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Submitted by sisteray on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 1:02am.
06/17/2008 - 1:57am
The new and vastly improved El Presidente looks like it is in its final stages. Right now the base game is about as ready as I think it is going to be. We need to figure out a good three player version, and what we should do with the corruption tiles. That said I think it is a solid 4 player game, and one that I love playing and want to get on the table just because I enjoy it.
I normally don't ask you folks to playtest games for me (it isn't really playtesting at this point), but if anyone is interested, I'd love to get El Pres on the table again.
Submitted by sisteray on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 11:28am.
06/02/2008 - 12:13pm
In an effort to plan out the week, are we all in for this Tuesday?
Games I would love to get on the table:
Merchant of Venus
Lancashire Rails
Brass
Steam over Holland
UR: 1830 BC
Ming Dynastie
Quirks
Dampfross
Lords of Creation
Age of Steam (either 3rd edition or any number of expansion maps)
Caylus
New England
Magier von Pangea, die
Die Handler
Goa
Clippers
Kaivai
Kings & Things
We had nine gamers last night, including Morgan, Modboy, Travis, Dr. Rob, Campoverdi, Dave, Dutch, Scott, and myself.
Dr. Rob and I paired off for our ASL playtest, Campo led Dutch and Morgan into the world of RHB's Blackbeard Strikes Back, while Scott, Travis, Mr. Squires and Dave opened with Race for the Galaxy.
Rob and I got one turn in of our game - it's a mini-campaign game set in the town of Singling in December, 1944. It starts out with Creighton Abrams leading a lot of armor and not much infantry against a real mixed bag of tired German troops backed by Panthers and assault guns. The campaign is really just the morning, mid-day and evening segments of the battle. We had a lot to set up plus some pregame smoke shenanigans, but are well underway. My smoke worked wonders and I diced my way clear of the couple solid punches Rob did manage to land, so I feel okay about my position. However, the campaign has a self-balancing mechanism - if I do really well, I won't get much in the way of reinforcements, while Rob is guaranteed more troops and AFVs. It's early days, but this one has been all over the place so far, with some playtest reports indicating German invincibility, and others saying the Americans can't be stopped.
In Race, Travis bemoaned his sorry state of affairs before stomping the field by ten points. That crew then cracked the shrinkwrap on Year of the Dragon. Everyone agreed it is a difficult game with the system constantly forcing you to make painful choices, but Dave and Scott seemed to really like it, with John and Travis giving it at least an 'okay'.
Blackbeard seemed to drag a bit as Morgan fell afoul of the dread pirate Ennui. I don't remember things moving this slowly in the playtest back in August but I do recall it had some problems with pace. It clearly didn't float Morgan's brig, though - I'm curious to hear what Dan thinks. I need to try the finished product to see what has changed since I played it last.
We wrapped up the evening with GMT's Formula Motor Racing. This is a very simple card-driven race game, consisting of three races to crown a winner in overall points. Places score 10-6-4-3-2-1, with every player having two cars. Some slick driving by Morgan and Travis in the first race put them in front with 12 and 10 points respectively; Dave and Campo failed to have a single car finish between them, while John managed fve and I got a point. In the second race, I pulled into the lead with 14 while Morgan and Travis were both shut out. Dave managed to put up six points while Chris maintained his perfect score. In the finale, I was looking good but slipped from first place to out of the money on the last round of cardplay; Chris took first and fourth to jet from last place to third. Morgan finished with 16 points, I had 14, Campo and Travis had 13, with the tie going to Chris by virtue of his first place race finish. Fun nightcap, especially with mandatory racecar sounds, but I wouldn't bet a kidney on the outcome.
Next week will be another Thursday night affair - hope to see you then!
JR
1985
2
2
180
14
Advanced Squad Leader
ASL
Advanced Squad Leader is the completely reorganized and re-designed version of the original Squad Leader system. While ASL is "advanced," it actually is a simpler game than the original Squad Leader became after the first gamette. This three-ring binder is the basic rules for the entire system, and provides the ultimate combination of playability and detail. Full-color charts and beautiful pictures make this the most readable of rulebooks - and includes a full-service index as well for quick reference.
And ASL is more than "squads" - the system includes the rules for everything from machine guns to bazookas, tanks and ordnance weapons, paratrooper drops, glider landings and beach assaults. And much more. This set of rules is constantly kept up to date by expansions included with the modules.
This is just the rulebook. To start playing the game the newcomer must get, at least, the Beyond Valor: ASL Module 1. There are a great many ASL Modules available.
Avalon Hill Complexity Rating: 10
Expanded by:
Official ASL Modules
Third party publications and magazine articles, see Other ASL Modules
ASL is devloped as a real-time computer game version under the name Close Combat (published by Microsoft, Strategic Simulations Inc. and Matrix Games).
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Action at Carentan!
Advanced Squad Leader
Airborne Stand!
All American III: Shanley's Hill
All American: Kellam's Bridge
Armies of Oblivion: ASL Module 12
Armored Stand
Arnhem: The Third Bridge
ASL 7.SS-Gebirgs Division "Prinz Eugen"
ASL Action Pack #1
ASL Action Pack #2
ASL Action Pack #3: Few Returned
ASL Action Pack #4: Normandy 1944
ASL Action Pack #5: East Front
ASL Action Pack #6: A Decade of War
ASL Annual '90
ASL Annual '91
ASL Annual '92
ASL Annual '93a
ASL Annual '93b
ASL Annual '95
ASL Annual '96
ASL GAP
ASL Journal #1
ASL Journal #2
ASL Journal #3
ASL Journal #4
ASL Journal #5
ASL Journal #6
ASL Journal #7
ASL Journal #8
ASL News Pack 1
Aussie-ASL '96 Pack
Aussie-ASL '97 Pack
Aussie-ASL '98 Pack
Avalon Hill
Baraque de Fraiture: The Battle for Parker's Crossroads
Battle of the Hedgerows: The Storm Broke
Berlin: Red Vengeance
Beyond the Beachhead
Beyond the Beachhead 2
Beyond Valor: ASL Module 1
Blood & Iron Map Pax 1
Blood and Jungle
Blood Reef: Tarawa - ASL Historical Module 5
A Bridge Too Far - ASL Historical Module 6
Canada at War #2
The Canadians in Italy: D-Day Dodgers, August 1944 to February 1945
The Canadians in Italy: The Red Patch Devils in Sunny Sicily
The Canadians in Italy: The Spaghetti League (ASL)
Cemetery Hill
Classic ASL
Code of Bushido - ASL Module 8
Croix de Guerre - ASL Module 10
Desert Rats
Devils in the Woods - The Battle of the Bulge 1944
Dezign Pak 1
Dezign Pak 2
Dezign Pak 3
Dezign Pak 4
Dice Rolling
Don Greenwood
Doomed Battalions - ASL Module 11
Dzerhezinsky Tractor Works
Euro-Pack II: The Battle of the Bulge
Fanatic Pack #1
Finland at War, v. I: Jatkosota
First Edition
First Wave at Omaha
For King and Country - ASL module 5a
Le Franc Tireur #12: PTO and Chinese Civil War for ASL
Le Franc-Tireur #10: Division Azul
Le Franc-Tireur #11: France 1940
Le Franc-Tireur #1: Indochine 1940
Friendly Fire Pack 1
Friendly Fire Pack 2
Friendly Fire Pack 3
Friendly Fire Pack 4
Friendly Fire Pack 5
From the Cellar: Pack 1
From the Cellar: Pack 2
From the Cellar: Pack 3
From the Cellar: Pack 4
Gembloux: The Feint
Genesis 48: The First Arab-Israeli War
A GI's Dozen
God Save the King
Godet Hill
The Grain Elevator
Grossdeutschland Pack 1
Grossdeutschland Pack 2
Guerra Civil - The Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939
Gung Ho! - ASL Module 9
Heat of Battle: FireFights!
Heat of Battle: FireFights! 2
Hedgerow Hell - ASL Deluxe Module 2
Hell On Wheels Battle Pack
Hell's Bridgehead
Hero Pax 1
Hero Pax 2
Hero Pax 3: Jungle Heroes
Hero Pax 4: Mediterannean Theater
Hex-and-Counter
Hobby Japan
Hollow Legions - ASL Module 7
Into The Rubble
Jatkosota: Finland's Continuation War for ASL
Kampfgruppe Peiper I - ASL Historical Module 2
Kampfgruppe Peiper II - ASL Historical Module 3
Charles Kibler
King of the Hill
Kreta - Operation Merkur
The Last Hurrah - ASL Module 6
Leibstandarte Pack 1: Blitzkrieg
Leibstandarte Pack 2: Barbarossa!
Leibstandarte Pack 3: Clash at Karkov!
Leibstandarte Pack 4: Turning of the Tide!
March Madness '97 - Tournament Scenario Pack
March Madness '98
March Madness '99 British Rare Vehicles
March Madness '99 Scenario Pack
March Madness 2009 Partisan Pack
March Madness 2010 Irregular Forces Pack
March Madness Movie Pack: ASL Goes to the Movies
Melee Pack 1
Melee Pack 2
Melee Pack 3
Monster Pack #1
Multi-Man Publishing
Neither Fear Nor Hope!
Nhpum Ga - ASL Annual 97 Historical Module
OAF Pack 1
The Oblivion Pack
Oktobermessed! Zombie Rules for ASL
Onslaught to Orsha
Operation Cobra
Operation Veritable Historical Study - ASL Historical Study 2
Operation: Watchtower - ASL Historical Study 1
Ost Front Pack
Out of the Attic #2
Paratrooper - ASL Module 2
Partisan - ASL Module 4
Pegasus Bridge - ASL Historical Module 4
Poland Aflame!
Primosole Bridge - ASL Journal 6 Historical Module
Probing For The Hotton Bridge
Purple Heart Draw
Rally Point Volume 1
Rally Point Volume 2 - ASLSK Special Study
Rally Point Volume 3
Rally Point Volume 4
Red Barricades - ASL Historical Module 1
Red Christmas: Moscow Counteroffensive
Rodger B. MacGowan
Schwerpunkt - Volume 1
Schwerpunkt - Volume 10
Schwerpunkt - Volume 11
Schwerpunkt - Volume 12
Schwerpunkt - Volume 13
Schwerpunkt - Volume 14
Schwerpunkt - Volume 15
Schwerpunkt - Volume 2
Schwerpunkt - Volume 3
Schwerpunkt - Volume 4
Schwerpunkt - Volume 5
Schwerpunkt - Volume 6
Schwerpunkt - Volume 7
Schwerpunkt - Volume 8
Schwerpunkt - Volume 9
Scotland the Brave
Scotland the Brave II
Second Edition
The Shooting Lodge
Singling Campaign Game
Solitaire ASL
Spanish Fury: Hell on the Eastern Front
Special Forces
St. Nazaire: Operation Chariot
Stalin's Fury
Stalingrad! Valor of the 37th Guards
Stonne 1940
Streets of Fire - ASL Deluxe Module 1
Sudden Full Contact - The Battle of the Bulge 1944
Swedish Volunteers
To Battle by Air #1
To Battle by Air #2
Total Axis Pack I: Eastern Front Firestorm
Total Axis Pack II
Total East Front Pack I
Total Pacific Theater Pack I
Tropic Thunder
Turning The Tide
Valor of the Guards - ASL Historical Module Number 7
Wacht Am Rhein
Waffen-SS: No Quarter No Glory
Wargame
Wargames
West of Alamein - ASL Module 5
Winpack #1
Witches Cauldron; The Oosterbeek Perimeter - Arnhem 1944
WO Bonus Pack: ASL Scenario Bonus Pack for Winter Offensive 2010
World War II
Yanks - ASL Module 3
Zombie Pak 1
We had eleven gamers last night for rock 'em sock 'em action and a touch of chamber music.
Ben, Nate, Dave, David, Campo, Dr. Rob, Scott, Dutch, Travis and Aaron (up from Florida) all darkened our door and were treated to a violin solo by Matilda for their trouble. That done, we broke into Container, Blackbeard, and two tables of Manoeuvre.
Travis, Ben, Dave and Nate tried Bid Low to Win, with Travis bidding low and winning. Dave said the scores were tightly grouped so it sounded like a good game, though again Dave's dockside siren calls went unheeded as his dodgy lead-painted goods went unpurchased.
Campoverdi got the new Blackbeard on the table with Scott and Dr. Rob, with Scott winning despite Campo's best effort to put him in a watery grave. Sounds like cautious thumbs up on this one.
Dutch taught me Manoeuvre and we managed to get a couple games in. In the first, Dan's Russians defeated my Prussians as I couldn't get him over the casualty cap and misplayed the endgame. In the second, we played the two powerhouses, Britain and France. This was a very cagey match with very little territory yielded. I bagged the monster unit of the game, his Imperial Cavalry, but failed to press my advantage. I screwed up and lost an infantry unit on my left flank which in turn unhinged my center. This was a very tight game with little room for error. I later spent a couple actions trying to save an encircled piece when I should've been grabbing territory, allowing Dan to grab another close victory. I quite like the game - simple, fast-playing, but filled with tense decision points. David thinks it lacks depth and pales quickly after a few plays, but I'm more optimistic about its long term staying power.
David and Aaron played a game of Manoeuvre themselves, the US versus Spain - not sure who won that one. They followed up with Battlelore, a little fantasy hack 'n slash while they did jaegermeister shots from the little lore cups. Again, one of them will have to provide a recap.
After Bid Low concluded, Ben, Dave, Nate and Travis broke out Race for the Galaxy. Unsurprisingly, Ben built a finely tuned machine and once again lorded it over the galaxy.
Next week we'll be gaming on Thursday once again! Feel the late-week excitement! The M2M crowd is again welcome to join us - I'll put up an event notice too. Take care,
JR
2007
3
5
90
0
Container
貨櫃船王
Container is a game about big ships and big production. Each player will play both as a producer and shipper of goods. Players will decide which products they want to produce, and which of the OTHER player's goods they want to ship out to a remote island. During these phases, players will be able to set the prices for their goods and try to maximize their cash!
Once the goods have reached the island, players will play the part of the purchaser for their tiny island. Players bid for the goods arriving each day by ship, and the highest bidder collects these goods for conversion into points at the end of the game.
Sounds simple? It is! But the real challenge is turning your home production into goods for your island. Your government is willing to subsidize your purchases, but just how much money do you want to give to your competitors for that lovely crate of goods your island desperately needs?
Container is #1 in the Valley Games Modern Line
Expanded by
Container: The Second Shipment
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Auction/Bidding
Commodity Speculation
Container: The Second Shipment
Economic
Franz-Benno Delonge
Industry / Manufacturing
Mike Doyle
Nautical
Pick-up and Deliver
Set Collection
Strategy Games
Thomas Ewert
Transportation
Valley Games Edition
Valley Games Modern Line
Valley Games, Inc.
Submitted by Coca Lite on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 4:10pm.
Mall World
67% (2 votes)
Other (write in below)
33% (1 vote)
Total votes: 3
2004
3
5
80
12
Große Geschäfte
Grosse Geschäfte
Mall World
From the publisher, Rio Grande Games:
Players compete in the building of Mall World, scheduled to be the largest indoor shopping mall in the world. In the planning of a mall this size, it is important to get the right shops in the right locations and the player best able to do this will win the game!
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Andrea Meyer
BeWitched Spiele
German edition
Rio Grande Games
Rio Grande Games Edition
Sebastian Wagner
Stefan Balogh
Territory Building
Swing by for wargaming, eurogaming, and everyone's favorite multiplayer game, Natebaiting!
We're up for anything but if you have particular hopes, desires and aspirations please post them. Well, post your *game-related* hopes, desires and aspirations - we're not miracle workers here. Doors open at 6:30pm - hope to see you there -
JR
PS - we game in 5B but if you get no answer when you buzz, try 5A
