tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799357743004909192.post6065345085436852762..comments2024-01-04T23:48:09.384-05:00Comments on Pawnderings on Games: Commands & Colors: Napoleonics arrives -- let the stickering begin!Seth Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206653100499935990noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799357743004909192.post-81293802375700907232010-12-05T22:51:01.477-05:002010-12-05T22:51:01.477-05:00I'm a big fan of the whole bunch, but then I h...I'm a big fan of the whole bunch, but then I have pretty wide-ranging tastes in wargames.<br /><br />Of the batch that I've played I think I'd rank them from most to least favorite as Memoir '44, C&C: Ancients, Battle Cry and BattleLore. I'm not sure where C&C: Napoleonics will end up, but my guess is that it will rank either just before or just after C&C:A.Seth Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12206653100499935990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799357743004909192.post-10426133324234829562010-12-04T13:54:26.285-05:002010-12-04T13:54:26.285-05:00I don't think there's any question that mo...I don't think there's any question that most of the big commercial shippers "punish" recipients by making sure the package takes *exactly* the amount of time advertised. UPS at least gives a range of times, but they didn't start as an overnight delivery service. <br /><br />Since I live on the West Coast I usually get my package two days after it's shipped from Hanford. I ask for USPS service as well, largely because they deliver on Saturday. I think I end up paying a bit of a premium for that (shipping on Labyrinth was over $14).<br /><br />Hilariously, I get *my* shipping notice two days after the game comes. They don't send the email when they ship, at least in my experience. But hey, at least they *send* an email. I've gotten preorders from other companies with no notice at all other than a post on an internet forum, and in one notable case, had to call the company and ask what they'd sent because I was afraid it was a game that the preorders had all gone out for a month before that I'd bought from a local store. It was. They took it back, but there was some unpleasant feelings on both sides. <br /><br />Enjoy the latest version of C&C. C&C:A scratches that particular itch for me, and I've bought and sold Battle Cry, Memoir '44, and Battlelore because I didn't like them, and I'm not a Napoleonics guy so this game wasn't for me, but I'm sure it will be as good as Ancients. While the game makes a lot of compromises to keep it simple, at the same time Ancients does a pretty good job of encouraging what we know of historical doctrine, at least to a point (no checkerboard Roman legion formations, for example).Dughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08827175240352968894noreply@blogger.com