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Author Topic: Finally bought my first Wargame today.  (Read 29920 times)

tuna

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on: September 10, 2019, 08:18:28 PM
Ordered Holland 44 today.. Thanks for all the pushing and prodding!  :bigthumb:



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Reply #1 on: September 10, 2019, 08:24:52 PM
Download the rules from GMT and start reading!
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Reply #2 on: September 10, 2019, 08:26:37 PM
Then we can play on VASSAL and try to forget that we just shelled out for physical copies (and fancy maps)!




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Reply #3 on: September 10, 2019, 08:46:44 PM
Ordered Holland 44 today.. Thanks for all the pushing and prodding!  :bigthumb:



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Reply #4 on: September 10, 2019, 09:15:14 PM
Welcome to the club, Tuna!

I actually don't really like games.

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Reply #5 on: September 11, 2019, 06:12:15 AM
Welcome to the club, Tuna!

+1! Go ahead and order the extra shelves now.  :bigthumb:

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Reply #6 on: September 11, 2019, 06:21:43 AM
Its an excellent game, and a very good system - better start looking for copies of Normandy '44 and Ardennes '44 as well :-)

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Reply #7 on: September 11, 2019, 06:28:38 AM
I've got that and Ardennes 44. Neither is even punched at the moment.

I did want Normandy 44 but it's just too big map wise.



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Reply #8 on: September 11, 2019, 07:21:09 AM
JD, Normandy '44 only has a single map - Ardennes '44 has 2 maps.

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Reply #9 on: September 11, 2019, 08:29:13 AM
I know Ardennes has but they fit (sort of with some manipulation) in my boardgame cover thingyamybob.

As for Normandy, I saw this and thought it was several maps

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1175814/battle-normandy

Even if it's a single map, there's NOWHERE I could lay that bad boy out  :-\



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Reply #10 on: September 11, 2019, 08:30:39 AM
Is that BIG map from the other box game he has showing there..."The Battle for Normandy"?

So is the Normandy '44 map the little one up the right of that image?


It IS!

I might actually pickup Normandy 44 now because it was that massive map that put me off
« Last Edit: September 11, 2019, 08:52:27 AM by judgedredd »



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Reply #11 on: September 11, 2019, 09:15:24 AM
ONE of us, Tuna! :)

Holland '44 is a good-looking game. It's one of my many unpunched ones that I want to eventually get to!  :bigthumb:

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Reply #12 on: September 11, 2019, 09:54:15 AM

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Reply #13 on: September 11, 2019, 10:06:23 AM
it was that massive map that put me off

I like big maps and I can not lie

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Reply #14 on: September 11, 2019, 10:13:09 AM
it was that massive map that put me off

I like big maps and I can not lie


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