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Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Rules
Subject:Re: Crtitcal hits
Posted by: Crash and Burn - 20years 38days ago.
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Phil Hall wrote:
castiglione wrote:
Phil Hall wrote:
[QUOTEThe most costly thing in the box were the aircraft counters. Rich Banner did them based on the style of profiles done in Aircraft in Profile. I am convinced that inside every graphics artist lies a Rembrandt screaming to get out. The problem was no one made a die to cut that size of counter, so GDW had one made.


Was there a particular reason why the decision was made to make the counters (and hexes) that large?

I don't think I've played a wargame with such big hexes and counters.

I mean, other air-combat wargames look at Blue Max and get serious hex/counter envy!


I was suprised also. I expected the counters to be smaller too. While I don't know for sure, I think it might have been to show off the artwork. This was done before the days of laser printing and computer graphix and after all the time Rich put in on it I'm sure he wanted it to be seen.

I remember when I bought my first copy of Blue Max (1st edition a very long time ago) and was not only surprised by the size of the hexes and counters, but very pleased with them as they were so much easier to work with.

However, now I almost never use counters anymore when playing Blue Max. I exclusively use miniatures now. At first I tried using 1:285th WW1 planes, but after a few hours I knew that these tiny planes will not work for me. I then discovered you can get 1:144 planes. But at the time a few of use had some 1:72 WW1 planes built from when we were kids and modified these to take a stand for our first games with miniatures. After the first game we discovered that using 1:72 scale models was the way to go and that is what I have been using since. Which is a good thing, because now the selection is great and in most cases less expensive than 1:144 plane miniautures.

When I moved, I left my plane collection behind (gave it to the gaming group). But then I hooked up with another game group and was able to introduce Blue Max since a few of the gamers already had 1:72 planes and they were playing a home brew set of rules called "Aces High". Blue Max was well recieved. Now after over a decade of Blue Maxing and building models, the gaming club can bost they have hundres (with thousands more unbuilt) of 1:72 models for Blue Max and Canvas Eagles games.

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