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| December 10, 2012
| Warren Meyer
Posted on 12/10/2012 11:04:11 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:04:14 AM PST
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1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Cool! Do you ever play any Role Playing Games? I like Twilight 2000 and The Morrow Project. I did a lot of time with D&D too.
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:06:21 AM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
To: Nowhere Man
I used to play D & D when I was in high school. Played a little bit of the Baldur’s Gate series on PC later, but I drifted away from role-playing. I like to blow stuff up.
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:08:05 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Those Avalon Hill games were an epic challenge to play. Charts, Stat sheets, reference booklets, forms to fill out, and tons of pieces.
I’m tempted to dust some of mine off until I see that it will take hours to just to make sure all the pieces are there!
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:08:58 AM PST
by
VanDeKoik
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:20:08 AM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
To: 1rudeboy
Grognard of long standing here.
I’ve played Advanced Squad Leader for about fifteen years now. If you want complexity, it’s hard to beat Red Barricades or Valor of the Guards for good old-fashioned Stalingrad cardboard street wars.
Might take a look at Game of Thrones though. My whole family has read, or is reading, the series.
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:20:51 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: VanDeKoik
Most recent AH game I've played is
Raid on St. Nazaire. I recommend it . . . one of the nice things about it is that it was designed from the ground-up to be played solo.
I have a compartmented, Klein Tools storage box (think tackle box) that I use to segregate the pieces. It makes gameplay a lot easier, and enjoyable.
Good luck "winning" the game, though . . . I think that in all the years I've played it, I've come close once. (And that's because of a long series of "lucky" dice rolls).
Oh, and you better not own a cat, or have small children. Nothing is more annoying than to return to a game where the counters have been "rearranged."
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:22:08 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
I remember one particular Avalon Hill game I use to play with my friends back in the 1980’s, it was called “Wilderness Survival” or something like that. There were various scenarios, such as “escaped convict” and “lost in the woods”. The game was incredibly tough and you virtually always ended up crawling through the woods getting attacked by animals and dying of thirst. Which, for some reason, was hilarious after an evening of drinking.
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:24:37 AM PST
by
apillar
To: apillar
Before 3M was purchased by AH, it published a sailboat-racing game called Regatta. Very fun to play with friends, and a dice roll of 7 (very common) resulted in a, ahem, "puff bonus."
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:28:06 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: apillar
Rail Baron. The best game ever to play when you’ve had a few.
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posted on
12/10/2012 11:32:35 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: 1rudeboy
LoL!
I remember many games where a table “earthquake” mysteriously took out my army overnight.
To: 1rudeboy
cool. i started playing ah games in 1960 when i eas 9. we had a discussion, i think in the matrix games forum about how we younguns were so much better at geography and arithmetic in school through high scholl because we played wargames, and reading up on what we were playing.
To: VanDeKoik
Hung around with some AH and SPI fans. One Christmas vacation, we got the idea to pile five of us in a car and drive from Fargo, N.D. to New York where we actually met James Dunnigan.
SPI was a great innovative company in those days and Dunnigan was a large part of the reason. One of the keys to their success was open play testing where war game aficionados from all over the country were invited to walk in during very generous hours and spend time play testing and advising the designers on how to tweak the games.
The design staff from Dunnigan on down hung around late into the night to not only listen to, but solicit this advice. If they ever published a bad title, I wasn't aware of it. Even their entry level games for beginners were awesome. There was one title in particular called "Napoleon at Waterloo" which was so good that even the advanced gamers would sometime take a break from the advanced play testing just to get a little recreation.
This was a cult I could have happily stayed in were it not for the interference of life, graduating, jobs, family and responsibilities which came along to persuade me to apostatize.
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:06:23 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: 1rudeboy
AH used to make an rpg called Tales from the floating Vagabond. This wawas a blast if you had a suitably crazy game master. I used to enjoy D&D (boxed sets), Shadowrun, and Battletech. Getting a real job and Magic the Gathering killed game night. I really miss it sometimes.
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:19:19 PM PST
by
BudgieRamone
(Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:29:18 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: apillar
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:31:02 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: 1rudeboy
Speed Circuit was another 3M game acquired by AH.
-PJ
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:34:35 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: 1rudeboy
I've always enjoyed Solitaire .. much improved since the leap from 16 to 32 bit architecture !
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:38:45 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: VanDeKoik
I’m surprised they haven’t spawned a web presence. With computers to handle all the paperwork behind the scenes AH games would become actually playable instead of merely brilliant.
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:40:31 PM PST
by
discostu
(Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)
To: Colonel_Flagg
Of course, there is also this Flying Buffalo classic, which I own and still pull out from time to time.
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:43:21 PM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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