{"id":411,"date":"2006-08-31T14:24:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/31\/distant-guns\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T19:03:29","slug":"distant-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/31\/distant-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wargamer.com\/reviews\/distant_guns\/\">Jim Cobb has a review<\/a> of Norm Koger&#8217;s new naval battle game at Wargamer. <em>Distant Guns<\/em>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormeaglestudios.com\/public\/home.html\">Storm Eagle Studios<\/a>, was developed by Koger and Jim Rose. It focuses on fleet engagements in the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict that was probably the last time large scale fleet engagements settled the course of a conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Jim liked it a lot, which was a further incentive for me to break out the credit card and give it a whirl. So I scooted over to Storm Eagle&#8217;s website to buy the game.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw the price.<\/p>\n<p>I accept that wargames are not cheap. Matrix Games has recently charged new game prices for retrofits of <em>Operational Art of War<\/em> and <em>Harpoon 3<\/em>. Shrapnel asks 45 dollars for a colorfully ugly, but pleasant, wargame based on Frederick the Great&#8217;s battles. If we want people to make wargames, we should buy the good ones at standard retail prices. (Don&#8217;t buy the bad ones.)<\/p>\n<p>But <em>Distant Guns<\/em> is $64.95. That&#8217;s fifteen dollars more than I expected. Thank God for the demo.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Koger and Rose great success, but that price is going to turn a lot of people off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have comments on the demo soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Cobb has a review of Norm Koger&#8217;s new naval battle game at Wargamer. Distant Guns, from Storm Eagle Studios, was developed by Koger and Jim Rose. It focuses on fleet engagements in the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict that was probably the last time large scale fleet engagements settled the course of a conflict. Jim [&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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-6D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}