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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #210 on: 31 January 2012, 23:00:17 »
yeah but simply translating the way they showed game maps in the magazines would work, ie each chit is slightly offset in the stack so you can see how many units are there

a minimap similar to Megamek would also work, you dont leave your main map and you can see the map and click to areas you wish to take a closer look at
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #211 on: 01 February 2012, 01:11:37 »
there are many many many computer wargames based on PanzerBlitz and it's ilk. The old TalonSoft titles (The ACW, Napoleonics, East Front II/West Front/Rising Sun WW2 titles) sand box games like The Operational Art of War, anything by HPS Simulations, the Combat Mission games, then the more serious stuff like TacOps, Decisive Action, AATF etc etc

that's not to mention the stuff like VASSAL/VASL for ASL.

Battlefront.com, Matrixgames (which has re-released and updated the Steel Panther games - MBT and WW2), are just a few of the more modern companies(or used to be - I haven't worked in the COTS milsim area for a while now.)
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #212 on: 01 February 2012, 07:17:28 »
Buck:

If you come to Origins we might be able to get a game of Panzerblitz in!
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #213 on: 01 February 2012, 07:53:37 »
Suddenly I got that weird urge to play a TOAW scenario.
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #214 on: 01 February 2012, 13:10:20 »
Quote from: Dave Talley on 31 January 2012, 20:38:19
still wondering, did anyone ever do a PC or Online version of PanzerBlitz or Panzer Leader
I don't know about those, but I know few other GREAT tank games:
Steel Panthers: World at War
WinSPWW2
WinSPMBT

SPWAW and WinSPWW2 have a lot of common: Second World War is major part in both of them. WinSPMBT covers tank warfare after that. Plenty of PBI and arty in all of them, some fortifications and boats too, but aircrafts (helicopters aside) zoom over the map as they do in BattleTech's aerospace ground support rules and don't fight each other.

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And all those games are better than World of Tanks. Are we clear? >:(
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #215 on: 02 February 2012, 01:35:38 »
I still remember that nice surprise all those years ago when my AA guns actually managed to bring down an attacking aircraft, before that I thought they are unstoppable.
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #216 on: 02 February 2012, 05:13:45 »
Avalon Hill,,,ahhh the days come back to me.PanzerLeader came out with a Playstation game back in 92' and alliedleader a year later,but never compared to the real board game.One of the 1st "wargames" I played back in 78' was The Blue and the Gray,,anyone remimber who put it out?Not to mention "Woodenships and Iornmen" was hella'kewl naval warfare.
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #217 on: 02 February 2012, 05:22:19 »
Quote from: St.George on 02 February 2012, 05:13:45
One of the 1st "wargames" I played back in 78' was The Blue and the Gray,,anyone remimber who put it out?

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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #218 on: 02 February 2012, 07:29:39 »
Quote from: St.George on 02 February 2012, 05:13:45
Not to mention "Woodenships and Iornmen" was hella'kewl naval warfare.

Agreed!
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #219 on: 02 February 2012, 16:54:52 »
Ah, yes, "Wooden ships and Iron Men." And Panzer Blitz/Panzer Leader.  A lot of people don't realize that "Arab-Israeli Wars" is the "modern" third of that trifecta. Just so you know. :)

You want to see real old school war-gaming, though? Try this:



It's the "Battle for the Moathouse" that creates the ruin from the AD&D module T1 The Village of Hommlett and the later Compilation T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil. This pic is from the Lake Geneva Gamin Con in 2008. the first time they ran it, the players were Gary & Ernie Gygax, Rob Kuntz, and several of the "old guys."
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The Cuban Missile Crisis...
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Re: Old School Wargaming...
« Reply #221 on: 04 February 2012, 14:15:10 »
NICE PHOTO...   That there is some gamin' 

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Writing in multiple genres
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Re: Writing in multiple genres
« Reply #223 on: 11 February 2012, 17:46:39 »
When it comes to typecasting authors into particular genres, one name always springs to mind:

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A review of 11/22/63 by Stephen King and a rant on conspiracy theories
« Reply #224 on: 18 February 2012, 12:51:54 »
I can't pass up a good rant!

http://bpardoe.blogspot.com/2012/02/kings-book-112263-and-problem-with.html


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Re: A review of 11/22/63 by Stephen King and a rant on conspiracy theories
« Reply #225 on: 18 February 2012, 13:24:37 »
The Problem with the conspiracy theories about the JFK Assassination is there are so many of them, each contricting the others. If there was a real conspiracy in that event, it has been buried under an avalanche of theories to the point that it is lost.

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Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #226 on: 26 February 2012, 16:27:23 »
A real-life one to boot!   My latest blot post explains...

http://bpardoe.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-bert-hall-book-project-is-leaping.html

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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #227 on: 26 February 2012, 16:34:37 »
Could he truly be call a mercanery as he was a member of the French Armed Forces, and later the American (Including all the rules and regulations that go with it) as opposed to someone like Mad Mike Hoare
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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #228 on: 26 February 2012, 16:59:16 »
I think I read about this guy when I went to the Air Force museum back in December.
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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #229 on: 01 March 2012, 19:30:47 »
Quote from: fltadm on 26 February 2012, 16:34:37
Could he truly be call a mercanery as he was a member of the French Armed Forces, and later the American (Including all the rules and regulations that go with it) as opposed to someone like Mad Mike Hoare

Ah, a common misconception - The French Foreign Legion is only marginally part of the French Army.  Hall never served in the American forces - and for several years he was a General in the Chinese Air Force - brought in as a merc to head up air services in Nanking. 

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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #230 on: 01 March 2012, 21:38:10 »
Quite apart from everything else...but the Foreign Legion is a part of the French Army; no 'marginal' about it.
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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #231 on: 02 March 2012, 14:59:26 »
Excatly my point, though with China (not American my bad) things get a lot mor funky
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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #232 on: 04 March 2012, 12:27:03 »
The oath to join the Legion does not require an oath to defend France.  The Legion, while part of the military heirarchy, does not require any of the normal recruitment requirements of any French military unit.  In 1914 the Legion was seen as attached to the French military rather than an integral part of it. 

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My inspiration as a writer...
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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #234 on: 04 March 2012, 12:37:42 »
Well no matter, when the book comes out let us know and some of us will most certainly buy it. I always enjoyed WW-I avaition history myself.  :)
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Re: Blaine writing about a mercenary?
« Reply #235 on: 04 March 2012, 14:39:21 »
"Was seen as" is not the same as "Not a part of".  The Foreign Legion has always served France directly (even when it was going against elected politcal leadership) and has always been part of the French military.  There is no room to give on this because it is not a feeling or an idea; it is a political, legal, and historical reality.

Not, an individual who has, is, or will serve in the Legion can certainly consider himself a mercenary, even while in...but that does not change the Legion's status as an organ of the French Army.
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Re: My inspiration as a writer...
« Reply #236 on: 04 March 2012, 15:05:12 »
That was a good read. 
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Re: My inspiration as a writer...
« Reply #237 on: 05 March 2012, 15:24:43 »
You pulled a 'Kirk' and got the job with bluff and bravado. Congratulations, sir.

That was a nifty little insight.
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Re: My inspiration as a writer...
« Reply #238 on: 05 March 2012, 16:08:43 »
Well it is better that pulling a Kirk and trying to get the job with a flying leg kick.

Still it is amazing how many people where inspired by the show.
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The start of the coming summer book tour(s)
« Reply #239 on: 11 March 2012, 15:00:32 »
Planning the first wave of the summer book tour(s):  http://bpardoe.blogspot.com/2012/03/preparing-for-summer-book-tours.html

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