{"id":1179,"date":"2009-02-16T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-02-16T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:00:03","slug":"new-game-from-prosim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/16\/new-game-from-prosim\/","title":{"rendered":"New Game From ProSim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ProSim line of wargames is one of those series that I love to play for a month or two before I move on to something less intense. These are serious wargames for people who like serious real time action, assuming you define action as icons moving on a satellite map.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s great news for me that there is a new one. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shrapnelgames.com\/ProSIM\/BGC\/BGC_page.html\">Battle Group Commander: Episode One<\/a><\/em> takes two modern armies and sticks them on Salisbury Plain. Why there? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>The game is designed by Gary Bezant, the man behind the earlier ProSim game, <em>The Falklands War: 1982<\/em>. (The Shrapnel press release calls the Falklands game &#8220;controversial&#8221; and I have no idea why that would be true.) It also goes for the very low price of fifteen dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher promises a more &#8220;noob friendly&#8221; game than the previous titles in the ATF\/AATF line, and here&#8217;s hoping that&#8217;s the case. I think this is a developer that could use more exposure and a wider wargaming audience than it has had to this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ProSim line of wargames is one of those series that I love to play for a month or two before I move on to something less intense. These are serious wargames for people who like serious real time action, assuming you define action as icons moving on a satellite map. So it&#8217;s great news [&hellip;]<\/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":[58,68,99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-j1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}