Re: [SG] comparing SG

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:28:55 -0800, Michael Llaneza
<maserati@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>FWIW, ASL does play pretty well - but you DO need a veteran (ASL) to 
>teach it to you.

Not precisely...

I haven't played it in ages. I do, however, have the self-training
stuff.
There's "Paratrooper", which helps a lot. It takes you through the
basics of
the game in a pretty easy to learn, programmed method. I also have the
article
from The General which teaches you almost all the rules in a programmed
method. You can learn the game using this one package and the articles.
It's
very hard just by reading the rules (to be honest, it can be done; I
learned
SQL by reading the IBM SQL/VS manual...).

On the other hand, I learned the basics of Stargrunt after the second
turn of
my first game. I can do pretty much all the same stuff, although at a
smaller
scale, in a shorter time period. It's more fun since I'm at an age when
I
don't have the amount of time to devote to these things as I'd like. I'm
considering selling my ASL stuff for that reason.

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@att.net
Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall

"Now, see, if you combine different colours of light,
 you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
 brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan, 
   "Jack B. Quick, Boy Inventor"