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Author:vegas_iwish
Posted:May 10, 2010 at 6:25 pm
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I have always run tons of variants and faced the "romanticism" people have for standard. Even minor adjs that really improve (IMHO) the game like Milan somehow make the game "sacreligious"(yes have been hit with that term). When I was 10 I was already an SPI/AH wargamer; games with true realism; complexity; historical accuracy. Dip was a kids game played when had non-wargamers in a group. I never could get many WGs to play it once rules like beleagured garrisons; no supply lines; 1 german army not > 2 russian armies (tannenberg/mansurian lakes); etc came up. No variant can stretch dip up to the level of the wargames but they are what can get done so I do them. I'd sacrifice balance for historical feel any day but Standard & some variants work as games. I & A are not as big underdogs as people make them out. People get too caught up in the mysticism of dip vs just playing it.

This message is in reply to post 16116:

Just a curious question for some of those that have played a bunch of different games - do you find that you perform better or worse at one or the other?

My personal experience is that I am TERRIBLE at variants. I seem to perform much better at the standard games. I just can't place if it is a comfort level with having played them enough to understand the dynamic of alliances and their nuances (where I typically haven't played any one variant twice) or if it is that I tend to play less aggressively or what.

Would love to hear others' thoughts regarding this.

G

There are 10 Messages in this Thread:


variants vs. standard (garry.bledsoe) May 07, 01:30 pm

variants vs. standard (Kenshi777) May 07, 02:24 pm

variants vs. standard (FuzzyLogic) May 10, 08:25 am

variants vs. standard (Kenshi777) May 10, 11:25 am

variants vs. standard (txurce) May 10, 11:31 am

variants vs. standard (Sean2010) May 10, 12:46 pm

variants vs. standard (txurce) May 10, 01:00 pm

variants vs. standard (vegas_iwish) May 10, 06:25 pm

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