Thread: Re: User Review

fauxia — 2008-05-06T09:29:06+00:00

Excellent review.

I'll add my two cents about the complexity of ASL vs. OCS. I learned both of the games on my own. With OCS it was pretty fast, on the previous evening I read the rules and the next day I set up Kasserine scenario. After a couple of hours of playing and rules checking I had finished my first OCS game. I learned my ASL basics with starter kit #1. Then just for the heck of it, I bought the main ASL rules. Then I spend about a week reading ASL rules in the evenings (about 2-3 hours per day). After a week of my boot camp, I was ready to set up a scenario and played it. It didn't have vehicles but some funky terrain and ordnance. After half a day and constant rulebook flipping I had played my one and only ASL scenario.

In order to play that Kasserine scenario, I needed about 30 pages or so rules (counting from v4.0 rulebook). For that ASL scenario I didn't probably need much more actual pages, but I think that in order to know that I didn't know the rest of the pages, I had to read the other rules also in order to know that I don't need them. Of course, knowing that I won't use vehicles I skipped the chapter detailing it, but I had to have some kind of understanding in the rules of the chapters C & E in order to know which ones I need and which I don't. So I felt that I had to learn much more than I actually needed, which added to complexity even if it wasn't that complex.

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taragalinas — 2008-05-04T09:14:14+00:00

Case Blue: Drive for oil. Ther Germans break out of Rostov.

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