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Post subject: Gamer's Garage  Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:55 am |
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Looks good to me, I can see all the pics.
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:38 am |
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I see the pics all right. You seem to have a respectable amount of stuff judging from the amount of boxes. But where do you need three (3rd edition ?) "Third Reich" boardgames?
For the record: I hope to have something similar after my summer holiday. I'm planning to build our attic into a habitable environment.
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:21 pm |
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The Third Reich games have an interetsing story.
I went to the Air Force Academy and I'm a Military history mahor. One of the head instructors in the history department was an avid wargamer. He ran some classes where games where part of the course. Fun stuff!
In his WWII class he used Third Riech as a tool to demonstrate the strategic challeges the Allies and the Germans faced. Some people like loved gaming and others hated it. So when the class was over many people where throwing away copies of the game. I picked up like five of them.
Our opponents hated the game...of course We did defeat France, conqured the Middle East, and invaded England, all while the Russian players just stood there. 
I had the best Italian partner a German could ask for. He took the Suez without any help from Germans!
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:38 am |
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Sounds like a great course ! And Congrads Big Daddy ! 
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:11 am |
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| Quote (Cuban Commissar @ 23 2004 Jan.,19:21) | Our opponents hated the game...of course We did defeat France, conqured the Middle East, and invaded England, all while the Russian players just stood there.
I had the best Italian partner a German could ask for. He took the Suez without any help from Germans! |
I played the "1944" scenario in Third Reich and I think I didn't understand the rules correctly. The attacker always seemed to have so great a disadvantage that going was REALLY slow. Allies tried to invade normandy for two years before finally getting a toehold in the continent in 1946.
Finns conquered Leningrad in 1944 after repulsing a Soviet offensive with heavy losses to Uncle Sunshine. Soviets were unable to advance at all despite repeated assaults; the Germans were in fact winning the war of attrition in the eastern front!!!
We stopped the game by the end of 1946 as everybody became bored. 
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:26 pm |
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There is a book and HBO movie called "Fatherland" IIRC, and the Nazis and Commies are still fighting into the '60s !!! 
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:07 pm |
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Hi!
Thats a great HBO movie. Basically after the fiasco of D-day, the germans dropped an A-bomb on london and the english surrendered. The war in russia continues without abate for the last 20 years!
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:15 pm |
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:16 pm |
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Interesting...
So what stops the Germans from dropping A-bombs all over the Eastern Front?
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:17 pm |
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Hi!
I read that article on your site. It actually comes up when you search under "alternate history".
Good stuuf, thats one subject that is very thought provoking.
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:39 pm |
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I agree, itis one of the best written alternative histories written. You MUST read it if you have missed it thus far!
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 pm |
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Hi!
Others will correct me but I think the germans dont nuke the russians becuase of the worries of a nuclear exchange with the US.
Its a cold war world with the US and greater germany on either side.
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Post subject: Gamer's Garage Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:21 am |
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Very Interesting ... I may have to read the book now ... always meant too. And see the movie again !
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