Latest additions to my collection. DOZENS of titles were available from fellow-wargamers (including an estate sale with over 100 games) but limited myself to only a few:
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Nice!
I used to have a copy of Armor attacks. IIRC, it came bundled with one of the earliest M1 tank simulation computer games, either M1 Tank Platoon or Abams Battle tank.
There's a second book that's a companion to Armor Attacks, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Infantry-Combat-Interactive-Small-Unit-Leadership/dp/089141536X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447034575&sr=8-1&keywords=john+antal
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 08, 2015, 09:03:03 PM
There's a second book that's a companion to Armor Attacks, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Infantry-Combat-Interactive-Small-Unit-Leadership/dp/089141536X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447034575&sr=8-1&keywords=john+antal
Cool!
There's a link there to a third book as well: Combat Team: The Captain's War (http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Team-Captains-Interactive-Exercise/dp/0891416358/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=512R01WQFJL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_&refRID=0RQ8GH817K4C6S4A9WXK)
Aaaand... the author wrote a novel as well: Proud Legions: A Novel of America's Next War (http://www.amazon.com/Proud-Legions-Novel-Americas-Next/dp/0891416676/ref=pd_sim_14_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=51WB0MXQ3AL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=16V31EA5MQ7XCRT4NJH6)
Nice bit of loot, Jack O0
Yeah, the novel isn't that great. There's a reason no one talks about it. Go read Harold Coyle instead.
How big is the local Wings of Glory community? Do they play that much at Trumpeter Society?
I don't think ANYONE at trumpeter plays wings of war, as they already have a fairly well established air combat group playing either Canvas Eagles(?) and Check Your Six!
The Wings of Glory games at BottosCon (hosted by Mike from Comox) were all very well attended, but again, I don't think there is a "regular" group that gets together in Vancouver or the GVRD...but I could be wrong.
Thanks. That's a pity. I have been trying to convince the Armada/X-Wing crowd to give it a whirl but there has been pretty much zero interest. Oh well, it's not like I really need to be flinging more money at another miniatures game.
Wings of Glory? I have not heard of this. And I will stick my fingers in my ear and go LALLALALALALALA so I don't hear any more of it.
Grumble grumble X-wing Miniatures game grumble...
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 09, 2015, 07:49:22 PM
Oh well, it's not like I really need to be flinging more money at another miniatures game.
Heretic!
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on November 09, 2015, 08:12:51 PM
Wings of Glory? I have not heard of this. And I will stick my fingers in my ear and go LALLALALALALALA so I don't hear any more of it.
This is a crime against gaming.
Quote from: Bison on November 10, 2015, 09:03:01 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on November 09, 2015, 08:12:51 PM
Wings of Glory? I have not heard of this. And I will stick my fingers in my ear and go LALLALALALALALA so I don't hear any more of it.
This is a crime against gaming.
Heretics, criminals, and corner clippers.
I despair for the fate of our hobby!
I just bought Dawn Patrol -- for the second time (actually replacing my aged copy of Fight in the Skies) -- so all you kids playing with toy planes can just get off my damn lawn...
I thought real wargamers didn't play games with cards.
Quote from: LongBlade on November 10, 2015, 10:09:38 PM
Heretics
I'm already going to hell, so does it matter what my views are? If there is a God, why would He care what one out of eight billion thinks? Please.
Quote from: LongBlade on November 10, 2015, 10:09:38 PM
criminals
Never
convicted...
Quote from: LongBlade on November 10, 2015, 10:09:38 PM
corner clippers
Hey, if the damn tab doesn't come off cleanly and there's a big fuzzy cardboard too-mah growing off of the corner of it, I'm going to cut that sumbitch off.
Quote from: LongBlade on November 10, 2015, 10:09:38 PM
I despair for the fate of our hobby!
Such melodramatics, sir!
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow cast by all the board games I'm hoarding, I will fear no counter-clipping; for thy womanly dramatics are with us all, though I don't know nothing 'bout your rod and staff comforting anyone around here, nor do I wish to know, verily! :)
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I need to commit multiple heinous crimes by clipping counter corner tumors on at least six new games. :buck2:
I'll repent my vicious cardboard murders with carpal tunnel pain after each.
Quote from: LongBlade on November 10, 2015, 09:35:29 AM
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 09, 2015, 07:49:22 PM
Oh well, it's not like I really need to be flinging more money at another miniatures game.
Heretic!
I repent! WW2 era Wings of Glory on the way.
(and I'm out $238 CDN, you god forsaken enablers!!)
Did ya get any of the bombers? I bought the B-17 and a Lancaster at Origins last year.... and I don't even ply the WWII version. I have about a dozen of the WWI planes and our group has all three maps.
Yup. I bought two versions of the Lancaster, a B-17, and a B-25.
Hoping they expand the line. I'd love to see some P-38s and P-40s along with some early/mid war Japanese planes like the Ki-43 and the Betty so I can do some Solomon Islands stuff.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 11, 2015, 11:45:57 AM
Hoping they expand the line. I'd love to see some P-38s and P-40s along with some early/mid war Japanese planes like the Ki-43 and the Betty so I can do some Solomon Islands stuff.
I thought one of the starters came with a P-40?
I couldn't find a copy of the WW2 starter kit that comes with the 4 minis for sale. I had to make due with the accessories and rules box that just comes with the rules, cards, and counters but no minis.
Oh, hey, I missed this.
Them's ain't cards!
Them's CHITS...bigguns too!
YOU GOT A PURTY CHIT THAR, BOY
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Quote from: Cyrano on November 12, 2015, 11:36:09 AM
Oh, hey, I missed this.
Them's ain't cards!
Them's CHITS...bigguns too!
You get a big ol' deck of cards too. Gotta play guess the manoeuvre and pick the right card when trying to stay on so eone's 6, iirc.
Ah, but 'tis so with the Ares games, no? That's why I assumed you was runnin' it down for lacking toy planes...a passionate love of all Grogs.
@BC: You have no idear...no idear at all...
Me? God no. I'm easily distracted by shiny things these days. My name is SDR, and I'm a recovering grog. I used to scoff at any man who'd dare to play ASL without all the available rules in place. If you didn't need a plastic tray to sort all the counters in a game, then it wasn't really a game.
I'm much better now. I think, with a little adult supervision, that I'm ready to go back out into society. I'll play games with plastic figures, collectible cards, proprietary dice, and occasionally....reluctantly.... even games with meeples. *shudder* (However, if anyone pulls out an abstract Euro or a "party" game, I still want to take a card-stock CRT table and give them a paper cut on the webbing between their fingers.)
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 12, 2015, 02:22:31 PM
My name is SDR, and I'm a recovering grog.
I'm much better now.
Says the guy that just dropped "$238 CDN" on more shiny toys. Not sure if that's Monopoly money or a real thing.
And here's a board game we can all get behind. Don't ask why I thought of it...probably because I'm a sick bastard.
Exchange rate changed overnight. It's now $242....
I'm jealous more than anything. I reached out to ARES to see if they'd want to share some review product with us, and haven't heard anything from them.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 11, 2015, 04:42:08 PM
I couldn't find a copy of the WW2 starter kit that comes with the 4 minis for sale. I had to make due with the accessories and rules box that just comes with the rules, cards, and counters but no minis.
That sucks.
I picked up the starter quite awhile back. IIRC it had a P-40, Yak-1, MC.202, and one other I don't recall (Japanese?).
I've not played it much yet. Even further, I picked up
Sails Of Glory starter set, along with a couple extra ships, and haven't even played that once. :idiot2:
Ooooh Ace of Aces looks lovely.