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Author Topic: Most Over-Wargamed Battle  (Read 12072 times)

bob48

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Reply #30 on: September 13, 2019, 04:36:44 PM
I think its time nursie gave you your medication - I'll have mine as well.............................. :idiot2:

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Reply #31 on: September 13, 2019, 04:39:22 PM
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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Reply #32 on: September 13, 2019, 04:49:02 PM
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.

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Reply #33 on: September 13, 2019, 04:52:20 PM
There is, and I pay it - who gets the money?

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Reply #34 on: September 13, 2019, 06:32:08 PM
Are you standing in water?

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Reply #35 on: September 13, 2019, 06:35:05 PM

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Reply #36 on: September 13, 2019, 08:42:35 PM
This is a bigger waste of time than anything I have seen on Grogheads recently, so kudos everyone!

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Reply #37 on: September 13, 2019, 08:51:14 PM
Maybe it's time to start up another web site.

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Reply #38 on: September 13, 2019, 10:25:52 PM
Maybe it's time to start up another web site.

Agreed. Lemme know when BbmikeDragoonHeads.com is ready.

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Reply #39 on: September 13, 2019, 10:50:08 PM
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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Reply #40 on: September 14, 2019, 06:16:41 AM
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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Reply #41 on: September 14, 2019, 03:03:33 PM
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.

I actually don't really like games.

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Reply #42 on: September 14, 2019, 05:23:27 PM
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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Reply #43 on: September 14, 2019, 07:17:43 PM
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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Reply #44 on: September 15, 2019, 10:18:32 AM
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.

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