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Flying Colors
Playing AP "Bismarck" via Skype and e-mail with my son. He's the Admirality and I am sending reports and receiving orders and playing out the only copy we have of the game ! Recently played Triumph of Chaos, a blast, Silver Bayonet, less of a blas...
Death in the Trenches. A blast
Got out my copy of Wellington's Victory. Does anyone know the best set of revision rules?
Beautiful work!
I'm sure online sites, forums, etc. will have their lulls now and then. Given the holidays, the timing seems about right. Perhaps folk will comment about what they are playing over the holidays?
Great job on the counters, Marc! My youngest daughter is into Zombies, so I may have to see if I can teach her this game.
Trust me...this isn't a bad stacking picture at all. I'll never forget the picture of the piles and piles of deep stacks for PWG's Korsun Pocket that was played at CSW Expo many years ago. It was SCARY!!!
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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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2008 CSR Awards Ballot
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Remembering James Murphy...
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Refraining from Political Postings
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Comment Wall (127 comments)
- At 12:48pm on November 21, 2009,
Kai Jensen said… - Sadly enough, I was thinking of the work I need to get done on CC:Normandy, FF, Dominant Species and Urban Sprawl while I was at the office all day. I know we have friends over for gaming on Friday nights, but all I was thinking of was the files I want to complete. So... we played Rise of Empires. And I promised Chad we would resume our interrupted game of The Causasus Campaign today. Maybe I'll get to my work files this evening, but somehow I doubt it... (Life is grand, ain't it?)
BTW, how are you doing?
- 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...!
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Those pesky Iranians! LOL
After turn 1, the Iranians are starting to force their way into Salyan and disrupt the local population, as the Azeris move south.
Granted, there hasn't been much out there to compare this game with. But as a military simulation, it stands head and shoulders over many other attempts. I'll admit, I've only played scenarios and never gotten through the campaign. But I liked thi...
The detail of the US Stryker company coming into the airfield is still loading onto their vehicles, and starts the scenario rather slowly.
The detail around Salyan for the setup.
Following the Iranian assault on Salyan, and initial capture of the city, the Iranians pulled out of the area to avoid a protracted occupation battle in Salyan. In the meantime, the Azeris have pieced together a mech infantry company, and the US l...
I remember playing KORSUN POCKET at one of the earliest MONSTER.CONs in Tempe. Jack tells me the revision benefits from a great deal of OOB scrubbing, with the help of Dave Glantz's access into the Soviet archives since this game was first publish...
I have VG's Pacific War. I've set it up and played through a couple of Operational level scenarios. It's a "serious" wargame. I enjoyed it, reminded me a bit about work (I am a project manager) so maybe not everyone's cup of tea. The design is imp...
Andy, nobody's done it yet. You could start one on ALAMEIN. What do you think of it?
Does anybody lament the loss of the WINTER STORM series? I remember when I got my copy of the original WINTER STORM--I think it was put out by Vanguard Games orginally. For me, a gamer who had learned about the Stalingrad counteroffensive from SPI...
How realistic is it that this game will be republished? I have the old original and agree it's an epic - one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. Also have NES's Killing Ground and would agree that this is an ideal format for a reprint.
Flying Colors
GMT also did a great job on the remake of Avalon Hill's game, SUCCESSORS. While I've not played it, people I know that have played both versions like what GMT did with it. Haven't seen nor played Mayfair Games' 3d Edition remake of the venerable G...
I tried to find a consimworld on AP's monster game Alamein but couldn't - can this be correct? I was actually contemplating buying this......
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