Boris Balaban Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 Does any body remember the game Sniper? It came out in the 70’s. WW2 base game. Back in the 70’s you could subscribe to a by monthly war gaming magazine and you got a board game every time (over 33 years ago) and one of the games was Sniper. Would it not be a good game for BTS at a later date to explore to develop? It was a platoon size game (if I have it right, 1 to 12 men). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbaro Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 Uh, Boris, 1-12 men is squad size. WWII American rifle platoons ran someting like 3 infantry squads with one heavy weapons squad plus the command team, the leader and his assistant as I recall. As CM is teaching me about the fundimental structures of other national units, I am trying to get all this straight for myself too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TURBO Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 Boris, i think it was individual men up to platoon strength. both sides wrote down movment and fire orders and these were executed at the same time for both sides. If i remember right it was urban combat and there were also a few afv,s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shaw Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 Yeah, the name of the magazine was Strategy and Tactics and it had a lot of very innovative and interesting games ... one I recall clearly was "Up Against the Wall, Motherf*****!" It was a game about the Chicago Democratic Convention riots in 1968. Sniper was interesting, though the LOS got a little weird with the trapazoidal buildings forced on them by the hexgrid. Joe ------------------ "I don't want them brave, I want them dead!" Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Pike Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 Yeah Ive got that game as well. The version I've got is a "companion" called Hetzer sniper. pub 1987 as a boxed game. The game is great for house to house fighting but less good in open country. It also includes multi-hex vehicles but they don't play very well. It includes an interesting activation system were the best soldiers usual get to act first. It also includes panic rules so I can remmeber a few games were my whole squad dived for cover at first contact and stayed there. I used to get occasional copies of S&T whan I was at school. It incuded so interesting games the best of which was a solitaire Iwo Jima. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Peltz Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 I still have Hetzer Sniper, too. It is a spin off of another game called Patrol- again single man per counter, 5 metres to the hex, etc. Played it for hours. There was another game called Firefight that was sort of a modern (NATO vs WarPac) rendition of the above, except each counter was a half-squad or specialist unit. The scale was larger, but I don't remember by how much. All these games were originally by SPI... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 anyone remember Ambush! by Victory Games? Still the greatest solitaire boardgame system around. You campaign a US squad through france 1944 up to Westwall. Each soldier is individually rated for weapon skill, initiative, driving skill, etc. It has night paradrops, river assaults, attacks on secret V2 sites, tanks, etc. If you are into WW2 man-to-man games, this is the one to have! I still play it from time to time, even if its nearly 20 years old. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaffertape Posted June 4, 2000 Share Posted June 4, 2000 That sounds like a gem, Fred. I'll try to find a copy. GAFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Balaban Posted June 5, 2000 Author Share Posted June 5, 2000 It was not a bad game. One time I missed out on this game for I was in a small club in Hollywood Florida and they got 3 games one was the referee and the other 2 were the combatants and they told me it was very good fore the FOW was in play. Like steping into the street turning right and you see you the enamy with thier back to you and you must decide what to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeAcH Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 If anyone knows where to find a copy, please let me know. TeAcH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Scott Clinton Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 I would check eBay. They should have a few copies, if not now in the next month or so. If you like this scale, and like post WW2/modern I can not recommend AH's "Firepower" to much. With all the optional rules it really rocks. ------------------ Please note: The above is solely the opinion of 'The Grumbling Grognard' and reflects no one else's views but his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwin Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 I'll second the reccomendation of Firepower. Definitely a fun game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notnowjohn Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 Hey Fred, I've got a copy of Ambush around here somewhere. Also a couple of modules for it. Great games. I spent days playing that one! Especially loved the German guard dogs that would charge you from time to time. Did anyone ever hear of a game called "B-17 Queen of the Skies"? You were in command of a Fortress as part of a huge bomber formation and controlled the actions of the various crew members. Very absorbing. I think somebody did a game called "Pattons Best" that was based on the same concept as B-17, only with a Sherman tank and it's crew. Sigh, those were the days. Notnowjohn "F**k all that, we gotta get on with these!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolColJ Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 I have both AMbush and Purple heart expansion, and AH Firepower in my garage. Somebody wannna buy it off me? Please a few other gems of old, like AH Russian Front, AH Tobruk,AH Fredrick the Great etc, can't find Squad leader though ;( ccj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadGrenadier Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 Arg..stop stop stop... yer all making my memories come back.... ... Actually yes, firepower was cool one you get into the optional rules (Oh damned M16 jammed *again*). Watch that M203 HEDP take out the BMP,... And I *still* have my Ambush! (hardly used, anyone want it? If so I'll stick it up on some auction site) in a moving box somewhere...I am quite sure it's got all the pieces still there. I liked firepower tho, made for some tense and intense squad to squad games with my neighbour. ah... the good ol days.... --Mad (my normal sig is MG!, but in light of another thread and the other MG, I'll just 'go Mad'...) [This message has been edited by MadGrenadier (edited 06-05-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawtoothbarbie Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 A few things to add: The Ambush game by Victory Games had a 2 player version called Shell Shock. In the Sniper line, there are these games/add ons: Sniper (SPI & SPI/TSR) Patrol (SPI) Hetzer Sniper (SPI/TSR) Special Forces (SPI/TSR) [Modern day] Bughunter (SPI/TSR) [Outer space] The SPI version used hex numbers for activating individual soldiers randomly. The SPI/TSR version revamped the system and made it much better by assigning soldiers an activation rating; "better" soldiers would be activated more often than "lesser" soldiers. ------------------ The hammer shatters glass, but forges steel. (Russian proverb) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaffertape Posted June 5, 2000 Share Posted June 5, 2000 NotnowJohn: No email? Anyway, I own both 'Queen of the Skies' and 'Patton's best'. I think the B17 game was the better of the two; Patton's Best didn't have the right 'feel'. In addition, any unidentified german AT guns were treated as 88s, and any unidentified tanks were treated as Tigers. It unbalanced things just a bit. GAFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorak Posted June 6, 2000 Share Posted June 6, 2000 Gawd... I loved sniper and patrol. We used to have running games on a BBS here in winston. We would e-mail our moves to a GM and he would process the turns and send out the results and an AAR. I also loved solitare ambush, Still remember one of my guys blowing up because the pin on a grenade was pulled while he was crawling thru some brush.... the memories... Lorak P.S. yes I had a twisted childhood it seems. ------------------ http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/combatmissionclub Lorak's FTX for CM <--Proud member of the Combat Mission Webring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeAcH Posted June 6, 2000 Share Posted June 6, 2000 Cool J. I'll buy them off ya! Ambush and Purple heart that is? Email me d.teach@gte.net Thanks Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notnowjohn Posted June 6, 2000 Share Posted June 6, 2000 Hey gaffer sorry about the e-mail thing. Should be up there now. I hope... Notnowjohn "F**k all that, we gotta get on with these!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted June 6, 2000 Share Posted June 6, 2000 Here is a web site with an in-depth review of the Ambush! game. It even has all the official game rules errata. http://flyhi.de/games/ambush1.html Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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