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WW2 West Front Games
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WW II Russian Front Games
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Chainmail,(Worthington Games) fun but won't replace GBOH. VP Games Ancient Battles Deluxe; quick and fun. GMT's 1805, very good ,and Hellenes, Great.
I just played The Mighty Endeavor campaign game.
The Marcher Lords. Playing the original Microgame Design Group version. I'm playing the Welsh. My opponent and I are playing via Cyberboard and doing around a turn every other day or so. Its a fun, light, little game. My Welsh are getting badly ma...
Imeprial....
A nasty game where you are confronted with the cold dehumanize money only world. I enjoyed the game very much though. It really tells you how the imperialist governments and greedy banker work together to thieve and enslave people.
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I played 'Origins' and 'Thebes' yesterday, both of which were German games, not wargames. In the former, one primate type did almost manage a world empire while another type had kangaroo cavalry of some sort?
I am setting up Guderian's Blitzkrieg it is one of the OCS games from MMP/The Gamers. I am setting up the entire campaign game. I have been a big player of the Gamers system games (I have all of the OCS, SCS, TCS, and once or two games in the othe...
Just finished about a nine month binge on Flames of War Miniatures. Now I've been listening to the 2 halfswuads driving around Kansas and have this urge to set up Blood Reef Tarawa, Advanced Squad Leader Historical Module.
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- Your introduction to consim gaming:
- I was introduced to wargaming by my older brother, when I was in junior high school. While we didn't play many games with each other at the time, I was able to build a small network of gaming buddies during high school. I got "re-introduced" to the hobby after a college hiatus when visiting a hobby store during a business trip in the '90s.
- Your favorite game(s):
- I'm a traditional hex-based type of gamer; Grognard is what you would refer to me as. My favorite wargame is SPI's Operation Typhoon. The reason this is my favorite game is because it is a "friendly" monster game, large and sexy, in being easy to play over a long weekend.
- What game(s) are you currently playing (solitaire, FTF, PBEM, etc.) or wish to play next?
- Age of Bismarck (playtest) is up next
- What game(s) have you played recently?
- Played Leaping Lemmings which is currently on the GMT P500 program. Design by Rick Young, the game is sure to be a hit. Played this game with my two daughters at CSW Expo 2008. Also got in a few turns of Age of Bismarck playtest, a game that ConsimPress will be publishing.
- In general, how much time do you spend gaming?
- Very little, but ask me again once I'm retired....
- How big is your game collection?
- 1,000+ games but half still remain in storage out of state.
- Your local game club(s) and/or where you reside (let's network!)
- Hope to join a club soon...I reside in Plano, TX which is a suburb of Dallas
- About Me
- I was born and raised in Ventura, CA. I have two daughters from a previous marriage and now reside in Garland, TX with my wife and 1 yr. old son (and heir to my game collection), Cooper. Attended college at University of Redlands, CA and graduate school at Thunderbird, American Graduate School of Int'l Management, Glendale, AZ. My professional background is largely software product management. My current gig (which I really enjoy) is with Aquire. If you are involved with a company in possible need of enterprise org charting/reporting and related solutions, please let me know!
- Personal Interests (favorite activities, movies, shows, books, music, etc.)
- Favorite Activiites: tennis, military history, wargames, ice hockey, football, eating sushi.
Favorite Movies: Gettysburg, Pride and Prejudice, Notting Hill, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, North by Northwest, It's a Wonderful Life
Favorite books: The Shadow of the Wind
- Website:
- http://www.consimworld.com
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New Membership Review Policy
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 10:30am — 20 Comments
CSW Request: No Political Postings, Please
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2008 CSR Awards Ballot
Posted on May 16, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment
Remembering James Murphy...
Posted on September 17, 2008 at 2:30pm — 7 Comments
Refraining from Political Postings
Posted on September 17, 2008 at 12:12pm — 8 Comments
Comment Wall (126 comments)
- At 1:10pm on October 25, 2009,
Kaarin Engelmann said…
- Are we really limited to 100 photos? If so, I'd better stop uploading, as I'm at 90.
- At 8:19pm on August 16, 2009,
Chuck Sutherland said… - John any way to block these stupid spammer posts?
- At 12:38am on July 9, 2009,
Peter T Szymonik said… - Welcome back is more like it :-) I like what you've done to the place!
Peter
- At 9:52am on June 23, 2009,
Ted Henkle said… - Hey John: FYI...I received a message that a Janet Herbert left a comment on my page. I found no comment and there's no Janet Herbert listed in our membership. Another spammer?
- At 7:50pm on March 29, 2009,
Tom Meier said…
- John,
I supsect this Chun Clark is some kind of spammer or other you may want to block?
- At 2:37am on March 8, 2009,
Matt Severns said… - hi John!
- At 7:01am on February 28, 2009,
Don Clarke said… - 2nd thing John, I have created a Vassal module for Pearl Harbor and put a not on the forum asking for the link to be made sticky at the top of the page 6 months ago, but no reply. Who moderates this page? If it's derelict I'd be very happy to take it on. It's going to be very quiet in there anyway :)
- At 6:58am on February 28, 2009,
Don Clarke said…
- Hi John :) Have acquired a definitive collection of Winter War errata and variants, and am currently in the process of annotating some recent replays. Intending to put out a call for strategy articles soon. Once complete I'd be grateful if you'd review the project material with a view to considering allowing me to post and publicise it as a free pdf under the 'SPI Revival Ezine' umbrella. Seems like a fun idea for the mythical 2nd issue to finally appear out of nowhere :)
- At 5:43pm on November 26, 2008,
Mike said… - John, I really enjoyed the 20K Games for $150K article you posted. Talk about the sheer volume of the games he collected over time. Wow. There was a recent article within the past few years about a guy who sold a record collection that he had of similar scope. And my wife complains about a few of my old Beatles albums lying around the house...!
- At 3:19pm on November 12, 2008,
Marc von Martial said… - Hi John, glad you enjoyed my portfolio website.
Honestly, I could say the same about the states and living there, I think it is just a matter of what you are used too all day ;)
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Turn before Barbarossa ends, Even with killing a lot of Russians come spring 42 it was too late. He'd only taken Keiv and Oddessa when we called it.
Really?
On Monday night Tehran and Konark fell - a good turn for the Reds. Having Konark is especially sweet as I've got two airbases to fly in and I'll put 3 MIG 23's on intercept on one base and two MIG 23's and a Backfire on offensive on the other. The...
I Actually left the Arma, VBS2 and OFP days behind. Yet since i am a noob at Wargames, Hex, turn based, I'd be willing to play as opponents on an easy game by e-mail or however it is played remotly.
If you are interested drop me an e-mail
Discuss Dan's games, strategies, reviews, etc.
Oh that's ugly - when is this?
You'v got OPERATION BARBAROSSA published by Matrix. It is inspired by Panzer General. It is a turn based, Hex based, simple, attractive and challenging enough for a beginner. I think it is a good start. I have the game, played it and liked it. Koo...
Robert, if you're talking about AAR's (after action reports), I'm sure boardgamegeek has some. Go to www.boardgamegeek.com and on their main window, just type in the game you're interested in. They'll then show you different game covers if there a...
No I have never played AH Russian Front. This is a fourth version of AH's Russian Campaign.
Are there any replay articles available on line about AH's Russian Front?
You may know this already but Schwerpunkt's , the title, is a computor game about the entire Russian campaige of WW2. It does use hexes but I hope you have a large screen.
GMT games, the ancient battle series.
Looks like my room too.
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