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RE: 4TH EDITION TABLE RELEASED.
I'm going to try to stay on topic here. However I am going to use another game system as an example. Way back in the 20th century there was this very simple, easy to learn, easy to play game called "Axis and Allies". It was basically a beer and pretzel game that you could teach anyone to play within a few minutes. Then a rival game company released an almost identical game but changed the name of it and added a ton of new units with special abilities and added tons of special rules. It was an expansion to the basic "Axis and Allies" game for people that wanted the existing game to be a little more technical and possibly more historically accurate. What this expansion did was slow the game turns down at least twice as much and made it that you could not easily introduce someone without any prior wargaming experience into it.
Since the 20th century the "Axis and Allies" game system has resurfaced in many forms, sometimes improved, sometimes not. I remember playing this one guy that always insisted on playing Germany but at the time I only had the original game and sure enough, everytime he lost with Germany he would cite the expansion rules, stating things like "If I had paratroop units or submarine pens then I probably would of won" or something to that extent. Anyway, I guess what I am getting at is that PG is a great game and it is great for it's relative simplicity as far as proper wargames go. I like it for some of the generic mechanics of it that are maybe not too technical or attempting to be overly historically accurate. Scenario SSRs seem to work enough for changing or customizing each individual play. I suppose my main concern is that if 4th edition changes too much then I am going to feel prompted to have to order a 4th edition game just to not only get a copy of the rules but to have an actual game that was designed with those rules-I don't like being prompted to do anything, especially when it comes to parting with cash. This also is like getting bullied into to buying an entirely new game system. It almost seems as if AP is saying to "forget all the games we released in the past (we won't be reprinting a lot of them anyway), buy new and buy now, order direct ... and don't forget to join the Gold Club while you're at it" -shady marketing at best. Anyway, that's all: love the game, loathe the company. If it's not fixed then don't break it?
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