Tournament?

[Big Ivan]

Hi Steve, good to hear from you and thanks for jumping in!

Neimack like dropped off the face of the earth. I can find nothing on him anymore! Sometimes I see Rico over at Matrix on the Tigers on the Hunt forum. In fact we just exchanged pleasantries just a couple of days ago. Sorry though that that game system Tigers on the Hunt is kind of dead. Shame too its not ASL but its damn close! Rico did a bunch of scenarios for Tigers on the Hunt but I think his interest has taken him somewhere else in the gaming world.

Ed: I hear ya and you bring a valid point to the table about balance and playability. I understand some scenarios are worthless for balance. We need to be careful with our choices in that respect.

Mike: Good luck with the Win10 transition! I had no choice back in June when my HD crashed. But now that I'm with Win10 and have a solid state HD this 8 year old laptop kicks ass in speed. Win10 is not bad once you get use to it. Its pretty stable. I think the newer versions of Win10 are better than the older. I have the newer one which is to be replace with an updated version in 12/2020. BTW thanks for the SB Red Victory game, it was fun and I learned a lot my friend!!

ROE: Hmmm that can be a slippery slope! Each player has his preferences and gripes. For the sakes of all our sanities I really do not want to bring up the dreaded "Halftrack" thingy or dare I say the "Truck surround" thingy. ROE's is a good point though and we all should set and agree to some general rules up front.
As for optional rules I say stick with what the individual scenario calls for. I know a lot of the older scenarios don't have EA, which I love to play with, but that's the chance you take I guess. We all know and accept (at least I think we do) that VV doesn't work so suggest we stay away from that.

As for time period and location my choice is Europe 43-45. I love the latter part of the war in general. One of the reasons I say that is M5 Stuarts are neat to look at but in combat give me an "Easy Eight" Sherman any day of the week. Also Tigers and Panthers are a more pleasing to the eye than Panzer I's. 


RS is a cool game but don't get me wrong its a different war compared to Europe. We all know that. A lot different in its approach. But maybe as a change of pace one or two scenarios could be discussed/included in this tourney. 

Remember though a while back we had the World in Flames tourney where we played the whole war Axis vs Allies. IMHO that was an interesting tourney. As one of the Allied guys I remember bouncing around in that one. I even had the Chinese in one scenario which was kind of different! I also was in Africa and Stalingrad back to back...wow!

Regards all for now,
John