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This is the kind of work that I really wish I could do!
10 hours ago
I'm interested, but already have an SPI copy from way back in the day.
13 hours ago
I enjoyed the political discussions too, including exchanges with people with whom I disagreed. It was only the obvious trolls and Holocaust deniers whom I could do without, and as it turned out they were among the biggest whiners and complainers ...
yesterday
It is a little slow. I haven't had the opportunity to insult ACORN or the local Nazis in months.
on Wednesday
You never know. It'd be cool though if he was a wargamer.
on Wednesday
Jim Werbaneth added 2 videos
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I thought McCain was around when they founded AAA.
on Tuesday
From the Arizona registration and the Navy stuff, could this be John McCain's car?
on Tuesday
Eric, Thanks! The article on Spanish Civil War is one that I've been trying to get written and into the magazine for quite a while now, and Smitty did a characteristically great job with The Solomons Campaign I think.
on Tuesday
Got mine yesterday. My favorite articles were the ones on STORM OVER TAIERZHUANG, KASSERINE, and THE ROYAL NAVY. I'd not played the other games (yet), so maybe that's why I liked the articles I did (plus, you ain't such a bad writer, Jim!). Today ...
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Just about all of the domestic subscribers, with the possible exception of Alaska and Hawaii, should have their copies today. I'd like to hear your feedback.
November 20
One of my CCAC students lent me a copy of Stability Operations and State-Building: Continuities and Contingencies, from the Strategic Studies Institute. It's an interesting read, and although I just started on it, there are things in there I can u...
November 17
Achtung subscriber folk... Keep an eye on your mailboxes. For those who aren't, you can order a subscription, the current issue, or any of the back issues for that matter, here.
November 17
It's not just ready to go now: It's out, as of this morning.
November 17
I didn't know there was anyone left in Detroit to notice.
November 17
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A group of people interested in Line of Departure magazine, the wargames it covers, and games designed, developed and/or published by Jim Werbaneth.
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The subscribers' print run of Line of Departure Issue 65 is in the car and ready to go into the mail tomorrow. This one is a theme issue, Second World War: First Contact, addressing the early stages of the war, and the preliminary conflicts, inc...
November 16
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November 16
8 minutes history channel ...be there
November 15

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Your introduction to consim gaming:
My first game was Avalon Hill's 1914, of all the introductions, bought as an eleventh birthday present by my grandparents. It took about two years for me to make total sense of that game, but it was the start of my lifelong hobby, one that is close to a vocation.
Your favorite game(s):
The Great Battles of History Series (GMT)
Britain Stands Alone (GMT); Of course, I'm the designer.
Inchon (Command); I'm the designer, again.
1914 (Avalon Hill)
Stellar Conquest (Avalon Hill)
Kharkov (SPI)
The Great War at Sea Series (Avalanche Press)
The Royal Navy (Quarterdeck)
The Chaco War (Command)
Thunder at the Crossroads (The Gamers)
The Siege of Jerusalem (Avalon Hill)
Imperium Romanum II (West End)

And a whole lot more...
What game(s) are you currently playing (solitaire, FTF, PBEM, etc.) or wish to play next?
I'm developing a couple of games for TPS: The Metaurus (by Richard Berg) and Saratoga (Rob Markham)
What game(s) have you played recently?
Command and Conquer: Ancients (GMT).
Falaise Pocket (Panzer Digest)
Drive on Kursk (Strategy & Tactics)
Storm Over Taierzhuang (Against the Odds)
In general, how much time do you spend gaming?
Not enough.
How big is your game collection?
1500+
About Me
I'm on the adjunct faculty of Community College of Allegheny County, teaching political science, and La Roche College, teaching political science and history. Now doing online teaching, full time, in political science through American Military University, a unit of American Public University System [APUS].

One of the things that might surprise a lot of people is that I'm an incurable workaholic. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the words "worthless" and "workless" are nearly identical. Between a day job, Line of Departure, work for game companies, and other pursuits, my record is having five gigs at once.

And I survived. I think. Maybe.
Personal Interests (favorite activities, movies, shows, books, music, etc.)
If you want to know more about my tastes in travel, look at the pictures section of my profile. If you want to know about my tastes in music, look at the videos and the music play list.

I should also mention that I enjoy candlelight dinners, long walks on the beach, and feeding spammers to wild pigs.
Website:
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/lod
2007 CSR Award Nominee

Charles S. Roberts Award -Winner as Best Amateur Magazine of 2006, 2007 and 2008

Line of Departure Wargaming Quarterly

Current Issue Includes:

The Tiger Resists: A Review of Storm Over Taierzhuang

…And the Bell Tolls for Thee: Spain's Agony Comes to the Computer, in HPS Simulations' Spanish Civil War

An Army Not Ready for Victory: Rommel's Last Gamble in Tunisia, in GMT's Kasserine

Back to the Solomons: A Review of The Solomons Campaign in World at War

When Britain Ruled the Waves: Naval Surface Combat in the Age of Dreadnoughts in Jack Greene's The Royal Navy

Line of Departure/The Wargamer has been replaced by Line of Departure Online Features. Be sure to check in for free articles, scenarios, supplements and even a downloadable DTP game.

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Line of Departure Issue 65 Ready to Go!



The subscribers' print run of Line of Departure Issue 65 is in the car and ready to go into the mail tomorrow. This one is a theme issue, Second World War: First Contact, addressing the early stages of the war, and the preliminary confli… Continue

Posted on November 16, 2009 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments

Jim Werbaneth

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

I'm a big fan of Max Brooks, especially World War Z, his definitive oral history of mankind's war to the death with the undead.

First published in 2003, three years before his better-known towering work, is The Zombie Survival Guide. By its nature,… Continue

Posted on October 23, 2009 at 8:21pm —

Jim Werbaneth

Goodbye to a Hero

Today, a man named Marek Edelman died at age 90 in Warsaw. Edelman was a tireless campaigner against hate, and for freedom and human dignity, opposing Communism in Poland, and working with the Solidarity movement in its campaign for a democratic homeland.

Had he done none of this though, Marek Edelman would still deserve remembering, for he was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto upri… Continue

Posted on October 2, 2009 at 8:08pm — 3 Comments

Jim Werbaneth

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

Posted on September 16, 2009 at 1:09pm —

Jim Werbaneth

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

Posted on September 7, 2009 at 9:49pm —

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At 5:25pm on November 7, 2009, Robert Davies said…
Thanks for the welcome Jim.
At 8:12am on October 27, 2009, Erez Ben-Aharon said…
Thanks buddy!
At 11:04am on October 8, 2009, adri waterman said…
Thx Jim!
At 12:06am on October 7, 2009, Joel Feldman said…
Welcome from Boston, where our hobbies are collecting Lombardi and World Series Trophies!
August while checking my luggage at the airport in Pittsburg I was wearing a Patriots jersey. Before taking my bag the airline employee asked what was my favorite Football team. Steelers were my second favorite of course.
At 5:28pm on October 1, 2009, John Kantor said…
Got it. Thanks.
At 3:33am on October 1, 2009, John Kantor said…
I bought one of your pdf hexsheets to use with a map in Vassal. It works great - but I have to tile several together and the rectangular border shows up. Is there a way to get rid of it? (Or to get one without it?)
At 9:29pm on September 29, 2009, Chris Gammon said…
Nice to hear Starship Trooper again. Me and a group of buddies got together recently in Colorado (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38558212@N07/) to celebrate our 50th birthdays this year and various incarnations of YES were listened to, as well as Camel, Patrick Moraz, and some other more modern folk I am less familiar with.
At 12:06am on September 28, 2009, Nick Drinkwater said…
Hi Jim
That's me and Babe on a recent Birthday meal out together.
Nick -1 Babe - 0.
Though fun, there's not actually that much meat on a pigs head - fiddly too!
Cheers
Nick
At 6:11pm on September 23, 2009, Stan Colenso said…
It is indeed the SPIs Kharkov, Jim. Most of my gaming was with 60s through 70s games, including some sophisticated multi-player games designed by a group of gamers associated through a San Diego State connection in the 70s:Marengo,Northern Virginia, Napoleanic Wars.
I have decided to get back into the hobby, and would appreciate any info on where and how to obtain past and contemporary conflict simulation games by mail order.
I have also played thousands of APBA Baseball games, mostly solitairedice and some pc, but also in a couple of mail leagues.
At 2:49pm on September 22, 2009, Kai Jensen said…
Jim, I hope the loooooong titles on your photos is not in response to my blog. I was looking for short titles and detailed captions, not the other way 'round. :0) Cool pic, tho!
 
 

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