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Yessir.

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GURPS is very good for tactical fantasy or historical medieval combat with relatively small numbers of figures, if you learn and use most/all of the advanced rules.

Well, it's good for fairly big battles too, if you revel in the detail and don't mind spending hours and hours at it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

For less complexity of the same thing, there's the predecessor: The Fantasy Trip, now out of print but there is an (even slightly simpler) derivative version with modules being published on the web.

I used to play lots of board wargames (e.g. Starship Troopers, Wooden Ships & Iron Men, Squad Leader, Starfleet Battles, etc etc etc etc), but not very much for a long time now - too much time playing computer games.

PvK

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I recently bought the 3rd edition for 80€ (that's the normal price around here) and I am very disappointed. The game is just boring, because after 4 sessions we came to the conclusion, that the game you play on the board (moving ships, conquering planets) has almost no influence on who wins the game, due to the imperial strategy and unfair mission objectives.

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How much would 80*weirdcurrencysign* be in $US. Having no reference, that could be equivalent to two crunchy tachos or a lexus.

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Pretty much agreed.

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$96.87 according to today's Google conversion.

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Never seen the european currency € before? I don't want to sound rude, but it is a common prejudice here that the horizon of the average american ends at the coast...

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Isn't that the Quake II symbol on it's side? (as seen at UserFriendly.org)

European money was much more fun before the Euro...

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I find that whenever someone says "I don't want to sound _____" that _____ is, in fact, precisely how they intend to sound.

You have succeeded here.

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On the subject of Twilight Imperium, I highly suggest you house rule the game, because in my experience it doesn't need many changes to fix. My group altered the Imperial strategy card to provide only 1 VP + 1 if you're in control of Mecatol Rex (that giant planet at the center of the universe), allowed players to purchase technologies with influence instead of resources, and made it so that dreadnoughts fired (and removed casualties) first & fighters last. Turned out to be pretty fun!