120 Series of Several Iterations

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1 year 4 months ago #494 by GROGnads
Hoi y`all as I did happen to obtain the majority for these, beginning with the large 'Zip-Loc Baggies' versions. Recall that even 'DNO' & 'UNT' began as thus, yet, all of the smaller 'boxed' kind had the 'Gamemaps' folded further to cram-jam them within-! Plenty of 'times' we'd tape down the corners, while later-on we used clear glass panes, or 'plexiglas'-('perspex' to a few others)-! oh, the FREE sort are best sought and 'moi' GOT many, like the "Jack-in-the-Box" 'Dining Room' glass as FREED-? It almost covered MOST of them maps for SPI 'War in Europe', as we needed an additional glass piece & end table to encompass the remainder.

Some 'Boxed' editions also lacked their earlier 'Zip-Loc' versions, or didn't even have further iterations, such as the 'Pacific Campaigns' nor lots of others, such with 'Pharsulas', 'Crimea', 'Eagles'-(became T.A.H.G.C. 'Caesar's Legions'), 'Elau', etc. At least they didn't become still badly increased-creases with the smaller boxed ones-! They seemed as if vying with 'Avalon Hill' on squashed, ill fitting boxes, & had you seen that 'Magic Realm' travestegial atrocity-? Then, no longer could any 'counters tray' fit into this, due too 'shallownocity' now. I can think upon '1' company that has their 'Gamemap' rolled up within a 'tube'-container, as we would get a 'Hairs Dryer' to blow heat onto that to flatten it fastest.

Here's the latest of 'moi' concepts unto 'Fieldworks':

The 'notion' becoming a 'minis'-depiction of this, that was positioned on-board while an off-board 'locale card' will contain the 'pieces' in there. Plenty of 'Places' will allow many 'Installations'/etc. placement whilst uncluttering the smaller 'Board Spaces'-! The 'Bermuda Trigon' is yet another example for consideration, as how would/should/could it become 'surrealized'-?

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1 year 4 months ago #498 by CardboardPusher
Have you seen the Compass reprint of the 120 series games into a single box? I think it has three of them in one package.

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1 year 4 months ago #499 by CardboardPusher
I played one of the games from the new Compass version. It was great. Good old school hex and counter. No step losses, just bam and you're done.

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1 year 4 months ago #500 by GROGnads
Hoi Grant and no, I haven't, while I seem to recall that 'Consim Press' has their 'remake' of 'Beda Fomm' in an overall improved edition-! Now, their entire '120 Series' was around less than USD $5-apiece back then, so compare that with today's cost-? Even 'War at Sea' was $5 initially as how much $$$ did it increase upto lately-? Yeah, with the 'Zip-Loc baggie' editions then you got LESS 'mapfold creasing' as the smaller 'box' made those more prominent & accursed-! How many others did they produce-?

For the 'scale' represented, then 'silhouettes' are 'apropos' as seen/shown. Notice that they didn't 'follow' the basic premise of: '120 Counters & 120 minutes playing 'time' allotted' so, had they created '?-?-? Counters & !-!-! hours'-Series-? The '411'-counters alone were substantial as a few more would have been 'nice'-!   

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1 year 4 months ago #512 by CardboardPusher
I do have Beda Fomm, got it used. Haven't played it yet. Though at the same time I got The Legend Begins from Terran. It was Simonitch's first stab at a North Africa game and I really liked it.

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