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Post by josta59 on Feb 8, 2023 16:41:43 GMT -5
Hi, all. I had a hankerin' to get a traditional hex-and-counter game on the table, and I haven't played Land of Confusion (High Flying Dice) in a few years. It's a Cold War gone hot game that I've called a poor man's Heroes of the Gap.  The rules weren't written well, and this week I got inspired to begin designing a player aid that will be of help to me. This isn't a popular game, but I might post my player aid on BoardGameGeek when I'm done. Not doing a play by play this time, guys! Just letting you know I'm playing a game! |
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Post by mikeh on Feb 8, 2023 18:28:48 GMT -5
How does it play solitaire? Looks nice, these HFD games are usually small footprint games, which is just the way I prefer my games. Enjoy your game!
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Post by josta59 on Feb 8, 2023 20:19:29 GMT -5
The Land of Confusion series uses two pages to make one big map, so it's bigger than other HFD games.
Solitaire is decent because it uses a card draw system, and you never know which side is going next. There's also a random event each turn. So there are plenty of surprises.
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Post by josta59 on Feb 10, 2023 20:14:27 GMT -5
 The Soviets suffer losses to their tank units in Fulda and decide to use chemical weapons! |
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Post by mikeh on Feb 11, 2023 13:10:00 GMT -5
Look at all that lovely armor!
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Post by Whiterook on Feb 12, 2023 21:50:16 GMT -5
I don’t know… this actually looks very cool to me! Why do you think it’s not popular? …I can understand maybe that’s so, ‘cause I actually never heard of it, and I’m pretty well up to speed on most games of this nature. Too bad it doesn't have one big map… I personally don’t like maps that are not geomorphic (like Lock ‘N Load and ASL). The counters look pretty decent… maps, might need a little work.
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Post by josta59 on Feb 16, 2023 14:46:37 GMT -5
I don't know why it isn't popular, except that it's made on the cheap and the rules aren't well edited. The reviews I've read have been mostly positive. Who knows?
There are four games in the Land of Confusion series, three in Germany and the fourth moving over to Iceland!
Probably the biggest thing that would keep me from buying other games in this series is the counters, which I had to cut out myself with a hobby knife. It took forever and was very much not fun. But the game is fun now that I have a homemade player aid, so I guess it was eventually worth it.
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Post by mikeh on Feb 16, 2023 23:01:13 GMT -5
I got Blacks Lions Roar from HFD and was told to use a #11 blade in my hobby knife also, but I went to Wal-Mart and bought a Rolling Cutter I think they are called. It looks like a pizza cutter and cost me 10 bucks. Glad I went that way. HFD counters are pretty thick and the card itself seemed pretty hard to cut through. |
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Post by Whiterook on Feb 16, 2023 23:27:26 GMT -5
I don't know why it isn't popular, except that it's made on the cheap and the rules aren't well edited. The reviews I've read have been mostly positive. Who knows? There are four games in the Land of Confusion series, three in Germany and the fourth moving over to Iceland! Probably the biggest thing that would keep me from buying other games in this series is the counters, which I had to cut out myself with a hobby knife. It took forever and was very much not fun. But the game is fun now that I have a homemade player aid, so I guess it was eventually worth it. The first line pretty much sums up what I was wondering on… it costs so much to make games these days that, I also suppose a cheap made game is better than no game at all. There are a few games I own that fit 5is category, where the counters and maps really stink, but once you get by that, the game itself is pretty fun. I guess I’m also of the age where I remember games I’d find from the 1950’s and on through the next couple decades, where prong quality (based on todays’s standards) we’re pretty lame…the difference being on the flip side of that argument, almost all manufacturers today SUCK at rules editing (and most don’t even know it, or don’t want to admit to it). I got Blacks Lions Roar from HFD and was told to use a #11 blade in my hobby knife also, but I went to Wal-Mart and bought a Rolling Cutter I think they are called. It looks like a pizza cutter and cost me 10 bucks. Glad I went that way. HFD counters are pretty thick and the card itself seemed pretty hard to cut through. Hmmmm, that sounds interesting! Is that cutter something like this?  …how sharp is it? |
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Post by josta59 on Feb 17, 2023 10:31:22 GMT -5
 I had started the game leaving the city of Wurzburg completely undefended, for no particular reason. As some Soviet armor is headed toward it for some easy victory points, I called up the 101st Airborne to get in there and establish a defense. On a 1 in 6 chance, they got there in time! But some of them had a rough jump and will have to be rallied before they can act. This game designer thought of everything! |
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Post by mikeh on Feb 17, 2023 14:05:55 GMT -5
Yes Em that's it. They are not as sharp as you would think, I should have gone up a notch and gotten the heavy duty instead of the medium cut, as I stated those counters are on a heavy card. It took me 2 or 3 passes to cut through. Paul Rorbaugh the head guy at HFD told me he uses an exacto knife himself to cut counters, maybe he knows something I don't but I side with Josta on that is not an easy route.
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Post by mikeh on Feb 17, 2023 14:09:44 GMT -5
Good use of the 101st Scott.
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Post by josta59 on Mar 7, 2023 18:47:51 GMT -5
It's nighttime on day 1 of the battle. T-64As of the 1st Guards Army, supported by BMP-3s, assault the 101st entrenched in Wurzburg. They pin the Americans in the east part of town, but the Airborne manage to rally and fire back, pinning the Soviet tanks. Then the Yanks call in an Apache air strike!  It's successful, and the tank unit is reduced! Hooah! This is the most exciting part of the battle for me, as a fan of infantry. And the ability to call in Apaches to mow down Soviet tanks makes the little G.I. Joe fan inside me squeal. The score is now 10 victory points for NATO and only 1 for the Warsaw Pact. I swear I'm trying hard for both of them! |
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Post by josta59 on Jun 18, 2023 16:15:45 GMT -5
Hi, I haven't had much to say here for a while, but I now have the game "The Battle for Ramadi" on my table, purchased recently from Tiny Battle Publishing. I don't really know what I'm doing just yet, but I've just begun advancing the Iraqi Army forces into the ISIS-held town.  I love the concept of a force heading into a held town, so I'm wondering if these rules could be used to apply to all sorts of similar situations using Google Earth satellite photos! When I go to the advanced search options in BoardGameGeek and tell it exactly the type of game I want, this is the only game in existence that comes up, so I had to have it! |
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Post by Whiterook on Jun 18, 2023 17:14:30 GMT -5
Hi, I haven't had much to say here for a while, but I now have the game "The Battle for Ramadi" on my table, purchased recently from Tiny Battle Publishing. I don't really know what I'm doing just yet, but I've just begun advancing the Iraqi Army forces into the ISIS-held town. I love the concept of a force heading into a held town, so I'm wondering if these rules could be used to apply to all sorts of similar situations using Google Earth satellite photos! When I go to the advanced search options in BoardGameGeek and tell it exactly the type of game I want, this is the only game in existence that comes up, so I had to have it! I’ve been wondering where the heck you’ve been, my friend! Too many people have disappeared from here…so much so, I’ve wondered whether the site is sustainable any longer. That’s a gem, for sure! I bought it for the same reasons of street to street fighting. TBP does some real nice, low complexity games, with a small rules book footprint. I started toying with it when I bought it but got sidetracked… been meaning to get back to it! Lock ‘N Load Publishing’s, “Day of Heroes” is a more complex version of this style of fighting in the Middle East. It’s currently on sale for half price at $40, which I highly recommend… see here. Another good pet ion is NUTS! publishing’s, “Phantom Fury”, but that’ll cost ‘ya (well over a hundred), as it’s OOP. |
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