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From: jimvons@ashtate (Jim von Schmacht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: War Games
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.175348.23904@ashtate>
Date: 8 Jan 91 17:53:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.170614.4796@midway.uchicago.edu> <37675@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan7.183629.12723@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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In article <1991Jan7.183629.12723@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> sharp@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:
>     I picked up Harpoon. I got rid of it soon after. The idea is
>nice, the combat system is not too bad. But I do not feel like sitting
>in front of my computer for 3 hours watching ships launch bloody
>missiles !

War IS hell isn't it?  These involve more than your usual one on one shoot 'em
up engagements, requiring...um...strategy and tactics in a simulation of real
combat.  How long do you think it takes to play the board games upon which
this and other games are based?  True, they do appeal to a limited rather than
universal audience because of their complexity, but they simulate real world
conflicts rather than imagined duels.


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Jim von Schmacht    Senior Member, Project Test Staff    Ashton Tate Corporation
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