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It's an improvement over no retreat but it has some really strange mechanisms like the way the 2 stacks per province limit plays out. Meanwhile, i've actually learned a lot about editing VASSAL modules lately..
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A Strange Aeon posted:I've only played Fire in the Lake before and it's been a few years. The way the Revolutionaries are described sounds like the VC in Fire--do all the COIN games have 4 similar faction roles like that? I blinked my eyes and there's apparently almost a dozen COIN games with a non historic sci-fi one in the works. Pendragon and Falling Sky are quite different, though both have some factions (raiders in Britain, Gallic factions) with insurgent-ish abilities. As far as I can recall, all the modern COINs released so far have at least one faction with guerrilla pieces that can go underground and then use Ops to attack enemies or pressure the local population.
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I'm wargaming! (I lost.  )
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Siivola posted:I'm wargaming! I was just doing some cleanup and found my little ziplock Ogre. My brother got me three sci-fi solo war games that seem interesting, Invaders from Dimension X, Attack of the 50 Foot Collosi and another one too!
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I'm trying to run one of these, in case anyone cares.
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Hey folks, so I'm pondering buying Arquebus/Men of Iron from GMT. It's one of surprisingly few games that cover the Italian Wars, a period I am fond of. However before I put down the money for it, I'd like to hear if anyone has any opinions on it, good or bad. I've played Washington's War from GMT, and a few other board wargames, and I have a friend who's a fan of them so I definitely have someone to play it with, but at 60$ I need to know if it's actually worth it at all.
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Have you played any Richard H. Berg games before? I always feel like everything he designs could use more development. Men of Iron was one of the first board wargames I bought, and I traded it on pretty quickly as it was fiddly in ways that didn’t result in more interesting play. That being said, I ended up picking up the tri pack of the series recently because the various editions ended up giving it the development it needed. I’ve not personally played the fourth volume, but if the period interests you the system is now pretty solid and playable in my opinion.
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I don't believe I have. I've played very few board wargames, really. The reason this new drew my attention is specifically the setting and period of it. I looked up the rest of the Men of Iron series, and they interest me less, even if they're broadly also about the same transitionary period between the feudal armies and the mercenary bands of the Early Modern period.
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If it's a topic you like, I think it's worth a punt. I haven't played MoI, but I like GBoH, which is the equivalent system for ancients. At the end of the day, the topic can carry a weaker game mechanically.
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GMT charged me for Plains Indian Wars, Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, and Salerno '43. Today!
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Ropes4u posted:GMT charged me for Plains Indian Wars, Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, and Salerno '43. Today! PacWar+Salerno for me!
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Selecta84 posted:Has anybody played GMTs Absolute War! -The Attack on Russia 1941-44 yet? I could never see the point for a huge game to cover the whole Eastern Front, but end before you get to push into Berlin. That's the best part!
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:I could never see the point for a huge game to cover the whole Eastern Front, but end before you get to push into Berlin. That's the best part! Absolute War does in fact have Berlin and the push in, though that phase of the game just isn't that interesting.
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Kickstarter for a 2022 reprint of THE THIRD WORLD WAR 1989: THE WORLD STANDS ON THE BRINK OF ARMAGEDDON. AU$ 46,878 pledged of AU$ 3,454 goal 184 backers 12days to go Initial goal seems...low. I guess everyone else is just pre-ordering it on their website.
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Comstar posted:Kickstarter for a 2022 reprint of THE THIRD WORLD WAR 1989: THE WORLD STANDS ON THE BRINK OF ARMAGEDDON. I'm in, hell yes. I loved those games back in the day.
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I wish a better company had picked them up for a remake, those were good games. I've been burned too many times by Compass (including doing work with them!)
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I passed up an opportunity to pick up all of the 3rd world war games and I'll forever regret it.
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:I wish a better company had picked them up for a remake, those were good games. This is my main hesitation. I don't have a lot of post-WW2 games but also Flying Pig is releasing a second edition of OST1 + an expansion for the same amount and I know the quailty of FP games are tops and they broke through a bunch of stretch goals.
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Comstar posted:Kickstarter for a 2022 reprint of THE THIRD WORLD WAR 1989: THE WORLD STANDS ON THE BRINK OF ARMAGEDDON. The wargame trope of rendering southern Sweden and Finland as wide open plains remains as strange as ever
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:This is my main hesitation. I don't have a lot of post-WW2 games but also Flying Pig is releasing a second edition of OST1 + an expansion for the same amount and I know the quailty of FP games are tops and they broke through a bunch of stretch goals. I kickstarted the Flying Pigs' original (with stalingrad expansion) and it is a beefy, overbuilt mofo. Heaviest game I own by far and components are top notch. I've been the biggest homer on this thread for Compass Games, but the quality of their stuff isn't consistent--I've been burned too many times now and have finally learned my lesson. Their unmounted maps suffer from a lot of creasing issues, even on "designer editions." Counters can be a crapshoot. Just wait for it to be published and then catch it on sale if it comes out ok.
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I went in on this one. Wheeeee. Third World War is shockingly civilized for a 85 mash em up game rules-wise. The air makes sense and isn't too complex, and they just don't do naval modeling. Yeah, i'm looking at you, Under an Iron Sky.
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Trolling Thunder posted:I kickstarted the Flying Pigs' original (with stalingrad expansion) and it is a beefy, overbuilt mofo. Heaviest game I own by far and components are top notch. Congrats on the WiF stuff! I was hugely addicted to it when it first came out and I keep wanted to get it again. Weirdly enough, I already own every other OST release other than this one so I am in with both feet. Their games are made for old people with bad eyes and I am here for it.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Weirdly enough, I already own every other OST release other than this one so I am in with both feet. Their games are made for old people with bad eyes and I am here for it. Totally. I got it during a period when I thought was interested in tactical games and what sold me was the "simple version of ASL" angle they were pitching at the time.
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Speaking of WWIII games what did people think of Red Storm? Need to finally get Elusive Victory and learn it properly (not a great solo game alas)
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Trolling Thunder posted:This is what a 9x21 foot World in Flames map looks like when it finally arrives. Don't leave us hanging, show us that bad boy all spread out!
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The entire thing is a set of 24 maps so it's quite a commitment and my present situation is a bit difficult at the moment.
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Trolling Thunder posted:The entire thing is a set of 24 maps so it's quite a commitment and my present situation is a bit difficult at the moment. Oh, you mean your realtor didn't show you houses with dedicated World in Flames rooms? That's dereliction of duty, I hope they aren't still on your Christmas card list!
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How has Andreas Abyss held up? I am thinking about bringing to to game night to introduce our friends to war(sh) games.
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Ropes4u posted:How has Andreas Abyss held up? Basically it's a good game, though it is possibly a little boring compared to later COINs such as Cuba Libre, A Distant Plain, and Falling Sky, which have more in-depth mechanics. There are a decent number of multiplayer board games with table talk and only one winner but Andean Abyss and its descendants are unusual for having very distinct mechanics and victory conditions for each side. Root is the only non-wargame analogue I can think of. You will probably have to spend a half hour teaching though.
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I still think Andean Abyss holds up to this day. I think it has the cleanest implementation of factions in any COIN game, and the mechanisms for it are not jury rigged from prior games and work in the intended way rather than trying the various square peg-round hole designs that followed AA.
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Tekopo posted:I still think Andean Abyss holds up to this day. I think it has the cleanest implementation of factions in any COIN game, and the mechanisms for it are not jury rigged from prior games and work in the intended way rather than trying the various square peg-round hole designs that followed AA. curious what you think of Colonial Twilight if you tried that out
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CT is probably the only other COIN which has a clean implementation of factions, and I think the only thing that it has against it is the weird cardplay involved in playing the pivotal events, which means that overall AA is still the purest in terms of directed design of any COIN. This is not to say that AA is the best COIN imo (that distinction goes to ADR, which has the most interesting faction interplay, even with the slight faults that it has). I'm in a mind that honestly the one designer that truly understood COIN and how to implement it well was Brian Train.
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I think I remember hearing that the COIN mechanic of activated and underground cells were based on a Brian Train Shining Path game. Given that he also came into the series with the most experience modeling modern civil conflicts, it stands to reason his designs would be best. I’ve never played any of his non-COIN stuff though.
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Thank you. I will bring it along and see what the group think. A friend and I play colonial twilight on a regular basis and it’s among my favorite non hex and counter games.
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Dunno if anyone else ended up buying it but my Kickstarter copy of the Third World War reprint just arrived. At a quick glance the component quality seems fine and I don't see a lot of complaints at BGG either. Of course the bigger issue is that I don't really have a ton of interest in pushing fictional tanks across Europe right now, but I can't really blame Compass Games for that.
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Obfuscation posted:Dunno if anyone else ended up buying it but my Kickstarter copy of the Third World War reprint just arrived. At a quick glance the component quality seems fine and I don't see a lot of complaints at BGG either. Of course the bigger issue is that I don't really have a ton of interest in pushing fictional tanks across Europe right now, but I can't really blame Compass Games for that. I did- no problems with the components, really.
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Obfuscation posted:Of course the bigger issue is that I don't really have a ton of interest in pushing fictional tanks across Europe right now I’m with you. It’s all a little to real right now, so I’m taking a wargaming break for a bit.
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