Nine circles of gaming hell

[matgb]

What happens when a group of gamers who prefer European/German board games get told they have to play Advanced Squad Leader?

"These rules," he wailed, "all these rules! Look at them--rules for smoke screens, rules for vehicles, rules for tanks who don't have turrets... rules... too many rules. Too much conflict--I don't want to shoot anyone, I just want to move wooden cubes and trains across the board--where is the auction system? Why can't we bid on who gets shot?"

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I know how they feel. I've met players of all the types listed, and more. I can see older versions of myself and friends in some of them. Via Mr Pink himself.

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I is sat in bed watching Jennie's birthday present from pmoodie, having eaten a midnight snack of haloumi, oat bread and carrots. Life is goooood...

Comments

[matgb]

Heh, the Earthforce Sourcebook had in it "a quick system for resolving situations if the PCs get involved in a starship battle". Which was basically a modified version of Full Thrust without a licence to be a B5 starship system.

Was rather nice. I think due to my massive collection of spaceships I prefer FT because I can use the lot, and I played it before SFB.

Elaan of Troyius is third season, we've not got that box yet. And it looks like I may have to track down a few eps of TNG at some point, Jennie's not so much of a fan...

[mdmnmdllr.livejournal.com]

"Earthforce Sourcebook"? A) That's truly ancient (i.e. before anything we've been talking about) and yes, B) it was based off of Full Thrust. They even made note of it in the Sourcebook.

Use the right tool for the right job, really. You're a fleets guy, right? Masses of metal on the table, and all that. Therefore, FT is far superior. (It's also WAAAAY more adaptable, but we won't go there for the moment.) Wanna due 1 v 1 properly? SFB is much better.

Still, it had its moments where we had a bunch of people around the table and a fair bit of metal. "Orion Democracy" was a scenario I used to run where everyone had a light cruiser and the object was to get to a station to vote yea or nay on an issue. The idea is to finish the scenario with the most votes for your side, and each player knows how one and only one other player is gonna vote. Add to that a battlecruiser which wades in later on who doesn't want anyone to vote, and it gets pretty fun.

Elaan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaan_of_Troyius) is pretty good. Don't worry terribly about TNG ... not as good story-wise though it too has its moments.