{"id":1098,"date":"2008-11-12T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/12\/east-is-east-and-west-is-west\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T18:04:27","slug":"east-is-east-and-west-is-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/12\/east-is-east-and-west-is-west\/","title":{"rendered":"East is East and West is West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick question for AgeOD, a studio whose games I’ve championed for the last few years:<\/p>\n

Why in the name of Mercator would you do a wargame with the continent of Europe as the centerpiece and have the map turned 70 degrees?<\/a> I thought I could deal with this since a) I’m not a moron, and (b) there are (allegedly) performance reasons that mean the map can run better on lower powered machines if they make it more tall than wide.<\/p>\n

In fact, this is harder for my old brain to handle than I thought. Part of the problem is that you don’t usually see the entire map when you are moving your units. So it feels a little unnatural to move your units in an unexpected direction, especially in the Balkans. Yeah, in the great scheme of a dimensionless universe there is no up nor down. But you tinker with conventions at your own peril.<\/p>\n

As for World War One<\/em> itself, print out the manual and have it readily available. There is no way you will figure this out by going through the Click To Proceed tutorial<\/a> or by jumping in. And the manual itself is only a couple of dozen pages with generous screenshots. Somehow, I think this is not going to be enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick question for AgeOD, a studio whose games I’ve championed for the last few years: Why in the name of Mercator would you do a wargame with the continent of Europe as the centerpiece and have the map turned 70 degrees? I thought I could deal with this since a) I’m not a moron, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,99,119],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}