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August 24, 2018 at 8:25 pm #1257093

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@bobcockayne – “can remember when ASL 1st came out and being told it was the best thing since sliced bread.”

It was, when it started. Then it got popular, and they kept shoving out new rules expansions and supplements that didn’t always “talk” well with each other. Before you knew it the game was an unwieldy, over-complicated mess.

This is what I support /what Battlefront did with FoW 4.0, even though it seems to have pissed off a lot of veteran players.

Every now and again SUCCESSFUL games (i.e., games that have done well enough to get tons of subsequent material published for it) need to “page one re-write,” as chaos slowly creeps into the machine through all the addendum material that gets piled on through the years.

FoW got that re-write, and survives.

ASL didn’t, and is a great “old” game in the dustbin of history, that probably isn’t as great as fans might remember it to be.

My favorite old game, PanzerBlitz, DEFINITELY needed this, and got it …twice … with the Panzer Leader release and the Arab-Israeli Wars release (with all new writers) after that.