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« Reply #30 on: July 15, 2014, 03:07:40 pm »


I had this problem with rules in general when I got back into wargaming.  I remember it most vividly when I got Virgin Queen, which was one of the first games I got in my initial foray back into wargaming.  For some reason, the rules just did not make sense to me.  It was like I was reading them in a foreign language.  I thought "what's wrong with me? This shouldn't be this difficult."  So I set them aside to come back to. And I had other issues with working my way through wargame rules - so it was pretty slow at first.  But then I forced myself to sit down and learn 1914: Twilight in the East - it was going to be a do or die deal, and it ended up working.  That helped me kind of form a system of working through the rules for complex games.  Since then, I haven't had any issues with not being able to work out rules.  Even went back to the Virgin Queen rules and thought "why did I find these so difficult?  This doesn't seem too difficult at all!"

I had the same experience.  Came back to wargaming after 20 years with Here I Stand, SPQR and Lock n' Load Heroes of the Gap. Like you said, it was like another language. I kept bouncing from rulebook to rulebook befuddled at my inability for things to click. SPQR finally cracked after treating it like a textbook and taking notes. It was frustrating at the time, but in hindsight I was able to appreciate how much rules had evolved since my Avalon Hill days.
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