This could become exorbitant to your wallet and hobby budget. Their PC game offers -EVERY season( 99%), yet for gamers like me, that want to interchange manual tabletop play ALONG WITH PC play of said same season, the Price for MANY MANY out of print card seasons drives their own consumer into an Off marketplace where prices continually( usually) Rise and RISE. Big negative, to ME and my needs, is that Strat is the Big Cheese, and they manipulate their customer base( BECAUSE they have the POWER to do so) and DO NOT OFFER season card sets for All their seasons on the PC.

SOME seasons only work with the latest game version, but not all. Strat always has had 'CARDS', and you can use those season player cards to play along with the PC version of the season you are playing, as a manual game on your tabletop. You CAN roll the Dice manually here and enter results. STRAT'S PC game is excellent-the Game Screen interface and stadium images are very good. Here's my personal OPINION, based upon my own personal EXPERIENCE since about 1987( I had an IBMpcJR back then). These type questions truly can ONLY be answered through YOUR personal experience.

My experience with DM is I wasn't as pleased with it's finer points as I am with another game not mentioned which is based on a board game.įor example I played some early 70's Nolan Ryan and didn't get single game results I anticipated which were extremely high K and BB totals. APC in non realistic historical scenarios may give single game oddities similar to OOTP especially if one is creating a schedule on the fly. My opinion is that Action PC is not the way to go if you are deviating from realistic historical because APC's game engine was built exclusively for realistic historical only whereas everything else is not. Their ability to perform may very well be reliant on end user's comfort with that specific game engine. However Strat, Replay and Diamond Mind may or may not do well if one is deviating from realistic historical. Action PC's would be my suggestion for the newbie.ĭeviation from exclusively realistic historical and I'd take you to vintage board game based for the ability to manipulate based on established and proven protocols that are very entertaining to play with.

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