Go for Broke vs Saipan 1944

[Tony M]

Thanks, guys for the replies!

@Jay - I've read a number of your comments on Saipan 1944 over at BG. It sounds and looks like a fascinating game. I was also poking around this forum and saw your posts for Leyte '44. My wife is Filipino, so I don't think she will object to my spending money on that one as well. I showed her your pictures of the maps for Leyte '44 and she said "wow!"

I see that maps for some PG games are of different sizes. For example, the Afrika Korps maps seem to be bigger than the ones for Elsenborn Ridge/Black Panthers that I am currently playing on. I really hope the maps for Go for Broke, Saipan and Leyte are of the smaller size, because I have limited table space. It's a mystery to me why for so many years wargame companies always used such large maps. How many of us have room to have a large table set up for days or weeks at a time? Especially now, with so many of us being of the generation that grew up with SPI? We have spouses, and some of us have children and even grandchildren. Who has unlimited room for wargaming? And at my age, if a map is bigger things on the other side of it are harder to see, even with my glasses. 

I like a smaller map, so I can see all the pieces easily and don't have to stand up to reach units on the far map edge.