Warchild, Dance the Days, and Dance the Nights... Away
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Your introduction to consim gaming:
A friend introduced me to PanzerBlitz in high school
Your favorite game(s):
Up Front, ASL, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Arkham Horror, War of the Ring
What game(s) are you currently playing (solitaire, FTF, PBEM, etc.) or wish to play next?
War of the Ring, Arkham Horror, Turning Point: Stalingrad, Up Front, The Hills Rise Wild, Classical Hack (ancients miniatures), Piquet/Archon, Command&Colors: Ancients, Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear, Twilight Struggle, Warriors of God. Wishlist: Pax Romana, Republic of Rome (Valley Games), Monty's Gamble, Sword of Rome, Totaler Krieg, We The People
What game(s) have you played recently?
Arkham Horror (w/ Dunwich Horror), War of the Ring (w/ expansion), Chez Geek
In general, how much time do you spend gaming?
4-8 hrs per week
How big is your game collection?
95 games
Your local game club(s) and/or where you reside (let's network!)
PiGS, North Jersey
About Me
Engineer (20 years with the US Army in the field of projectile exterior ballistics), husband to a wonderful wife, father to two great kids
Personal Interests (favorite activities, movies, shows, books, music, etc.)
reading (Lovecraft, Poe, Orwell, mil hist, hist fiction, Tolkien), scale modeling, historical miniatures, roleplaying games, Penn State Nittany Lion and New York Giants football, Scorcese, Kurosawa, Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Jethro Tull, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, ELP, The Who, Traffic, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden, Beethoven
Not this Friday, as the wife and I have to pick up grandchildren from daycare at 5PM and hang with them until 8PM. That little chore is variable once weekly.
I am not an artist but the sketches are good. They look like wood cuts or acid etchings and then printed. I will show them to my brother, a graphic artist. He should find them interesting. Check out his Civil War sketches are my page. Enjoyed the ph…
Finished Robert Clary's book on the Mexican War and have just started Noah Trudeau's classic, "Gettysburg: A Tale of Courage". Also am reading Kati Marton's earlier work on Raoul Wallenberg, "Wallenberg". Her latest tome, "Enemy of the People" is su…
Well then I shall continue to "ping" away. The use of multi-decks (Operational, Limited War and Total war) should provide some interesting variations with the historical record.
Thanks for this Jim. One can only hope she will be charged with child abuse but in this topsy-turvy, "feel good" world this woman will be excused for her poor taste in clothing selection. And to imagine this is the best way she could put her sewing…
Hang in their Robert. These card-driven games are fun. The mechanisms for movement and battle are fairly easy. Like you stated, and to paraphrase Shakespeare, "the strategy is the thing". Only play of the games can comfort one that their approach is…
A number of years ago I played around with a political/conflict game concept that explored the decade prior to the beginning of the American Civil War. My early draft was titled "Bitter Harvest - 1854" and did not incorporate strategy cards, which m…
I'm plugging away at the rules (Pursuit of Glory); getting a feel for the various phases of a turn, action rounds and the reliance (which I like) to using strategy as the prime mover of events. I appreciate GMT's publication of their rules. If this…
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Ah, now I see Poe is also mentioned...I started to read his stories after being introduced to him by all the great Vincent Price movies.
Glad to join your buddy list,
greetings from good ol' Germany
so welcome on board :-)