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Entries from August 14th, 2011

Epilogue: Nations as Characters

August 14th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Design, Feature:Nations, History

What this is about, including full list of posts. When I started the national character series last fall, I didn’t expect it to take this long to finish (things refused to cooperate for quite some time) and I certainly didn’t expect it to become one of my most popular series. The popularity is largely connected […]

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The Also Rans of National Character

August 12th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Feature:Nations, History

What this is about, including full list. Lists suck because they are open to the easy criticism that something was left out or that the list maker didn’t consider X. Even when I stated openly my reasons for the list I chose (using the original nations in Civilization because it was easy and final), I […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 129 – The Combat Missions

August 11th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Irrational Games’ Ken Levine join Rob and Troy for a discussion of the Combat Mission series, realism, WEGO turns versus continuous time, and what we’d bring back to the future. Tim Stone on “Ignorance Is Bliss” Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Zulu National Character

August 10th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Feature:Nations, History

What this is about, including full list. In the opening chapter of Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa, Richard Price notes that even though the Xhosa are the most politically powerful tribe in South Africa and that British African policy in the 19th century was largely in response […]

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The Russian National Character

August 7th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Feature:Nations, History

What this is about, including full list. Though I never believed the Soviet Union to be an unmitigated evil full of Commie robots ready to destroy all that we in the West stood for, it was impossible to grow up in the 1980s and not have a sense that Russia and Russians were weird. The […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 128 – Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Topics

August 4th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Freelance writer Phill Cameron joins Rob and Troy for a discussion of the games they’ve been playing that haven’t quite fit into recent writings or podcasts. New Men of War DLC, Troy and Rob’s changing views on Panzer Corps, RTS time-traveler Achron, high-level Blood Bowl, Out of the Park 11, and racing games all come […]

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