So tonight I played the most complicated game that I've ever seen. Its called Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) and it basically tries to imitate war as closely as possible and it does a good job. Its set in WWII era and it has almost all of the real units that were used anywhere in the world during WWII, which is a whole bunch of kinds of tanks, infantry, planes, subs, horsemen, skiiers, paratroopers, canons, and of course ninjas. They cover weapon malfunctions, troop mentality, leaders, weather, seasons, wind and all sorts of other stuff. They had to simplify the rules so that people could learn and the simplest they could make it was still ten or twelve pages of small text with lots of abbreviations. Then they have eight different levels of rules that you learn until you learn all the rules. I only played the first level and it took me a whole game before I got the basics. It was interesting and I'm looking forward to learning how to try play it better. Anna's brother is teaching me and is excited because I'll be one of only a handful of people to play it in all of Southern Oregon. His wife may not be as excited because it takes at least a couple of hours to play a simple game.


In Other News...
I tuned my car today.