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Origins 2025 will be held in Columbus OH from 18-22 June, and the Wargame HQ will be back with over 150 events across all 5 days, and publishers like GMT, Decision, Fort Circle, Catastrophe, Ares, and the Dietz Foundation all supporting us.
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Reply #45 on: September 23, 2020, 06:07:43 AM
I hate the 'new' Compass website.

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Reply #46 on: September 23, 2020, 06:16:35 AM
Quote from: bob48 on September 23, 2020, 06:07:43 AM
I hate the 'new' Compass website.
With it's "I'm not a robot" bollox - every........single..........time you visit? Yes. I do not like it either.

Their games though? Wow. Love 'em.

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Reply #47 on: September 23, 2020, 06:35:28 AM
Well, for the sake of my financial health they need to make it even more complicated and difficult to navigate since it did not keep me from preordering American Tank
ace.  :(

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Reply #48 on: September 23, 2020, 06:42:01 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 16, 2020, 07:20:50 AM
Quote from: judgedredd on September 16, 2020, 02:39:56 AM
What is CSS and OSS series?

CSS = Company Scale System, an evolution of the TCS series that Starkweather (the designer) did back at MMP

OSS = Operational Scale Series, designed to 'feel' like a monster, but theoretically play in a single (long) day.

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I want War for America...but I'll have to wait until SCG has it in stock (which is a good thing)

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Reply #49 on: September 29, 2020, 10:13:33 AM

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Reply #50 on: October 06, 2020, 12:11:11 PM

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Reply #51 on: October 06, 2020, 12:59:07 PM
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Reply #52 on: October 06, 2020, 01:18:10 PM
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Best Historical Game: Pandemic: Fall of Rome by Z-Man Games

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Reply #53 on: October 06, 2020, 06:39:36 PM
Heh.  Glad I'm not the only one who raised an eyebrow at that. 

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Reply #54 on: October 06, 2020, 06:40:00 PM
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Best Historical Game: Pandemic: Fall of Rome by Z-Man Games

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That was pretty much my reaction to the whole list.

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Reply #55 on: October 06, 2020, 08:32:15 PM
Did they just randomly select games for that list?  ???


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Reply #56 on: October 06, 2020, 08:35:46 PM
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Did they just randomly select games for that list?  ???

honestly from outside the historical game category, most of them are defensible. They're not the kind of games we would prefer to play but they were all popular and well-regarded.

The "historical board game" category, though, is exactly what everyone was afraid it would become....
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Reply #57 on: October 06, 2020, 09:56:51 PM
 :vomit:

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Reply #58 on: October 06, 2020, 10:18:05 PM
Yeah, I guess I can see that. I mean, you're right, the history category must have been pretty thin, or the judges clueless.

Admittedly, some I've never heard of. I'm hoping the podcast will help alleviate my out-of-touchness with other games in those veins. We'll see.


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Reply #59 on: October 06, 2020, 11:13:32 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 06, 2020, 08:35:46 PM
honestly come outside the historical game category, most of them are defensible.



Umm... 

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I mean if it's honestly a decent game, then fine, but the title sounds like a bad sci-fi-themed porno.


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