Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!mazina From: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Daniel J Mazina) Newsgroups: net.games.board Subject: Re: New MB board games Message-ID: <3490@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:10:37 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3490 Posted: Fri Nov 8 07:10:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:31:41 EST Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 39 In article <87@ecn-aa.UUCP> westerm@ecn-aa.UUCP (Richard P westerman) writes: > >Despite having fixed starting forces & placements, each game turns out >different (although the Allies, compentently played, have a very good >chance of winning -- they are richer than the Axis). Sorry to disagree with your reccomendation, but this is, I think, a major flaw in the game. If the Allies play at all sensibly, it becomes impossible for the Axis to win. Also, DO NOT play this game, if reality matters at all to you. In most games played here at Purdue, you see such things as: 1) The British build a factory in Persia, and proceed to build all their troops there. They NEVER build a navy, transports, or anything like that. In fact, most of the time, they don't build much in England at all.... 2) The U.S. does the same in China.... No US Navy... 3) Bombers fly from England, around the Iberian Peninsula (or over it), fly to the Italian dockyards, and bombard the Italian submarines there, and NO ONE NOTICES THEM COMING! Of course, fighters cannot scramble to chase them, nor can the submarines hide from them until they get their shot... 4) A trick I saw used, was to build a factory in some insecure place, allow your enemy to capture it, and then Strategically bomb it! (Which costs your enemy 1d6 $ / bomber) All of this makes it a game I wouldn't play. It doesn't make it a BAD game. What does make it (in my opinion) a bad game is the first thing I mentioned: If the Allies play intelligently, the Axis won't win..... Thomas Ruschak pur-ee!mazina