Condition : Box in good condition with some scuffs and no split corners. Components : In very good condition. All counters, rules, reference sheets, and even counter sprue accounted for. Recommendation : That game be auctioned in the store starting with a $10.00 price point.
Will not play again, with the original rules. (I'm still working on the revised version, which as I said before, I'll make freely available via VASSAL).
Hey, get your stinking cursor off my face! I got nukes, you know.
Small World is a wargame!
It has tactics! Massed defenders take fewer losses!
It has strategy! Spread out to seize a lot of land but risk counter-attack? Or consolidate in fewer areas to give yourself the chance to renew the offensive later?
Gaming in Greater Anchorage area, Alaska since 1978. Looking for Indy-willing RPG players in Eagle River (or willing to drive to Eagle River). Geekmail me if interested.
Yes, this really is what I looked like when I uploaded that avatar. Not that it's quite current anymore.
Some folks just know how to get what they want. The next member of our court is one such person, having acquired an impressive collection of strategy games ,making him our new Thrift High Tactician:
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. - GKC
Not counting Dungeons & Dragons and a bunch of other role playing games, this was my first non-mainstream board game. My cousin's boyfriend was really into Avalon Hill games and he convinced me to try out a few.
Found for a $1 at a church thrift store. The game is complete except for one of the blue army has been replaced with a blue like blank piece. There are 6 of each army that are not punched. Overall, the game is in very good shape. The game also came with some extras. See the pic below.
The box came with the British Task force board, battle area marker, battle maneuver gauge, and two blank sheets of cut outs. Not sure what to do with them.
Wouldn't call this one a fine wine. Here is one that I thought was beat-up on BGG partially due to its age (53 years old now). However, the S&T rating in 1980 was 4.9. Today on BGG, 5.3 I would probably call that improvement a dead cat bounce more than anything else.
How fitting that the founding game of the hobby would also be so modestly titled. Tactics is for squads and platoons, commanded by sergeants and lieutenants, operating for minutes and hours over square kilometer-sized battle areas. This game is much more than just tactics, however, involving as it does strategic operations by divisions and corps presumably commanded by colonels and generals, operating for months and years over a battle area of millions of square kilometers.
I guess that Tactics II would be my choice. While I had been playing other board games, it was completely different from what I had been playing. Attack, movement, special units that can drop anywhere or only land at beaches, etc.
Ed, you dinosaur you! We are talking about modern games, not the beginning of wargaming. Of course, wargaming has a wholly different history than the rest of board gaming. But there is new golden age of wargaming and I'm told it started sometime between 1995 (We the People) and 1999 (Paths of Glory).
Ed, you dinosaur you! We are talking about modern games, not the beginning of wargaming. Of course, wargaming has a wholly different history than the rest of board gaming. But there is new golden age of wargaming and I'm told it started sometime between 1995 (We the People) and 1999 (Paths of Glory).
Yeah seems like those are the games that really changed wargaming...bringing forth the card driven games.
Yes, I still have my copy with "Villageville" and other named towns.
Status: We haven't played this since the 1980s.
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Granted, there are plenty of better and more interesting games, but I listed this for nostaglia and I'm curious what we will think about the game today versus 25 years ago.
'square miles' 
