There are tours de force and there are Tours de France, and sometimes Jon Peterson’s Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures from Chess to Role-Playing Games is both. His new book from Unreason Press is a landmark history of the evolution of Dungeons and Dragons, firmly rooting it […]
Entries Tagged as 'Wargames'
Unity of Command: Early Impressions
December 15th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Wargames, WW2
We’ll have a full chat about the game on the podcast later, I’m sure, but right now I want to state that Unity of Command is the intro wargame that Panzer Corps should have been. In many ways, Unity is the anti-War in the East. Both deal with the Eastern Front in WW2, but Unity […]
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Play The Rainbow: Early Thoughts on Pride of Nations
September 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Paradox, Wargames
I can’t rightly remember the first grand strategy game to have multiple map overlays, each designed to show different bit of pertinent information. Europa Universalis was 2000, and it had different maps for diplomacy, terrain and religion as well as the political map where I did most of my work. Civilization IV came later and […]
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04 07 1942 21:36: “Convoy is to scatter”*
August 22nd, 2011 · 11 Comments · Board Games, Design, Wargames
At 11.52 a.m. on 20 September, Rolf Hilse, on board U-48, received a coded message from Günther Prien in U-47. He had spotted a large eastbound convoy heading to Britain, and since U-48 had the latest most advanced radio equipment, he asked her to report this news to Dönitz at his command post in Lorient. […]
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Ian Trout (1949-2011)
August 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Wargames
The news of Ian Trout’s dying of cancer likely won’t be huge news in the industry, but it should be. He founded SSG with Roger Keating in the early 80s and their direct work resulted in some first class game design like Carriers at War, Reach for the Stars,Warlords II, and other titles. But it’s […]
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More on Interesting Decisions
August 3rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Three Moves Ahead, Wargames
It takes me a while to catch up on listening to episodes of Three Moves Ahead that I am not a part of. Not that I listen to the ones that I am on, but I was there, so I know what I said. When I edited the show, I heard them all. Now I […]
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