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City:Mahomet, Il. US
Personal Data:Male, born: August 15 1948
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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Rules
Subject:Re: Crtitcal hits
Posted by: Phil Hall - 20years 80days ago.
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Sackman_Dan wrote:
Thanks for a fascinating insight into commercial game design. I've tried designing games a couple of times, and it's hard enough without being told "you can only have x counters and y pages of rules. (actually, as I've got older, I've begun to think that all games should have a maximum of 4 sides of A4!)

Sackman_dan


When I was designing BM I had just gotten over the more is better mind set. I loved most of the aerial games of the time and was really looking forward to Air War 77 by SPI. Then I got a copy of it. Then I decided that less was more because when I boiled Air War down to simplify it I got Foxbat and Phantom, the earlier SPI attempt at aerial wargaming. Frank's insistence that BM be kept a simple as possible helped to, and I've been a proponent of KISS ever since. Complication doesn't add realism, only complication.


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20years 87days Impailer [BM][RULES] Crtitcal hits
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