Eurogames Burnout

I have Eurogames burnout.

This is the result of playing too many Eurogames last year. There was Caylus, Age of Steam, Santiago, Lost Cities, Bang!, Ys, Hacienda, etc, etc. I played a total of 266 games in 2006. Enjoyed them, I did, but the lack of direct confrontation in these games brought me to fell that enough is enough. Furthermore, the year 2006, I feel, may be the year the Eurogame craze started to decline: the ubiquitous 10-year cycle (1996-2006).

The treatment, at least for me, is Advanced Squad Leader (ASL). This is a complex game system about combat in World War II. It's been around for about 20 years, and, yes, I first bought it 20 years ago, but I had not played it until January 2007. Other wargames also are good for flushing away the burnout symptoms. I currently find the range of wargames by MMP really interesting, and I have since acquired ASL 2nd Edition rules as well as the core modules, A Victory Lost and Afrika from them. I have also pre-ordered some of their upcoming games.

Eurogames burnout-I'd never thought I could go off games, but I did.