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erstad -> RE: should I buy this now (12/8/2004 5:45:11 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Catphish
thanks for the replys
I have the boardgame version of WITP still, when I was in high school I glued the map to a large piece of plywood and covered it with plastic
I just can not find anyone to play it with here
We didn't have the plastic, but did pin the map to (as I recall) two 4x8 sheets of plywood because, you know, the ping pong table just wasn't big enough :-)
For what it's worth, I played a fair amount of the WitP board game (including several campaigns that went something like halfway through 42 (We found we got about one week of game time done in one week of real time, and realized we could never get through a whole campaign - but somewhere squirreled away, 20+ years later, I probably still have the records we painstakingly made of every unit, every airpoint, all of the supply dumps, etc. so we could start again "someday" - the optimism of youth)). Anyway, key point is that the paper WitP was probably the most enjoyable wargame I ever played, and my buddies and I always talked about how some day we'd like to use computer software to automate the bookkeeping (OK, this division has a supply rating of 3, which means it can pull 21 supply points from this depot over there and make a new depot, minus the 3 supply it needs to maintain itself this turn. Now, onto the next unit...). When (matrix) WitP came out, it was the game I've always wanted but didn't even know to ask for. It's not at all a copy of the board game; but it's a similar scale (60 mile hexes versus the 40/50/60 of the boardgame) and has almost the same unit granularity (air units are in groups or squadrons, which are typically 9-36 planes, versus the "air points", which I think were 3 planes; but you get all the ships (more, actually), land units are similar, etc.), same epic scale, so it has much of the same feel as the board game for me. The computer game does much stuff better, not a lot of stuff worse. Although, as with any computer software, there are some bugs that can be kind of annoying...
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