[WarInEur] Artillery

[Bruce Denney]

When I was in collage in 197... never mind, I had built a set of tables
specifically designed to hold the WiE map. It could break down and rearrange
for nay of my other games - but it took over 75% of my apartment bed room.
It was there only because I still wanted a social life in my living room. It
was a beauty - the only catch was I could barely reach the Balkans. That set
uf mapblards also reconfigured to hold the entire "Highway to the Reich" or
better yet "Campaign for North Africa".

 

I am afraid that nowadays my monster game habit has to be met with
Cyberboard and ADC2. And CWIE.

 

I have noticed an interesting fact with the computerized games.

 

With the game out on a map board you can get a real brad overview of every
thing going on at once. But with the computer games where you have to scroll
the screen over a smaller portion of the map you can become fixated on what
is going on in one section and miss what your enemy is doing else where. It
is an interesting from of command control limitations that can lead to a
real strategic surprise.

 

Bruce

 

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From: warineur-bounces at mailman.halisp.net
[mailto:warineur-bounces at mailman.halisp.net] On Behalf Of sgminfo
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:33 AM
Cc: warineur at mailman.halisp.net
Subject: Re: [WarInEur] Artillery

 

Terry Shaw wrote: 

These were usually men aged between 40 and 50.  I wonder if we managed to
pursuade any of them to have another stab at it?


I'll wager that the orginal cardboard game set out in all its glory would
still drive people into purchases of both, the computer  version would have
but a fraction of that pull. in Wargaming, as a spectator sport, size really
does matter.

It would be interesting to gauge the reaction to CWIE, on a projector
screen, or a really large wall monitor.

A 50plus inch table display, would probably  produce a similar effect...

-|steve|-

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