{"id":535,"date":"2007-01-07T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/07\/continuing-quest-for-the-intro-wargame\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:23:09","slug":"continuing-quest-for-the-intro-wargame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/07\/continuing-quest-for-the-intro-wargame\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Quest for the Intro Wargame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The February issue of Games For Windows has the usual very brief column from wargame guru Bruce Geryk. Along with complaining that all the old hex wargamers would rather play a real time strategy game than <em>Korsun Pocket<\/em>, Bruce wonders if there are intro computer wargames like <em>Panzer General<\/em> anymore. As I look through my old gaming magazines I see stuff like <em>Fields of Glory<\/em> and <em>Sid Meier&#8217;s Gettysburg<\/em>, but I don&#8217;t where you would look for that sort of thing these days.<\/p>\n<p>The best wargame of 2006, <em>Birth of America<\/em> takes a theater level approach. Theater level games are, I think, more welcoming since they are less likely to get too absorbed in the minutiae of Orders of Battle or vehicle types. Ironically, logistics is usually simplified, too. I&#8217;ve touched on this <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/17\/making-the-pie-bigger\/\">subject before<\/a>, and was skeptical that Birth of America could be a starter wargame, but for dearth of other options, there it stands. That was eight months ago. Any other ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2007\/01\/ziff_davis_game_division_up_fo.php\">if anyone steps up to buy Games For Windows<\/a>, can we give Bruce some more space? It always seems like he&#8217;s working up a good head of steam and then has to stop because Robert Coffey has a new <em>Bejeweled<\/em> clone to talk about on the other half of the page. I love my casual games, too, though. Give &#8217;em both a page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February issue of Games For Windows has the usual very brief column from wargame guru Bruce Geryk. Along with complaining that all the old hex wargamers would rather play a real time strategy game than Korsun Pocket, Bruce wonders if there are intro computer wargames like Panzer General anymore. As I look through my [&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":[78,99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-8D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}