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Steve Dixon

Picket Duty Progress Report

Picket Duty has been undergoing playtesting for several months. Game should go on pre-sale soon at Legion Wargames.

Posted by Steve Dixon on July 30, 2010 at 7:06pm

Roger Morley

Demise of wargaming

I read an article on a website, for the life of me I cannot remember what the website was, but it was basically about why the hobby of wargaming has had such a demise over the years.
It cited a number of reasons like computer games and consoles, role playing games (warhammer etc) and quite a few others. I certainly do think that computer games and consoles did indeed pull alot of people away from wargaming, and i was one of them, probably due to the lack of opponents I could find.
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Posted by Roger Morley on July 30, 2010 at 2:00pm — 32 Comments

Roger Morley

Strategy & Tactics magazine 154 Russo Turkish War 1877

I have bought this issue off ebay, in new condition, all unpunched.
I feel now that my collection of war games is complete - in the sense that I have a good variety of games covering a wide variety of conflicts in different eras.

That is not to say I will not be buying anything else, I will be, it is just that my initial spending spree is now over and I can just buy the odd game now and again.

Posted by Roger Morley on July 29, 2010 at 2:05am — 7 Comments

Dan Eastwood

Lanchester's Laws

I have two posts up about Lanchester's Laws and attrition modeling on my games blog (1,2). The third post is in the works, but life is not cooperating with my blogging schedule lately.

Posted by Dan Eastwood on July 28, 2010 at 3:54pm

Roger Morley

Arnhem map

I printed my Arnhem map yesterday, so i just need to run through the standard and exclusive rules and the game will be afoot!
I did quite a good job, as I had to print the map in four A4 sections, but even though I made sure that the print scales were identical on all four sheets, they still miss-matched at odd points :(

Still, they were only small and were only and few, and did not spoil the over map.

This is the first time I have done this, so future maps i hope will
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Posted by Roger Morley on July 27, 2010 at 2:30pm — 19 Comments

Mark!

Warbox124 with close combat indicators now done

Ive been playing with Warbox and decided close combat indicators were needed. I will attach to this blog the new version, or ask me to email it to you.


WarBox132.zip

Posted by Mark! on July 26, 2010 at 10:30am

Roger Morley

Ever expanding game collection.

I have now added to my game collection the following:

Napoleons last battles quad - I had this years ago, it was one of the very first games I ever bought and I am so chuffed to have it again.

Race for Tunis (GDW)

Red Storm Rising (TSR)

I also noticed on ebay that Westwall quad from SPI (used) sold for £40. Glad I have this game as an electronic version, and in actual fact, I printed out the Arnhem map (after some tinkering with PSP7) and have printed o
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Posted by Roger Morley on July 26, 2010 at 3:30am — 14 Comments

Dave Smith

Every once and a while, my faith is renewed....

Every once and a while, my faith in wargame manufacturers is renewed, and it happened most recently with Lost Battalion Games and their game: Sergeants on the Eastern Front. I had ordered the game because they claimed (on their website) that it was ready and shipping.... After a month I inquired with the company: hey, where's my order? Eventually they responded that they weren't ready and they would return my money. On top of that, they promised to send me a copy of the game for FREE when it fin… Continue

Posted by Dave Smith on July 26, 2010 at 12:21am — 3 Comments

MichaelDC

Charleston Area Wargame Society (CAWS) Game Day 61, July 24th 2010, Geek List

http://boardgame.geekdo.com/geeklist/56953

Our next Game Day is August 7th. We will be at the Berkeley County Library off Sangaree Parkway from 9am - 5:00pm. Please see our Yahoo! group for more details:

http://tinyurl.com/58ekh4

Posted by MichaelDC on July 24, 2010 at 2:46pm

Brant Guillory

I laughed 'til I cried

http://rhinoden.rangerup.com/the-dumbass-chronicles-the-most-dangerous-range-ever/

an excerpt:

The first indication that this range was destined for lore were the elderly Korean civilians walking leisurely downrange. No matter how much our interpreter implored them to leave (through a bullhorn), they were intent on gathering up rare indigenous roots for some pagan ritual (or just to sel
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Posted by Brant Guillory on July 23, 2010 at 6:28pm

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