Best Solitaire Wargame!

[GJK]

Look at the document entitled "SK to Full ASL.doc" in the Dropbox folder.  I found that posted on BGG.  It looks to be a fairly detailed list of what the differences are between SK and full ASL and what rules sections from the Big Book you'll need to learn.


Otherwise, I don't think that there's been any other SASL-like stuff done, either official stuff or 3rd Party.  I've thought about how I would do it though - and didn't get further than just a simple PC app that would randomly move possible enemy units and have them shoot if the right conditions lined up and random number fell within the "do shoot" range.  Very primitive compared to what SASL offers from what I can see.

[DV8]

Has anyone had experience with LnL's World at War?  It's my understanding that the game has solitaire rules and scenarios in each expansion.

[Rekim]

Copies of Solitaire ASL do appear on eBay from time to time. None at the moment I see.

I picked up a ver 1.0 edition last year, unpunched, for ~$60 bucks.

[Barthheart]

Has anyone had experience with LnL's World at War?  It's my understanding that the game has solitaire rules and scenarios in each expansion.

I don't believe the game has actual solitaire rules but is very solitaire friendly. There's a copy of the rules here:

http://www.locknloadgame.com/userfiles/BnBManNoS.zip

[DV8]

Has anyone had experience with LnL's World at War?  It's my understanding that the game has solitaire rules and scenarios in each expansion.

I don't believe the game has actual solitaire rules but is very solitaire friendly. There's a copy of the rules here:

http://www.locknloadgame.com/userfiles/BnBManNoS.zip

Interesting.  Board Game Geek shows that it is solitaire playable?
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35035/world-at-war-blood-and-bridges

[Barthheart]

Has anyone had experience with LnL's World at War?  It's my understanding that the game has solitaire rules and scenarios in each expansion.

I don't believe the game has actual solitaire rules but is very solitaire friendly. There's a copy of the rules here:

http://www.locknloadgame.com/userfiles/BnBManNoS.zip

Interesting.  Board Game Geek shows that it is solitaire playable?
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35035/world-at-war-blood-and-bridges

Oh it's solo playable but there are no rules for solo specific play.

[DV8]

Has anyone had experience with LnL's World at War?  It's my understanding that the game has solitaire rules and scenarios in each expansion.

I don't believe the game has actual solitaire rules but is very solitaire friendly. There's a copy of the rules here:

http://www.locknloadgame.com/userfiles/BnBManNoS.zip

Interesting.  Board Game Geek shows that it is solitaire playable?
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35035/world-at-war-blood-and-bridges

Oh it's solo playable but there are no rules for solo specific play.

So you play as God?  Controlling both sides with full independence in your moves?

[Barthheart]

Has anyone had experience with LnL's World at War?  It's my understanding that the game has solitaire rules and scenarios in each expansion.

I don't believe the game has actual solitaire rules but is very solitaire friendly. There's a copy of the rules here:

http://www.locknloadgame.com/userfiles/BnBManNoS.zip

Interesting.  Board Game Geek shows that it is solitaire playable?
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35035/world-at-war-blood-and-bridges

Oh it's solo playable but there are no rules for solo specific play.

So you play as God?  Controlling both sides with full independence in your moves?

God?  ;) Maybe not, but yes you have full control of both sides.  It takes a bit of practice, or a split personality disorder, but you try to do the best moves for the side you are currently playing.
It can cause analysis paralaysis as you begin second guessing and preplanning the others sides response to this sides current move etc. But with some practice you just make the best move at the time then switch sides.

I find games that have you switching sides often, chit pull activation or impulse activation, lend themselves better to solo play as you can't really plan that far ahead anyway. Some people play one side then wait a period of time, an hour or a day, before playing the other side. Whatever works.

I'd say, before I got into VASSAL, 90% of my wargaming was done solo.

[besilarius]

Back in the 60s, most board games were played solitaire by almost all owners.  There weren't a lot of game clubs outside of big cities, so it was solo play or PBM.
The simple rules generally made this possible, playing right hand versus the left.  I always thought that one of AH's games, Guadalcanal, failed as a product because it used hidden movement, and most gamers couldn't play it solo.
(Well, you could play it without hidden movement, but the Japanese forces were too small to have a good chance at taking out the marine enclave.  It wasn't a good game without the hidden movement.,)

[Wolfe1759]

Top five

1) RAF (West End Games)
2) London's Burning (AH)
3) Carrier (VG)
4) Phantom Leader (DVG)
5) B29 Superfortress (Kyber Pass Games)

Not sure why air warfare is so prevalent in solitaire wargames.

[DennisS]

I picked up U-Boat Leader from Dan Verssen Games. Got it on sale from here: 

http://yhst-12000246778232.stores.yahoo.net/dvggase.html

Prices on this site are vastly cheaper than anywhere else I have seen.

Anyway, U-Boat Leader is pretty good! I have run to small campaigns, got "Adequate" and "Good" rating for both. I can see, with aggressive play, possibly getting an even higher rating. I can also see my subs getting sunk, too, as a result of that more aggressive play! I recommend this, unconditionally. Beer and pretzels complexity, and you can finish a short campaign in an hour or so.