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Wargaming => Intel Dump => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on September 12, 2019, 02:39:39 PM
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Make your case in the comments below
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You left off Normandy 44 and Market Garden.
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Yeah. I was going to go with Omaha Beach.
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My vote was for the only non historical topic!
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I'll live a happy life if I never play another skirmish level Stalingrad game.
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Somebody please click Waterloo and trigger another Cyrano rant. :2funny:
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Well people would have to play games about Waterloo first...😳
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I.
Will.
Not.
Be.
Triggered.
By.
The.
Bad.
Men.
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Well people would have to play games about Waterloo first...😳
Some of us play more than Agricola and MTG :P
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Well people would have to play games about Waterloo first...😳
Some of us play more than Agricola and MTG :P
It’s ok no one will judge your aspirations to be would catan champion.
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It’s ok no one will judge your aspirations to be would catan champion.
https://www.thegamer.com/tabeletop-games-overrated-should-be-playing/ (https://www.thegamer.com/tabeletop-games-overrated-should-be-playing/)
There are much better games out there to play, but if building roads and growing wheat sound like fun then give Settlers of Catan a try.
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It’s ok no one will judge your aspirations to be would catan champion.
https://www.thegamer.com/tabeletop-games-overrated-should-be-playing/ (https://www.thegamer.com/tabeletop-games-overrated-should-be-playing/)
There are much better games out there to play, but if building roads and growing wheat sound like fun then give Settlers of Catan a try.
Put the sheep cards back in the box...pervert.
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I voted for Bulge.
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Was going to vote Bulge too, is this for Boardgames only though?
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I voted Bulge as well since I've been battling that one on the computer for decades and now also on the bathroom scale... :(
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Was going to vote Bulge too, is this for Boardgames only though?
I second this question. Are we counting only boardgames, or are we including computer wargames too?
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"wargamed"
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"wargamed"
You do realize that clarifies nothing in a LOT of minds these days.
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I would also dispute the inclusion of Stalingrad, as it was not really a battle in the same way as the others on your list, which lasted only maybe a few days. Its really a campaign that lasted for months.
Just sayin'
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"wargamed"
You do realize that clarifies nothing in a LOT of minds these days.
:2thumbs:
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I would also dispute the inclusion of Stalingrad, as it was not really a battle in the same way as the others on your list, which lasted only maybe a few days. Its really a campaign that lasted for months.
Just sayin'
That's a good point. That was a series of a lot of battles.
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I would also dispute the inclusion of Stalingrad, as it was not really a battle in the same way as the others on your list, which lasted only maybe a few days. Its really a campaign that lasted for months.
Just sayin'
The fight for the city itself was a prolonged battle. And it is definitely over-gamed.
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The Bulge was not a single battle either and lasted for six weeks.
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If we're going by the standard of one single battle vs. a series of interconnected ones, then I'm not sure the Fulda Gap scenario counts either.
At this point, I'd say it's down to either Gettysburg or Waterloo (at least for myself).
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You know the old saying...opinions are like wargames, all of us has at least one. :)
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I blame the guy who made the poll
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I blame the guy who made the poll
he's a dick
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I think that whole poll is spurious and should be disregarded entirely. :whistle:
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I think there should be a tax on all foreigners living abroad.
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I think its time nursie gave you your medication - I'll have mine as well.............................. :idiot2:
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I’m not really concerned about how often a battle or operation/campaign has been used to design wargames. I’m more concerned about how the systems I enjoy to play present them. There are many Bulge, Normandy, and Market Garden games but Simonitch‘s operation XX games are among my favorite WW2 games. That’s all that really matters to me because I don’t or haven’t played others.
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I think its time nursie gave you your medication - I'll have mine as well.............................. :idiot2:
If you didn't get that reference then I'm starting to worry about you.(http://aarcentral.com/emoti/new/scratchead.gif)
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There is, and I pay it - who gets the money?
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Are you standing in water?
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Are you standing in water?
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This is a bigger waste of time than anything I have seen on Grogheads recently, so kudos everyone!
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Maybe it's time to start up another web site.
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Maybe it's time to start up another web site.
Agreed. Lemme know when BbmikeDragoonHeads.com is ready.
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This is certainly not a waste of my time. Compared to waiting for more dust to form on my computer screen so I can clean it, this is exciting. :D
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We would get more enjoyment in sitting in a circle and hitting each other over the back of the head with a rolled-up copy of the ASL rules.
..assuming you could roll up the ASL rules.......................
Look - with regards to Stalingrad as an example;
There is a vast difference from 'Stalingrad 42' in scale and scope than say, the old SPI 'Battle for Stalingrad', or MMP's 'Storm Over Stalingrad' or some of the ASL Stalingrad scenario's, so I don't see that you can lump 'em all together in one category.
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I'd have gone for the "Anything WW2" option had it been there. I'll be fine with never playing another WW2 game, ever. Having said that if the choice is between playing any WW2 game and simply having to look at the box of a Euro, Ameritrash or card game I'll even play Tide of Iron.
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We would get more enjoyment in sitting in a circle and hitting each other over the back of the head with a rolled-up copy of the ASL rules.
..assuming you could roll up the ASL rules.......................
Look - with regards to Stalingrad as an example;
There is a vast difference from 'Stalingrad 42' in scale and scope than say, the old SPI 'Battle for Stalingrad', or MMP's 'Storm Over Stalingrad' or some of the ASL Stalingrad scenario's, so I don't see that you can lump 'em all together in one category.
Getting hit in the head by an ASL rulebook is only slightly less dangerous than being hit with a frying pan.
Good points on Stalingrad.
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Stalingrad at any scale is still two groups of evil bastards slaughtering each other for completely repellent ideologies, demonstrating very little that in any way contributed to the overall sum of military knowledge and skill.
The value of Stalingrad is to serve as an example of what not be, and what not to do.
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demonstrating very little that in any way contributed to the overall sum of military knowledge and skill.
I'd take the counter-position that the Soviets demonstrated significant skill by feeding in just enough men and material to tie the Germans down in the city while they built up on the wings for the counter-offensive and encirclement.
These are the things we could argue about endlessly. I prefer to do it over a good bottle of whiskey while sitting around a fire.