ORIGINAL: yvesp
Overall, buying this computer version is akin to buying the boardagame with most add-ons included. It has two drawbacks:
* it's not physical, so it doesn't have exactly the same feeling that touching real cute counters
* your vision of the theater of war is limited to what your monitor will show (the bigger your monitor, the better.)
Yves
Yves,
The best part is not having a physical game, no need to touch counters. The new worldwide map is just way too large to play on, it was a stretch playing on the original set of maps plus other forms needed to help play. I considered buying the new map set but decided that the 9' by 21' map is too large to even play with, imagine the back pain leaning over trying to place or move or see what units are in a stack in the very middle of that nonsensically large map. That doesn't even include space needed to place the other forms needed for bookkeeping purposes.
While your vision of the theater is limited to what we can see on one map we can have more than one detailed map open and can easily switch to other map views. I can see quite a bit on my 27" iMac monitor, too bad they didn't make a 6th monitor setup to cover big Mac monitors with 2560 resolution.
You also forgot to mention that with a computer game we can keep the game safe from kitties as well as kiddies. Nothing ruins a board game faster than have kiddies or kitties begin to play, then they win and we lose.
Omnius
