Just became more valueable 5 minutes ago......:-} Extended Beda Fomm by Brian McCue with counters by Plloyd. Needed to get out now, as the scenario was written for use with 2nd or 3rd edition PG rules.
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Found the email first thing this morning and have it downloaded. Looks great.
Thanks guys. Glad it's going over well. I like the idea of variable VP income, which Brian does with the civilians. You wouldn't believe what his civilian counters looked like.
Personally I don't like Brian McCue's double-blind system, but the rest of the mini-campaign is pretty good. The problem I have with his double-blind idea (as with Straus', Rains', Pope's before) is that it requires a referee. I don't know about your situations, but I have never found someone competent with a system who wanted to watch 2 other people play.
(11-21-2014, 01:17 AM)plloyd1010 Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks guys. Glad it's going over well. I like the idea of variable VP income, which Brian does with the civilians. You wouldn't believe what his civilian counters looked like.
Personally I don't like Brian McCue's double-blind system, but the rest of the mini-campaign is pretty good. The problem I have with his double-blind idea (as with Straus', Rains', Pope's before) is that it requires a referee. I don't know about your situations, but I have never found someone competent with a system who wanted to watch 2 other people play.
I did it once with a Squad Leader battle. Setup the maps in 2 rooms and I moved back and forth. It was pretty cool. The guy attacking was just looking at this empty board wondering where the defenders were.
Of course that was back when the 2 guys playing were in High School and lived with their parents.
It would be harder to pull off now.
I did pick up a 2nd copy of Flat Top with the idea of doing it double blind but never got around to it.
I have 2 copies of Flat Top also. If you combine the combat system from Carrier Battles with the flight ops from Flat Top, you get a really cool game. Get some Vis-a-vis pens and put thin plexiglass on the maps, that will make plotting & searching very interesting.
Hmm, I've never played CB. Sounds fun though.
Think I have those older civilian counters. Looked a bit like the Madonna and Child image to me. Hadn't played them yet but I made them up thinking they looked better than just putting out a bunch of truck counters or something. Now I will actually play those scenarios.
Tom Oxley
(11-21-2014, 02:32 AM)richvalle Wrote: [ -> ]Hmm, I've never played CB. Sounds fun though.
It's the same theme done by Rising Sun Simulations. The combat system is quite detailed, but still playable. I also think it is the only game they produced.
(11-21-2014, 02:46 AM)thomaso827 Wrote: [ -> ]Think I have those older civilian counters. Looked a bit like the Madonna and Child image to me. Hadn't played them yet but I made them up thinking they looked better than just putting out a bunch of truck counters or something. Now I will actually play those scenarios.
Tom Oxley
I know the ones you are talking about. AP created those. Brian M made his out of the Ban counters out of DR. He took the guns away and squished them down a bit. The result looked like people in hazmat suits.