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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: matakishi on 27 June 2007, 07:12:26 PM
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I ran a small game of Crossfire for some students at my school today, full report and pics are here:
http://www.matakishi.com/crossfire01.htm
(http://www.matakishi.com/CF01%20start%20600.jpg)
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Great write up and I hope all the kids involved had fun.
You also, hopefully, taught them a lesson about not giving up when things are not immediately going your way.
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Great write up! Ali needs a new tie! (reminds me of my dorky school tie wearing days)
A common mistake by first time wargamers is to think tanks are invincible. One has to learn from painful experience that in order to advance, tanks have to be carefully covered by infantry.
I like the Crossfire rule system. Fast play and realistic results matching more complicated rule sets.
Great terrain too!!
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Great write up! Ali needs a new tie!
I though bad teeth, worse cooking and dorky school ties is what Old Blighty is all about?
Great writeup, Mata. And good job reining in the next generation.
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There's nothing wrong with Ali's tie, he's just used the fat end. At our school there were three types of tie-wearers. The swotty, non-rebellious kids would tie their ties properly. The Greaser Metalheads would use the fat end and make their knots as big (and the loose bit of tie as short) as possible. The Mods and Skinheads would use the thin end and attempt to tie the smallest knot possible and leave a long thin bit hanging down, with all traces of tie-fatness hidden.
Ali's tie is of the Metalhead variety, but he hasn't done a very good job. The knot isn't big enough. Try again, boy!
Anyway, never mind that. Good report of what looked like a fun game. The tabletop is impressive too. Shows that you can have a nice table without going into all the malarky of terrain boards and that. Good old S&A! I do love good-looking terrain boards, but I'm not into building that type of thing myself. It's too much like hard work for me.
I love the idea of Crossfire. My gaming gang never took to it, though. I don't think they were comfortable without their trusty tape-measures and rigid turns. And never mind how much terrain I put on the table, it would always bog down into a kind of Great War stalemate, with everyone sitting in their cover and refusing to leave it for fear of the firepower of the other side. Maybe I'll try it again some time with the youngster. His mind is still open to new things.
As to lessons learned, I'm not sure about Rich's conclusions. A little bit of giving up when things didn't go well might have come in handy at Verdun or the Somme. :)
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Great Report.
Are they all in the same class ?
Cheers
Björn
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A Lovely report :)
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Great report, Paul! Looks like they had fun. Kudos to the GI Joe side for hanging in there till the end.
There's a slight difference between "hanging in there" and Verdun, as we all know from reading our Nichomachean Ethics. You haven't been reading your Nichomachean Ethics, have you, Mr. Nikes? See me after class.
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Great Report.
Are they all in the same class ?
Cheers
Björn
Ali and Sammy are both in year 9 (that makes them 14) but Dean, who held the Americans together and was playing single handedly at the end is in year 7 and is only 12.
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I missed Aristotle's analysis of the battle of Verdun. I must have been bunking off down the river or the pub the day we did that.
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Ali and Sammy are both in year 9 (that makes them 14) but Dean, who held the Americans together and was playing single handedly at the end is in year 7 and is only 12.
This reminds me how my gaming when my gaming group run a Scouring of the Shire game at Cold Wars an a young fella had his band of hobbits obliterated started to whimper. The referee-cum-real-life-junior-high-school-teacher suggested: "Slap him."
Not a good way to bring the young'uns into The Hobby. But I had to turn away from the table.
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Had a re-match today, much quicker and smoother game.
I've added a short report with pictures on to the bottom of the original
http://www.matakishi.com/crossfire01.htm
(http://www.matakishi.com/CF%2002%20Getting%20the%20spotter.jpg)
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Just fantastic! I love the fact that you are doing so much to bring in the next generation of gamers into the hobby. I, too, started with a school club. The guys were older and cool, and I learned a lot from them. That was 30 years ago and I'm still playing. Keep up the great work!
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Thanks Paul, great report. 8)
Helen
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I remember when I ran a school club the last few years that students are really happy to see new things. And sometimes they really can show you a thing or two as well.
Nice report, reactions of the students sound so very much like mine... ;)
And a great way of showing that there is more to the hobby than just Warhammer (not that I have anything against it...).
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Brilliant,
I love it when you play agame
then swap sides and have another go.
Dodge