Re: [OT] GW Lord of the Rings and my age

From: "Richard and Emily Bell" <rlbell@sympatico.ca>

> What is really annoying is that GW had the occassional good game. 
Adeptus
> Titanicus and the first edition Space Marines were very good, but
required
too
> much brain power for their target audience, so they were redesigned
(very
> dumbed down), repackaged, and re-released in a way that was more
lucrative,
> easier to play, but with less sizzle and no steak.

YMMV on this one. Petrsonally I consider Epic 40k to be by far the best
miniatures
game GW has ever put out. It's simple all right - like chess. And I've
had
many
years experience with SM1, SM2, WRG WW2v1, WRG WW2v2, WRG Modern v1,2,3,
 Firefly, Challenger, Challenger 2000 etc etc etc