[Panzer Lehr] campaign map

[Matt W]

Thanks Alan. If nothing else, this will bring me firmly into the camp of those who use computer assistance to play analog games well. Previously, I went with the old tried and true "make a million copies" approach for the Ivy campaign. It is usually coupled with the "is this the current turn's version?" interlude as you try to figure out if you made all the corrections that needed to be made and have done so on the correct version of the sheet.

Upon completion, the sheets and the scenario records go in the "I really have to figure out what I'm going to do with this stuff" pile of other records which sits next to the "old versions of rules that I can't bring myself to throw out pile which recently found a use in propping up a leg of a table to ensure that a large map game would not get damaged by differing table levels. As you can see, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to analog gaming.

When I was just graduating from business school a friend of mine was moving and asked for some help. As I was carrying some boxes out of his study I noticed that one box was open and a pile of game sheets from the "dots and boxes" game where you draw lines to finish boxes and see who finishes the most boxes to win the game. I asked him about the records and he told me this was the fourth time he had moved those particular records, they were from his early teens. It has been a constant joke between us ever since that he held onto game records from junior high school.

I better not show him these piles....