MMP P500 February 2012 Welcome, Goodbye and Thank you
Antonio B-D
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Back to business.
Winter offensive helped some games garner a lot of new preorders, but it did not help others
This month we have some news (as posted by MMP in CSW)
We might also have some unexpected new visitors to this geeklist and we hope you give them a warm welcome and that they provide more insightful news.
And it is my last geeklist. As this is not MMP related I will explain my reasons in the last item.
Releases
ASL AP8 and WED are still being sent off.
New games up
No new games.
General news
Finishing retail shippings for WED and AP#8, still shipping WO Bonus Pack (thank you everyone who has bought! $7 from each sale goes to the WWII Foundation!).
Lost our collation help, so Festung Budapest collation will slowly begin early next week.
KOH/Angola card proofs still not in, will get tomorrow according to the printer (who said we'd get them today. )
No Question of Surrender - 1 countersheet done, 2 countersheets in production, box in production, remaining paper bits off to printer Friday or Monday - so we're under a month on this one.
Special Ops #2 goes into production on Monday/Tuesday. Map proof approved. Counters in production with balance of NQoS. Magazine 2 weeks or so once into production.
Next up for ASL will be the next Journal - i'll get Chas to post an update on that.
Following the above, in no order at the moment, War of the Suns, Kawaguchi's Gamble, It Never Snows, The Blitzkrieg Legend, Stonewall Jackson's Way II.
Subscribtion Thread
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/7214229#7214229
Passed its preorder goal
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Antonio B-D
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Madrid
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One line definition First World War CDG on the Western Front by the joint minds of Tetsuda Nakamura and Adam Starkweather.
Months on the list: 29 (October 09)
Numbers: 399/580 +13 Last two months +7/+5
Percentage to publication: 68.79%
The Buzz:
The Company Line:
The heart of this game is a new way to use cards to drive the system. Players choose which cards they will use in the upcoming turn from a 16 card deck and plan out how the 6 month turn will play out. Some cards are defensive in nature (the very nasty Machine Guns card for example) and some are offensive in nature (allowing for multiple activations, recovery, railroading and reinforcements). Also in the cards a player can play are major events that change the shape of the war (submarine warfare, air power, neutral entry, Jutland etc.). You will never have enough cards to do what you want to do and your opponent will constantly be ruining your plans by trying to execute his own plans. The player that is best able to juggle their resources will find the path to victory the easiest. The cards also link together and allow for many cards to be played in unison in a unique way to allow for an infinite variance in how to use your resources most effectively.
Although the unique and complex way the player’s card hands interact is the heart of the game, the game also covers in a more simple way all of the major events that occurred in the Great War. Jutland, the 1918 race between US entry and German reinforcement from the East and much more are covered in a highly simple but effective manner allowing the Great War to be experienced in a comprehensive manner and yet the system takes minutes to learn and only 4 hours to play. The sophistication of the card play allows for great replayability.
Game Details:
- Solitaire Rating: Fair
- Complexity: Easy
- Playing Time: 3-5 hours
- Scenarios: 1
- Game scale: Units are corps, turns are biannual.
Retail Price: $50.00
Pre-Order Price: $37.50
MMP website: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/tabid/59/ProductID/94/Defa...
Designer: Tetsuya Nakamura and Adam Starkweather
Developer:
Artwork: Nicolas Eskubi
Components:
- 34” by 22” map
- 264 5/8” counters
- 55 Playing cards
- 8 page full color rulebook
- Two player aids
My unnecessary comments
The names of the designer are clearly a winner, but it certainly needs more exposure to garner more preorders. Specially when you hear WWI and west front on the same phrase!
It seems to be the next one on the death list. Just over 65% in more than 2 years does certainly not look good.
Really good numbers for this one that is receiving some positive shilling.
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Antonio B-D
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Rumors
- Journal 10. No news on this item, but more ASL goodies.Evidently not a rumor, but this one does not normally go on preorder.Good news, it is the next ASL project.
- The Doomsday Project. WWIII Germany.
- La Belle Alliance.
- OCS Reluctant Enemies. 1 mapper on the battles between the french and the english in´WWII middle east. Already the prototype on my table! The heavy flak has stopped me dead on my playtesting.
- OCS Beyond the Rhine. Same place as TBL but different timeframe. This time is the Germans running backwards.Rumor has it that the campaign game is well along, but the scenarios are not yet ready.
- OCS Italy. Too far away, but still in the works. Rumors speak of a 3.5 mile per hex map, for a three mapper.
- OCS Crimea. After some time without news some CSW post said that this game was still in the works as a one mapper "introductory" game to the system.
- Pacific War Reprint. Mark Herman has said that he is working on it so...
- Ukraine '44. On Special Ops 2 Counters and map available in CSW. .Will be issued at Winter Offensive.It did not make WO but we can count on it soon.
- Victory...Deferred? After AVL and AVD, the milking of the system is just natural.
- The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire. ????
- Solomon Sea. ???
- Historical ASLSK. You can read the blogs in MMP webpage talking about this campaign game that will make ASLSK jump another level!The pictures of the map look beautiful and we will finally get Off Board Artillery for the SK
- ASL Korea.
- ASL Sealion. Counterfactual ASL module. You want to kick a hornest nest? Go to CSW and celebrate this module!
- OCS Smolensk
- Monty's Gamble: Market Garden.
Thanks for taking the time in reading!
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Antonio B-D
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Madrid
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After 6 years of being a member of this community I am leaving.
It is with truly great sadness that I take this step, but I think it is the right thing to do.
But I want to share with most of friends here the reasons why I have decided to quit BGG.
A few days ago, I was called upon a thread by some other Spaniards ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/8362224#8362224). In said thread I saw in awe that someone had called Spanish and Italians "sub-species" and creatures "that crawl on their bellies".
I did was I consider reasonable using the tools available. But also I politely requested one of the Admins to delete the comments (or even inclusive the whole thread). I informed him that under Spanish (and probably Italians and the US) laws said racist comments could be construed as a criminal offence, and that I considered that it is reasonable to delete racist comments.
The answer I received form BGG admins was that their "policy is to not delete any content with some rare exceptions" and that, the fact that many people had tagged it kept it below the radar (in fact everytime I see something that disappears because being flagged I tend to look out of curiosity).
I contested such answer, and the reply I received was on the same line.
Please note that I am not asking for any "punishment" to the person who made the comments, nor I am asking for a "crusade" against racism. All I wanted, all I consider fair, was the deletion of two posts and posibly the posts that copied said comments. But for some reason BGG wants to keep it up.
I am not going to discuss the decision, nor am I on a "crusade", but I cannot help thinking that BGG has made a really bad decision and that the reasons are not "freedom of speech". I would like to throw out an example... if tonight I go back to my house and find on the wall "XXXX(insert nationality or minority) are rats" I would not say simply that it is wrong, I would paint the wall anew, to avoid people thinking that I subscribe said comments... and F off with freedom of speech!
This is how I feel here.
That leads me to only three viable possibilities.
- I had misunderstood the statement and it was a light joke (which I really doubt).
- Racism is tolerated in BGG. That means that if I, or someone else, post comments against afro-americans, japanese, or texans (for example), said comments would remain even if flagged.
- Or... there is a level of racism that BGG tolerates and other that it doesn't. I consider this solution a kind of racism in itself. So attacks against Europeans are allowed but not against americans? Or is it just non-native English speakers? Or only those comments that the admins in their infinite wisdom consider offensive and not those that the attacked individuals consider offensive?
I don't know which one of the three is the real one, although I can bet is not the first one, and I have a strong suspicion that the second one would not be tolerated neither.
With this situation, and after consulting with my fiancee (who was at first outraged of me leaving BGG as she knows how much I love it and how much time I have spent here) I have decided that I am leaving this site.
Funny that I think I am not the first person that voluntarily leaves this site due to their level of tolerance with racism.
But... I had a duty with you guys and with this geeklist (specially now that I think we will have some guests!) so I have decided that I will do this geeklist and maintain it for the whole month and thus end my participation here.
It has been a very fun (and expensive) time with you guys. Thanks for listening.
Antonio.
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