mechanic to representing the divine intervention of sacred wind, cause that would rule There are in fact weather cards in Empire of the Sun.
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SelenicMartian posted:Can EotS be integrated with Pacific War? No
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Pacific War except every engagement played in Seekrieg V and Chain of Command
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Phi230 posted:Pacific War except every engagement played in Seekrieg V and Chain of Command I'm ready to play out every pinning battle in Seekrieg V
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It's all fun and games until someone has the bright idea to suggest ASL for every single ground battle.
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Tekopo posted:It's all fun and games until someone has the bright idea to suggest ASL for every single ground battle. With 1:1 TOEs so you have to play out every small engagement for months until a single division vs. division combat is resolved
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i.e. it becomes even fun-er games.
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Tekopo posted:It's all fun and games until someone has the bright idea to suggest ASL for every single ground battle. Welcome to Victory Games' Vietnam, a very solid strategic game(probably the most interesting strategic vietnam game there is) that gets so bogged down in operational that it's pretty much unplayable.
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Phi230 posted:With 1:1 TOEs so you have to play out every small engagement for months until a single division vs. division combat is resolved Oh cool Gary Grigsby posts here
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Ok, maybe that wasn't a Chinese import. A Step to Victory is a Japanese design, definitely published in China. This entry covers the fighting on Bougainville, with Japanese ground forces trying to hold out against the Allied invasion. It's a very basic wargame - 6 pages of rules, one small map, 36 counters. Hard ZOCs, combat strength differential instead of ratio on the CRT, 60-90 minutes estimated playing time. Quarterdeck is selling this with English language rules for $11. I cut my gaming teeth on $2.95 SJG Microgames, and $4.95 ziplock games from Task Force, so I am fully in favor of this format making a comeback.  I don't know how to feel about counters that come pre-rounded.
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Loving the 0-0 japanese tanks.
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mllaneza posted:I don't know how to feel about counters that come pre-rounded. Liberated.
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The greatest crime in the world is that World in Flames has 4800 counters... And they all have side nibs, not corner nibs.
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Tekopo posted:Loving the 0-0 japanese tanks. Actually, does Japan do wacky wargames? Do they have their own Creature That Ate Sheboygan?
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 Italy has been invaded and the fight up the Peninsula has begun. Allies have begun massing in England in preparation for Overlord as well. Russians have managed to push the germans out of Rostov and move up to the Kiev. Should be an interesting winter, we just finished October 1943.
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Have any notable 3+ player card driven games come out in the past decade? I haven't kept up with what's been released since 2010 and in the process of cleaning out my house I dug through the few games I've kept over the years. Even if I don't have anyone to play with at the moment, let alone 2+, it brought back the memories of how much I enjoyed the games with more than two players (not that I'd ever say no to something like Paths/Pursuit of Glory), like say Here I Stand, Sword of Rome, or Onward Christian Soldiers (for all pain it took to actually play it). Just kind of curious if anyone kept making them or not and what's out there. Although going back through the last few pages the Empire of the Sun talk hurts. I bought it but never got to play it and eventually sold it. I'm glad it's still out there, maybe I'll get the chance in the future.
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Tekopo posted:Loving the 0-0 japanese tanks. They're dummies actually ! Removed after the Allied player makes their turn 1 invasion.
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I joined the Combat Commander: Europe vassal ladder since I'm not going out these days, and the first scenario we're all doing is a doozy. I'm the Germans, and have a heck of a challenge ahead of me, this is after 2 hours of playing with a guy who's just starting to grok the rules. Scenario 102 from C3i magazine - "Night Shift". Night rules in this game are so much easier than ASL. You just subtract the firing distance from your firepower.
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COOL CORN posted:I joined the Combat Commander: Europe vassal ladder since I'm not going out these days, and the first scenario we're all doing is a doozy. I'm the Germans, and have a heck of a challenge ahead of me, this is after 2 hours of playing with a guy who's just starting to grok the rules. Scenario 102 from C3i magazine - "Night Shift". Night rules in this game are so much easier than ASL. You just subtract the firing distance from your firepower. A lot of things in Combat commander are way easier to understand than in ASL, hah. I've been thinking about getting in on the ladder but i've been holding off.
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COOL CORN posted:I joined the Combat Commander: Europe vassal ladder since I'm not going out these days, and the first scenario we're all doing is a doozy. I'm the Germans, and have a heck of a challenge ahead of me, this is after 2 hours of playing with a guy who's just starting to grok the rules. Scenario 102 from C3i magazine - "Night Shift". Night rules in this game are so much easier than ASL. You just subtract the firing distance from your firepower. This scenario map looks really familiar to me and from the Allied side I recall it being really rough on me unless I got lucky (which I did) with heroes and artillery denied cards. You might be able to outflank them on the right because of the hedgerows.
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The COIN games are mid weight euros change my mind.
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Panzeh posted:The COIN games are mid weight euros change my mind. FITL is a heavy weight euro.
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Panzeh posted:The COIN games are mid weight euros change my mind. Euros dont have dice rolls, nice try buddy Harvesting crops of terror is very euro, however
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