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COOL CORN posted:I get irrationally angry when I see counters turned all higgledy-piggledy in a game that doesn't use facing Rationally angry, imo.
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COOL CORN posted:I get irrationally angry when I see counters turned all higgledy-piggledy in a game that doesn't use facing  WARNING!We have a grognard containment leak! Personnel please commence containment procedures immediately!
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Also: Wargames Thread - counters turned all higgledy-piggledy in a game that doesn't use facing
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COOL CORN posted:I get irrationally angry when I see counters turned all higgledy-piggledy in a game that doesn't use facing
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At least the counters appear to be neatly clipped. Could you imagine unclipped higgledy-piggledy counters? 
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Apr 23, 2018 19:00
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Trip report from MBT: the basic rules are very basic. Took me like 20 min to pick up and play Time to dive in to advanced rules!
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Tekopo posted:From the sound of it '44 is generally unbalanced. Only played it twice so tough to say but it does appear the German side takes a bit of finesse at least in the early stages of the invasion.
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Phi230 posted:Trip report from MBT: the basic rules are very basic. Took me like 20 min to pick up and play Would love to read some thoughts and reviews once you do! I have a friend who's been looking for a tank game and MBT has a cool cover
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tomdidiot posted:I've found that you really don’t need to have many forces int he front line - you can get enough to ensure the allies are attacking at 1-1 odds before modifiers in the bocage very quickly. You'd much rather have the defence in depth and lines upon lines of troops reinforcing them. Yup, played as the Germans the game before and had some success falling back to bocage once I had enough units to hold a somewhat contiguous line. The hex bond rules really allow you to spread out more than you'd think.
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Chill la Chill posted:Would love to read some thoughts and reviews once you do! I have a friend who's been looking for a tank game and MBT has a cool cover The advanced rules are more than I can chew at once, but luckily it is modular so you can choose what advanced rules to tack on.
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I have MBT but I haven't played it yet. I'm looking forward to it because mid-80s conventional World War III in Germany is 100% my poo poo. It's deeper than I'd like in the backlog of stuff I plan to try with my boyfriend though so it may have to wait.
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Huskalator posted:Yup, played as the Germans the game before and had some success falling back to bocage once I had enough units to hold a somewhat contiguous line. The hex bond rules really allow you to spread out more than you'd think. Yeah ,as the Germans, I think one of the best strats is to hightail it beyond the naval bombardment line as soon as you can. The free allied column shifts from naval bombardment are pretty devastating.
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Preview of the Brazen Chariots map: (the colored lines and symbols won't be there in the final) 
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BattleMaster posted:I have MBT but I haven't played it yet. I'm looking forward to it because mid-80s conventional World War III in Germany is 100% my poo poo. It's deeper than I'd like in the backlog of stuff I plan to try with my boyfriend though so it may have to wait. I finally tracked down Chieftain; I now have all of GDW's Assault series. I wish folks in my area were into WWIII wargames. Edit: I'd also like to get copies of their old Third World War series at some point. Cessna fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Trip report 2 from MBT: we tried doing some more advanced rules, like ATGMs and infantry and mechanized transport/ambhib movement. The game gets a lot more detailed, fast, without losing its speed or ease of play. That being said, combat is incredibly fast and lethal. You get spotted, its more likely you die before you can move off if you are not in a good position.
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Phi230 posted:Trip report 2 from MBT: we tried doing some more advanced rules, like ATGMs and infantry and mechanized transport/ambhib movement. The game gets a lot more detailed, fast, without losing its speed or ease of play. Once I added helicopters I realized how feared they are. I picked up the BAOR expansion as well and the new maps add some interesting elements I’m not sure however they’re worth the non p500 price. Though the addition of the leaders elements give you some more rpg elements
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mainlining adam tooze's wages of destruction for a history paper (due, uh, thursday) and one thing it's kind of impressing on me from a game design perspective is just how loving chaotic wwii was compared to the popular conception of the planning. like, half the reason the blitzkreig in france happened was because the french happened to recover plans for the alternate plan; and then it depended on total strategic surprise and the luftwaffe keeping the allied air forces out of the ardennes
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crap, Imperial Struggle pushed back to Early/Mid 2019
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:crap, Imperial Struggle pushed back to Early/Mid 2019 I'm just hoping it's improved the original CDG design and takes lessons from WsdV and ~COIN~ 
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Lichtenstein posted:So, Atlantic Chase seems really interesting. I'm excited! I don't love modern military stuff, but I do love attempts at mechanical game-modeling of new perspectives or phenomena.
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Lichtenstein posted:So, Atlantic Chase seems pretty Where can I read up on this? I tried googling it but couldn't find anything
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Phi230 posted:Where can I read up on this? I tried googling it but couldn't find anything Here.
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That looks really interesting, but does it come with yarn?
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This is entirely my poo poo My grandfather was on an RCN corvette and did the Murmansk run in this era of the war so I'll feel bad and not be born if one of my convoys gets killed though. BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Yeah, I'm really looking forward to a cool new naval wargame! Tried my hand at Avalanche Press's SWWAS and it was entirely too much bookkeeping and not enough shooting.
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BattleMaster posted:This is entirely my poo poo What game?
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al-azad posted:What game? Atlantic Chase, the article posted earlier links to the actual game details. It uses counters instead of yarn and pins.
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As an old salt they have me sold.
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COOL CORN posted:Preview of the Brazen Chariots map: Cool beans! I don't know the BCS system yet but I've flipped through my Baptism by Fire rulebook and I'm excited to engage with it. Looks like Brazen Chariots may feature some highly mobile warfare which warms my heart.
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Huskalator posted:Looks like Brazen Chariots may feature some highly mobile warfare which warms my heart.
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What I wouldn't give for a rules-enforced Empire of the Sun program so I could learn the drat thing beyond broad strokes.
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Atlantic Chase looks such a beautiful/novel game. I hope he pulls it off. Also I was reading up on Smolensk and apparently it's supposed to be on the lighter side of OCS? Could someone jump into it straight from Reluctant Enemies or Tunisia/Sicily?
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What's so special about Case Blue? Why is it so expensive? It's cardboard, c'mon.
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al-azad posted:What's so special about Case Blue? Why is it so expensive? It's cardboard, c'mon. lol I'm guessing you saw the $850 Case Blue posting on FB? I mean do you even play such a thing or does it sit on your shelf? Ilor posted:If it deals in any realistic way with the events of Operation Crusader, "highly mobile warfare" is selling it way short. The bulk of that entire operation could best be described as "assholes chasing each other around in giant circles in the desert." indeedEDIT: Oh yeah didn't at some point the front lines do a 180?
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Huskalator posted:lol I'm guessing you saw the $850 Case Blue posting on FB? I mean do you even play such a thing or does it sit on your shelf? Yeah, but even looking up used prices it's like ~$400. I don't know what it originally retailed for but come the gently caress on MMP.
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The last Case Blue retailed for $225. So it'd probably be a little less on the preorder. They've got Devil's Cauldron (that series looks so loving cool) on preorder right now for $180 and retail for $240.
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So we discovered that MBT uses the exact same basic rules as PANZER so my buddy and I shot up a few Tiger IIs with T-80BV's.
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MMP prints in the US btw. And case blue is a huge game.
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Huskalator posted:
 At one point, the 15th Panzer Division made an "encircling movement," but due to the ineptitude of the South Africans at night marches in trackless desert (something the New Zealanders were loving aces at, BTW), the Germans ended up not encircling the entire South African formation, but rather cutting between the 3rd and 5th SA Brigades. By the time the sun came up and everybody realized what was happening, 15th Panzer was sandwiched in the middle of the South Africans. It was sort of a "well...poo poo" moment for all of them. For the Germans the only sensible response was to essentially attack their way out, which they did to great (if costly) effect. By that evening, 8th Panzer Regiment had lost something like 40% of its tanks, but 3rd SA Brigade had effectively ceased to exist.And the next morning, Rommel decided it would be a good idea to basically do the same thing all over again, only 40 miles further east. Several days later at the infamous "Point 175," a British unit welcomed the arrival of a group of light tanks, whose drivers waved a jaunty halloo. It wasn't until the tanks got close and all of a sudden buttoned up that they realized, "oh, poo poo, those guys are Italians!" It's not clear whether the Italians were any less surprised, they just reacted faster, resulting in the capture of an entire British unit. The airfield at Sidi Rezegh was overrun by the Brits from the south-east on 21 November 1941, the Germans from the west on 22 November, both the South Africans and then the Germans from the south on 23 November, the New Zealanders from the east on 25 November, and the Germans from the southwest and Italians from the east on 30 November. Utter loving chaos.
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