What To Do With All Of the Games I Don't Play...
Phil at Sim-Deck has just posted a thought provoking blog about having too many games to play and not playing any of them in depth. I am guilty of the same thing these days. About the only game I devote any time to is Command Ops.
His remedy is to limit himself to 3 games for the foreseeable future. You can read his post here.
I am going to try this also and limit myself to 5 games until the end of July. My five are:
Command Ops 2
SoW: Waterloo
Wargame: Airland Battle ( I had a really good game of this last night).
Command
JTS: Modern War
If I blog about anything else remind me of what I said here!
His remedy is to limit himself to 3 games for the foreseeable future. You can read his post here.
I am going to try this also and limit myself to 5 games until the end of July. My five are:
Command Ops 2
SoW: Waterloo
Wargame: Airland Battle ( I had a really good game of this last night).
Command
JTS: Modern War
If I blog about anything else remind me of what I said here!
Comments
I still play the original Ghost Recon...
A bit of an offtopic comment. I'm an longtime wargamer, and I noticed you say you play Command Ops more than others. I also saw that you were making a very large scenario (back in March) that I'm not sure you finished.
I have downloaded the game, and frankly, it falls utterly flat for me. I love the idea of the game. But the interface is so unpleasant I never invested the time necessary to really learn it. I commented to a friend: 'it is a game where I can't figure out how to move a unit.'
And I still can't (though I haven't tried after that initial burst). I downloaded it about two months ago, and the manual for Command Ops didn't exist-they were using the old Manual for the original Command Ops. I tried what was essentially the tutorial scenario (US forces attacking north in the Bulge). It reminds me a bit of the old Cold War training game Decisive Operations-again, a game with alot under the hood, but the interface was work rather than fun.
Its unfortunate-it is exactly the kind of game I would love to love. But I doubt if the interface will ever change enough to be actually fun (I'd think it would have to be redesigned from teh bottom up).
I don't expect to change your mind-if you love it, you love it. But I'd imagine there are plenty like me-the subject matter seems great, the scale seems great, the simulation seems very interesting, but its just too clunky to invest the time in.
Steve