KapteinKnutsen wrote:


The old school games like ASL, Star Fleet Battles, and the others with the thick tomes of rulebooks are all like law. Exception is nobody is going to jail if you mess up.

The hey days of gaming clubs in the 1980s and early 1990s were full of "rule lawyers" anyway! There were people that can quote the sub section numbers of certain rules and how it is interpreted. No internet back then to consult anyone else, those rule lawyers debates get nasty all the time!!!

ASL have learner kits (by a 3rd party company) in the recent years. I have some of them and got my daughter to do some. They are more playable because there isn't as much reading to get going. The learner scenarios keep things simple. Not much to learn if you stick with just infantry with simple weapons. Those learner kits have the necessary counters but the maps are just cardboard (box cover grades). I have most of the old maps. One day when I have time and can setup a big table I will do the left hand vs right hand. Maybe even with that Stalingrad module. It is the nostalgia more than real opponents, real human players are hard to find these days.