Greetings from Moscow, Mr. MacGowan!
As I’ve just bought my 9th and 10th GMT Games (pun intended) along with C3i Magazine Nr20, it seems like a good reason to make an unusual Top Ten List, actually a survey of my little collection [I'm a Russian Moscow resident]
Andrei’s Top Ten List
1. Paths of Glory
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: [Remarkably silent.]
REASON WHY: My first GMT Game and first CDG. Never was the same after that, buying all WWI stuff.
2. Here I Stand
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Hey, where’re you going to get 6 sober English-speaking Russians required to play that game?
REASON WHY: Being a Lutheran, I was preordained to buy that game. A great international PBEM besides.
3. Gustav Adolf: With God & Victorious Arms
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: And you were even unsure you’ll be able to play this after reading the rules…
REASON WHY: After seeing units trading salvoes and melee pistole-shooting, who can stand not to play?
4. Clash of Giants II
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: What, a low-complexity quickie is # 4 today?
REASON WHY: Say First Ypres in admiration…
5. Prussia’s Glory II
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Remember your cousin threw her bag upon the table where Prague was being played? It was the Last Day of the World, indeed…
REASON WHY: Puts you inside the mind of Ol’ Fred better than a hundreed books!
6. Successors
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: You still need 4 sober Russians. And not very PBEM-friendly, oh no my precious.
REASON WHY: Elegant design – the game I wish I had made.
7. von Manstein’s Backhand Blow
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: {Defeated by the famous Vodka chit.]
REASON WHY: Frost and thaw, tanks and human waves assaults, a great Ost Front game.
8. Kutuzov
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Too much misspellings, a strange mix of contemporary and modern location names…
REASON WHY: Get off with you, Mr. Tolstoy, we don’t need a new War and Peace, we just need a fun game and here it is.
9. Clash of Monarchs
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Come on, you’ve bought it today and it’s already # 9?
REASON WHY: Every game on this list deserves the top place. Period.
10. Pursuit of Glory
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: Another WWI?
REASON WHY: They who dug out Parvus have surely dug deep!
And a big hearty thanks for the games – I’m really enjoying them!
Andrei Shlepov
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