Later interpretations rejected opposition between myth and science, such as Jungian archetypes, Joseph Campbell's "metaphor of spiritual potentiality", or Levi-Strauss's fixed mental architecture.
Email This BlogThis! I was never really satisfied with Cone of Fire ; while the 42 scenarios are a good set and individually are fun to play, it had the potential to be far more interesting. We may return to South America in the future, but will do so with two or more completely new games, each from just one of the game series. When we started publishing book supplements, those seemed a feasible means to get that project into print.
So when I designed our Road to Berlin boxed game, I designed the maps to also support the supplement that became White Eagles.
When we finally got rid of the 5,pound albatross that was our in-house printing machine, White Eagles became a problem child. It had 76 pages, which is an odd number for standard printing methods. Navy Plan Red sold out, we were left with thousands of counter sheets but no more boxes or maps the economies of scale on old-style die-cut counters yields much greater savings than on boxes, maps or booklets.
Not wanting to throw them out nor pay to store them when they had no purpose, I crafted a book of new scenarios moving the setting to the Caribbean map from U. Navy Plan Gold. The Americans and British are still going at it, but this time farther to the south. Sea of Troubles went out of production for the same reason as White Eagles : it was an odd-sized book that would need to be laid out all over again to print on a standard press.
And so the Japanese and the Germans attack the namesake Strait, while the Americans and British join the locals to defend it. Great War at Sea: Reichsmarine Reichsmarine was a downloadable-only product, a format we stopped producing in I think and abandoned completely in October following a bizarre blackmail attempt.
And there were 10 fairly disjointed scenarios for their use. As another pre-Stear production, it had no story arc whatsoever. Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare Cruiser Warfare was an unusual game in the Great War at Sea series, with a world-wide area map rather than the operational maps used in every other game.
It also had the game rules included in the scenario book rather than the standard series rulebook that every other Great War at Sea game carries, since the operational rules from that book were not used, only the battle rules.
The game was popular, but I was never really satisfied with it from the box cover and map art through the relatively large amount of errata it generated compared to our other games. The game was delayed in printing and finally ready to leave just in time for the Chinese New Year.
So it sat for an extra six weeks before departing. Then it was shipped to Long Beach, California instead of Norfolk, Virginia as specified; it sat for an extra six weeks waiting for its ship to unload Long Beach was badly clogged and then two more travelling across the country by truck. No one remembers when a game is late, at least among the consumers they most definitely rage, but then they forget , but the delays caused all sorts of serious financial distress for the company.
When it arrived, we found the playing pieces had been die-cut with enormous force, far more than is required to cut chipboard. They actually look good, but came out very, very thin from the smashing. So when we ran out of one of the sheets of ultra-thin pieces, it seemed better to just retire the game rather than go through an extensive reprint. Navy Plan Black boxed game see below ; we had probably 1, to 1, sheets left over when that game went out of print.
When the supply of extra pieces ran out, it was time to retire the book. Because they were. But the map art was poor and I should never have sent it to press; the pieces were pretty but hard to use. It did have a very nice box. While we like to keep our naval games in print, we've had to say goodbye to Leyte Gulf.
Giant wargames are even more difficult to fit into the new-model Avalanche Press, where a roster of 15 employees apiece has given way to one of just two. Even so, it retired as one of our all-time best-sellers, and we did sell a lot of them in several iterations. The first edition had a hard-mounted game board and an unattractive olive-drab box. The next version had the same unattractive box, but a lightweight game board like those in our current Panzer Grenadier games.
And then finally we sold it in an unattractive light green box with the lightweight board. The game had pieces, but uniquely for the Panzer Grenadier series, that included all of the required markers it didn't include the generic marker sheet that all other series games receive. Most of the scenarios took place during the airborne landings behind the Normandy beaches in June The scenarios changed with the box change, and we replaced the four original scenarios that used pieces from other games with four new ones that, like the other 16, only called for parts already in the box.
There is a sharp division among players over this policy: some want to be able to mix their pieces between games and have more scenarios, but others insist that even one scenario out of 50 requiring pieces from another product yields an "incomplete game. And so we have chosen to enforce the Fulda Rule, that every boxed game must be fully playable only with pieces within its box.
And then we sell the "crossover" scenarios separately. We eventually re-issued most of the scenarios, along with the map we had a huge supply of them in a book edition. It sold out in , with a large print run, so it was very successful.
It needs to return to the lineup with new counter artwork, and improved map and a better name. It had a really stupid name, but a very fine price which no doubt aided sales and it's been called the best-playing game of the Battle of the Bulge. It is one of my favorite game designs, and even spawned two stillborn sequels: one smaller one on the Falciu Bridgehead, one larger one on the siege of Odessa. Those would have been fun to design and publish, but less fun to have to try to sell.
Invasion of Italy Our very first game, Invasion of Italy was a fairly intense simulation of the Allied landings at Salerno in September We tried to send it off in truly spectacular fashion, by giving the final copies a true Viking Funeral. We were ready with the permit, and had plans for a picture gallery on the website of a couple hundred ugly brown boxes going up in flames. The customers confounded us by snapping them up instead to save them from a fiery end.
I was truly disappointed. Second World War at Sea: Distant Oceans The book supplement gave new scenarios for all of the games then in print in the series, but concentrated on what was then the newest title, Bomb Alley.
It has background articles on Italian carrier programs, the German helicopter carrier and the Royal Yugoslav Navy. It lacked good focus and had its additional pieces printed on the back cover, a very poor substitute for actual physical ones. This book will never see a reprint. Great War at Sea: U. Navy Plan Black Plan Orange see below was a very successful game for us, and so in we made plans to release a companion game at the same time as Great War at Sea: also seen below.
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