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Comment on Wrapping up Horus Heresy by dropded

dropded — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:45:17 +0000

So, now that you are back from the sea, Cap’n, are you going to put away this HH nonsense and pull out a real wargame?

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Comment on Out of the box: Bataan! by dropded

dropded — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:33:10 +0000

Re: Silent War. It’s not so much the accounting, the maths is kinda simple, it’s the endless wristage and chit pulling. The amount of work involved combined with the morale crushing combo of shitty torpedoes and tough campaign quotas has kept this off the table. It does generate good narrative and gives plausible results (i.e. amount of tonnage sunk and subs lost will stay within one standard deviation of the historical mean). I’ll probably play it again at some point.

Re: Bataan. I’ve given this one a pass because it’s a VvB game, the few of which I’ve played seem to burden the player with a lot of detail in the combat system for little return (I’m thinking mostly of Manstein’s Backhand Blow, which the developer of Bataan was a sharp critic of, and the EFS games, which I have in the queue). I’m always ready to be persuaded to buy a game though, so I’m interested in your further thoughts.

And speaking of overburdened combat systems, I’m currently playing NES Overlord, which I like despite it being burdened by Killing Grounds overwrought combat system.