Let’s go!!!
No love for bulge?
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Yea. It’s a fun game. You must “unlearn” all you know about traditional AA games.
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And it comes with nice little trucks, the German models of which sell for a pretty penny on the secondary market.
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I lost one quite quickly, which is a pain!
My own fault for vacuuming the house twice a day, I suppose. -
@wittmann:
I lost one quite quickly, which is a pain!
My own fault for vacuuming the house twice a day, I suppose.That was the equivalent of vacuuming up $2.50 US in loose change:
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Truck–Germany-Battle-of-the-Bulge_p_183.html
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That is ridiculous.
I would pay that for a Tiger. Or a Ferdinand. (Kursk, please Larry!) -
Oh good, I thought I was the only one who vacuumed twice daily.
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Twice monthly is pushing it… lol.
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seriously $2.50 per truck ? and Battle of the Bulge is one of the games i’m contemplating getting rid of too, why are the trucks so much ?
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@Scarapis:
why are the trucks so much ?
Rarity, I presume. Each game box contains about twice as many US trucks as German ones, which (I assume) explains why HBG sells the German truks for a dollar more apiece than the US ones (which are $1.50). And trucks are a very uncommon A&A unit compared to the tons of (let’s say) Sherman tanks that have appeared over the years, so that boosts the price of both the US and German ones.
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I want to say there are 16 US trucks and 6 German ones.
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I want to say there are 16 US trucks and 6 German ones.
12 US trucks and 6 German trucks.
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If you don’t like them I suggest vacuuming as often as me.
Actually, I can see a crumb by one of my new Tigers… -
If you can find the game for $30 or less then it’s worth it just for the trucks. It’s the samething with Hellcats and the Italian units from AA50 the Italians are so rare you can’t even find them for sale.
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Yea, I just saw dude was selling it for $11 and had to grab it…I forgot how much the trucks cost.
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Are the Hellcats In Anniversary?
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The Hellcat showed up in the original Pacific game and in Guadalcanal, but not in Anniversary.
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Thanks Marc. Was being lazy(was in bed, as mum and dad have my 3 year old on Saturday nights). Could have opened the boxes.
Should remove all the units from Guadalcanal as have only opened the box twice in 3 years. -
I bought bulge for $11 on eBay today. I had to do a double take but still not sure why some one would sell it so cheap.
The game sports some innovative mechanics, and while the gameplay is moderately interesting, the thing is just incredibly ugly… The board, rulebook, and reinforcement cards are depressing to look at. Everything is a flat grey, rivers are just dark grey crosshatches on light grey background. Sure, it’s a ‘winter’ game, but it has no winter rules to give it flavor, so they just represented that fact with the blah-boring background. I’m certain that with the right artistic direction, this game could have been waaay more popular than it was. The supply rules, casualty randomization, and retreat-push mechanics have significant replayability, nevertheless, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the basic engine of BotB pops its head up again in another land-based battle title in the future, e.g. Stalingrad or El Alamein. Here’s hoping that something along those lines ends up getting produced (although I’m personally plumping for a reprise of the underrated and highly-engaging Guadalcanal system)!
Best,
MIR
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Everything has a “cheap” feeling to the game. I complained about the goofy storage system that came with the game, now look what we get in these new games….nothing.
I like the game and my buddy borrowed it, played with his son and they enjoyed it so its going to them.
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I love it. Love that the Historical units are listed. Makes it more real for me.
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