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September 2009 Blog Posts (16)

Sun Of York Demo TONIGHT!

Tonight on Ventrilo, Mike Nagel will be demonstrating his very cool card game, "Sun of York!"

You can get all of the details here.

Hope to see you tonight!

Added by Joel Toppen on September 29, 2009 at 10:39am — No Comments

Tomorrow Night at 8:30 Eastern Mike Nagel will be demonstrating Sun of York! This is a really cool game. Think "Up Front" meets Medieval warfare. Having had a chance to take a peek at "Sun of York," I have to say that I'm really excited about this game!

Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30pm Pacific Brett Dedrick will be demonstrating Richard Berg's, Pax Romana!

Tuesday, October 6 at 9:30pm Eastern… Continue

Added by Joel Toppen on September 28, 2009 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Batles Magazine #2

Battles Magazine #2 is now available

http://www.battlesmagazine.com

148 pages : Comlete reviews, Strategic analysis, general articles, scenarios etc.

Includes a complete game : Counter-attack! Arras

CA!A depicts the historical events that took place during the battle of Arras on May 21st, 1940. The game features the attempt by the British and the French to stop the advance of Rommel's 7th Panzer Division.… Continue

Added by Olivier Revenu on September 27, 2009 at 8:30am — 14 Comments

Honesty is it truly missing?

On my drive into the office this morning I got to thinking about how much I hear these various phrases in conversation:

To be honest

Honestly

Truthfully

To tell you the truth

and I started wondering if we've declined so much as a society that we now have to advise people when we are making a factual or truthful statement. Have we become so good at lying to one another that it is the rule rather than the exception?

Is it so easy to speak in flasehoods and… Continue

Added by Brian Blad on September 23, 2009 at 10:00am — 7 Comments

Tonight on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server: FLYING COLORS!

Rob Doan will be demonstrating Flying Colors on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server. The demo starts at 8:30pm Eastern.

This is a great time to learn how to play a very cool game on naval combat in the age of sail. You can get all the details here on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server.

Added by Joel Toppen on September 22, 2009 at 10:51am — No Comments

First Week Point Rankings - NCAA Football

Now that I've gotten some things taken care of, I'll post the first two point rankings for college football.

Week 1 ended up looking like this:

Week 1

TEAM - POLL RANKING – POINTS – WINS - LOSSES

1. Brigham Young (22) 24 1-0

2. Alabama (5) 20 1-0

3. Oklahoma State (10) 14 1-0

4. Boise State (14) 13 1-0

5. Miami (FL) (NR) 9 1-0

6. Florida (1) 1 1-0

7. Texas (2) 1 1-0

8. USC (4) 1 1-0

9. Ohio State (6) 1 1-0

10.… Continue

Added by Wayne Roberts on September 21, 2009 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Week 2 Point Rankings

Week 2 ended up looking like this:

TEAM - POLL RANK – POINTS – WINS - LOSSES

1. Brigham Young (11) 25 2-0

2. Houston (NR) 24 2-0

3. USC (3) 21 2-0

4. Alabama (4) 21 2-0

5. Boise State (12) 14 2-0

6. Oklahoma State (5) 14 1-1

7. Michigan (NR) 11 2-0

8. Miami (FL) (21) 9 1-0

9. Georgia Tech (14) 8 2-0

10. Texas (2) 3 2-0

11. California (9) 3 2-0

11. LSU (9) 3 2-0

13. North Carolina (18) 3 2-0

14. Nebraska (20) 3… Continue

Added by Wayne Roberts on September 21, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

NCAA Football

I meant to post something a few weeks ago, but real life interfered and now I'm behind.

I love college football. Big school, small schools, intermediate schools. The fans at the games are usually pretty enthusiastic, and the players themselves are trying hard, at the very worst. Only a small proportion of the players will ever make it into the professional ranks, and most of them know it. For those players, they know that college football is, at best, a way to get their degree paid… Continue

Added by Wayne Roberts on September 20, 2009 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Commands & Colors Demo on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server

Don Clarke will be demonstrating COMMANDS & COLORS: ANCIENTS!

Demo starts at 1930 hours GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) :) If my math is right, that works out to be 3:30pm in US Eastern TZ.

You can get all the details here on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server page.

Added by Joel Toppen on September 18, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Video Preview of final artwork / functional design of Map for Frontline General: San Pietro Infine now online

I’ve completed the first video component preview of my upcoming game Frontline General: San Pietro Infine, focusing on the game’s final map artwork by Mark Mahaffey and its functional design. The video includes a preview of the entire map, an explanation of all of the functional symbols used on the map in lieu of terrain types, and a brief intro… Continue

Added by Byron Collins on September 16, 2009 at 5:41pm — 2 Comments

Across the Sea of Stars

For those among us who think that nature provides the most spectacular views in the night sky, I bring you a project from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). As reported by CNN, it's an 800-million-pixel, 360-degree edge-on panorama of our own Milky Way galaxy, all taken with a standard digital camera by French astrophotographer… Continue

Added by Jim Werbaneth on September 16, 2009 at 1:09pm — No Comments

Tonight on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server: EMPIRE OF THE SUN

Pablo Garcia and I will be conducting a demonstration of EMPIRE OF THE SUN
at 9:30 eastern.

This is a fantastic game with some very unique mechanics. We hope you can join in on the fun! You can get all the necessary details here on GMT's Ventrilo Voice Server.

Added by Joel Toppen on September 15, 2009 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

New Membership Review Policy

Given the recent upsurge in spammers as new members, I'm testing functionality that requires new membership requests be first reviewed and approved by me before they can officially join this network. This will hopefully cut down in the amount of annoying spam posts we have encountered recently. Let see how this feature works out....

Added by John Kranz on September 11, 2009 at 10:30am — 18 Comments

090909 09:09:09

Today...

NOW!!! and some of us have noticed that 9-11 is being passed over...by MTV, ABC, the usual...

Added by Daniel Red Cloud Brown on September 9, 2009 at 4:26am — 3 Comments

Napoleonic Card Game?

Is there any interest out there in a card game of the campaigns of Napoleon?

Briefly, each campaign you are dealt an objective card; your goal is to march to your objective; along the way there are obstacles, enemy formations and other annoyances; when an objective is reached, the campaign is over and points are totaled.

A full game is three campaigns (Austerlitz 1805, Prussian campaign 1806 and the Polish campaign 1806-'07); each campaign takes about 45 minutes to an hour;

The… Continue

Added by Marc Geelhoed on September 8, 2009 at 3:53pm — 4 Comments

The Kuomintang Strikes Back!

The BBC today reported on a newly revealed postscript to the expulsion of Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalists to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. It should not be a surprise that Generalissimo Chiang longed to return to the Mainland. What might be surprising is how far along the planning was, as late as the 1960's. The People's Republic suffered a severe famine, due to Mao Zedong's rapid modernization and the… Continue

Added by Jim Werbaneth on September 7, 2009 at 9:49pm — No Comments