[Consim-l] Smithsonian Midway

[Mike NotSpecified]

Well, isn't that the purpose of introductory?  To introduce people into the 
hobby?

I suppose you could say games like Road to Moscow, or the new Arnhem free game 
from MMP really serve no other purpose and must be judged in terms of 
introducing people, while games like Midway might be reasonably satisfying in 
their own right, but in that case I guess I'd make a distinctin between 
"simple" and introductory.

Mission Command: Sea is a simple game that is fairly enjoyable if taken for 
what it is, and the publisher has no real interest in wargaming per se. 
 Therefore it is no mark against it that it uses a completely unique system 
that does virtually nothing to introduce concepts used in more complex games.

But AH states this is an introductory game, the idea was to hook people on the 
hobby and get them used to certain conventions and ideas that re-appear in 
their other games.

Maybe I'm missing something?


On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:35 -0700
  "Dave Kohr" <davekohr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Mike  NotSpecified <blockhead at bresnan.net> wrote:
>> It also does one other thing every introductory game should do, namely it 
>>does
>> serve as a nice springboard to more complex games.
> 
> Why do you think every introductory game should do that?
> 
> Dave
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