TheChin
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Joined: 4/20/2001 From: Cleveland,OH,USA Status: offline
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Hey Nickel, I use to play "Blitzkrieg" also, I still have it. I liked it because it added a level of complexity to "Tactics II", another classic abstract Avalon Hill title. I got bored with "Tactics II" (I still have that also) because the battle usually degenerated into a massive middle of the board conflagration. Blitzkrieg gave you some good options to be flexible and try different strategies. I used to love Yaquinto games in addition to the Avalon Hill standbys. "Beachhead" and "Fast Attack Boats" were always favs. I also played their unconventional titles like "Attack Of The Killer Mutants", I wish I could find that game again, I really dug it. I thought it was cool that they took the time to name each and every unit uniquely and give them different graphics. Just good fun really, not too serious. Other good unconventional wargames were "Ogre/G.E.V.", "Hammers Slammers" and "Star Fleet Battles" . I can't even begin to count how many hours of my teens were spent playing SFB. I wish I had a good opponent for it now, I have a box full of books, maps and counters for it. For serious I would turn to "Flattop", "Submarine", "Panzer Leader" and "Tobruk" - which was owned by a friend, so I didn't get to play it as much as I would have liked. "Flattop" was one of those games that took forever to set up, but if you could set apart the time and space was well worth it. I doubt I could dedicate the time to it now. Ahh, the carefree days of high school when hours upon hours could be dedicated to board gaming. Which is one of the great advantages of turn-based computer gaming, you can have huge battles set up and waiting for you and you can play it whenever you can fit in a few minutes and not have to worry about the table getting bumped, your stacked armies falling over, your cat batting the pieces to the floor and your Dog promptly eating them. Oh, and the first "real" wargame I ever owned and played was "The Kaiser's Battle". It was a bit over my head at the time, I was in 5th grade I think. I think we have talked about the game on the forums a couple years ago.
< Message edited by TheChin -- 3/9/2004 7:15:45 PM >
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"Conan, what is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"
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