Last wargame played
David Brown
United Kingdom
Stockport
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It's been ages since I did this list so I though it was about time I did it again.
As ever, please add the last wargame you played and some comments about it. Also please feel free to add comment sto any of the games on the list
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David Brown
United Kingdom
Stockport
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I had played this a few times in the past but never really enjoyed it or "got it". However too many people I know raved about it so as a birthday present I got the 2nd edition with a determination to understand and crack this game.
I'm glad I did, I had an excellent four player game, with me as the British and I'm looking forward to the next time.
I think the rule book is pretty poor, expecially as it's the 2nd edition. I got the impression that the rules have all the words but not necessarily in the right order
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John Di Ponio
United States
Warren
Michigan
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This has been a heavy concentration for me since I have been playtesting. I enjoy the game...still getting use to some of the mechanics but the research into the game has beed nicely done!
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Erik Nicely
United States
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I played scenario 2 for my first f2f game last Sunday. The action point system is pretty nifty and it's as interactive as everyone says it is. This game is fairly light but I think it's a solid new entry in tactical wargames. I'm anxious to play it some more.
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Jeff Myers
United States
Los Ranchos
New Mexico
"Always rely upon a happy mind alone." Geshe Chekhawa.
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Victory for Athens on Turn 2!
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'Bernard Wingrave'
United States
Wyoming
Ohio
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After a couple of Cyberboard plays, I finally got this one to the table, thanks to my girlfriend's willingness to give it a try. It took about eight hours over three sessions to complete the Austria vs. Prussia 2p scenario. It finally ended when the last important card of fate came out on the second-last possible game turn.
Good game.
On a side note, it is possible to bag up the nations' hands (and the draw and discard piles) and take note of the generals' and supply trains' positions on paper (by grid area and city) to guard against the table being disturbed between sessions. In retrospect, it probably would have been easier to note the positions of the pieces on a printout of the map. Maybe next time.
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Michel Boucher
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
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A great little game. I call it little because of the number of units and the time frame/turns, not because of the subject, which is one of my very favourite war topics.
I posted a review right after playing it twice.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/345543
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Brian Morris
United States
Raytown
Missouri
2nd, 6th & 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana, 24th Michigan
24th Michigan monument at Gettysburg Pa.
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First time playing this one and so far so good.
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Robert Wilson
Canada
Riverview
New Brunswick
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I tried the 2 training scenarios in preparation for teaching my dad and brother the game,
but I think Im going to learn the WW2 games Whistling Death and Achtung Spitfire! instead ( no avionics or missiles)
This was still a lot more fun than I expected however, so Ill probably use Air Strike as my solitaire wargame fix
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skippen
United States
Greeley
Colorado
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Just finished my first FULL game of this. Awesome game. Lots to think about, tons of decisons, and way too many fronts to manage. Right after finishing the first one, we flipped sides and started again. Looks like I may lose again.
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Ken Feldman
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played a scenario where four Panthers advance through Hotten toward the bridge. The US has some anti-tank guns, a tank and some bazooka teams across the river, but most US forces are randomly generated when the Germans come within two hexes. It makes for a lot of tense melees as the lightly armed US troops try to damage or destroy the Panthers so they can't get to the north end of the bridge.
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I played this last sunday . . . I even wrote a session report
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Steve M
United States
Lubbock
Texas
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This game is really growing on me. It is not even close to as complicated as I thought. Once you nail the procedure, the hard part, it plays easily and with few or no exceptions. You can burn through phases once you know what you're doing.
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Tim von Bismarck
United States
God's Country
Maryland
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Just finished my first play of this and have started a second. Nice solitaire game, not up there with say RAF or Carrier, but a good little game none the less. Rules are a bit murky at times, but I like the mechanics. Going to play it at least once more after I finish this second game.
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Mark Ernst
United States
Morrison
Illinois
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Like any game you play the first time it takes a while to figure out a strategy other than wandering around picking fights. When is it best to "go guerrilla"? Do you spread out to cover territory or make a killer stack? When to siege and when to assault? I don't think I've figured it out yet...
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Alan Richbourg
United States
Arlington
Texas
I seez u be makin ur beeg move
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I've been testing a stripped down age of sail battle game I'm designing, similar to Wooden Ships & Iron Men. It seems to work well enough as a light stand alone game, and will fit into some larger games as a tactical module.
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Wade
United States
Pueblo
Colorado
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Finally get some value out of my super rare purchase! Game 2 and three with a CDG newbie. Game one was lopsided but game two was a 9 round thriller with a British come from behind win on the last card of the last turn: god bless you minor campaign card!
I have much more respect for the balance in this one now. Those who complain just don't know how to play the British 
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Board Game: RAN
[Average Rating:7.57 Overall Rank:1683]
Moshe Callen
Israel
Jerusalem
I like to exchange ideas but I have no interest in a pissing contest.
If you want me to review your game, just GM me and send me a copy. Abstracts, wargames and euros equally welcome. No party or dexterity games please.
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I'm currently in the process of digesting the rules and my first scenario for this game and so i guess it counts.
This past Tuesday, I got a number of packages. Basically, mail is all messed up here because of the holidays; the Post Office is swamped but has less time to actually be working. So, after a couple of weeks without anything, everything came at once. Naturally, I was expecting some games. One package though I was not expecting to have a game. It was a much belated birthday present from friends of mine, my dearest friends in the world frankly. Opening it up, I saw a couple of SF books [ones I don't have] and a bunch of kosher goodies. So, I was mentally figuring that was all there was, although that alone was very nice, and pulling out the goodies looking at the haul. It was a decent number of little things, and these friends generally have excellent taste. Then, I got to the last item, expectign it to be choclate or something. At this point I noticed the initials GMT on the side of the box showing. I'd not realized my friends had ever HEARD of that company. When I pulled it out, I had in my hands a genuine old-fashioned hex and counter wargame-- albeit one I'd never heard of before-- from the Great Battles of History series.
I was floored. So, I started looking at it. It's supposed to be important but less well known battles from Japanese history, a sequel to Samurai-- although seemingly much changed. Not only does it have counters for units, but it has counters for individual samurai. I can't say too much more about it but it looks to be really cool. I am almost finished with the firstreading through of the rules booklet and then plan on playing a few turns by myself before getting into a real game.
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Keith Mageau
United States
Summerville
South Carolina
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I have been play-testing this game via vassal with the Designer. Both of us have been enjoying quite a bit fluidity in the maneuvers we have been executing.
This game is making its debut at GMT West this weekend. I am hoping to see it on the P500 list soon.
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David Bohnenberger
United States
Swarthmore
Pennsylvania
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Got this when it first came out. For some reason, I never thought much of it. Maybe it was the association with Victory: The Blocks of War, which I didn't care for. So I got rid of the game after a few plays.
Of course I really enjoyed the game last weekend, and am now in the market for a replacement copy. 
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Garrett Potvin
United States
Brooklyn Park
MN
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We played the Okinawa scenario, those Japanese caves really add some interesting options......love it!
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Pietro Del Mar
United States
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A war-game lite! But a pretty good one I felt.
This was my first time at this one and played it 2x and would have kept playing it if possible. I recommend it! (just be sure to sleeve the cards)
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Kent Reuber
United States
San Mateo
California
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Quote: It's been ages since I did this list so I though it was about time I did it again.
It feels like ages since I last played a wargame. The last one I remember was a refight of Champions Hill at the ConQuest SF convention on Labor Day Weekend, 2008.
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Wendell
United States
Arlington
Virginia
All the little chicks with crimson lips, go...
Hey, get your stinking cursor off my face! I got nukes, you know.
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We finished our Sword of Rome game on Monday evening - good game but I hadn't played in a couple of years.
Earlier in the day on Monday (it was a holiday) we played a game of Here I Stand. And I'm playing Twilight struggle by email.
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Jim Marshall
United Kingdom
York
North Yorkshire
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This was the last full-on tradtitional wargame I played, a little lopsided as it was my opponent Hugo's first game of Hannibal (indeed his first CDW).
I've played a game of Imperial and two games of Okko: Era of the Asagiri since, so I guess it's a question of how you define wargame. Imperial possibly not (it's a finance game using wargame mechanics - and superb with it), Okko (fantasy skirmish game with a variety of special powers) could probably make it in my book - take your pick!
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Elwyn Darden
United States
Richmond
Virginia
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I am a big fan of impulse games, but I am least successful with Breakout: Normandy which is the genre's most developed game. I have not internalized the nuances that make this game unique: levels of disruption and the refit phase. So the habits I have developed playing other, more forgiving, impulse games always leave me looking good until it is time to count the victory points.
Interestingly, this game is the wargame most favored by the members of my gaming group who are primarily Eurogamers. If I recall correctly, two have had it, at times, as the only wargame on their "want to play" list on the roster. Perhaps another has only BN and Hannibal. (Two of the true grognards in the club once played The Longest Day three times in succession.)
(By the way, I play both sides equally badly, and I think the diagnosis proposed above is correct in both cases.)
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- A very slick way to model the movement and firepower of differing units. The fact that a German LMG can fire three times (before CAPS) versus 1 time for a USSR Rifle Squad is pretty cool.
- We didn't like this mechanic. Too abstract, with too many uses, meant this came down to resource management. I never felt like I was sending my best squad leader to direct the fire of a critical MG, or to lead a squad to greater efforts to take a position. Instead, it came down to "should I use this resource now or use it later." It felt gamey and not at all like a small unit firefight.
