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Cyberboard Player (and casual gamebox designer)

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A solitaire game where you are the captain of a Fletcher class destroyer while performing radar picket duty off Okinawa.
August 17, 2009
Manuel P. Ron and Luis Negrete are now friends
June 29, 2009

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Playing by email since 2002

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Grand Illusion

This wwI game by Ted Raiced attract me time ago for his map with big hexes. When finally I grab at sale a copy from GMT online store I laid the map in my table waiting patiently to find a pbem opponent to try it. Finally, my friend Pierre Miranda accepted my challengue and we are going to start with the historical scenario setup where I will try to get into Paris with the Germans.

Always I buy this game I always check if there is a gamebox available. Of course, GMT supports Cyberboard and there… Continue

Posted on May 21, 2008 at 2:30am —

Manuel P. Ron

Napoleon's Triumph

This is the second game inspired in the best seller Bonaparte at Marengo (news from the third are recently: Guns of Gettisburg). It keeps the visual appearance of his predecessor but the rules suffered a major reworking, doing the game experience very different (it seems Gettisburg will suffer the same process). For this, althought BaM has a great suitability to pbem, NT's suffered a bit of downtime when playing by email meanwhile you are waiting the response from your player opponent.… Continue

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 11:13am — 1 Comment

Manuel P. Ron

The VASSAL Game Engine

I'm thinking I must also talk about the opponents of Cyberboard. There is many game engines that compete to get the #1 position in gamer preferences (right now, undoubt, it is holded by Cyberboard). I will talk my little experience with them, but I guess it is time to talk about the most powerfull opponent that Cyberboard has faced until now: VASSAL

At the beggining, VASSAL was VASL (Virtual Advanced Squad Leader), a very popular jav… Continue

Posted on May 12, 2008 at 10:30am — 6 Comments

Manuel P. Ron

BaM Ladder Page

There is many web sites in the net available for pbem players where you download modules, look for opponents, and so on. But this sites are like many others you could have available if you like computer games, have a pet, and so on. There is one type of sites I guess you only found if you are an adict pbem player: the ladders.

I would like to talk about the most veteran ladder page: The Russian Campaign: Online! is active from 1999. But they don't support Cyberboard as default pbem tool and we… Continue

Posted on May 9, 2008 at 2:11pm —

Manuel P. Ron

Vietnam

In the Era of Cyberboard 2.0, when the pallete has only 256 colours available, Cyberboard designers made his gamebox maps using the drawing tools provided by CBDesign. You had to spend many hours of your free time if you want to get the virtual map with the same quality than the printed map. Of course, many designers did gameboxes with simple but useful maps that allows you play the game (and I will try to show in a future post a example of this).

But now, I want to show the other side of the s… Continue

Posted on May 8, 2008 at 7:14am — 1 Comment

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Didn't we just have a special election.....God we get to go through THAT yet again....
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I've found the internal debate (i.e. the debate in my head) has been to either play a lot of games poorly or a few games well. I prefer the latter model, but then you must, as you say, find that set of holy grail games that one chooses to become goo…
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Chris: Really - that's a good point. I wonder if the Audi folks realized the message they were sending out with this one. I doubt if anyone found it funny in the least. Smitty
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The fact that Carolyn like KAtie, married men like us tells us they are good and special people.
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My wife Carolyn teaches special ed. I wouldn't trade jobs with her for any amount of money. Very difficult work indeed.
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Neil Amoore joined Tony's group
Group to discuss boardgame Map Making. Where amateur and published map makers can discuss and assist each other with techniques and methods used in creating boardgame maps. (not a group for arguments about what map style or software app is best)
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I've recently printed and built "To the Last Man." I was able to play the game and get an idea of its look and feel beforehand thanks to BGG and Cyberboard. It's an excellent game, one well worth the bother. I _hope_ it is just by unfortunate accid…
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Yes, this was a creepy ad. I looked at the Audi website to compare this car to others. Oddly enough, you are unable to compare it to the VW SportWagon TDI, which gets exactly the same mileage.
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Jim Werbaneth added a discussion to the group Career Networking
Lately, I've been mad at Newsweek, due to issues of bias that are beyond the realm of this group.  However, tonight I read a very good article on its web site, regarding layoffs.I was once in a meeting at a former employer, and we were going over th…
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I second the motion. May his service in the defense to his country be what matters in the hereafter.
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Jim Werbaneth added a discussion to the group All Things Against the Odds (ATO)
The game on the development table now is Rob Markham's Saratoga.  This game covers the decisive battle of the American Revolution tactically, with two scenarios.  One addresses the Battle of Freeman's Farm on September 19, and the other is on the Ba…
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I'll just say "R.I.P.", lest I stray into the political realm.
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I'd love to see more open source work, but I'm especially thinking of computer games. That would allow not just designers, but the developers, to look "under the hood" to see what makes a good game work. Even if that education is taken to commercial…
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I haven't seen much in the way of Napoleonic games as of late, and I think the COA system always lagged a bit because the rules changed quite a bit and there have been lots of questions surrounding a new, more playable system. I think if someone can…
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What I think will be coolest about the concept is the use of touch displays to pick up and move counters, etc. and swipe the display with a finger to quickly scroll and view the map. All this while having a live chat window or audio option to talk t…
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