Personally, I like it when the old Spanish M48 dresses up as a tiger.
Or as a PzKpfw IVF2.
http://i.imgur.com/hDVOYMH.jpg
This is good news. SP was fantastic for Multiplayer, and if they go with the “Editor/Mod-able” route (which will allow, at bare minimum, the rewriting of canned modules as “balanced PBEM” versions, let alone a LOT of PBEM modules), then it will provide a lot of entertainment at that scale. Which is a great Tactical Scale (platoon).
Believe it or not, I saw a platoon of those M48 (with many upgrades) still in “service” (that is, being driven occasionally out from a depot for training purposes) by 1997.
Interesting post, kind of feels familiar with my feelings (and why I really don’t buy boardgames any more)
I found this post bemusing
Well this topic is disheartening. I thought you finally had the time to play everything once you reached this age.
This is evidence of exactly what I said up-thread: We are experiencing a wargame glut right now. In the last few years I’ve bought more board wargames than I had in the prior 30 years combined, for certain. Something is up and I’m not sure it’s about broadening interest in wargames. It seems more like a marketing scheme that has worked on the old timers like me.
I think there are more avenues for independents to market and produce. There aren’t more games; but you are hearing about a lot more than you did 30 years ago.
Good point: gaming magazines used to carry like 4 or 5 reviews per issue, usually covering one of each “theme”: ancients, horse and musket, Napoleonics and WW2.
That on a “good” month, at least in Spain in the late 1990s. There was a fierce competition from RPGs and proto eurogames for space on magazines.
None of those constraints exist any more.
Don’t make me come down there!
No recursion in this thread, man! You just proved that (there ain’t more games) to scores of readers spanning the globe!
I would argue that there were fewer games released per year in 1980 than now. Or in 1990.
That sounds like a worthy data project. :) Comparing published wargames. PrntNPlay would have to be left out. That would have to include the plethora of 1980s magazine games. SPI, Avalon Hill. Interesting.
Speaking of new games: http://www.johntillersoftware.com/MusketAndPike/SevenYearsWar.html
Well a computer game anyway.
I wonder if they revamped the engine and they are using modern Multiplayer techniques?
Sorry, made myself laugh there…
Someone found this article in the WaPo archives and posted it at BGG. My favorite game (and a 1984 interview with a very young Nick Karp).
Oh Nick. To be young and a serious designer.
That whole thread got interesting on BGG. The old Miranda vs. Curtis/Karp debate on Vietnam sims came up. VG CA got dissed. COINistas versus Gappers. Grognard Crips and Bloods.
"Weekend Sale: Slitherine Publisher Sale up to 90% Off" at GOG. Good luck finding a game you like for 90% off.
Thanks for this! As usual I either don’t like it already or own it already. :)
No, but Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for 50% off is rather tempting