Grognard Wargamer Thread!

I cross-post.

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Well, I guess the cats out of the bag. Thanks @Brooski!

Is this going to be GMT, or some other publisher?

Not GMT. Publisher to be announced really soon (as soon as it’s up on preorder).

Got it, thank you!

I love lentils and I enjoy history!

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No problem. Here’s a little something I wrote up about “Why” I’m making AHDS and, moving forward, operational treatments drawn from the Vietnam War.

https://twitter.com/thenavaronegun/status/1229813595908771840?s=21

I just picked up Peloponnesian War by Mark Herman. Has @tomchick played this? I think this is the kind of solitaire game that may appeal to him. Herman is one of my favorite designers and this looks pretty interesting. I’m just finishing reading the rules so I’ll be getting my first actual play soon. But next up is the play book and strategy section there. The solitaire nature and the way it has you switch sides is interesting and I’ve not quite wrapped my mind around how that’s going to work in practice.

Anybody following The Civil War? It’s supposed to be out this Summer on Steam.

It looks pretty, but I always wonder about these sorts of games. It seems to want to be a sort of bird’s eye to worm’s eye thing, where you manage armies and fight regiments, zooming from continental views to single hillsides. Great in concept, damn hard to pull off in practice. It has a sort of AGEOD vibe in some ways, and I’m not a fan of the typeface shown in the screenshots; it looks cool but long-term readability seems iffy. Oh, and personally, and this is just a thing of mine, I’m not a fan of the faux-period-piece framing of the game, which borrows the sort of romanticized treatment of the war I associate more with old movies and UDC types.

In any event, it will be interesting to see how it fares.

New game out!

The problem with that game is that you have to determinations of “best move” which can suck when you realized you didn’t see a better one. But that was the state of solitaire game design in 1992, which is when I think this game was published. The 2019 version is a reprint (with admittedly much nicer components than the Victory Games edition).

Tim Stone’s writeup on this is very interesting, and I’ll probably pick it up this summer when it goes on sale again.

Might as well plop this here:

Looking good!

Looks like Osprey is giving away some ebooks. 5 a week for 4 weeks.

https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_1/

That’s awesome.