The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
I have not touched any of my other 1967 replays since October 2016, about 4 months before I turned 50.
I think it’s time I changed that, so this week I’ll either continue my 1967 Broncos season replay, or attempt to start either a 1967-68 basketball or 1966-67/1967-68 hockey season replay.
Stay tuned!
I swear, I spend more time planning and organizing these replay projects than actually playing them.
Though this one was in the planning stages long ago.
Since I was already replaying the Giants season in the year of my birth (1967), along with a full MLB replay from 50 years before that (1917), I had decided that I would, at some point, play out the Giants season replay of the year my Dad was born (1937).
I’m organizing it now, though it’s on the back burner along with a couple dozen other replays.
Stay tuned!
It begins!
I ran through the first week of games, not sure if I’ll continue to post in this format, or just do the whole season in one fell swoop (or two).
The defending champion Denver Tauntauns appear to have picked up where they left off last season. Yikes.
Nice to see an expansion team take down the East Division champs, though.
More to come as time permits.
Stay tuned!
Since I focus so much on baseball and racing games, other sports sims that I’ve picked up over the years have gone ignored.
Today I decided to try a soccer sim, The Beautiful Game by Lambourne Games.
It truly is a beautiful game.
You read of a couple of ratings to form a ‘match deck’ of playing cards, then go through them using a pair of d, with certain rolls of one die representing a scoring chance, and then you go to another pile of cards to determine what’s happening on the pitch, which is resolved with another roll of 2d6.
A basic (layer 1) game with those rules resulted in a 1-1 draw between Tottenham Hotspur vs. Arsenal (2012-13). The game took maybe 5 minutes or so.
I then tried a layer 2 game, which includes a ‘timing’ deck that specifies when a goal occurs, and a d10+d6 method to determine the goal scorer.
The second match unfolded as follows:
6′ TOT – Poldolski – own goal
15′ TOT – Bale
19′ ARS – Gervinho
HT: TOT 2-1 ARS
53′ TOT – Dembele
66′ ARS – Poldolski
90+4′ ARS – Rosicky
90+9′ TOT – Bale
FT: TOT 4-3 ARS
This took less than 10 minutes to roll.
There’s a site with lots of free seasons, so I downloaded a couple of American soccer leagues from 1967, along with the 1975 NASL season with the New York Cosmos and a rookie named Pele.
We’ll see if I ever get around to starting a soccer replay.
Stay tuned!
