So I just got Harpoon: Captain’s Edition, which is a nice little beer and pretzels game released by GDW in 1990. If you’re a fan of modern naval combat games and you want something lighter than, say, the Fleet series then this is actually a pretty fun game. It’s probably …
Harpoon: Captain’s Edition is not one of those games you hear people talk much about these days. There are quite a few good reasons for this but mainly it was a victim of incredibly bad timing. This 1990 release from GDW focused on naval combat in a hypothetical World War …
Slowly but surely, I got halfway through a recent game of GDW’s The Third World War: Battle for Germany to see things bog down into a stalemate by the beginning of turn 5. NATO’s defense was sub-par due to its lack of depth and inability to cut through the Soviet breakthrough in …
Playing “Third World War: Battle for Germany” again these days after a break from it. I’m really starting to enjoy how simple but elegant the system works and takes into account the different capabilities of both sides. To further explain, the Warsaw Pact gets two movement and combat phases, both …
By the late 1980s, GDW was elbow-deep in both the roleplaying and wargaming business, pumping out an impressive volume and variety of award-winning titles. The wargaming end of the business around that time saw the release of games like Stand & Die: The Battle for Borodino, Team Yankee, and Test …
Well, I went through the next several turns of my first game of “The Third World War: Battle for Germany”. I made lots of rules mistakes and played through them as best as I could, gradually picking up the system until I had a fairly good grip on it. Three …
Well, here we are coming to the end of turn 1 but there are two very important impulses to go through before things start to really wind down. NATO gets two consecutive movement and combat impulses now, each with a regrouping phase at the end of it that lets you …
Continuing with my posts on my first game of “The Third World War” here and I’ll try to provide a bit more detail here about what’s happening. If you’re new to the game, it sort of flows in this basic sequence: 1. Air Phase 2. Warsaw Pact move and attack …
Okay, it’s time for the Warsaw Pact to get this party started on the ground. The first echelon impulse begins and we start with some jostling around the intra German border, hoping to hit at nearby NATO units and push hard past them. The Intra German border at the start …
This is just a series of short posts dealing with my attempts to play through a turn of “The Third World War” in order to learn the basics of the game. If you haven’t tried it before, hopefully this will give you some insight into how it plays – providing …
