B-29 Superfortress: Bombers Over Japan, 1944-1945 (Discussion Thread)

[bob48]

And that's another thing. She took my last pickled onion.

I was sucking it at the time..........

[undercovergeek]

How come I ended up with fat hairy one?

Ahhh nurse Gus.... she's a cheeky one

[bob48]

^Reaches the parts that other nurses can't get to.

[mirth]

And quick with a bed pan.

[Staggerwing]

Poor Bob. He went from Gloiiing with a Frypan to Gloiiing with a Bedpan...

[bob48]

...it was an undercover job..........

[bayonetbrant]

escape pod.  or...  gus's aircraft

[BanzaiCat]

I played through Mission 3. I will post it sometime tomorrow most likely.

[W8taminute]

escape pod.  or...  gus's aircraft

That is a nicely hooked up Mini!   O0

[bob48]

I'm really not that keen on the 'new mini'. Years ago, however, I did have a blue and white Mini Cooper.

[BanzaiCat]

Sorry, all. It's been a while and I really did/do want to keep up with this thread, but B-29 isn't as fun as I'd hoped it would be.

Most of the time I'm chasing navigation points and doing endless nav checks in the first few sea zones, then random event checks when hardly anything happens. If weather is bad, the same damn thing keeps happening - lightning hits the plane, no effect (which is very tough - I keep rolling 7s on 2d6, and 7=No Effect). I guess that's good for crew health but it happens. Every. Time. So literally nothing happens in the game.

Even fighter attacks are fairly boring. Goodness knows I've tried to liven it up but enemy planes rarely attack (and this is pretty much as it was, historically speaking) so there's not much of a story to tell.

(1) Take off
(2) Nav check
(3) For W = W + 1 Nav Check; if W > 200,000, goto (4)
(4) Yawn
(5) Yawn
(6) Iwo Jima! Fighters? Nope.
(7) Yawn
(8 ) Yawn
(9) Japan - Yawn
(10) Target - Fighters? Nope.
(11) Ack-ack? Yep. Hit? Barely.
(12) Return to Base, Repeat previous steps backwards

As many have said over on BGG, this game is not B-17, but it offers its own challenges. I recognize those challenges, but it's just not digging its claws into me at this time.

It's a bit draining to try to liven up something that's not all that interesting to play. I'd still LIKE to finish what I started, but I have other things distracting me right now. I've thought about restarting that Covert Action AAR. I also have the Birth of the Federation AAR. And a couple more reviews staring me in the face right now.

I DID play through Mission 3; I just haven't reported it yet. I'd like to get to it. I know your lives aren't hinging on your alter-ego's fates, here, but those of you that have been following this, my apologies for letting it slide. As I said I'd like to try to return to this sometime, but not probably for a month or so.

[Barthheart]

No problem B_C. Life is too short to do stuff you don't enjoy.  O0

[W8taminute]

What Barthheart said.  Life is indeed too short and if you're not having fun it's time to move onto something else.   8)

Thank you though for entertaining us up to this point.   O0

[JasonPratt]

Ditto!  :)

Also, Mechagodzilla 1 was apparently waiting for us on the next mission. So we dodged that.  8)

[mirth]

Just tell me I get to back to the states and my wife and 7 children.

Wait don't tell me that. I'll go AWOL and hide on some Pacific Island with the beautiful topless native women.

Fin.