Eric! 

Sorry for my slow reply I was busy working on this video review of ASL Dien Bien Phu

Best,

DW!

Eric,

Just saw your comment from last July.  Clearly I do not check this page often enough!  Rob Doane now has the Pollilur Map, Rules, Unit Counters and Opportunity Cards and is loading it on Vassal.  Given the complexity, he has warned me it will take a while.  He hasn't said what that means, exactly, but I would be surprised if it was ready in time for Prezcon.  (BTW, we cannot make Prezcon this year.)

As for the strategic game you mentioned, I would love to design such a game.  Would you be interested in helping to make it so? 

Just played four games of Pursuit of Glory with my nephew Caleb.  He visited us for two weeks and returned home last Monday.  He is begging me to do a card-driven game of WWII in the ETO ala Paths of Glory.  He was underwhelmed by Barbarossa to Berlin.  I confess, my mind has been exploring that "little" project since he first mentioned it.  If I do this, it would be in lieu of the WWII strategic bombing campaign I discussed with you while I was still working at NIU.

Cheers, my friend!  

I'm with you. We actually hosted the "Team Squad Leader" tournament at Origins the same year GI came out. (210 entries), so you could say we were an enthusiastic and supportive group.

We had a solid 5 playtesters for Cross of Iron and Crescendo, down to 4 for GI, but I was the only one who went into ASL. (I also worked on the first "Deluxe SL" and supplied a group of scenarios that I don't think they used).    I was sad to see it go. It went from "play more than all other games combined" to "don't play at all" in the space of about a year, though things had been slipping. Did we really need reindeer sleighs and ski troops? Prisoners, escaped prisoners, and "escaped prisoners scrounging for weapons"?  Nah, I haven't looked back. Need to find a home for my purple base game box and the 11 lbs of stuff that went with it.

Eric, I hope you can help me. I downloaded the Hexdraw program after paying through Paypal. I kept getting an Error message, so I deleted the program and reloaded it from a lead on the Consim forum. I thought all was well since I no longer got the error message only to find that after drawing a map and attempting to print it, I got a message saying, "This feature is disabled on the trial version of Hexdraw 1.1"

How can I get the full version I paid for?

Thanks for any help you can offer. MontyBradley

Email:mbrad1958@yahoo.com

Hi Eric,

I actually have Tonkin, Dien Bien Phu, and C'est Algiera by Kim Kanger...to be honest I find those games more difficult to understand then ASL. If only because they are not played as often. 

Cheers.

DW

Thanks Eric.

Thanks.  That wiki page was great but Im not seeing anything anymore..... 

Dear Eric,

Thanks for the welcome.  I have played war games for decades.

One observation as you asked about games and history: I have found that sometimes book view of history is that losing generals were bad generals.  Often they have been constrained by forces, geography, civilian leadership, etc. and are not as bad as everyone thinks.  Examples are that Soviet leadership had some effective generals yet many bad decisions were bad by party leadership.  Another example: Not everyone in Italian army in WW2 was a bad soldier.

BGG is a great website.  I use it all the time!

Sincerely,

Don