vyshka
6114
Have you P500’d GMT’s upcoming Cold War air game, based on Lee Brimmicombe-Wood’s air system?
Hmm cant see it on GMT’s site? You happen to know the name? Lee’s previous work can sometimes be a bit more tactical than I am thinking of.
vyshka
6116
Ah ha! Thank you! Yeah slightly closer scale but I will get it anyway, looks fantastic :) Thank you!
vyshka
6118
I think I also linked this book for you previously, but if not it was an interesting read:
You did thank you! I bought it, agree good book!
This was the book that sparked my desire to make a cold war air game in lower intensity conflicts.
SamS
6120
OK actually changed my mind - what I want is a Churchill-style game except set during the Long March. Four players representing Mao, Bo Gu, Zhou Enlai and Zhang Guotao. You have a tracker that moves along the map from Jiangxi to Yanan, and as the tracker moves, there are regular conferences. At the conference, each player needs to work together to allocate resources to keep the march going and fending off attacks by Chiang Kai-shek, but at the same time trying to hoard points to get them to the top of the CCP hierarchy. Whoever is top dog when you get to Yanan purges the rest and is the winner.
Confirmed: The Long March-Strategic/Political Cooperative/Competitive Game
Could be; I no longer really follow wargaming as a thing much. And I haven’t played a board game in ages, really.
Kolbex
6123
First published in 1984! Pretty unique. The guy who designed it has passed away, but his wife still (slowly) sells copies through the site.
Oh, that Ranger! Yeah, I think I had that one, before I sold my collection. Long ago…
How about; Gulf Strike, Forty Years On (This Time We Computerised It So You Can Plausibly Play It!)
I loved Gulf Strike. I solitaired that a bunch, though I don’t think I ever actually played it with anyone.
Scotten
6127
You and me both. I remember setting the (big) maps all over my parents’ dining room table when I was kid. I can’t believe how patient they were with me and my teenage wargame addiction.
Confirmed: Gulf Strike 2019! Hypothetical US-Iranian Conflict in the Gulf and Red Sea. Naval/Air/Ground. Operational/Strategic.
Brooski
6129
There was a Gulf Strike computer game! But I think the original is quite playable on its own as a tabletop game, as are all Mark Herman designs.
Brooski
6130
East Front is the Best Front!
I agree that the rules were perfectly playable (at the upper end of the complexity range). I remember it as a great system; really impressive that something that gave equal weight to land, sea and air warfare and pulled it off at an operational as well as strategic level. It just had space and time requirements that I couldn’t really manage.
I’d forgotten about the computer version though. What did it run on?
vyshka
6133
I believe there is a project out there right now working on modeling central Europe ww3 with the Gulf/Aegean Strike ruleset.
