This is the 2nd Scenario in the US Pacific Campaign for Order of Battle WW2. The First Scenario is Pearl Harbor which is not suited for an AAR. I’m playing on the Lt. Level.
Terrain before main troop deployment
Following up the success at Pearl Harbor the Japanese invaded many areas in the Pacific. The largest concentration of US ground forces were in the Philippines. The Japanese landed with huge forces after McArthur allowed almost his entire air force to be destroyed on the ground. McArthur retreated southward towards the Bataan Peninsula.
In terms of good old fashioned board game mayhem, what games come immediately to mind? Car Wars, certainly (and it just happens I wrote more than a few nostalgia pieces on that very game in the last many months). Nuklear Winter ’68 (Lock n’ Load Publishing) is yet another. Waste Knights, Last Battle: Twilight 2000, The Omega Wars – just to name but a few – with any of them, you’ve got a wide range of different systems, complexities, and entertainment that all bring a good and ruined Earth to the table as a backdrop.
The artwork alone could give you radiation poisoning, but in a good way.
If you’re a large plains-roaming land mammal, or a driving cat, and you just can’t make Origins, there’s always the local convention ~
Jim Owczarski, 31 May 2017
Milwaukee has missed GenCon since the day it changed lodgings in 2003. I know. I’m from here. The mass of local gamers that were left behind have created other events and some have seen remarkable success, but none have approached the grand madness that is the mother of all American gaming conventions.
Still, I love the convention experience and was looking forward to checking out the Nexus Game Fair when it rolled into town late last week. Most importantly, I was wondering if there would be anything at all for a grognard to do. What follows are a few thoughts and a fair number of photographs documenting the experience of Friday and Saturday.
Hosted primarily at the downtown Hyatt, evident on the Milwaukee skyline by the spaceship-like restaurant perched at the top, Nexus seems to have kept its ambitions modest. Attendance ran to the hundreds rather than thousands and there was rarely a press of crowds despite the smallish space. It was, however, a professionally-organized operation with a well-designed program and a strong staff of workers managing registration.
Two beautiful days and I’m going indoors to play with little soldier men. (That’s the new Bucks’ arena going up.)
A month or so back, I had the chance to get a copy of a Legendary Encounters game. At first, I was going to get the Aliens-themed one, though the Big Trouble in Little China version looked cool too, as did the Marvel version. Well, any of those three and the 1,674 (ish) other Legendary Encounters games. I almost told them I would look at the Aliens-themed one, but then I ran across Firefly, and it was a no-brainer for me.
The box itself is just like any of the other LE-type games. At least, I think it is. I played the Aliens version once before and can say it’s definitely the same size, as is the Big Trouble in Little China one too (saw the box, never played it).
