Brooski
6635
Got to play No Retreat!: The Russian Front this Thursday. Excellent game. You should pull it out and play it if you get the chance.
Is there a settled version of the rules now? I bought the game when it came out but shelved it because he kept changing the rules and I couldn’t be arsed to figure out which version to use.
Brooski
6637
The current printing is the third printing of the 3rd edition, so I assume they’d have the rules nailed down pretty well by now.
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-748.aspx?searchEngineName=no-retreat-the-russian-front-deluxe-ed-3rd-printing
Thanks, will check it out.
Anyone own The Greatest Day: Sword, Juno, and Gold from MMP?
http://www.multimanpublishing.com/tabid/58/CategoryID/16/ProductID/307/Default.aspx
I’m not thinking of getting it with a price north of $200 but was just wondering if anyone has played it.
Brooski
6640
Haven’t played it, but I do have Operation Mercury, which is also the Grand Tactical Series. But I haven’t played that, either. So that’s all I got.
Op Mercury is a great game. Never played The Greatest Day.
I own The Greatest Day, but haven’t played it more that a couple intro scenarios. It’s one of these things I’d like to have more time to play.
But the system is really fun (played some of Mercury) and if comes with a boatload of different size scenarios and a freaking huge box :)
Also, Utah in the same series might come out next year, and the a third volume with Omaha. I think the intention is to link three monsters into something unplayable.
OK, thanks guys. The Greatest Day campaign already looks unplayable to me! :) Can’t imagine adding Utah and Omaha to it. Will check further on Mercury.
Mercury is really huge too!
They are going to release a Bastogne game soonish that is probably much better sized
Sadly, the days of setting up and playing the monsters are long gone for me. I look at them longingly and then slap myself back to the reality that I have neither the time nor the fortitude to read the rules and set them up, much less play the full campaigns. Of course many of them have shorter scenarios, but I think it was Dean Essig who once wrote “Play anything other than the campaign? Why bother!” :)
spacerat
6647
I’m in the same boat. There is a copy of The Greatest Day: Sword, Juno, and Gold at my local gaming store that I pick up and ogle periodically, but I know deep down that it would just be an expensive ornament for my bookshelf I were to buy it (even at its discounted price).
And from what I can tell it doesn’t support the latest version of the GTS rules, so that’s a bit offputting as well.
C’est le vie de grognard…
Brooski
6648
Here is an alternative to monsters: get a good game that handles its subject properly, and then enlarge it for both usability and improved meta-narrative.
Wow, those are almost legible! Really, though, I love the larger format for my aging eyes.
This is incorrect, as far as I can tell the only GTS games that don’t support the 2.0 rules are the Market Garden diptych. Actually, you can’t play this with the 1.0 rules.
The game does come with the 1.0 rules but the changes to the rules to make them 2.0 are in the game specific rules (so it’s a little bit of a mess). But you can print the 2.0 rules (as I did) and just use them.
In fact there is a lot of pondering on BGG about when Market Garden will be re-released, updated to 2.0, etc.
Well, they are releasing an update of both games in a single box. I expect it to be north of $400
I want counters as big as my palm, and a map on a damn humongous table like Fighter Command. And assistants with croupier sticks and oversized tweezers moving them around! And my opponent and I up in opposing galleries overlooking it all!
The smart play for me right now would be to settle on a computer wargame series and stick with that. One off games can be great but the advantage of learning a set of rules once and applying them to multiple games is the way for me to go. I already own a number of John Tiller Panzer Campaigns games since I alpha and beta tested most of them. I also own his Panzer Battles Kursk game but haven’t played it much at all. There are two others available now (Normandy and North Africa) as well. I also like Panther Games Command Ops 2 series which has a ton of modules available and will be moving to the Eastern Front soon. Decisions, decisions…
The other advantages for me of going computer is virtually zero setup and takedown time, and because they are available via digital download I don’t have to explain to She Who Will Not Be Named why I keep getting more games in the mail! :)
