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I don't see any advantage to hex-shaped counters and a lot of disadvantages. The only problem with square counters is when the hexes are too small.
A lot of these are production issues - not design or development. In terms of design, the primary thing missing from operational games is realistic supply constraints - that's why I can't bring myself to play anything other than OCS now. That doesn'…
Imperium is a good example of how not to remake a game. Many games suffer from poor development. That is a good reason to do a remake.
Games, game design, and historical sources for the Falklands war. (Boardgames and miniatures.)
I'm just going to go through the war chronologically, analyze each battle, and develop rules for each scenario as they come up.
The first is the Exocet attack on the Sheffield.
Analysis:
Over open water the British search radars and rwrs worked v…
Games, game design, and historical sources for the Falklands war. (Boardgames and miniatures.)
I was going to start with scenarios replicating the historical actions - and then try to come up with some realistic campaign parameters.
Well, the Harpoon Falklands War supplement is far from perfect :-)
I have quite a bit of information on Argentine operations including operational bases and numbers and weapon loads for most attacks.
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- Your introduction to consim gaming:
- Panzerblitz in 1970! (But I already knew about miniatures gaming.)
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- http://www.ghost-in-the-machine.com
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- At 7:51pm on October 1, 2009,
Smitty said… - Love the Avatar!
- At 7:09am on October 1, 2009,
Jim Werbaneth said… - John,
First, thanks for buying the hexsheet.
What you could do is cut and paste it into an editing program, I generated the product with CorelDraw, and then manually trim away the border with the crop function. That should also take care of the text in the bottom left corner. Doing the same thing again can trim the outside borders of the hex field itself if you need to make the sheets match up precisely.
The last stage would be to save it in a format compatible with Vassal, or export it as a pdf. For latter, if your software doesn't have pdf support, you can get Cute PDF (www.cutepdf.com). I've been using the free version for years, and indeed that is how the sheet was created in the first place.
I hope this helps.
- At 4:43am on September 9, 2009,
Daniel Red Cloud Brown said… - Hi, John
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I've been there several times; Bull Run is a great battlefield.
recently purchased the TS deluxe upgrade kit. new mounted map, player aids, revised cards! Christmas is wonderful! :-)
Recently purchased:
AH's -Rise and Decline of the Third Reich: 6 Dollars (Brand Spanking NEW, box had some wear, everything else, untouched.
PanzerBlitz: Hill of Death.
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Looking forward to getting some games going soon. I've come to the conclusio…
Below is rough list of scenario actions. May have missed something, but also noted use of new or other boards of interest.
Harbin, Manchuria 4 Feb 32 Japanese attacking Chinese (BFP B)
Shanghai, China 5 Feb 32 Japanese attacking Chinese (DW-1)
Wanp…
Below is rough list of scenario actions. May have missed something, but also noted use of new or other boards of interest.
Harbin, Manchuria 4 Feb 32 Japanese attacking Chinese (BFP B)
Shanghai, China 5 Feb 32 Japanese attacking Chinese (DW-1)
Wanp…
Discussion of all the games in the VPG line up
Well, at a larger scope, I do have two hanging on the wall of my game room. One is for the Union armies and one for the Confederate armies.
http://www.historyshots.com/store.cfm?IDCategory=3
I don't have the one for US divisions in WW2--that looks…
This is funny and worth a couple minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT7gjpbhVhk
This is neet! What a great way to analyze character interaction. Are there more of these?
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