tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406516107920480032.post1350884478695127768..comments2023-09-20T01:15:13.809-07:00Comments on Two Sides to the Coin: Sand in the toesErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17973885708132273602noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406516107920480032.post-704749877377798632009-03-16T15:21:00.000-07:002009-03-16T15:21:00.000-07:00SS is really no different than any other game in t...SS is really no different than any other game in the PoG tree - you MUST manage your deck. It's simply part of the skillset needed in games from that family.<BR/><BR/>I know you like Paths of Glory - if you can handle the deck management there, you shouldn't have a problem with it here...Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17973885708132273602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8406516107920480032.post-43129197181447442922009-03-16T13:36:00.000-07:002009-03-16T13:36:00.000-07:00In my first couple of plays, I found this game to ...In my first couple of plays, I found this game to be very engaging and exciting, but then noticed that I seemed to need to play every event possible in order to get through the entire deck each year (you add new cards every year, starting on turn 3). If you hold cards, or don't use cards as events, then you stand a chance of not getting the important cards you need for Malta, Barbarossa, etc. By our fourth game, we considered the game hopelessly broken, as at the time there was no alternate rule for Malta (it was a 4VP swing regardless). <BR/><BR/>There have been many "optional" rules added to the game since that time, and I'm interested in giving it another try. However, we noticed that at a certain point, the CW had enough strength in Egypt that there was no point in attacking with the Axis, even with Rommel's bennie, as the odds of success were slim and all of those Italian units made much better speedbumps later in the game. As such, from early 1941 through to Torch, most of the game was taken up by the sideshows. <BR/><BR/>I'll have to give it another try now that there are optional rules addressing most of the issues I had before, although the fact remains that if there is a single card that you *must* play in order to have a chance to win, you still must play as many events as possible because otherwise you'll have a deck that reaches to the moon by 1942 and no chance of getting through even 75% of it.Dughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08827175240352968894noreply@blogger.com