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Friday, December 17, 2010

Grognard

Thinking of the old Monster Manual mentioned in the post below and other old games from back in the day...I recently stumbled across this one I played a few of times LONG long ago.


A tactical war-game called CityFight published by SPI back in '79 or '80. It focuses on urban combat with street fighting and house to house combat. It had a really unique double-blind mechanic that really made things interesting. Not knowing where the enemy is, not knowing exactly what their strength is made it very different from other Map & Chit games that I recall. Sadly it was hard to find other players for a game like this back in those days.


For the curious here is a link to one gamer's review of this classic.



posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 21:48

1 Comments:

Blogger curmudgeon said...

I have a box set of "The Adventures of Robin Hood", Avalon Hill game published in 1982, and TSR's "A Line in the Sand", published in 1991. I can't recall where I got them, probably from Jar(egg)head. I also have a historic wargame from Judges Guild published 1979 (can't recall it's exact name, and I'm not up for digging for it right now). The game "High Fantasy" Reston Publishing 1980 had wargames rules in the back of the "Adventures in High Fantasy" volume. I would love to get my hands on a copy of "Chainmail".

I can't find players now either. My kids will play D&D or they'll play Magic: The Gathering. But I can't get them to play a mass wargame. Go figure, because they'll play Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds or Command and Conquer on the PC.

Damned kids these days...

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