Posts made by seancb

The museum if fantastic. There are some very good restaurants as well. If you like German style food, you are in for a treat. There is also a very good pizza place on the west side of town on 290 if the kiddo wants something less formal. Some very good tasting rooms for the local wineries close by if you like wine. I also recommend you drive to Kerrville and go swim at the river. Hope you all enjoy your central Texas trip.
sean…

When is your game? Might be able to make it up from Houston. Your group is in Tyler right?
sean

The victors. Andrew - Germany (left), Sean - Japan (host)

After the fall of Moscow.

The pork shoulder on the smoker. Braised in apple juice for 3 hours then wrapped and smoked for about 3 more hours. See you all for the next one.

Pacific before the final naval assault. China finally closed out.

Moscow before the final push.

Pictures to be uploaded this afternoon.

We had 4 players and it was an epic 2 day adventure with Moscow finally being destroyed in round 8 or as we call it November 1943. It took Germany 2 tries to finally destroy the Red Army. Due to our house rules, Japan was not able to attack in China for 2 turns due to partisan activity. They did however completely dominate the Pacific and destroyed any ability for India to do anything. Egypt was traded twice. England was also continually bombed and USA tried to help where they could. The US and Japan did fight the final big naval battle after Moscow went down with Japan having amazing attack rolls. This combined with poor US defense rolls and too many soaker units for Japan resulted in only 6 subs, 6 destroyers, 2 bombers and 2 damaged battleships with all 6 carriers and air divisions surviving for Japan and all US units at the bottom of the Pacific. An epic weekend with much beer drank and some awesome barbecue action on the smoker. We opted for pork shoulder rather than brisket so we could eat on Friday. Hopefully we will see everyone on the next one.

Thanks goes to Andrew, Major, Jeremy, and ESPECIALLY my wife for letting us dork out for a day and a half.

Sean…

Name: Sean
Location: Houston, TX (Sugar Land)
Games: AAG40, Fortress America, AA DDay, AARevised, Battle of France, AA Original, Battle Cry

Weekends are best.

Send message and let’s get the dice rolling!!!

A&A will never be realistic and that is the whole point. You get to rewrite history. Isn’t that what the initial promos for the Gamemaster series touted?

As many on here lament, the setup could probably be a bit more balanced and a bid system makes everyone feel whole sometimes. YG’s group uses a victory system. We use our own realism rules to cause some randomness and generally screw up the game at times. I’ve been burned twice with our system when certain victory was within my grasp.

That’s the great thing about this game. Everyone tries for balance in this game. Do we ever ask why? BECAUSE YOU LOST THE LAST ONE!!! We try to find some way to smooth out the gaps we perceive.

Often it’s just a matter of dice rolls. The strategy is sound but luck was not on your side. Sometimes its because we drank one too many beers and insert result.

As YG said before, this isn’t a simulator but rather for some a way to get together with people you hopefully like enough to spend 10-20 hours with, drink beer, and talk smack. A way to reconnect with your old buds and check out from reality for a while. My harsh reality consists of low oil and gas prices as a petroleum engineer. The game lets me forget all that crap and live out my imaginary warlord fantasy.

As Taamvan said, those Pan-Carribeans would never make it past San Antonio. FA is such an awesome game. I even have the one with Saddam Hussein on the cover!!!

May the dice gods be in your favor.

This game is awesome.

Table talk can get out of control sometimes. Generally we have found that limiting the amount of smack talk or “propaganda” directed at an opposing player cuts some of the time down because then the player can think a bit straighter on their turn. We have a rule that you can talk crap on your non-combat and collect income phase. After you collect income, you must do the following: whisper to your partner your next turn objective(s), shut up, go get everyone a beer that needs one, have a smoke if you have that habit, and then see what your partner is doing making any suggestiosn after they have made their combat moves prior to dice rolls. No purchase decisions are open for discussion. This tends to average about 2 hours per full round in 1940 Global for the first 3 turns then it speeds up quite a bit. Smoke breaks are coordinated for the smokers at the beginning of a round and that tends to get the table talk out of the way for us.

We have a live Global40 game scheduled in Houston, TX area (Sugar Land) beginning Friday June 24th at 12pm and finishing probably dinner time Saturday June 25th. I am smoking a brisket and sausage in the back yard for the victory dinner after we conclude Saturday evening. We will be using the revised South Texas house rules. If you would like to attend, please PM me and I will send you the address, rules for review, and my phone number. We currently have 3 players confirmed. Bring your own adult beverages. Sodas and water provided as well as snacks. Game is relaxed atmosphere. Hope to see the Texas players out in force. I will update as we fill the roster.

Sean…

No dice roller ever!! That is for me to decide my fate.

We have a live Global40 game scheduled in Houston, TX area (Sugar Land) beginning Friday June 24th at 12pm and finishing probably dinner time Saturday June 25th. I am smoking a brisket and sausage in the back yard for the victory dinner after we conclude Saturday evening. We will be using the revised South Texas house rules. If you would like to attend, please PM me and I will send you the address, rules for review, and my phone number. We currently have 3 players confirmed. Bring your own adult beverages. Sodas and water provided as well as snacks. Game is relaxed atmosphere. Hope to see the Texas players out in force. I will update as we fill the roster.

Sean…

There is an APP out there called 1940 Warchest which is very good. Some things you could add to it though would be a victory city tracker. Possibly a price reference for units and maybe even a battle tracker that would allow you to keep track of how many are in a battle. We use the board on big ones and sometimes that can be unwieldy. Maybe like a dice calculator you could just enter how many you start with and then say how many hits were scored by rolling and then the app would tell you to take off 10 infantry. Just a few ideas that we would definitely test out for you.

Just bought this game by Sean Michael Inc. What a fun game!! Some of the rules needed a bit of clarifying and we made some assumptions. We also had to take a sharpie marker to some of the borders  on the map to distinguish. We played about 10 of these in a row. Much more dynamic than D-Day or any of the other tactical games. We enjoyed the short setup time and ease of play. Highly recommended. If you own any A&A set you won’t need the pieces.

We randomized by adding events and espionage into the system. It changed the flow for us and made the game much more enjoyable. The system is in the South Texas house rules thread. We playtested and then revised twice after seeing the effects. It uses the dice to determine random events, both good and bad, that can occur against each country thus altering the strategy either perceived or planned. It also adds some advantage based on the espionage outcomes. It got crapped on but we like it. It also usually balanced any perceived advantage that some countries had over each other. We eliminated 5 - 9 due to the odds and based it on statistical out comes in craps. 2 being the worst event and 12 being best event $2 IPC infantry. Some were based on the power’s immediate status in the war. At war, not at war, etc.

My 2 cents, and I’m not claiming to be an expert.
Sean…

Anyone care to share thoughts or experiences buying 4 strategic bombers on turn 1. Assume no J1 DOW.

Fantastic reply. My question is should the USA fleet in Hawaii always immediately go to Queensland with a later Japan DOW? My friend usually waits for the 2nd round.

I know this is kind of dumb for most people but I was really close last time with the Allies maybe just 2 rounds from Berlin. The game before last a horde of angry Communists combined with a punishing US 18th Airforce (18th because I had 18 of them) sent German industry into the Stone Age resulting in a very jubilant victory on my side of the plywood. I would love nothing more than to make this one even more punishing for him as he has been letting me know about this for about a month and a half now. We also have a crappy little trophy we bought at a garage sale with a sculpt from every power hot glued to it. I would like that back in my possession. Thanks for any help with this.