DEC 2013 TS forum game archive

Started by GJK, November 26, 2013, 12:04:30 PM

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GJK

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BanzaiCat

Honestly, I'm not delving too deep into this strategy stuff. I don't want to play against some mega-TS overlords or anything, ones with gambits and plans and strategies laid out and play it like lightning rounds of chess. I'd rather game this with a group that's new to it, as I pretty much am.

GJK

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on November 26, 2013, 06:03:15 PM
Honestly, I'm not delving too deep into this strategy stuff. I don't want to play against some mega-TS overlords or anything, ones with gambits and plans and strategies laid out and play it like lightning rounds of chess. I'd rather game this with a group that's new to it, as I pretty much am.

I think that would be the most enjoyable game for us.   What we have in this group now is new players or guys that have only played a handful of games or less (and that was some time ago) so this will be a unique experience for you all.  FWIU, the game moves in to a different level of play once players learn the cards and when or how to play what.  I've tried the game using wargameroom.com playing with a stranger on the other end and no sooner than I did my play, he had already done his and was waiting on me again.  I felt pressured and couldn't sit back and enjoy the game and think about my next play.  I would like to see a nice, leasurly rate of play with this one.  I think this unique approach - having teams of players - will put a new perspective on the game with lots of debate and banter and (hopefully) some trash talking (all in jest) and I think we'll have a really great time of it.  Plus, to be honest, I'm not going to be able to update the game board and screenshot and post status updates more than once a day - perhaps a couple of times on a weekend if the rounds are ready that quickly and there very well may be days that I just can't process the round at all that evening and so it will have to wait a day.  Again, a leasurly pace.
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Staggerwing

I'd like to get in on this as well if it's not too late. I don't own TS so I would also need to read up on the rules. Bob, where did you find them online?
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

GJK

Quote from: Staggerwing on November 26, 2013, 07:18:23 PM
I'd like to get in on this as well if it's not too late. I don't own TS so I would also need to read up on the rules. Bob, where did you find them online?

Absolutely stagger, is team USA ok for you? 

Here's the link to the post that I made that had some attachments for simple playaids for TS:

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=8385.msg209326#msg209326

And the rules themselves can be downloaded from:

http://www.gmtgames.com/living_rules/TSRules2nd.pdf
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BanzaiCat

Quote from: GJK on November 26, 2013, 03:39:37 PM
Ok, this is who I have playing so far. 

Player     Side     
Banzai_CatSoviets
UbercatSoviets
BarthheartSoviets

Comrade Ubercat and Comrade Barthheart, prepare to pave the world with the golden dialectic of Lenin, over the tombs of Imperialist capitalist dogma!

GJK

And the smack talking starts already...love it!

Ok, here's an updated roster:


     Player          Side     




     Banzai_Cat     Soviets
     Ubercat     Soviets
     Barthheart     Soviets




     undercovergeek     USA
     bob48     USA
     staggerwing     USA
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bayonetbrant

#22
OK - creating team forums tonight

edit:  they're there now.  y'all go check and make sure you can get into your board, but not the other

GJK - you should be able to get into both
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

bayonetbrant

Gary's thread for turn-by-turn updates, as well as smack talk, deal-cutting, and spectator sarcasm.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Barthheart

OK, are we going to ham this up so we make the front page?

Since each team has three players we can make a triumvirate of power for each:
US:
President
Sec. of State
Chairman of Joint Chiefs

USSR:
Premier
General Secretary of the Army
General Secretary of State

The first stage of each round is "Headlines". Maybe these could be presented as headlines of respective newspapers.

I nominate Comrade Banzai Cat to the position of Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


Barthheart

Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 26, 2013, 08:26:11 PM
OK - creating team forums tonight

edit:  they're there now.  y'all go check and make sure you can get into your board, but not the other

GJK - you should be able to get into both

Works for me, I can see our party forum and the general forum but not the capitalist dog's forum.

BanzaiCat

Note, Comrades, that we are known as "The Party," whereas America only has elephant and jackass, no?

This is thread test to ensure Western decadent technologies created by swine-fingered slave-driving corporate lackeys has not failed the glorious Revolution.

I have no idea how to organize this thread except perhaps to create a new thread for each turn, and to just use this one for general discussion. If you guys have a better idea, note that we are all equal in the eyes of the Revolution (with some, of course, being more equal than others, as Comrade Stalin used to say).

Staggerwing

Time to make the World safe for mushy peas, err...Apple Pie!
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

Staggerwing

Quote from: Barthheart on November 26, 2013, 08:48:55 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 26, 2013, 08:26:11 PM
OK - creating team forums tonight

edit:  they're there now.  y'all go check and make sure you can get into your board, but not the other

GJK - you should be able to get into both

Works for me, I can see our party forum and the general forum but not the capitalist dog's forum.

Same here- Freedom's light shines brightly on the West but all is darkness, cold, and despair over in commiepinkoland.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

bayonetbrant

I'm going to move this thread into the TS area now.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers