Reply To: Just sniffin' glue! (UJWC)

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@unclejimmy – the M50 Ontos?  All I know is that the Marine Corps ditched them pretty quickly.  That should tell you something.  When the funding-starved, equipment-starved, always-using-weapons-two generations-old-because-we-operate-off-the-US-Navy’s-tablescraps … when the US Marine Corps turns its nose up at equipment … man, you know it’s bad.  🙁

I like the space marine statue.  What’s up with the arrows on the knees?  So players remember how to set the mini on the table? 😀

Epic desert building!  I like the weathering along the paint on the bottom.

Oh, I meant to say – thanks very much for the kind words on the Sitrep Podcast thread.  😀 😀 😀

SITREP PODCAST: Talking Wargaming! The Drill Sergeant Rant!

Have no fear, @yavasa – those were new counters I had never playtested, what I really needed was artillery and we weren’t using indirect fire in a tutorial “demo game” – and I make it a point to never “beat up” a player to whom I’m trying to teach / introduce a game.

I don’t throw the game, of course, or let the new player win or lose on purpose.  After all, I find that new players dislike being patronized as much as they dislike being curb-stomped by experienced players who are “teaching” them the game.

What I usually do is set up an “impossible” game for myself … or at least a very hard game … and then play as hard as I can.  This way the new player can watch me and learn, but at the same time I’m not steam-rolling a new player who’s trying to learn the rules of a game that admittedly has a pretty significant learning curve.