SirRodneyOfGout -> RE: Running Out of Ideas (12/4/2004 7:04:49 PM)
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I played several of SPIs WWI games way back when. The S&T First World War had an interesting system, I seem to recall a CTR where you could expend points representing manpower / armaments for losses rather than retreat. And declaring an overall status for each front (similar to Third Reich): offensive, defensive, etc. I don't have a copy and haven't played it for, hmm, decades :) so could be wrong in these details. The first WWI SPI game I played was 1918, and was always impressed by the supply/artillery system which consumed supply units, esp. on the offensive. Forced the German player to think ahead as to where the offensive should focus late in the game. Not a bad game for its time, and also similar enough to the horde of WW2 operational games SPI had out that players otherwise unfamiliar with WWI could play and feel at home with a relatively mobile situation rather than stuck in trench warfare. And I second JP Falcon's nod to SPIs To The Green Fields Beyond. A great game on Cambrai; I wish someone would do this on PC (the scale of TOAW just doesn't do it justice). Cheers
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