Recent content by Toby Pilling

I did check, and I'm told it's set to appear in a future journal.

It's in this issue, Jim - LFT16. Hence me posting in this thread!

Yes, constant re-issues and re-badging is another criticism of Critical Hit - a practice I've been stung by in the past.

Many years ago I won at a tournament a copy of 'Devils in the Woods', a Battle of the Bulge HASL product from Critical Hit. I know that company doesn't have a very good reputation these days, but back then they had been publishing Ian Daglish's excellent All-American trilogy, and this product...

I think Melvin's idea about forcing the German player to effectively re-create 'Graebner's Folly' is sensible. Not doing so is so utterly un-historical that you might as well allow XXX Corp to turn up on a lucky die roll, or other Airborne battalions to push through to the bridge.

I'm looking forward to seeing my article on defending in scenarios featuring the Japanese or PTO in print. I started it ages ago and it was meant to be part of 'The Manual', but I didn't have time to finish it. I hope players find it useful.

I spent some time converting all the scenarios to ASL, then play testing them, before submitting them to MMP with some explanatory notes. I'd contacted them in advance with the proposal and they agreed they were interested. I recall Klas M being contacted to work on writing up the polder rules...

I played a final playtest version of this at the Bounding Fire tournament in Blackpool in November against Andy Bagley. He defended as the Americans and split up his trenches across the board, which was interesting as it forced me to attack on a broad front while massing troops for the other VC...

I never kindle now. In the past, I've maybe done it once or twice. I find that the older I get, the less sleaze appeals. It should be moved to chapter E and only allowed by SSR, but that will never happen.

Bo and Michael are indeed masters of our art. I would describe Michael's play style as calm and unflabbable, easy-going and good-natured... as well as being implacable and utterly relentless. A potent combination!

I had great fun again at the tournament. Most of my competative games were a challenge and my bout with Dave was particularly memorable coming down to the last dice roll. It was a shame Jim and I couldn't battle it out fully, but hopefully we can play in some alternative forum. At least I was...

One difficulty with the bidding system you use may be getting an accurate assessment of balance via the ROAR database. There is an almighty swing of balance between a maximum and minimum bid and they may be hard to differentiate between. Interesting idea, though.

Great interview with Chuck, who I remember meeting at a US tournament - Albany, I think. I look forward to playing my first Hazmo scenario this week at Double One!

Does this mean I'm officially more disorganised than you now, Bob? Hmm...I'm not sure how that makes me feel. Anyway, I understand you know this new, up and coming player on the US scene - Sidneb Trebor. Encourage him to haul his ass over the Atlantic some time and we can test his mettle!

I'm glad you found the strategy guide useful! Oh, and my surname is pronounced Pilling as in 'red-pilling' (or top billing):)