tmac
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Joined: 4/16/2003 From: Syracuse (Home of 2003 NCAA Basketball Champs) NY Status: offline
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John- I bought second hand (almost new and only partially punched) copies of "Armor" and "88" back in 1992 from a local comic book/game store here in Syracuse. They looked great at first glance, and Yaquinto did an outstanding job with carboard pieces (unit counters were individual vehicles and squads, and terrain etc). These are beautiful. The game however remains unplayed...it was like "Tobruk" to the extreme. The game includes overlays to calculate angles of impact and figure penetration etc etc etc. There are many calculation devices to figure spotting etc. They even include individual turrets for tanks in order to determine facing and spotting, and penetration possibilities. All in all too much complex book-keeping to enjoy for my tastes, little perceived solitare value, and so far no chance of finding another opponent nearby to face off with. I haven't looked at them for a few years, your post prompted me to dig through my boxes and boxes of wargames to check them out again. In addition, I have always had cats, and at that time had a dog too, with all the issues to cope with with the depredations of those 4 legged masters of destruction have upon carefully laid out board games. My apartments back then didn't have a place safe from cats particularly. These are some of the reasons I enjoy SPWAW soooo much. None of the book keeping, all of the results calculated for you, and just pure playing enjoyment in a format my cat can sit on my lap and not ever interfere, lol. I have played modern, WWII and American Civil War minituares with a group of friends over the years. We were vagabonds, moving from house to business location to set up and play. It was great fun, and we had a guy who brought a laptop to run the game calculations on. Guys painted armies and armor, and brought stacks of boxes with battalions and brigades ready to fight. We'd eat and drink and fight through a weekend or weeknight. It was lots of fun, and some of the younger guys were the ones who clued me into the original Steel Panthers, and who I can thank for my enjoyable trip to here and now. That group broke up and drifted apart because of real life interfering with playing, lol, but I miss those times. If you have the opportunity to try something like that with this new game I strongly recommend it. Hope this helped Tim
< Message edited by tmac -- 4/4/2004 12:24:14 PM >
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