7375

They should have a sale around the holidays I think.

7376

I think you are wise. I havent played my copy in years but I remember it being quite fiddly as @awdougherty says with lots of utility and tracking counters on the ships.

7377

I know there may be a little bit of COIN fatigue going around but I am excited to see a Hard Sci-fi setting introduced to the series:

https://www.gmtgames.com/p-893-red-dust-rebellion.aspx

I guess the time is coming for @Brooski to unveil his Glorantha COIN design. Bruce has to be working on that, right? He’s the only one I’d trust to get the all the event cards historically accurate.

7378

Is that COIN volume XXV or XXVI?

7379

A few more to go to catch up with the Bulge games :)

7380

I didn’t notice this—thanks for posting! I actually like this idea a lot, because it can be tweaked for balance and whatever neat things the designer wants to include.

My design is actually about the little-known part of Gloranthan history that coincides with the rise of Melniboné.

7381

Smells like chaos to me.

7382

Since I have a number of games that will be arriving over the next year, what do folks do these days for counter storage? Is it still those plastic trays that used to come in games, ziplock baggies, the plastic containers the squad leader folks love to use, or something else?

7383

Store the counters in the cloud!

Er, well, maybe not.

7384

I buy GMT counter trays. Use cardboard dividers to subdivide each slot in 2, 3 or 4 slots (depending on counter size).

7385

Amazon has lots of choices for plastic trays.

7386

Plano is the only way.

7387

I like Plano storage too, but lately I’ve been using a Darice Storage Box (“Boite de Rangement”). It has 32 pre-built compartments of (mostly) equal size, it stacks nicely, it’s soft plastic so it doesn’t scrape stuff, and it closes pretty securely. I’m using eight or nine of them to store all my World in Flames counters. (I’m playing WiF on my table solo, and I’ll be posting a link to my BGG AAR soon.) You can find the Darice boxes here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B0S2H6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@vyshka I’m curious what games you have on the way, as you and I have similar tastes. I’ve gotten more cautious about buying board wargames because so many just sit untouched. (As I type this I look over at my copies of Pacific Theater of Operations, Fields of Fire II, Fire in the Lake (unplayed, the shame of it), DAK II, and Birds of Prey.) I really should play those first. Really.

7388

I’m going on a bit of a nostalgia trip:

Herman’s Pacific War
Third World War Designer’s Edition
NATO Designer’s Edition
Air & Armor Designer’s Edition

and Empire of the Sun because of all the love it gets. I think I stopped at that. I might still pick up Bitter Woods (or the other Bulge game they have) and France 1944 in the Compass sale that is going on for the holidays, but really I should wait until I prove I’m going to actually play the games before dumping more money. :) I’m also still looking at potentially picking up some things when GMT does their sale, like Red Storm.

I imagine a psychiatrist could have fun trying to figure out if my hobbies are just an attempt to try and recapture something from my youth.

I need to hunt down @Brooski’s counter clipper on Amazon again. I think I have saved in a wishlist somewhere.

Another problem I need to solve is where actually I’m going to play them. Sadly it will most likely end up being vassal at least part of the year. The only place I could hope to have something set up for a period of time would be in the garage, and I don’t know if I could stand the heat in the summer here in Phoenix.

7389

I have the Oregon Laminate counter clipper. It’s a great thing, but it does tire my hands, and I’ve gotten less ambitious about clipping. I didn’t clip WiF at all. WiF has its sprues on the middle of the counters, not the corners, so corner-clipping doesn’t seem as important.

Vassal is great for PBEM or online play, but I haven’t used it much for solo play, which is the majority of my wargaming. There’s a part of me that thinks: I buy board games so that I can get away from the computer screen! But as you say, table space is the thing. I’m loving my play of WiF, but it means my big table is completely spoken for. I have one card table available for other games; it’s got Apocryhpa on it now but I’ve tired of that and will soon set up Fields of Fire or a COIN game there.

7390

Same here :)

7391

Thanks for the reminder!

You know that “Not gonna preorder from Compass any more till I hear the game is functional!” deal I had going on?

Yeah…bout that :)
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7392

Game can’t really be non-functional since the rules already exist. As long as they don’t mess up the printing, you can just use the original rules.

https://www.amazon.com/Radius-Rounder-Oregon-Lamination-Premium/dp/B01MYPSBYW

7393

This is true. Personally I’d wait for confirmation on serious component/aids/map errors in the box before ordering. But that is me, @Rod_Humble

However these games’ system rules are broken. Making it the first set of games I know of that are definitely broken in preorder. I never thought it would be possible to say that.

https://www.compassgames.com/the-doomsday-project-episode-one-the-battle-for-germany.html

https://www.compassgames.com/a-test-of-faith-the-arab-israeli-war-of-1973-an-oss-game.html

7394

Starkweather strikes again. You picked up the Korea game in the OSS series right?