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Wargaming => The Modern World => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on September 26, 2018, 01:41:43 PM
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So it's getting ready to ship. Theoretically I have one reserved, but at 160 Euros I'm seriously thinking about backing out...
Or... should I buy it, hold it for 6 weeks, 'til frenzy maxes out, and sell it for $500 or so and double my money?
I had no idea it was going to be 160 Euros - about $180 :doh:
I was prepared to figure out how to pay $100 or so, but many, $180 is going to kick my ass, especially with my current health insurance costs...
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I had the SPI monster game 'Next War' - is this re-done version of that?
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I'd buy it from you if I hadn't just sunk $200 into DVG's Warfighter PMC KS.... :idiot2:
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This one is too much $$ for even me.
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Just looking at it on BGG. Its a big 'un! and it looks very nice, but: Brant - would you actually play it?
ps - If the system is based on the old NW game, then I remember that the air / AAA rules were very detailed - a sub-game in its own right, and took a lot of time to play, and we usually played it with 2 players on each side. Brings back some good gaming memories though.
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but: Brant - would you actually play it?
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What kind of a question is THAT?!? ::)
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Playing has nothing to do with it. :buck2:
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A genuine one, naturally - out of curiosity...............
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Just looking at it on BGG. Its a big 'un! and it looks very nice, but: Brant - would you actually play it?
Well, that's the $200 question now isn't it?
I would like to think that I would, mainly because it's my target subject matter and and right up my alley for the area and scale that I enjoy playing.
But it is both expensive and gigantic. And while you can see where every dime of the purchase price is going in the components, it's still money that's not in your pocket
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Maybe I just need to run a GoFundMe page to get my copy
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...............there are also the space and time aspects.........or at least, the availability thereof.
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...............there are also the space and time aspects.........or at least, the availability thereof.
I've got space. I have my own room over the garage with a 4-seater dining room table in it, and I have 2 other tables I could set up if I needed them.
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So no problem space-wise then :bigthumb:
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Brant - do you have / played the Central Front games from SPI/S&T?
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/4255/central-front-series
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I've got BAOR from that series, magazine version. Fun game. Ugly map.
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Brant - do you have / played the Central Front games from SPI/S&T?
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/4255/central-front-series (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/4255/central-front-series)
every one of them, multiple times.
they're very good, but a little dated at this point.
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I did have all of them. I always thought that the 'friction point' system was actually a very good method of recording accumulated loss of cohesion / combat effectiveness. I'm surprised that other games haven't (as far as I know) taken that approach.
Yep, the maps were pretty gross.
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A graphic update would really do that system well. Ty Bomba is remaking it, but my fear (based on his comments) is that it will be essentially a completely different game.
One of the things I really liked about it was that it (mostly) accurately reflected the border cav units. Just because the rest of the game was BN/RGT-level doesn't mean the cav had to be. Instead of a couple of Squadron-of-Death counters for the 11th ACR, they were split out into troop-level units ("companies" to the rest of the world) and able to be properly dispersed per the deployment plans. Now, they weren't going to kill an entire Soviet MRR, but that was never their mission. A properly-spaced covering mission of 2 squadrons, with the tank companies / how bty's to reinforce where needed, can easily hold up that MRR for several turns, and completely de-synch the Soviet plan.
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I just looked at it and certainly its prettier, but as you say, in a way its pointless if they don't base it around the CF system. Despite the gfx, it was the system that I found to be interesting.
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I'm emailing them today to tell them I can't get it :(
There's just too much other stuff going on in my life to drop $200 on a game, no matter how awesome I think it's going to be.
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:'(
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Same thing here. While I would love to add this to my collection, I just cant justify the price. That combined with it's size and complexity, and I know this would most likely never hit the table. Had to make the same decision with the World in Flames Collectors Edition (really want those mounted map boards), and that latest Korean War game from Compass games (Map is just too big).
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https://www.compassgames.com/military-simulations/korea-fire-and-ice.html
I have my eye on this one as well. I think I have posted before that it uses the same system as the old GDW game, 'Road to the Rhine' which was an excellent game.
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https://www.compassgames.com/military-simulations/korea-fire-and-ice.html
I have my eye on this one as well. I think I have posted before that it uses the same system as the old GDW game, 'Road to the Rhine' which was an excellent game.
Ya, it looks pretty intriguing. But like I said, the map is just too damn big to fit on my gaming table. You need an 8.5 foot table to fit it.
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See, I have the space to set up some of these monsters, in a room where they won't get molested.
What I don't have are the funds to acquire said monsters...
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I have to admit, I have several games which I brought knowing that I do not the have space to set them up and leave them for any length of time. Sometimes, the lure of specific games overrides all common sense.
My excuse has always been that the games in question do have one or more smaller one map scenarios, and thus I am able to justify the acquisition to myself.
The last such game was 'Rommel's War' by L2 Design Group; I lusted after this game for a long time until I was at last able to get my hands on a new copy. The 2 maps are actually bigger than 'standard' size maps and, once laid out, North Africa being the shape that it is, results in a map that is 6 foot long!
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My Albatross monster games were TSR's Barbarossa and SS Amerika (can't recall the publisher on that but no way I'm searching for that term on my company's network). I sold my copy of Barbarossa before I moved but still have that other game somewhere.
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I don't have the space to set monster games up either. Yet. I will get a proper game table at some point.
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I don't have the space to set monster games up either. Yet. I will get a proper game table at some point.
Build one. :D
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I have a table at the river house that I might build a cover for. It's large enough (I think), I just need a way to keep the cats off of it. And no, I can't get rid of the cats.
I am going to buy a game table at some point. I'm kind of bummed that I'm going to miss Carolina Game Tables open house (https://www.carolinagametables.com/2018/09/26/fall-open-house-discount-tables/) this Saturday.
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:o Those are ridiculously expensive tables!
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Come to Origins next year and buy one of their display tables
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Considering what I paid for a dining room table I don't think the price is too bad. And you should see them in person, the tables are beautiful. :peace:
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Confirmed that they've let mine go :(
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A pity, but there you go. Maybe you can pick up a good used copy in the future.
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52 left according to their website....
$275 CDN shipped....
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Must be strong.... don't want to live in my car..... :whistle:
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You'll be living in the doghouse if yer missus finds out :tickedoff:
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Quite true... but she's out of town right now.... :whistle:
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Boy, I'd better never get into this boardgaming world, too hard to hide!
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^Says the man with a warehouse full of un-built model kits :whistle:
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The thing that made me click the buy button was the fact that TRL Games provided an official VASSAL module for 1985.
I am going to start playing soon, but it'll be over VASSAL rather than face to face. Not because we can't meet, but because of the above mentioned space constraints. I cannot leave the game on the table in my home, nor is my opponent able to.
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Post some pics from yer game since your using VASSAL! :biggrin:
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Post some pics from yer game since your using VASSAL! :biggrin:
+1 :bigthumb:
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The thing that made me click the buy button was the fact that TRL Games provided an official VASSAL module for 1985.
I am going to start playing soon, but it'll be over VASSAL rather than face to face. Not because we can't meet, but because of the above mentioned space constraints. I cannot leave the game on the table in my home, nor is my opponent able to.
re-upping the request for VASSAL pics! :)
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^Says the man with a warehouse full of un-built model kits :whistle:
Is there someplace I can trade those kits for a game collection?
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ebay :-)
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Rumor has it the next game in this series will be called, "Upon an Empty Wallet"
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The old man is learning the rules still.
It'll be a while before we start I reckon.
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https://trlgames.com/2020/04/13/1985-under-an-iron-sky-third-echelon/
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Oh dear............
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Just been watching Ardwulfs unboxing video - that's one heck of a lot of game. The maps are really nice.