Absorb Reflect Deflect Take it. Shields or with hard stuff... Oddly it was not exactly the navy who had the idea of star fighters, it was the Army Air Corps...
Re: pump it back in from tanks, like you do a submarine, you got a system of smoke or like, so you can trace leaks and all, as you put the air back in, things...
Starfighters, hell, all 'fighter crafts' for that measure are basically secondary defense wepons: they fight bombers, torpedo bombers or other attack crafts...
To true, comparing different sci-fi to each othere. Andromeda does now have any or few secondary ships, defense and like, other than drones.. Mike ... From:...
... was for observation balloons during the US Civil War.<< And the first one was a barge named after George Washington Parke Custis, who, oddly enough, was...
How to role play, war game, and use or counter Terrorists/Guerillas/Partisans and like forces. As well as how to keep anti-terror/anti-guerilla/anti-partisans...
Hello Mike Not sure what you want. I did some in the 70's and early 80's with/for the British Army, a lot of that is still classified, although it has been...
Well, I'm not sure if you'd call it a real world game, or even a wargame. But I designed a macroeconomic and international relations simulation intended for...
Loss, Douglas R.
dloss@...
Jul 8, 2005 11:24 am
1945
Scanning the rules, it seems to have a "feel" (without "look") like SPI's "After The Holocaust" (1977). Mainly in the manner in which points are accumulated...
... Yes, I liked the mechanisms of ATH. But I had a different idea for the use of the game, which entailed the changes I made. Doug Loss...
Loss, Douglas R.
dloss@...
Jul 8, 2005 3:56 pm
1947
Hum, cool... Anyway to sell it for high school and like teaching environments? Does bring up a topic, using RPG/Wargames and like as teaching tools? Mike ... ...
Well, what you describe is about I am talking about, but also for playing in RPGs, RPGs and Wargaming have some history together, first TSR Dnd was basically...
... From: wargame-creators@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Michael Adams Sent: Fri 7/8/2005 5:39 PM To: wargame-creators@yahoogroups.com Cc:...
Loss, Douglas R.
dloss@...
Jul 9, 2005 12:10 am
1950
Hello Mike and Doug, I have been kicking around with the idea of developing a web-based game for about three months now. It is my goal to merge the open system...
The Jayhawk Wars and like partisan and near war conflicts? Mike ... From: Bob Cleary To: wargame-creators@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:50 PM ...
Any conflict, as long as the history of the event and product a rich amount of detail (i.e., participants, events, assets, and geography). I don't know much ...
Hello Mike, ... - Your reference to "near war conflicts" is the style of play that I hope my game design will accomadate. Unlike a traditional American Civil...
Take a wargame (history based) and have two (or more) students play it. Have them research the actual history and then write a paper on the actual period of...
TSR had a booklet of rules for the playing of minitures with the use of "heros & fantasy charaters". Legend has it that D&D grew out the use of these...
The educational potential can be high, especially if the game design is open enough for students to explore alternative directions. Students in New Jersey...
Wow! I acutally owned a copy of those rules. A few years ago a purchased a scanned version of those rules. It's not the same as owning the phisical copy, but...
Hallo, ... In spring of 1980, I took an elective class in high school called Kriegspiel. An entire term of getting graded on playing wargames! The course...
This would work especially well for 5th grade Civil War. You could even do this using two established board games, HOuse Divided (republished by Phalanx Games...
My students and I play a company/battalion level game with 54mm figures in which we recreate actions like the Devil's den, the Bloody Lane, the wheatfield....
John Priest
priesjoh@...
Jul 10, 2005 1:16 am
1961
Yeppers, ever played Johhny Reb, it was fun cause you not only had the quality and type of troops, but also weapons, which could mean you had to place them...
Mike, I publish an e-journal for teachers who use games in class. Url is in my sig. Also, rpg.net carries the back issues of Games & Education, also on the...
In Fix Bayonets! the troops can be armed with either rifles or muskets. Artillery can be smoothbore or rifled. They can even fire double canister. Troops have...
John Priest
priesjoh@...
Jul 10, 2005 8:18 pm
1964
Wonder what the world would be like, if Demolition man and the major chaos that brought it about. But what might happen if the world of demolition man and the...
