Monday, September 19, 2011

solo gaming?

over the last couple of months of reading various blogs I have come across a couple of people calling November 2011 "solo tabletop gaming appreciation month".  I have been very lucky over the last year and a half when it comes to gaming. Last year I moved form Virginia to New York. I have some great buddies to game with in VA and if I was willing to drive about 45 minutes I had a very active Flames of War group available to me as well. Here in NY it was different, I was starting from scratch and I knew already that Flames of War was basically a dead game here. I was afraid I was going to have to take up 40k if I wanted to game anymore, I think I would rather gnaw my own foot off. Now Syracuse has a small but growing Fow community thanks to the efforts of  another player who got things rolling, he has since dropped out of the community but I have taken on the role of keeping things going and growing the group. Of course for awhile I thought I was going to have to take up solo gaming if I wanted to continue to play. Though I would much rather play with someone I appreciate the fact that sometimes that may not be possible for some people. so this November I will attempt to play at least one solo game and share the results here, this will either be a campaign of the old Avalon hill B-17 queen of the skies or I will try a few games of NUTS! from 2 hour wargames.

4 comments:

  1. There are LOTs of games with solo options, staying well away from 40k. B-17 is always a classic though, as is Patton's Best!

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  2. B-17 was a great game -- unfortunately one that somehow disappeared (or perhaps which I foolishly gave away?) during one of my myriad moves. I look forward to your report!

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  3. I havent played B-17 in a few years now but I remember it was one hell of a ride. Patton's best I also have somewhere though I never did play it.

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  4. I decided years ago that the best solo mini rules are actually in the form of pc wargames that gave detailed combat results (not RTS games). Right now Im organizing an effort to increase the number of decent Ai scenarios for Tiller's Campaign series of games.

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