byouse said:
Bet you're playing on them, so I guess they are. 8)
Playing on them? Laminated them, designed scenarios on them, playtest the crap out of scenarios on them. Great boards. Worked on another scenario (The Buddha's Belly) over the last weekend. Japanese against Indians on board 50 (amoungst others). Maybe Paul will let us know that the box art is ready too.
It was interesting to see all the new stuff released at ASLOK. Everything looked really good, but I can't get behind bocage boards (Normandy does not interest me). It looks like (only a cursory look) RbF2 is a snazzier mag than RbF1 (laid out much better); however, my lack of enthusiasm (put mildly) for DASL will probably keep me away. It was interesting to note that there was a scenario in it depicting the same action I did in Jura Juggernaut. I would have liked to study it a bit to see how it compared.
We did get a chance to play a bit of the monster Sov vs. German tank battle. Had to quit after 4 turns. My team (Germans) was luckier on the dice rolls, but still think we were crusing for a very tight end game. I would love to take the Sovs (can you say infantry freeze?). Certainly a game for details--better keep track of the PF usage, because you may certainly run out before the game is over. Out of gas and out of ammo rolls could get very nasty for an unlucky german.
CH's Tigers to the Front looked interesting as well, but did not get a chance to do anything but page through it. Wasn't even able to get Melee Pack 2 out of the wrapper with all the other cool stuff (including Forces of Valor's new T-34/85).