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DSWargamer -> RE: Books arrived, let me say they are incredible as books go (11/24/2013 8:05:50 PM)
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I am assuming the 'boys' complaint was aimed at me :)
You need to understand, I call any male my age or less a boy. That means 50s and under.
Hey if it helps, you can call me a girl I won't hold it against you.
No thrill being called an old woman.
Was looking at the front of the books today. I wonder how many zoomed right past the Forwards?
There are some comments in them, that actually make for significant reading.
Rules as Written, and Rules as Coded, and for all real purposes, the same thing. I wonder how many have made a big fuss over them being different, when the only places that they ARE different means almost nothing.
The first two volumes, basically Vol 2 exists mainly as making it just one book would make it pretty damned heavy eh. Volume 2 starts with Chapter 8. So looking at the contents in Vol 1, everything past Chapter 7 is in the other book. Rules as Coded, is essentially the exact same game as the 65 page rules book. But they went and enjoyed the fact they had full colour and lots of space to work with, and weren't trying to cram the manual into a box along with counters and maps.
Even if you owned the entire board game, and wanted nothing to do with the computer game, this product is a great deal simply for the benefit of the much nicer written experience.
And it isn't like it is a unique experience. ASL is a board game, and the rules manual is a separate purchase. Yep, it is about as expensive to by the base ASL manual, as it is to buy this game, and the ASL manual is just a manual, no maps no counters.
Part of me is no doubt going to lament I didn't get the maps.
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