ORIGINAL: ORANGE
I would like to see a computer version of the old Avalon Hill game Up Front or something similar.
Years ago I tried the first and got pretty close (one or two signatures away) though for a long list of reasons it will not and should not ever happen by anyone. I then started work on the second. For a different set of reasons I decided it not very plausible as it was. A good bit after that I began an enhanced version of the project. The irony here is that should I ever finish the 3rd incarnation while it will be what I would personally consider a superior game in all ways to Up Front, it is being built upon an engine that would be easily moddable into the first (well at least for 70%-80% of its rules/components if not more should someone actually want to bother) and then through additional releases other genres and/or forms of combat (naval/air etc.). Thus its plausibility to offset the insane amount of effort..
I hesitate a bit more than some would to call Up Front a flawed game. It was certainly revolutionary for its time, but uber-fanbois aside, most today consider it at least partially flawed, overcomplicated, and with some of the most poorly defined and written rules ever. Certainly any new player would. MMP to this day has still failed at a remake. I must say though, being challenged with coming up with a better game myself, I have I think a unique appreciation for some of the challenges Courtney faced and can't really criticize his solutions to them. Having done extensive playtesting and contributions to a later title of his and having subsequentlely fully finished my own card game back then based largely upon the same mechanics (Which never saw the light of day when AH died mere months later) I have an unparralleled love for all titles in the line...
I guess thats what still drives me to do it, even though I'm still a bit uncertain how exactly popular card games are, especially in a computer-based version.
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and Floating Paratroopers We grew up with Minor, Marginal and Decisive victories why rock the boat with Marginal, Decisive and Legendary?
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