Thus spake John Gibbins: > I'm with you, Jeff, and I wrote Avalanche Press some time ago to tell them o > f my views, which exactly match yours. Avalanche doesn't make such good tacti > cal land games that I feel I miss much there -- PzG isn't any better than (as > good as?) CC:E or ASL, and those game have outstanding VASSAL support and CB > access as well. However, Avalanche does make a number of operation and strat > egic land games, and a huge number of naval games of all scales that are well > regarded -- sigh. Of course, I think Bennighof misses the point completely a > bout sales: GMT is EXTREMELY liberal about CB boxes, and publishes most of th > e rules online soon after publication, and they are doing VERY well (better t > han Avalanche, without doubt), a good deal because their customers are as pas > sionate about GMT as the company is about its customers (they're even offerin > g free games this month to those of their customers recently unemployed!!) -- > so where do my $400 to $800 of game > purchases go every year? Hmmm ... John GibbinsIn a related note; sadly, OSG > is another company that hasn't allowed CB boxes after an abortive attempt, so > I haven't been buying their stuff, which isn't really duplicated anywhere el > se -- perhaps now that Zucker
Ditto here. In fact, I'm not even willing to sell the three Avalanche games I bought before I found out that they don't permit modules to be distributed online, as then I'd just be encouraging other people to play Avalanche's games. -- J.
