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Any Upcoming Wargame Releases on the F:ATties Radar?
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It Never Snows: The simplicity of SCS meets a monster Market Garden game. Big and small scenarios. My one and only current pre-order but it is a Gamers release and already has a production slot. I have high hopes that this will be good.
Next Band of Brothers game: Jim Krohn's follow-up to Ban of Brothers Screaming Eagles. I think it's Ghost Division, Eastern Front. The first game rocked and it's the best squad-level game I've played. Sign me the fuck up. I would consider pre-ordering this, especially since there's been issues with retailer availability with BoBSE.
Conflict of Heroes Guadalcanal: CoH is a decent system. The big draw for me is that it's tactical PTO with a game that I don't have a problem playing. Not enough new PTO games out there.
Ogre 6E: Must have. I love Ogre.
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There are some games I've preordered that I'm psyched to get---Virgin Queen being #1 as the sequel to my favorite game. Should be out very soon. Angola also coming out pretty soon since it's almost all been printed.
I've also preordered some other stuff, OCS: Korea, Navajo Wars from GMT, and the reprint of Stonewall Jackson's Way.
I'm actually really psyched for Stonewall Jackson's Way reprint, but for exactly the right reason... I've been playing GCACW recently with Kingput and I LOVE, LOVE the series. I'm not very good at it but it is a great ruleset. They're adding the full Bull Run 1 campaign to the already meaty Bull Run 2 of the original. Right now I'm playing a full campaign (40 turns!) of Battle Above the Clouds and loving it. GCACW is a wonderful, *extremely* playable system. Most campaign games are something that are so big it's hard to wrap your mind around actually playing them but GCACW maintains a perfect balance of playability and covering the whole campaign.
I've been thinking about ordering one of Volko Ruhne's COIN games... Andean Abyss, the Columbia game, should be out very soon. It looks very interesting, to me. But I'm actually a bit more interested in the second in the series, Cuba Libre, which is basically the Cuban communist revolution, 4 sided. It will play considerably faster than Andean Abyss, which is plus for a 4 player wargame for me.
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tscook wrote: Sturm Europa! is the big one for me, as is Simmons Game's WWII game if it drops this year.
Reminds me I need to read the rules for my copy of Totalar Krieg 2.
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Gary Sax wrote: Band of Brothers looks fantastic and it is on my wishlist, I love the designer's focus for the game but haven't played it. This Eastern Front entry doesn't interest me themewise, but honestly neither does overdone 101st paratroopers. I may just have to get one anyway to see what the fuss is about with the system.
The Eastfront isn't a big draw for me either but with that game the play's the thing. Rules that are fun and innovative. Big emphasis on suppressing fire, limited intel, and training being something different than resolve. Good stuff. Hopefully Worthington will get more copies of BoB out to the stores so more people can play.
Gary Sax wrote: There are some games I've preordered that I'm psyched to get---Virgin Queen being #1 as the sequel to my favorite game. Should be out very soon. Angola also coming out pretty soon since it's almost all been printed.
I've never played HIS but I think I'll play Virgin Queen eventually. Maybe at BGG Con. I need to try the system sooner or later and both those games have some good history. Might try Angola, more good history but the long playing time might put me off.
tscook wrote: Sturm Europa! is the big one for me, as is Simmons Game's WWII Eastern Front game if it drops this year.
Seems like Sturm Europa has been in development for a really long time. They need to get it published.
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1989 is about to hit shelves, too, but it's just to light to interest me. Not big on the acritical Havel worship, either.
Navajo Wars is quite a ways away, but I've preordered. Ogre 6Ed is a good catch.
I really, really like Wilderness War, but I'm a bit nonplussed about Volko's COIN stuff. Even after you acknowledge that COIN is a massive boondoggle - and even when you rip away all of the awful NeoCon assumptions in the games - they are so radically asimulationist it makes my teeth hurt. Wish I could like them, but I'm not built that way.
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That said, I haven't played the series, so I don't know if the asimulationist stuff will bother me. Both Labyrinth (which I really enjoyed, despite a couple difficult assumptions) and these definitely seem pretty abstract once you peel away some of the game.
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I've got Pax Baltica on P500 but that could be a long way from release.
I'm watching crown of roses too. I've got Richard III, and i love it, despite its flaws. But GMT can produce some total crap as well as gold and i'm going to wait until Crown of Roses gets some good and bad reviews out until i make a decision. Unfortunately this could take some time. Getting decent semi objective reviews for war games can be tough, there's few people that do it.
1989, i like the look of the theme, but unless it proves to be far superior to Twiglet struggle i wont get it (this doesn't set the bar to high, i like TS but its far from perfect).
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I'm also interested in It Never Snows but I don't think we'll see that until Fall. Maybe in time for BGG.Con?
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