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Title: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Cyrano on June 21, 2019, 09:10:40 PM
Commands and Colors: Napoleonics -- Expansion VIII has whisked past Mystery Wizard on GMT's P500.

Should be shoved into the "Made the Cut" queue in only a day or so.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Cyrano on June 30, 2019, 08:26:39 PM
Four hundred and ninety-four as of today.

Seriously, people?

GAH!!!
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Cyrano on July 02, 2019, 03:53:45 PM
Made the Cut.

About time.

And this from the e-mail:

“We have numerous games in the pre-production queue and generally assign an exact charge date for each P500 game as they near 700 orders.”

The death of VPG is getting tougher to take every day.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: panzerde on July 04, 2019, 01:21:54 PM

The death of VPG is getting tougher less understandable to take every day.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 19, 2019, 11:48:49 AM
So Cyrano, when's your review of Mystery Wizard hitting the site?

BGG rates it as a 10 (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/261238/mystery-wizard)!  :ROFL:
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2019, 11:54:11 AM
<smh>


https://www.gmtgames.com/p-734-mystery-wizard.aspx
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 19, 2019, 11:55:35 AM
I can't shake the feeling that MW is some kind of massive prank that GMT is perpetrating.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: bbmike on September 19, 2019, 11:59:01 AM
<smh>


https://www.gmtgames.com/p-734-mystery-wizard.aspx

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Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: panzerde on September 19, 2019, 04:54:30 PM
I was scratching my head over the blurb by Volko, until I saw who the designer was.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Bison on September 24, 2019, 03:05:49 PM
I really don’t get the seeming visceral reaction to the very notion people who like to play and even design war games may also have an expansive enough gaming pallet to enjoy other genres or themes too.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: bbmike on September 24, 2019, 04:43:26 PM
I do play other genres and themes. But also have limits to what I can take.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Bison on September 24, 2019, 05:00:12 PM
I’m sure glad I’m not a game publisher or developer. Yes your catalog is 99% war games but whoa that 1% is going to lead to the end of your wargame development and the end times!

 I understand everyone has preferences and limits to what they want to play. I do too. I guess we should consider ourselves lucky to have the opportunity to be selective in our hobby and choose what we buy or don’t.

Anyway ever since I’ve gone on a game buying hiatus things like this don’t raise my blood pressure. I’m just excited I’ll get a new Stalingrad 43 game from one of my favorite game series and designers at some point if I want to buy it.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2019, 05:25:26 PM
I really don’t get the seeming visceral reaction to the very notion people who like to play and even design war games may also have an expansive enough gaming pallet to enjoy other genres or themes too.

It's called ball busting. I don't really care what they publish. I have plenty of "real wargames".
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Bison on September 24, 2019, 05:32:10 PM
I get it. Honestly, I’m just in a mood. So take what I say with a grain of salt. I just don’t understand the sky is falling worry sometimes.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2019, 05:33:37 PM
I get it. Honestly, I’m just in a mood. So take what I say with a grain of salt. I just don’t understand the sky is falling worry sometimes.

Wargamers are a bunch of bitter Old Hens.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 24, 2019, 05:37:21 PM
I just don’t understand the sky is falling worry sometimes.


They made a game out of that, too


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Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: Bison on September 24, 2019, 05:37:54 PM
Knickers in a bind and all that
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2019, 05:38:59 PM
Knickers in a bind and all that
The ones who wear knickers anyway
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: besilarius on September 25, 2019, 08:02:49 AM
Bison, this sniping has been a problem from the beginning..
Avalon Hill was often castigated for it's non wargames.  Some were weird, like Squander and Shakespeare, and others, like The Travels of St. Paul,  were aimed at a different niche audience.  Hard core gamers screamed at the waste of time and effort put into these "other" games.
All told, they paid the bills.  Tom Shaw was the office manager and answered questions politely but clearly that AH couldn't survive on war games alone.
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 25, 2019, 10:16:26 AM
I actually enjoyed AH's Lie, Cheat, and Steal

I should've been a politician
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 18, 2023, 03:21:23 PM
Made the Cut.

About time.

hmmmm... weird, I didn't see it in this mass C&C shipping update from GMT last week  :whistle:

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C&C Napoleonics: The Austrian Army, 3rd Printing
C&C Napoleonics: (Base Game) 5th Printing
C&C Napoleonics: The Prussian Army, 3rd Printing
C&C Napoleonics: The Russian Army, 4th Printing
C&C Napoleonics: The Spanish Army, 4th Printing
Commands & Colors Napoleonics: Custom Dice
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: bbmike on August 19, 2023, 08:44:01 AM
^I received an email stating that my C&C Napoleonics 5th Printing and dice (yes, dice, I bought two sets) had charged. Looks like I will finally own a copy of C&C Nappy.  8)
Title: Re: The World Is Now As It Should Be
Post by: LetsPlayHistory on August 24, 2023, 08:44:16 AM
It has been 84 years ...  :(