Warpup -> (6/17/2001 5:51:00 AM)
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My first boardgame was AH's square Gettysburg. I remember many great games of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Victory in the Pacific, and Cross of Iron. Worst dice rolls were in Cross of Iron. In "Breakout from Borisov" had my two Stukas drop a miss and a dud on the two big Russian tanks (that took some "12" rolls on that two die system. In "Defense of Luga" had my ambushes open up on Russians to virtually no effect time after time, and then had my 9-2 leader and two squads on the upper floor of a two story stone building get hit by a moving T-34/76 and break and kill them (ended that fight!).
My favorite two player game was Victory Games' Civil War. The way initiative shifted back and forth during each turn made this game almost as totally engaging for both players as a real time computer game. Although I enjoyed Stellar Conquest, Mighty Fortress, Civilization, and Pax Britanica, my all time fave multiplayer game was Empires in Arms. Actually, EiA is not so much a game as a powerfull narcotic drug. When I had to leave LA to get out of the smog I left behind a great 7 player game of EiA. I went through withdrawal symptoms for many years afterwards untill I tried some e-mail EiA and found that it just couldn't take the place of the FTF game. :)
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