Blown Away

[MajFrankBurns]

ORIGINAL: Llyranor

ORIGINAL: MajFrankBurns
I'm just realistic

But perhaps the games you play aren't!

Ummm no "games" will ever be realistic bright eyes. They are games nothing is ever real about them.

[daft]

ORIGINAL: DanO

Like I said earlier, none of that is true. You can't just leave the game and let it run. It might be fine, if you're lucky, just as it might be fine in real life. Ninety nine times out of a hundred you'll be screwed. You should try getting some experience before holding an opinion.

You could if had been a game where you spent six weeks preparing for the first turn, making crucial decision like deciding on what breakfast your sex million frontline chits will be served on the morning turn resolution. Then you go to bed and let the game do its thing and you can read the breakfast reports when you wake up. Then it is time to spend six months issuing move orders for the chits and watch them go at a whopping one hex at a time for the next six years of you life! When your son, aged 6 at the time of purchase of the hex-based game, moves out of the house you realize that you've only played half a day in game time, but it really doesn't matter since its time to buy a new computer and you find out that the game won't run on any OS that is older than 10 years.



[;)] Tongue in cheek of course. [8D]

[Larac]

That is Campaign of North Africa~!

You kept track of water for Italians to make pasta, among others, at least I think that was the game, weighed about 15lbs as I remember.

[:D]

Lee

[PirateJock]

Hi MFB - you ever play Campaign for North Africa?

[eMonticello]

I suspect the CfNA counter number is too small for MFB. He's probably more interested in the 1,600-counter Monster game, Dunnigan's Wacht Am Rhein, that only requires 10 hours to play (according to the box), although I suggest dedicating an entire weekend to finishing it.

[hgilmer3]

ORIGINAL: Franklin Nimitz

Darn right those kids today are lazy. Why, when I was a lad we had to shovel coal into our copy of The Longest Day...

in the snow.


both ways.

Ohhhhh, we used to DREEAMMM of having a copy of The Longest Day! It would have been a looxury to us! We had to play with buttons and individual pieces of Capt'n Crunch cereal!

[Adam Parker]

ORIGINAL: simovitch

I think MFB has some good points, and he dutifully qualifies his argument with "IMO".

I think MFB, who only started posting here at Matrix in May, with no game in particular in mind, just wants to have a chat now and then.

It's a shame as his post here quashed the OP's very nice take on wargaming. I do hope the OP posts again.

[Adam Parker]

ORIGINAL: hgilmer3

Ohhhhh, we used to DREEAMMM of having a copy of The Longest Day! It would have been a looxury to us! We had to play with buttons and individual pieces of Capt'n Crunch cereal!

LOL!

And btw, you guys may know that GMT has recently released its version of the longest day with The Battle for Normandy.

Battalion scale with 5 maps etc etc [X(]

[Prince of Eckmühl]

ORIGINAL: DanO

Computer games that blindly emulate boardgames are missing the point of computers; why not just stick with boardgames?

I agree completely. [8D]

But, if you eliminated all the computer wargames that emulate boardgames, there'd be only a handful remining, perhaps most prominent among them the AA games.

[PirateJock]

My D-Day bookshelf would collapse with that, Longest Day and Atlantic Wall ... think I'll wait for the computer version to come out.