Re: Re: Video Games
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ARELOR on Tue Aug 24 2021 02:01 pm

I guess I'm too social for games like that then. LOL

I play X-Wing Miniatures (well, I did pre-Covid - haven't touched it lately) and I don't like
playing with people that are in it to win it no matter
what. I'd prefer to lose a GOOD game with a GOOD opponant where we BOTH
have fun than to just win and it be a job.

But that's just me. :-)

The point of super brainy games in which everybody is deadpan serious, with their neurons quietly
burning through options and possible plays, is that once the last shipment of cotton makes it into
the market, everybody smiles and says they have had a great time, hahahahaha

It is not a matter to win at all costs as much as the game being engaging because it sucks you in.
"Random" wargames are engaging in a completely different way... it is the spontaneous events which
make them funny. "So your Megatank of Death rolled a 1 and now is stuck in the mud, hahahahaha your
west flank offensive is stuck. Hahahahaha that's the face your mom had last night!"

You just don't think your plays in Warhammer the same way you do in Brass, because in Warhammer a
random goblin fanatic may pop up God knows were and trash any both ofn the players at the whim of a
die, so you just roll with it :-)

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ARELOR wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

The point of super brainy games in which everybody is deadpan serious, with their neurons quietly burning through options and possible plays,
is that once the last shipment of cotton makes it into the market, everybody smiles and says they have had a great time, hahahahaha

Yeah - to each his own. :-) I like a brainy game, but not one that's
ALL brainy. :-)

It is not a matter to win at all costs as much as the game being
engaging because it sucks you in. "Random" wargames are engaging in a completely different way... it is the spontaneous events which make
them funny. "So your Megatank of Death rolled a 1 and now is stuck in
the mud, hahahahaha your west flank offensive is stuck. Hahahahaha
that's the face your mom had last night!"

You just don't think your plays in Warhammer the same way you do in
Brass, because in Warhammer a random goblin fanatic may pop up God
knows were and trash any both ofn the players at the whim of a die, so
you just roll with it :-)

Yeah - and I like random stuff. :-)




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