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Originally Posted by BigWalleye
Can we simulate the threat of immiment death that is present in a combat situation? Not in any game I want to play.
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Way back in the late '70s when I first started playing the miniatures airwar game I still play today, we were playing a North Africa scenario in a rented room at the local Multipurpose Center. A couple of small, white-haired gents with thick accents came in and were fascinated. They started asking if the game represented the failings of different aircraft types. When we said yes, they started advising the players on the German side, and before we knew it British planes were dropping like flies. They said they were former Dutch pilots, but when we showed them one of our Dutch models they didn't recognize the markings. On the other hand they could identify the Bf-109s right down to the tropicalized air filters. It took a bit of cajoling, but they were indeed former Luftwaffe pilots.
How this all relates is the comment made by one of them before they left us: "This is wonderful! You get all the excitement of air battles, but no one has to die."