The Competition & Teaser Thread

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I've never heard of anyone ever getting burned by John Tiller HPS or JTS games. They have the best customer service and all of their games are still supported, even the ones released over 10 years ago.

I'm not talking about customer service (I've never had any interaction with JTS customer service), and I agree that game support via patches, etc. is good (as well it should be for a series selling for $40-50 more than ten years after inception).

But I have bought many many wargames over the years because they looked generally interesting only to find (ahem, once I'd read the rules) that for one reason or another the game didn't appeal to me. I've got very limited gaming time and have to be very selective about what I play.

I don't see the issue with allowing downloads of the manual; anti-piracy concerns don't make sense, because surely if someone is going to pirate the game they will pirate the manual as well? David your designer notes for Moscow 42 were excellent but IIRC they focused on historical context and some design decisions but didn't really explain how the game worked (that wasn't their purpose...).