The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Final from Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer:
SpVgg Greuther Fürth 0-1 Bayern München
Goals: Ribery 51′
Shots: GF 0, BM 8
And that’s pretty much all the stats that this game gave me. There were no cards/bookings, possession is vague.
This is a great quick play game, but I think I’ll focus more on Soccer Blast and Net Results.
So I went and ordered the 2017-18 Eredivisie (Dutch) season for Net Results Soccer.
I’m going to replay the PSV Eindhoven season, for my friend Peter who lives in the Netherlands and has season tickets to PSV.
I thought about replacing a couple of Final Score seasons with Net Results seasons, but decided against doing that.
Stay tuned!
That’s how long it took to cut and sort the Net Results Soccer Champions League card set, and I’m probably only going to use half of the teams.
I’m beginning to think that this and Soccer Blast may be my two primary soccer games that I play.
No knock on either The Beautiful Game or Final Score, I just feel individual player cards are better than a full team card, which both TBG and FS use.
And I felt game play in NR and SB was more engaging, to be honest.
I may need to play a few more matches in each game to determine which replay I really want to do.
Stay tuned!
The match I played on Sunday was with an older set of rules and cards.
I reread the updated rules and things are a lot clearer, but I would probably have to fudge some card stuff since the layout and ratings aren’t the same.
Ah well, I’ll try playing a MLS match later this week. I think I have the 2013 season in the newer card format, so I’ll play Quakes v. Galaxy.
Stay tuned!
I’ve cut back on projects by picking the full season replays that I plan to actually play in the next 3 months or so. This eliminated a few long dormant items on my list, allowing me to focus on what I’m already playing, and also allows me to narrow the choices on what else to play.
I’ve also separated the ‘short’ projects (less than a season, individual pitcher seasons, playoff runs) into their own list.
And of course there’s stuff like the heavyweight boxing tournament in Title Bout II and the Facebook Friends Wrestling Federation in Face to the Mat which are more like casual pick-up games that don’t require a schedule.
I hope to finally tally a game in both hockey and basketball fairly soon.
Stay tuned!
I’ve been trying to get myself to start a soccer replay for at least the last 5-6 years, but I could never decide which league I should play, or which team within a league.
And then I saw that Net Results Soccer offers the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League, which included THREE teams (Spurs, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich) that I root for in different leagues (EPL, La Liga, Bundesliga).
So I’m going to play the Round of 16 to the Finals, or Knockout Phase, which by my count is 29 matches.
I just have to figure out the rules about aggregate scores and stuff like that.
Stay tuned!
I started playing table top games regularly when I decided to get reacquainted with Strat-O-Matic basic baseball.
I though that would be it. The dice tower/tray that I built (PepsiCo Park) was inspired by other player’s Strat-O-Matic-themed creations.
But then, through my brother, I discovered PLAAY Games’ Red White & Blue Racing, which led to History Maker Baseball, which further led to about half a dozen other baseball games that I’ve tried, and almost a dozen more that I haven’t, along with various football, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, wrestling, and other sports.
Quite a library of games I’ve built up over the years, and who knows when/if I’ll get around to all of them.
But that’s my plan.
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!
