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- From: garry@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Garry Stevens)
- Subject: Command Magazine etc
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- Organization: Dept Architectural Science, Uni of Sydney
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:20:11 GMT
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- I was a subscriber to S&T from the early 1970's until very recently. Am I
- imagining it, or does Command magazine now put out games vastly superior to
- those in modern S&T, to wit:
- 1) With good graphics
- 2) Fairly simple
- 3) Playable and fun
- 4) On interesting topics
- 5) With minimal bugs and needed errata
- 6) With good 'chrome' even if it isn't super-realistic
- 7) Playable in an evening (say four hours, tops)
-
- I have only recently discovered Command, and am a bit surprised that no
- discussion of it has occured on this neswgroup.
-
- On a slightly different topic: I am desperate to get a copy of Command's
- games on Alexandros and/or Xenophon and/or The Successors. I have tryed
- faxing Command with an order, but they just seemed to ignore it. No one in
- Australia has any stock of these left. Any suggestions anyone?
-
- Finally, it seems to me that the post-Alexandrian period to the end of the
- Second Punic War would be an excellent period to do a game using the
- mechanics of Empires of the Middle Ages. Has any company tried something
- like this?
-
- Garry Stevens
- Dept of Architectural & Design Science
- University of Sydney
- Australia
-