{"id":964,"date":"2008-06-01T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/01\/a-love-letter-to-a-dying-form\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T18:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:05:55","slug":"a-love-letter-to-a-dying-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/01\/a-love-letter-to-a-dying-form\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Letter to a Dying Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=76\">Soren Johnson&#8217;s blog<\/a>, you should.<\/p>\n<p>Today he writes a love letter to wargaming, and neatly segues into a promo piece for Hexwar. But this was the paragraph that got me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to say what effect wargames had on me. The ratio of time spent reading rules\/collecting games compared with time spent actually playing them was pretty lopsided in favor of the former. No matter how many times my friend Eric and I failed to make it through a game of Third Reich, I always considered myself a wargamer. All the time spent learning rule sets left its mark on me. Wargames were an attempt to simulate combat before computers were capable of managing these mechanics for us, so I believe that my first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gameplay programming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d experience came from trying to fit all these rules into my head as a cohesive whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do kids play wargames with their friends anymore? You would hope that the easy availability of computer wargames would have had some trickle down, but even the electronic wargaming world isn&#8217;t exactly brimming with new blood. Wargames are far from dead, but they aren&#8217;t thriving anymore. It could be a generational thing; wargames meant more culturally, I think, when there was actually the prospect of an armored confrontation somewhere in Central Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t read Soren Johnson&#8217;s blog, you should. Today he writes a love letter to wargaming, and neatly segues into a promo piece for Hexwar. But this was the paragraph that got me: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to say what effect wargames had on me. The ratio of time spent reading rules\/collecting games compared with time [&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":[14,99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}