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RE: NordKapp - 1/1/2018 5:10:20 PM

DanNeely

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IIRC Norway's a really expensive place to visit.

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RE: NordKapp - 1/1/2018 5:21:53 PM

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ORIGINAL: DanNeely

IIRC Norway's a really expensive place to visit.

Just did some research... about $3.5/�2.95 a can of 0,5l beer :0 2x-checked DK as well and thanks to ALDI not that high. B*llocks LOL. For me as a beer drinker, well... But I'll try to visit NO this year!

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RE: NordKapp - 1/1/2018 7:26:20 PM

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For sure, alcohol is expensive, mostly due to high taxes on the sale - because we don't want to end up like Russia in terms of consumption - partly because of generally high salaries. Sale of alcohol higher than 5 percent is limited to the state monopoly, but there's been talk of allowing sale of wine under 10 percent in shops.

Having a 0.5l of beer out on town in Oslo can easily cost you around $10, but there are always cheaper places. The micro-breweries are great but obviously also very expensive. There are cheap beer-places on the 'bad' side of town though, I like those.

Hey if you come to Norway, be sure to go in summer - but you will still probably be cold and wet most of the time

And if you're looking for war history, go to Troms�, Narvik, Rjukan (site of the famous heavy water mission). Maybe cross over into Russia (if you dare) and see the battle sites. Or get a car, drive over the mountains, to see the fjords in your own time and not be herded about like sheep to the souvenir shops.

But yeah... expensive for tourists. I have a suspicion tourists say Norway is "Beautiful, Lovely, Wundersch�n" is because they don't want to admit they paid so much money to be cold, wet and miserable, just to watch a bunch of mountains covered in fog...

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RE: NordKapp - 1/4/2018 1:03:27 PM

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Talk about prompt service! Looks like the original TOAW scenario and probably even the boardgame lack realistic naval invasions which you could improve on. USSR had at least one brigade of naval infantry just waiting to pounce on Narvik. Perfect scenario idea to represent the new naval warfare stuff.

I agree this looks like a fun game. The TOAW COW game is not quite the board game, it's 5km per hex and half day turns with several additional units. I want to design a game more faithful to the board game. I may need to purchase the original Strategy & Tactics game from EBay.

I did the TOAW scenario and had the magazine back in the day. As far as I can remember , the mag game was pretty crappy. I certainly recall that the change in scale is because the 10km/hex scale only made sense in the original game in order to fit the map in the magazine max map size, it made absolutely no sense with the unit/time-scales involved. The changes in units are because I did quite a bit of research on the OOBs and wanted to introduce some variant units, etc.

If I'm brutally honest, it's not a great situation to simulate at this scale, it's much more suited to a more tactical simulation of the several battles within the battle.

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