{"id":316,"date":"2006-02-28T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2006-08-18T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T20:04:13","slug":"the-first-sign-you-should-not-review-wargames-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/28\/the-first-sign-you-should-not-review-wargames-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The first sign you should not review wargames is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wargames get next to no respect. Even when they do get reviewed, they are either given vague reviews and middling &#8220;play it safe&#8221; scores or they are completely mangled by people who show neither the time nor patience to figure out what the hell is going on.<\/p>\n<p>But if you name your site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategyinformer.com\">Strategy Informer<\/a>, you should have some credibility on wargames, right? Well, maybe. But then you write something like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game will not make itself obvious, instead you will be required to decipher cryptic symbols long before you even get close to engaging the enemy. Some of your units look like little tanks in boxes, others look like ovals inside boxes. I personally find it laughable that a unit is represented by an oval. This is the new millennium, we can scan electronic code into living cells, surely game developers can come up with something more intuitive for a unit than an oval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They are called NATO symbols, dingus. Armor is traditionally represented by an oval in a box. People who understand wargames know that you don&#8217;t always use a picture of a tank.<\/p>\n<p>The wargame being <a href=\"http:\/\/strategyinformer.com\/pc\/starandthecrescent\/review.html\">reviewed<\/a> here is ProSim&#8217;s Star and Crescent. Which does use pictures of tanks when you zoom in very closely. But for the most part it relies on the old wargaming symbols that have always been in use in wargames.<\/p>\n<p>There are many legitimate complaints that can be made about Star and Crescent. Some of them are in this review by Alex Jeffreys. But to criticize a wargame because it uses icons that have been in place in games and war maps for decades is beyond madness. It&#8217;s a sign that you are really out of your depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wargames get next to no respect. Even when they do get reviewed, they are either given vague reviews and middling &#8220;play it safe&#8221; scores or they are completely mangled by people who show neither the time nor patience to figure out what the hell is going on. But if you name your site Strategy Informer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-56","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}