I have it. I’ve played around with it but never a full game.
It’s cool, but I think actually playing it would be a beast. It’s real world physics for the table, so you click\drag\release to throw the dice. Dice can hit pieces and knock them over. You can flip the table. you count out IPC’s yourself and set them in a pile. It’s just like playing on a table. It is VR compatible though which might be pretty cool. Weird to think of playing a board game in VR though.
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RE: Steam Simulator
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RE: Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
What kind of material did you use for the map? Also is it a solid board or can it be rolled or folded?
Foamcore, so no rolling. It’s mounted to the plywood with trim molding around it. I could take it out in theory, but it’s designed to be permanent.
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RE: Leaving France for Italy
I like to strategic bomb UK so they are forced to buy everything in South Africa or Quebec or build a mIC in Persia.
This is how I like to do it and you can do it anyway you want.Wouldn’t it be easier from the UK perspective to repair the IC in the UK as opposed to shipping in from the stretches of the empire? With the newer IC rules, it seems like strat bombing takes much more of an effort to make an effective difference since they can still build (albeit not at full cap) until the value hits “0”
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RE: Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
That is one awesome table. We are still trying to determine the best way to print the map. So not much progress for us yet.
Kinkos was perfect for me. It wasn’t cheap, but something like this will never be cheap. I paid around $160 or so for mine. It took 3 days. Came out very crisp and sharp. No complaints at all.
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RE: Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
@Young:
Speaking of electronics, my next add on is going to be a motion sensor in the rolling area hooked up to an MP3 player that plays fighter and machine gun sounds every time it gets tripped so that dice rolls will have sound effects.
WWHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT!!!
It’s a few steps off. Will post video when it happens.
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RE: Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
Hey Resident! This an amazing table - I don’t usually frequent the threads on gaming tables, as I’m more of a painter. I had to stop and comment though - love what you’ve done here. The rolling tray and fooseball style hit marker beads are a great touch. Looks like it would make for a very integrated game. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot. I’m really happy with it. Not 100% satified with the beads. I’m going to look around for a nice set of bronze beads that will match the corner guards I’ll be putting on. I think it’ll tie it together nicely.
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RE: Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
@CWO:
This is a great table, and the cup holders are a clever concept that I don’t think I’ve ever seen used before on this kind of project. Nice work!
Thanks!
here’s a link to the cup holders if anyone is interested:
http://www.boatstore.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?p=1&q=cup+holderI got this item
http://www.boatstore.com/large-cup-holder-3-77-d-x-4-2-w.htmlIf I had to do it over again, I’d probably go with the smaller more expensive size. As it is now, they’re a bit big and particularly with the planes and ships, the smaller pieces fall to the bottom (subs and fighter). I’ll probably end up making some 4 way separators for each cup holder to keep like pieces apart. That should fix it nicely. Also might install some LED’s in the German wells.
Speaking of electronics, my next add on is going to be a motion sensor in the rolling area hooked up to an MP3 player that plays fighter and machine gun sounds every time it gets tripped so that dice rolls will have sound effects.
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RE: Leaving France for Italy
I played the Axis in that fashion. I left France for Italy (after softening) and had Germany concentrate on the British fleet and Sealion. It was an early success, knocked the UK out of the picture almost immediately and gave Italy a boost, but ultimately that cost Germany too much to defend a strong Russia.
Once Italy had to help Germany defend the Russian onslaught, the US had an open door through Africa.
The way I see it (in my limited scope) is even with Italy’s boost, they’re never strong enough to hold off the Allies. The only way is use Germany’s wealth (post Russia conquer) to build Festung Europa.
So, even with a successful Sealion, Germany wasn’t strong enough to go after Russia? I would think that the boost to Italy would make them strong enough to make a US landing in Africa unpalatable AND approach Russia from the south via the Middle East.
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RE: China Meat Grinder?
Last game we played, the Chinese player just kept moving out of range of Japan, letting him take territory but not units. He also didn’t spend his money, so when he finally got backed into a corner, he was sitting on a nice stack of money and rebuilt his entire army behind Japanese lines.
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RE: Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
Yeah, that map on the wall is actually my daughters (2 & 3). In installing the table we had to move around stuff in the basement. That map used to be at toddler level, but had to move it because furniture was going in it’s place. It won’t be up there long. My wife has some of her grandfathers charts (he was in a b-17) that I’m going to get framed and put in that corner at some point.
I’m hoping to eventually add a room into the unfinished portion of our basement (we’re lucky, it’s a 50’s ranch with a 2000 sqft basement. plenty of room for my game hobby). That’ll get the full treatment.
As far as the talent goes, trust me, I have little to none. My cuts are sloppy, staining is uneven. My projects usually don’t turn out this good. It was actually a really easy one. One of the great things about home depot is that they will do all the cuts for you there. Just make sure your measurments are good. It saves a ton of time and money if you don’t already have the right tools.