My roommate for Historicon won't be able to make it. So I'm looking for someone to share a room with. If you're interested please get back to me. Thanks!...
Hi mick, I to have asked this question occasionaly. What really irks me is the whole realism equals complexity thing. Its really very simple to get realism...
The British have a much better wargaming industry and community then the Americans. I have even heard of a British wargame game show. In America most gamers...
. I don't recall its actual title. Just saw some little ditty TV thing on it. TV magazine I guess they call the kind of show where they have little human...
Hmmm maybe, I think what works in our favour over here is that when we say, "I play wargames" most older and mature people (especially men) will have some ...
I was reading an article from June's Proceedings saying that the Midway battle was the U.S.' "Trafalgar." Mainly bemoaning the lack of celebration and...
Without midway we would not have Aleutian Campaign, since Aleutions was a dodge to draw off US forces to Alaska, but when Midway did not go well, the Japanese...
A system should allow the player to do only what could be done in the war. Technical realism and accuracy is key. Having that accuracy doesn't require the game...
Sorry, was talking WW2. Mike ... From: Tracy Johnson To: wargame-creators@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [wargame-creators]...
True, but what if they are not available? Lebenon, they got a cruise ship under contract? How to war game it as well? I know one Warhammer 40K scenario I...
Actually IRL you can't make an operation like the evacuation from Lebanon any easier - the situation in inherently complex - involving as it does a large...
Painted and Based in July 5 of grid tiles 23 of River sections Labelled box for river sections 6 of 20mm WWII Russians 15 of 20mm WWII Americans Magnetised box...
http://search.cpan.org/ For those who are wring support or main RPG games in Palm OS or like, to help debug and other ideas. Mike [Non-text portions of this...
I have just started a group for the users of STONK 3 - a set of WW2 rules that can be used with miniatures or with maps and counters, and is structured at...
Gentlemen (and ladies), I am doing research for our latest war game based on the six day war, and am having a difficult time getting accurate information about...
A good designer's guess (don't know if it's exactly documented, but plausible) including organizational structure is in Norm Koger's "Conflict: Middle East"...
It'd be better than WWII Soviet gear... If memory serves me rightly the Czechs did a deal with the Egyptians sometime around then (can't remember exactly when)...
As well as various US and allied throw offs and modifications.. Like M4 Shermans made into mortar carriers and such.. Reverved the direction of travel and...
Eygption Military for the most part was Soviet designed equipment. in 67 you can plan on most Artillery to be ww2 era Soviet towed equipment. Field pices of...
I remember coming across some info indicating that in the 1973 war the Arabs were using a 130-mm Soviet-supplied weapon, and that the NVA had a similar weapon...
Global Security.org is probably the quickest and easiest site to get modern weapon referees from pretty much any nation on the globe. [Non-text portions of...
http://www.sinodefence.com/army/artillery/type59towed_130mm.asp heres a link to Chinese version. ... From: Gary Exelby To: wargame-creators@yahoogroups.com ...
I remember tales of the Egyptians firing SAM6s at the Israli tanks. ... From: battlegroupllc <kwittmann@...> To: wargame-creators@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Gary, The 130mm artillery piece you were referring to was the M-46. It had a 30 km range, which at the time, was one of the longest range artillery pieces in...
