I head out the door tomorrow (today?) for Quantico, VA, headquarters of the US Marine Corps and home to their archives, where I hope/plan to do research for the next few days. (I'm researching a paper on aspects of the occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934.) The most important question for any trip, if you're me, is "What games do I bring?"
I've given the matter no little thought; far more thought than I've given to what clothes I'm going to wear. I've settled on two, both solitaire wargames.
The first is Dan Verssen's "Field Commander: Rommel," which covers three of his campaigns (France 1940, Africa 1942, France 1944). The major problem: You're Rommel. It smacks of "clean Wehrmactitude," but most Rommelabilia does that for me. That said: The word on the street is exceedingly positive, and I have yet to play a Verssen solo game I dislike (I have the next game in the series, on Alexander the Great, on the way).
The next is Victory Point's "Soviet Dawn." It's actually not quite Soviet Dawn, actually; It's Soviet Da[shah-ee]. Yes, it's our old friend from many games set in Russia: Faux Cyrillic. It annoys me so, and it's all over the place in Soviet Dawn. The map is rife with it. But again: Lots of love for this game, and it's on a topic I like a great deal.
I'll be sure to post updates. And possibly with pictures! I'm also getting in some "real" gaming, as I've found a game night nearby.
Oo! And also a chess set. I've entered on one of my biennial Chess Frenzies, which typically results in the loss of very many dollars and the gain of very few ELO points. I've at least had the sense this time to get all my books from the library. Will this be the year Alfred plays a clocked game against a face-to-face opponent?
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No, probably not. Although the local-to-Quantico game store does have a chess night.
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