18-01-2005 20:11									#61
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quote: Originally posted by Jon Miller there is an ASL tourneyment this weekend in Maryland I will probably go for a day or two JM

I wish I had read about this earlier. Did you go?

I live in Northern Virginia and I would have been close enough to check it out.

	19-01-2005 09:21									#62
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quote: Originally posted by rah Or for the more twisted "Escape from Auschwitz" where you choose to be one of masses of Jews trying to escape or the Nazis trying to keep them in.

I remember that, or at least something similar.

One player plays the Nazis and the rest play various "factions" of Jews. The Jews run around various places on the board to collect items. A piece can attempt to flee when a set of essential items has been collected. The Nazi guy move about to try to catch the Jews.

There are also various cards players can collect, and there's this Do or Die thing.

	19-01-2005 09:53									#63
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Nice list of games - http://home.netvigator.com/~chailok/algamelist.htm

I have those games, even the exact version

Afrika Korps

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	19-01-2005 09:53									#64
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The game I talked about earlier - Freedom in the Galaxy - I really enjoyed this game and it's shame not too many people know about it.

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	19-01-2005 09:54									#65
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One of my old favorites - Napoleon

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	19-01-2005 09:55									#66
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D-Day - not too bad

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	19-01-2005 09:55									#67
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I loved this game and it could be played with Red October to create WW 3

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	19-01-2005 09:56									#68
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One of my favorites - I just love using nukes in this game

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	19-01-2005 09:57									#70
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I just love the cover, I used to look at it and daydream. Third Reich

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	19-01-2005 09:58									#71
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Very cool Barinthus. I have a number of those games...

I especially like the description on the Afrika Korps box. "...finally broke his sword."

	19-01-2005 10:01									#72
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Heh oh yeah I loved that too .

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3044

Air Assault on Crete - one of my other favorites. It had a second game enclosed - you get to play a planned German invasion of Malta that never happened.

	19-01-2005 10:01									#73
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Easy game, but still fun!

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	19-01-2005 10:09									#74
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Caesar at Alesia - I just loved this cover too. It was a pretty neat game too. As Romans, you get to decide where you can place your forts trying to containing the city and at same time prevent reinforcing Gauls to open up a hole in your lines so their leader stuck in Alesia could flee. You could follow the orginial sites Caesar built them or not.

Those forts were so strong defensive that casualties that can result from an attack upon one can be so insane considering fort's own defensive artillery and lethal earthworks along with your own archers and slingers.

As the Gaul player you get to see how the Roman player plan his troops and forts and you can decide wherever on the board you want to strike from keeping the Roman player guessing.

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	19-01-2005 19:26									#75
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We had a gaming club where I grew up - really cool. I have been playing AH and SPI games since the early 70`s. At one time I had over 300 of these games.

We played The Campaign for North Africa with 10 gamers

We played War in Europe with 15 players

	19-01-2005 19:51									#76
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I started with:
- Quadrigames: Blue&Grey
- Quadrigames: forgot_the_name (NATO vs Warsaw Pact in hypothetical 1970 WW3)

Most played:
- War&Peace
- ASL (all expansions)

Enjoyed also:
- WorldWar II (European theater of operation)
- WorldWar II (Pacific theater of operation)
- Patton's 3rd Army

I also wanted to buy/play the whole Europa (GDW) serie, but bought only 2 of them: War in the Desert and... the one about Winter War... forget the exact name. My finances then forbad me to buy more. Very interresting game mechanics, but I didn't play them that much.

	19-01-2005 19:57									#77
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quote: Originally posted by beingofone We played War in Europe with 15 players

Oh, man! That monster!
A legend.
You need 2 game sessions just to install it.
It fascinated me. Never played it.

	19-01-2005 20:02									#78
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For some reason, we never bought Panzer Leader. PanzerBlitz was awesome.

I liked the three foldout maps which could be assembled in any number of ways as the roads/rivers/terrain matched up no matter how you put the edges together.

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	19-01-2005 20:06									#79
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While looking for an image of the PanzerBlitz box, I ran across this website. You can play Panzer Leader or PanzerBlitz online -- you still need the original game to play online.

PanzerLeader/PanzerBlitz Online

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quote: Originally posted by Shogun Gunner I wish I had read about this earlier. Did you go? I live in Northern Virginia and I would have been close enough to check it out.

yeah, ended up 2-2

there is the board game world championships in August (has everything from Axis and Allies to ASL) in maryland as well

thre is actually a DC ASL club, I might go to a meeting or two

Jon Miller

	20-01-2005 09:27									#81
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PanerBlitz

As for game board set up you described, SG, about how you could asemble them in various ways.

Same thing with Starship Troopers game, I believe.

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This graphic represents all three boards put together. If you look closely at the rivers and the roads you could move the top 1/3 of this picture to the bottom of the map and the terrain lines up.

It provided some nice variety for different scenarios. Probably my favorite scenario was a German Fighting Withdraw in 1944 forget the location, but it was probably Poland. The scenario called for the maps to be assembled short-end to short-end (imagine seperating the 1/3's of the attached pic and putting the short ends together - you will see the road hexes line up again).

The objective, as the Germans, was to preserve your forces while inflicting damage on the Russians. The Russians have tons of T-34s and T-34/85s. The Germans have self propelled guns like the Wespe and the Hummel. You park those suckers on a mountain top 10-20 hexes back and when you sight the Russians - ya light 'em up. Retreat when they get to close and setup again in another location with a good field of fire. The Germans end up retreating the whole length of those three boards in the scenario.

A great scenario and a very innovative game.

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	21-01-2005 08:49									#83
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Ahh memories... that was a fun one indeed.

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yes the meories just keep rolling in...


i cant beleive i been palying wargames for nearly 2/3 of my life !!!!!

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quote: Originally posted by Shogun Gunner I wish I had read about this earlier. Did you go? I live in Northern Virginia and I would have been close enough to check it out.

yeah, it was a lot of fun

I think I went 2-2, which was surprising

Jon miller

	19-05-2005 18:53									#86
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quote: Originally posted by Rasputin yes the meories just keep rolling in... i cant beleive i been palying wargames for nearly 2/3 of my life !!!!!

I hvae been also...

Jon Miller

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I need to get some of the odler games..

maybe if I get a job

Jon Miller

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quote: Originally posted by Rasputin never played any spi games, i think i got addicted to avalon hill and regarded them as the bst (rightly or wrongly)

SPI was more hardcore. Unlike Avalon Hill, SPI games werent sold in retail stores, IIRC. You bought them mail order or you subscribed to their military history mag, which included a game in each issue. Which meant you had to be pretty hard core even to have found out about them. And this was before the net, so it wasnt like you could find out about them from websites or whatever (You could buy their games at their HQ in NYC, however)

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SPI was cool because they would cover battles and conflicts that we less mainstream. Some very unique situations and historical battles were covered by SPI.

They were under pressure to design a new game for each issue. I can't imagine the rush to deadline that must have been.

	19-05-2005 22:20									#90
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you lot are making me all teary eyed for my misspent youth