Imagine that your friendly local game store has a sale and you see a great deal on a game by one of your favorite designers. You know nothing about the game besides the designer’s name and that it’s a decent price. You are in a hurry, no time to research, buy it now or miss out.
Which designer’s game would you most likely purchase blindly based only on their name?
What are your thoughts on Jason Matthews’ Imperial Struggle?
@Repptar Had it and got rid of it (well, more accurately, a friend had it and got rid of it). Juice wasn’t worth the squeeze to us. It’s a big game, and I think the one piece of advice I’d have is to approach it more like you would Here I Stand where it’s going to take gobs of time and require a greater rules burden. This isn’t TS2.0 sort of thing, and it wasn’t intended to be.
I get really picky about my wargames, and this wasn’t a time period that I felt passionate about. That’s my fear with the upcoming Simmons game (which was BaM2e, now Triomphe à Marengo). I like Napoleon’s Triumph in part because it does a great job of helping create that immersion of “I’m a commander and here is the situation” given the presentation, but it’s not my time period so the rules burden and eccentricities are more of a burden than I normally want to put up with. I’m hoping this is an easier hill to climb as I do have some other fiends who jam on that era and it would be nice to have a game that meets my level of engagement with it that they are likewise interested in.