RE: [OT] Spearhead

	I played Micro Armor:  The Game at a con last year and was not
impressed.
In addition to the gentleman running the game, the designer of the rules
was
present to add comments and clarification.  All I can say about the
rules
was that the Russian side was supposed to force their way across a
stream,
and set up positions before German reinforcements could arrive.
Unfortunately the game uses a dice based system for issuing commands,
and
due to bad (not that bad but bad enough), the Russian force could not
even
enter the table for the first two turns.  This may of course have
affected
my opinion of the rules system, but for the most part I was not
impressed.

	IMHO I think that Command Decision is the best of the large
scale rules
sets, at least as far as I have seen so far.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of John Atkinson
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 3:31 AM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [OT] Spearhead

--- warbeads@juno.com wrote:
> John, thanks for the comments, it is clarifying my
> search for rules for
> armor games between 1918 and 2100 (just around the

I'll post the engineer work estimates when I have some
more time.

Unsolicited endorsement:  Mein Panzer, Old Dominion
GamesWorks, www.odgw.com seems to be a pretty good
system.  I've read the rules and talked to the
designer at some length yesterday at Fall In.  Looks
pretty good.  He's only got the WWII module out so
far, is expecting to start putting modern modules out
next year.

Also, for a simpler system, Micro Armour: The Game by
GHQ also looks promising.  And you gotta love a
company that puts out Wolverine miniatures.

Havn't played either of 'em, so I'm just going off
first impressions of the rulebooks.

John

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