tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605687469909340931.post5952770950866895888..comments2024-03-28T16:29:12.479+00:00Comments on Epictetus - Discourses on Wargaming: War GalleyEpictetushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993781308540523271noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6605687469909340931.post-45043778786003174972015-10-15T13:26:32.795+01:002015-10-15T13:26:32.795+01:00On the topic of fiddliness in hex-wargames - I agr...On the topic of fiddliness in hex-wargames - I agree, with feeling. My gentle slide into dotage sometimes gives me the impression that I am sitting here, grinning vacantly as my abilities shrink around me. Certainly, (slight?) dips in my eyesight, patience and ability to retain great quantities of complex rules have hit boardgames as an early casualty. I recently bought GMT's "The Hunters" (U-Boat warfare) because it was recommended by a good mate, and because the game sounded interesting. Hasn't worked out - though it lends itself well to solo play, and though the number of counters is not particularly large (as these things go), I found that the game itself is such a dice-driven treadmill that I couldn't stop thinking how much better, quicker and easier it would have been as a computer game (on the Spectrum?). The thought of sorting out the counters before and after playing has me running around the house, screaming and waving my arms - I haven't lived this long to lower myself to such moronic tasks (though I'll happily paint and organise miniatures all day, of course).<br /><br />I was disappointed - especially in myself. Can't do it any more, as the bishop said to the elephant. (Was it an elephant...?)MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.com