Military History

[Ottawan]

I still have all my old games, some 200+, gathering dust in a closet. With the advent of computer war gaming my direction was refocused and, though I have not lost interest in my board games, there are only so many hours in a day and some of them must be used for sleeping.
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But when I win the lottery I will purchase a gandiose mansion with at least one large room containg several ping pong tables placed together. Then I will finally have the room to set up War in the Pacific & War in Europe and the ability to come back to them from time to time.

This room will, of course, be off limits to the cat


Edit: You posted as I was writing Joe. Scrimage was the game that came in the SPI Strategy & Tactics magazine the issue before my subscription started. I remember the kafuffle that turkey caused among the readership.

IIRC the first game I got in the magazine was "Kampfpanzer".

[madmax]

IIRC the first game I got in the magazine was "Kampfpanzer".

Though the implementation was poor, I've always found the subject covered by Kampfpanzer to be fascinating. Naturally I've made my own version...

[Big RI Joe]

IIRC the first game I got in the magazine was "Kampfpanzer".

Though the implementation was poor, I've always found the subject covered by Kampfpanzer to be fascinating. Naturally I've made my own version...

I liked PanzerLeader by Avalon Hill. I never had an interest in the East Front. Primarily I liked the West Front from 1942 on....anyone ever play Squad Leader/ Advanced Squad Leader?

[Big RI Joe]

Anyone interested in ancient Roman military history?
I wrote a computer game about the fall of the Roman Empire a few years ago, if anyone is interested in taking a look at it.

I'm waiting!

[madmax]

Anyone interested in ancient Roman military history?
I wrote a computer game about the fall of the Roman Empire a few years ago, if anyone is interested in taking a look at it.

I'm waiting!

Check your email.

[Ottawan]

I still play ASL with a buddy that lives in Prescott(about an hours drive from here) a couple of times a year.

I have my own modules with the units packed in nice little tupperware compartmented containers anal retentatively labelled by unit type, nationality, attack & defense strength

[Big RI Joe]

But when I win the lottery I will purchase a gandiose mansion with at least one large room containg several ping pong tables placed together. Then I will finally have the room to set up War in the Pacific & War in Europe and the ability to come back to them from time to time.


We'll if you put War in Europe and War in the Pacific on e-bay, you'll probably get a good jump on your lottery winnings. Ever hear of Cyberboad, a free computer program that allows you to play wargames via electronic mail? Decision Games is doing a remake of their computer War in Europe, and the Australian Design Group has sold the computer game rights to World in Flames to Matrix Games..Good stuff there!

[tomcat]

Just putting out a feeler here.

Wondering if anyone shares my interest in military history. <p>[img width= height=]http://www.thespacerace.com/canflag.jpg[/img]</p>

Military history is fascinating.  Wars, as horrible as they are in some respects, shape our world.

  The winner's culture is perpetuated and this includes his science.  The Germans won Europe, in WWII, using 'lightening warfare', the blitzkrieg.  Today it is regarded as standard strategy.  Later, the Inchon landing by the United States in the Korean War taught us to isolate enemy units by cutting off command and control, as well as supplies, by attacking the rear.

The Saturn V was the outgrowth of the German V-2.  Even though the German's lost WWII, their science gave them early successes and was copied by the Allies.

So, dispite the cultural clashes that precipitate the war, despite the horribleness of war, wars do shape the future, both technilogically as well as culturally.

Lately war has taken new shape.  The supremacy of American power has resulted in clandestine war, a faceless enemy.  American cities are bombed, but who did it?  Nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare used in nonconventional ways, rendering America's 6 trillion dollar investment in the atomic energy program null.  But make no mistake about it this is war every bit as real as WWII.

We must rise to this new kind of warfare just as we did to the 'blitzkrieg' of the Germans.  We must overcome it with science and technology just as futuristic as the large bombers and huge artillery were in WWII.  We must prevail and move into Outerspace where new challenges await.




///tomcat///

[awwitaken]

i like greek and roman history

[Johno]

Any military history will do for me, with the usual bias toward battlefields relevant to my own country.  As far as I am aware, there are no sites of major battles (unless you count the shame of a few racist massacres) in Australia, so I have to go farther afield.

If you are an Australian (or a New Zealander) the most famous battle field is, of course, the Cannakale peninsula in Turkey, better known as Gallipoli.  I have had the privilege of standing on "the Fatal Shore" as one of our historians has called it.  On my desk at home I still have a small vial of sand from ANZAC beach.

Yes, I suppose it is a little soppy, but I can tell you it was an amazing experience.

[Ottawan]

Understood Johnno

Closest battlegroung for me in Canadian history would probably be the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City. I've been there once.

I'll have to look up Gallipoli and refresh my memory.

[Simkid]

I think the closest battlefield to me would be Red Hill Creek in Hamilton from 1812, although, also in 1812 my city (Toronto, then York) was burned by the US Navy.

[skyjim]

Hey Ottowan,

Late to this thread, but I'm a lifelong military history nut - primarily 20th century, with a large interest in the WW2 Pacific theater.  My dad was a B-24 driver in Southwest Pacific and I grew up hearing about flying missions from places like Morotai and Noemfoor. 

To his despair, given the rivalry of the USAAF vs USN, what has truly become an obsession is the carrier vs. carrier actions.  I'm one of the only people I know who toasts the Midway pilots with a couple of my buddies every June 4th.

I'm one of those guys with titles like "Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War"  (800-plus pages on just cruisers!) on the shelf at home.  My WW2 library is rivalled only by my spaceflight history library (the centerpiece is a tiny flag that was flown to Mir on STS-91, affixed to a certificate made out to me in appreciation for work on the Phase One station program back in my Rocketdyne days...). 

Hopeless military history nut!

Jim

[Johno]

I guess it is a real feather in the cap of Australia that all our wars have been overseas, really.  The closest thing to a battleground in my immediate area is the site of a convict uprising from about 150 years ago.  They call it the "battle of Vinegar Hill", but it wasn't really much of a battle.  A bunch of poor fools tried to rise up against the Poms, and the natural result was a short and instructively violent quelling. :s

[skyjim]

Lots of Aussies got to bleed for England, though, over the years.

I know a very tough old Marine, who told me that the only other troops he ever found truly intimidating were Diggers he served with in Korea.  My father also had a high regard for the Aussies his bomb group shared a field with ("Killer" Caldwell's boys.  He's the reason my old man got to fly a Spitfire!).  He was always glad we were on the same side!

Jim