The Board Wargames thread...
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Dr. Strangelove
Banned
Cutting counters out, the wargamer's zen.
Then there's its evil counterpart: how do I classify these 5000 counters so each can be easy to locate without losing an hour? By country? By order of arrival?
That makes two of us. It should be printed in summer, so in the best case scenario it would be out by the end of the year.
You can torture yourself by reading the rules.
yeah!! What kind of board did you end up using... art board or something else?
MacCaulay
Banned
Cardboard that my wife had found from a shipping box. The counter backs are brown, but they look good.
I did a test set using a divider from a 24-pack of diet Mountain Dew to see if that'd work better, but in the end it was too thin and even though it looked better I wasn't happy with it as a counter that could stand up to the wear and tear we'd be putting it through.
Here is a link to the "new" Angola... http://www.multimanpublishing.com/tabid/59/ProductID/79/Default.aspx MMP does not charge until it ships so if you want to pre-order it typically saves the cost of shipping. Last I heard it was in the pipeline for the printer; so that could be next week to next year, most likely this summer (just a guess though)
Me too!
And despite that fact it takes four people to play correctly.
BTW, MMP is the company I wrote about earlier which Curt Schilling is an owner of.
MacCaulay
Banned
When I saw that name I immediately thought: "This fucking company's trying to be the new Avalon Hill or something."
Are they basically cherry picking the best tabletop games and bringing them back?
(Hopefully they're bringing this one back in an affordable price...$150 on boargamegeek? That's fucking insane...)
Dr. Strangelove
Banned
That's the price of the original edition, that has been out of print for decades.
That was the original idea. A fairly vocal group didn't want to see ASL die from Hasbro's neglect, Schilling was a long time, well known, and passionate ASL player, money met opportunity, ASL was rescued from Hasbro's clutches, and everyone cheered.
Yup, they're also publishing new titles. They recently released a King Phillip's War game. It got some good reviews in the gaming hobby and got much more negative press thanks to an idiot reporter at the Providence Journal and some people who've decided they're Narragansett Indians in the hopes casino money might stick to them.
That's for a copy of the original edition from the now defunct original publisher. You won't believe what some people will pay for certain things.
During the initial Magic: The Gathering craze, which nearly destroyed the wargame industry, the cards were printed by a Dutch firm and would first arrive in New York. A portion of the output didn't enter the normal supplier chain. Instead, there were auctions NYC after the shipment cleared customs with entire unopened cartons on the block. An acquaintance of mine would successfully bid on a carton, shelling out a figure in the thousands of dollars, and then shipping the still unopened carton to a friend on the West Coast.
There the carton would be broken up into smaller boxes and individual packages all unopened themselves. These smaller lots would then be auctioned or sold off at stores or conventions on the West Coast for a tidy little profit. Over the period the craze lasted, that profit allowed my friend to buy his wife a new car. For cash.
The whole process worked because the Dutch-printed cards arriving in NYC would take weeks to reach the West Coast through the normal supply chain. Because the game relies more on which cards you've been able purchase than how you actually play the cards, getting the newer cards ahead of everyone else provided a real advantage.
I think I still have that General article. I'll look for it sometime this week.
Oh my. Is Larry Zoet okay with people drooling on his floor? I would love to see his collection.
Yes if you have money with you he buys and sells games at most of the big con's . Look for him at the auctions at the big con's he is usely running them .
Start at this site. Every rule set there is free to download.
Be sure to check out the links on that page too. Believe me, you can lose hours there with every visit.
so, how goes this project? Get to use any of those shiny new counters in actual games yet?
MacCaulay
Banned
Not for two or three weeks. I'm working 6 day weeks, and one of the other main members of the gaming group works 3rd shift so we're kind of waiting for scheduling conflicts to work themselves out.
Until then, however, I'm amassing a massive amount of alternate counters. If I had to make a ballpark estimation, I'd bet that I've got enough alt-counters that I could make an Arab-Israeli Wars-sized game for 80s-90s ground warfare. I've probably got 50 counters each for American, British, and Warsaw Pact.