[Consim-l] Re: best gettysburg game?

[Aaron Silverman]

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>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:31:22 +1030 (CST)
>From: Markus Stumptner <mst at cs.unisa.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: [Consim-l] Re: best gettysburg game?
>To: consim-l at mailman.halisp.net

>Aaron is right in terms of the 2 hours.  However I have to point out that
>the game that finally convinced me that Battle Cry was not for me (after
>three different opponents had told me, "this game is pure chance, let's
>play something else") was a Pickett's Charge scenario where, because I had
>no cards to do anything in the centre and the Confeds got some multiple
>moves, the Confederate attack leapt across the battlefield, shot my
>entrenched units in the center to pieces, all without me having a chance
>to even shoot at them, and then occupied the Union center for pretty much

See, I was right in terms of the "if you're looking for something with some semblance of simulation value," too!  ;)

>an instant victory.  It almost beats Richard Simon's Gunslinger 
>experience.
>
Interestingly, I was in that game.  I think I was the only person who had the patience to take the time to aim my gun.  :)

-Aaron Silverman