[Consim-l] Re: Wargaming in 2009

[Mike NotSpecified]

Brian,

I did a write up of my first operational sceanrio in Arctic Convoy that you 
can find on BGG
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/377529/operational-secenario-1-first-convoy

The U-Boats had a field day in my game, apparently scoring far more success 
than they did historically.  Some of the guys who commented on my session 
report discussed that and included some links to other excellent U-Boat sites. 
 You might want to check it out.

Also, if you are not familiar with SWWAS, they do have a pretty good set of 
mechanisms for handling searches without an umpire.  Basically everything is 
on the board, so the player can see it, but your units have to pass various 
die rolls to be able to "see it" themselves.

I'd be curious to hear about peoples experience with PQ-17.  I saw a prototype 
at consimworld almost 5 years ago and was interested, but never got to try it.


On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:26:13 -0800 (PST)
  Brian McCue <brianmccue22312 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As has been the case for the last few years, Real Life kept me from doing 
>much wargaming in 2009.
> 
> In fact, I believe that the only wargames I played were:
> 
> --_Panzer Leader_. With multiple players, we played the Macro scenario as 
>set forth toward the back of the rule book. My high-end panzers suffered from 
>a problem common in wargaming and perhaps also in the actual conflict: each 
>of them destroyed close to one American counter per turn, but there were too 
>many American counters and they just kept coming.
> 
> --_Wings of War_. Again, multiple players, with one airplane each. We did 
>one of the bombing scenarios. Lots of fun, especially since we used the 
>miniature airplanes that I've been buying to make myself feel less bad about 
>not playing enough wargames.
> 
> --AH _Midway_ ('64). With the aid of a referee (who seemed to have a lot of 
>fun himself), we played this double-blind. The result was a tie (!), but the 
>game saw a lot of exciting action including a night surface battle in the 
>Midway Island box itself. The three of us resolved to play the Guadalcanal 
>variant at the earliest opportunity, which has yet to present itself.
> 
> --GDW _Operation Crusader_ (the monster game, not the little double-blind 
>_8th Army : Operation Crusader_): It's a huge game, but the introductory 
>scenario was managable since we had three people on each side and could 
>devote a full day. @:-)= Enough interesting things happened to keep it from 
>being tedious, and the system is not really all that hard.
> 
> Game-buying continued, albeit at a low pace. I have a penchant for U-boat 
>games; normally this is a cheap penchant to have, but in 2009 there appeared 
>three U-boat games: Avalanche _Arctic Convoy_ (two-map SWWAS game), DG 
>_Paukenschlag_ (U-boats off the East Coast, 1942), and GMT _PQ-17_ (also 
>Arctic). The GMT game is a "blocks" game, and thus holds promise as a new 
>solution to the perennial question of how to do searches without a referee.
> 
> And Clash of Arms has come close enough to releasing their U-boat game that 
>I could put in a pre-order.
> 
> Brian
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