Re: [GZG] Changing topics again (FoW) Was: Re: FT Light: 5 is the new 6?

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Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:

>
> Indy wrote on 07/29/2008 05:55:19 AM:
>
> ***HUGE snippage***
>
> > thing or situation, not out of any genuine "cheese" exploited in the
> rules.,
> >
> > So, I'd personally say *try* FoW at some point before writing it off
> > wholesale. You *might* be surprised. Or you may decide you were
right,
> > depending on the attitude you take to the game. <shrug> Again, YMMV,
but
> you
> > should at leave give a game system a fair shake before chucking it
away.
>
> First, the appropriate warning: I'm not a FoW player, and I don't even
play
> one on TV. I probably won't ever play, either.
>

Fair 'nuff!
(you sure you don't play one on tv? I could have swore I saw last week
an
episode of...	;-)

>
> There was a rather large FoW occurrence at the store over the weekend;
> opposed amphibious landing against cliff face backed beach...
>
> As there were a few anomalies, such as the presence of King Tigers, it
was
> referred as Cedar Rapids Beach.
>
> I did notice a bit of rolling of eyes at that one, and I don't recall
> paratroopers showing up to directly support the landings as historical
> either, but I have to say the eye rolling seemed good natured, and a
good
> time was had by all. The game players DID include some GW fanboys, but
> several I've never seen playing 40K or Fantasy.
>

Guess it's their group. My group is gearing up for doing a D-Day thing
in
two weeks. I'm playing my Ranger list for the beach landing (dropping
all
support that was not present at Pont du Hoc) in the morning, then
playing a
German force (still trying to figure which one) in the bocages in the
afternoon. I'll not be fielding KTs, or even Tigers. I might squeeze in
a
trio of panzers for my opponent to blow up, though. :-)

>
> IF I ever did play, it'd be with 2nd Ed Axis and Allies Miniatures,
but
> that would take folks with an open mind set, and there ARE a few
around.
>

And most of the guys i play with would have very little issue with that.
In
fact, when one guy started playing with us, all he had were 20mm
vehicles.
That was....3 years ago now? He's since purchased his whole army in
15mm.
And not everyone who has the 15mm vehicles gets the BF brand. A handful
use
other manufacturers. I'm in the Tuffley Universe on this: play the game,
use
the minis you want. :-)

Mk