What's on your table right now?

[BanzaiCat]

The game says it's for two players, but says it's very solitaire-friendly...somewhere I read that it was solitaire-friendly because there's really not much for the Japs to do in the game.

[GJK]

Just getting underway with Stalingrad Pocket II.  It *looks* like a heavy game but the combined rules (core and game specific) only total about 10 pages and it's all very basic wargame 101 stuff.  Highly recommended if you want something that you can get into rather easily (though set-up is a bit of a chore though I have created some set up charts that greatly eased the pain):

[Staggerwing]

Gary, is that some new fangled counter-picker-upper you got there?

[GJK]

Hey Stagger - yeah I played ASL against a guy that was using one of these and I liked the way it worked better than using tweezers.  It's a micro chip puller that I got on Amazon for $4.  You squeeze the rubber handle and then plop the suction cup on a counter and release the handle and the counter is vacuumed suctioned onto it until you squeeze the rubber handle again to break the suction.  You can't move a stack of counters at a time with it (but can you *really* do it so well with tweezers?) but it is far superior to getting those counters out of the middle of a congested area.

[Staggerwing]

Cool. Expect a sudden run on those on Amazon soon.  O0

[GJK]

Actually, that particular one that is in the picture is now sold out at Amazon.

[Ubercat]

My semi-regular wargaming buddy uses one of those. She has to because of her long nails.

[bayonetbrant]

My semi-regular wargaming buddy uses one of those. She has to because of her long nails.

that sounds hawt

[GJK]

She could just use her nails as tweezers, no?  :o

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

My semi-regular wargaming buddy uses one of those. She has to because of her long nails.

that sounds hawt

....i think he's talking about his cat....

[Ubercat]

My semi-regular wargaming buddy uses one of those. She has to because of her long nails.

that sounds hawt

You wouldn't say that if you met her.

[bob48]

On the table right now - 'Sicily II' OCS from MMP :-)

[Ubercat]

You're in the UK, right? Are you retired? Typically home nights? My last regular Vassal opponent is Norwegian (I'm in US) so my free days corresponded perfectly with his free nights.

I'm jonesing for some live, opposed, OCS gaming. I have solo Baltic Gap and Reluctant Enemies games in progress on Vassal. I own both games, as well as Sicily II and Beyond the Rhine.

[GroggyGrognard]

Just getting underway with Stalingrad Pocket II.  It *looks* like a heavy game but the combined rules (core and game specific) only total about 10 pages and it's all very basic wargame 101 stuff.  Highly recommended if you want something that you can get into rather easily (though set-up is a bit of a chore though I have created some set up charts that greatly eased the pain):

Great game. One of the best designed SCS games imho. I've played it on VASSAL several times over the past several years with a friend of mine.



Groggy

[BanzaiCat]

Does anyone have Victory Roads? Or had their eye on it?