ted raicer

PoG is a shark's game only if you are playing a shark. I think it safe to say that if newcomers couldn't enjoy it, it wouldn't be going into its 6th printing. The only thing all newbies need to keep in mind is at the start of every round make sure you have a continuous front in any area where the enemy can reach. The supply effects for allowing the enemy into your rear are intentionally brutal.

I truly appreciate your tackling PoG, but I have to say imo your discussion about the flaws in PoG in regards to the German strategy of pulling back behind the Rhine is out of date, both because of tweaks to the game in my Historical Scenario and the WBC Tourney scenario (which will be included in the latest reprint), but also because play among the sharks continued to evolve and even without those changes it was no longer considered a sure thing. (That's putting aside the entire question of whether such a strategy, which was favored in the late 19th Century by Moltke the Elder and during the war by Max Hoffmann, is itself unrealistic.) Anyway, my two cents. Again, thanks for talking about PoG.