NeverMan
Matrix Elite Guard

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ORIGINAL: nukkxx Ok the tutorial helps a lot for the first steps. Thanks. However, I didn't find the "attached ZIP" which I guess contains the full setup. Where is the zip file ? I also had a look to the rest of the tutorial and it well done but the game seems INCREDIBLY complex ... rather discouraging IMO. I hardly imagine how this could have been played on a boardgame ! It's simple; us old wargamers had to learn to read the rules - all of them - and interpret them without the crutch of computer code to do our thinking for us. The best way to learn the rules for a wargame is to read through the rules once, try a test game (with the rule book open and handy), then read through the rules again in more depth, paying particular attention to the sections where one had trouble from the test game. In this specific instance, the definition of the difference between units and factors is clearly spelled out in the manual. As for knowing what to do, well, again, there us old-school wargamers have the advantage of having been forced to use the trial-and-error method :) We'd try different strategies (usually based around the victory conditions) and see what worked and what didn't, then make adjustments, and so on. We didn't have tutorials, but then again, we didn't have interface problems, either. It's amazing what one's brain and pen and paper can accomplish. YEP!! I second that. BTW, I'm curious to all of those who played the original FTF: How did you do it? We would laminate the map (this required cutting the map in half, laminating each half since the machine at the local office store didn't have a lamination machine big enough, and then tape them together over a big piece of wood or cardboard) and then we would use sticky putty (just a dab) to keep the corps counters and leaders together and also to the map. Anyone else use this method. And yes, after a few games we would need new counters, but someone was always willing to buy a new game.
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