Jim D Burns -> RE: Something to "fry" your gaming brains! (2/23/2006 1:02:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BossGnome my god... you know guys, I consider myself something of an "avid wargamer", but being of the new school (not 20 yet), and seeing... this... no guys, just, no. I must admit this is the first time in my life I have ever said "no I won't play this it looks too complicated to be fun", but seriously, its a) the price of a 1300 pts Warhammer 40k army b) basically unplayable with 99.99% of the earth's population, and c) looks like it has more islands than WITP!! now seriously a boardgame with more hexes than the computerized WITP is just wrong!![:D] You were not around before computers like some of us were. When there is no other option but a monster board game, trust me you'll do it if you love wargaming. Our group was so fanatical we set up a 4 game boards across by 8 boards deep ASL scenario with 2 ½ US divisions attacking a German division defending a river crossing. Talk about massive, I still have the special storage cases (and all the counters) I bought to store all the extra infantry counter sheets we had to buy. LOL it was insane! But we actually played 8 full turns. After several months at it, fatigue finally wore us out as it was taking 6-8 hours just to do a single fire phase even with 4-6 players working on it non-stop. For a while there we all had most of the fire tables memorized. Fun to look back on it, but the PC has definitely made me a lazy gamer. I’d never do anything remotely that massive again. Jim
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