Safe to Finally Play this Epic Game?

[ess1]

They no longer frighten me. I now have plastic ones. After 80 years plucked up courage

[rhondabrwn]

I am working through the WiF boardgame that I bought back in 1993 and never played. This is in anticipation of a good sale price on MWIF during Christmas Santa don't let me down!

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: jcorbin

"Centuur"

Very helpful feedback.

I used to work in the computer games industry "back in the day." If anyone can remember the long defunct Looking Glass Technologies, which became Looking Glass Studios ("System Shock" and can you civilian aviation simulation enthusiasts recall "Flight Unlimited ! and II") and , I know what a pain the a$$ it is to get monster games tested and off the ground.

And BTW, I played the original Tactics II Avalon Hill board game back in the seventies. So not a exactly a newbie here.

KUDOS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR GETTING THIS GAME THIS FAR ON WHAT I AM SURE WAS A SHOESTRING BUDGET!

Looking forward to a great game!

JC

Yep, I owned Flight Unlimited

Also cut my teeth on Tactics II and the rest of the Avalon Hill "classics". I am definitely one of the "dying breed" from the mist shrouded dawn of the gaming hobby! I was doing computer war gaming from the days of the Apple II+ as well [:)]

[billcorr]

JC,

"Wait a bit"

That's my perspective as a newbie to WiF. There is a team of dedicated players who are doing a great job making the game a better game. For me, the gameplay was pleasantly intuitive 90% to 95% of the time. But it was the remaining 5% to 10% of non-intuitive game playing that influences me to take a "wait and see" approach. The superb hard bound rule books, YouTube video, and most importantly, the online community helped with the non-intuitive parts of the game.

If you do buy and play the game, your feedback will undoubtedly help the game become even better.

Have fun at whatever you decide to do.

Best wishes,

Bill