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| City: | Columbia, MD  | | Personal Data: | Male, born: October 05 1964 | | Membership | 20years 292days ago. | | Last Login | 9years 102days ago. | | Last Move | 9years 55days ago. | Capt-Tuttle is currently  | Send a mail to Capt-Tuttle |
| | Message text There was a YPI player with the handle livermike. He played ASL with a group using some kind of program if I remember correctly. It was along the lines of a PBEM server, no AI. I don’t remember more then that, I was playing a 100+ BM games then, sorry.
I still have a decent collection of war games, not sure what shape they are in though. I played a lot of Squad Leader, Diplomacy, Africa Corp., Midway, plus a bunch of others. I have a pocket game I always thought would be a great YPI addition, Fire When Ready, a navel war game around the Spanish American war era.
My war game story is about a game called War in Europe. There was a group of us that played and three of us saw this game in the hobby store one day, we pooled our vast no job high school geek resources and bought it. I just checked the web to see if my memory was correct in regards to the size, it wasn’t, and here are some of the stats.
GAME INVENTORY: 3200 counters (eight full size counter sheets), Seven unmounted 22" x 32" game mapsheets. That makes the whole map 8 feet by 3.5 feet.
So we have the game and no place to play it. Two of us play a smaller scenario and it seemed like a good game. We decide to cut a deal with the neighbor, clean out his garage in exchange for its use over the winter. They just used it for storage so he agreed. Two of us “out of the 4 planning to play” spend two weekends cleaning up the garage and making a plywood table, no playing on the floor, we were going to do this in style. Seemed like it took forever to punch out the remaining counters and sort them. It says 3200 counters but it seemed more like 32000  . We finally get to the point of setting up and get everyone together; this was the month and a half point. We pick sides and start setting up, setup is not cut and dried and there were rule interpretations, so now the fun really begins “the real war game ” two or three sessions of this and we still don’t have the game ready to start. The map was impressive though. Now it is the end of first semester so everybody “else” is hitting the books. By this time the neighbor’s wife has had enough, never being included in the agreement negotiations I think, and kicks us out. Two months plus and never a turn made. I wounder if anybody ever completed that game.
Capt-Tuttle
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