{"id":501,"date":"2006-11-29T12:33:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/29\/armored-task-force-post-mortem\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T16:33:35","slug":"armored-task-force-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/29\/armored-task-force-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Assault Task Force Post-Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like complicated modern wargames, you can&#8217;t do much better than ProSim&#8217;s <em>Air Assault Task Force<\/em> series. They are foreboding to neophyte wargamers, and have neither the pageantry of pseudo-miniature games nor the leisurely pace of a turn-based hex map. But they reflect the importance of unit detection and mastering combined infantry\/armor tactics better than most competing titles. If only the interface were less obtuse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wargamer.com\/articles\/aatf_postdevnotes\/default.asp\">Wargamer has just published a post-mortem on the series<\/a> with Pat Proctor. Though not as in depth as the Gamasutra post-mortems tend to be, it is always interesting to see developers talk in retrospect instead of prospect. More &#8220;here&#8217;s what we missed&#8221; than &#8220;this is going to be awesome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Very few solid nuggets of wisdom, though. There&#8217;s the usual it-took-longer-than-we-though comment, and some praise for a demo release. Worth a read if you&#8217;ve played the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like complicated modern wargames, you can&#8217;t do much better than ProSim&#8217;s Air Assault Task Force series. They are foreboding to neophyte wargamers, and have neither the pageantry of pseudo-miniature games nor the leisurely pace of a turn-based hex map. But they reflect the importance of unit detection and mastering combined infantry\/armor tactics better [&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-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}