'Controversial' View on Supplements Using Multi-Sets

[Brett Nicholson]

I'ts kind of a pisser if you don't have the money to just buy up everything out there to complete one supplement. With the 'King's Officers' I only needed both 'Afrika Korps' and 'Desert Rats' to play 17 of the 18 scenarios so that was a good buy. With 'South Africa's War' I can now play 2 more of the scenarios than before with now having 'Eastern Front' but one scenario, just one, requires maps from 'Road to Berlin'.
I just don't have the money to buy up a lot of games to play a few scenarios from other supplements. I think if I buy 'Sinister Forces' I can play less than half of those, 14-15 scenarios with just owning 'Eastern Front' which is not that bad. If I bought 'Fronte Russo' I could play maybe 20 of those IF I own 'Sinister Forces' but other than that, I will likely just stick with one or two boxed sets a year. Luckily, I don't mind staying in one boxed set, period or theater at a time though sometimes I think if I see another desert hex I'll scream! ;-)

Check the Sinister Forces game page on PG-HQ. This has the requirements for all the games required. It look like if you have Eastern Front you cover most of the scenarios, 19 if my math is right. If you add BotB you get up to 28 scenarios.

I'll look over the requirements again but pretty sure it capped off at 15 with 'Eastern Front' alone. As far as 'Battle of the Bulge' goes I used to own it a few years back but it disappeared. So likely it won't be first on my list of new boxed sets though it does open up a lot of scenarios from other supplements by having it. However, even if it is just 15 scenarios I would still buy it but some supplements I've looked at require a lot other stuff. I think I could only play less than 10 from 'Red Warriors' with just owning EF. But I also have to remember that AP has been releasing PG games for over ten years and that a lot of people have had a decade to have stocked up on games by now. I have really only been back into it for about a year this time around. At the moment, owning 6 games seems a lot for just over a year so in due time I'm sure I will be able to branch out more.