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Reply #690 on: September 30, 2022, 01:42:19 AM



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Reply #691 on: September 30, 2022, 01:42:46 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 3
Replacing Games in Your Collection

Welcome back to episode 3. Brant posted the links to Peter Robbin's video about War & Peace as well as to the current Blood Bowl Tournament, on this week's episode landing page, and just like the last episode, I'm not going to replicate those links here.

This was an interesting episode and they covered a lot of games. I'll try and organize the info round the topics of what games they would replace with other games and which games they will never part with; however, there were a lot of games discussed outside those topics, so who knows how I'll fit them in. Also, most links lead to Boardgame Geek; however, a few games lead directly to the publisher website, because I couldn't find a decent Boardgame Geek, or Videogame Geek webpage for them.

Book

Swords around a throne : Napoleon's Grande Armée by John R. Elting

Game Designers

Arty Conliffe

Kevin Zucker

Games that were replaced by other games

Jim
Close Action: Naval Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 1793-1815 (1987) replaced with Flying Colors (2003)
Other games mentioned
Bryan
The Civil War 1861-1865 (1983) replaced with For the People (1998)
Other games mentioned

Side comment by Jim
A Mighty Fortress (1977) replaced with Here I Stand (2006)

Brant
Squad Leader (1977) replaced with Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of Normandy (2015)
Other games mentioned

Putting a tank on the map gives some of us a headache. . .

Shako: Rules and Army Lists for Napoleonic Wargaming (1995)

Tactica: An Historical Approach to Ancient Wargaming (1989)

Spearhead (1995)

CrossFire: Rules and Organizations for Company Level WW II Gaming (1996)

Series: Combat Commander

Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #2 (2005)

Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of Normandy – X-Maps - the mega hexes Jim mentioned

Combat Commander: Battle Pack #5 – Fall of the West (2013)

Combat Commander: Battle Pack #6 – Sea Lion (2014)

Want to play a tank game?

Series: Fighting Formations (GMT)

Panzer: A Tactical Game of Armored Combat on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (1979)

Other games mentioned

Before we transition to games they won't part with...

Both La Bataille de Mont Saint Jean (1993) and  Series: La Bataille (Clash of Arms Games) replaced with: John Tiller's Napolonic Battles series

The conversation turns to board games that are improved with apps, or are better in a digital format. Some games are discussed that are in the works to be made into digital format too. Some are just mentioned and some are tangents from that conversation. I'm only going to link to the physical game, not the app, nor the digital game. You can find those on your own. :-)

Root (2018)

Scythe (2016)

7 Wonders (2010)

Mansions of Madness: Second Edition (2016)

Ogre (1977)

Ticket to Ride (2004)

Dominion series

Blood Bowl (1986) or Blood Bowl (2016 Edition) (2016)

War and Peace (1980) maybe someday digital version of War & Peace

Conquest of the Empire (1984) which was updated by Martin Wallace to Conquest of the Empire (2005)
 
The Lord of the Rings (2000)

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (2011) replaced by Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Revised Edition) (2021)

Dungeoneer

Munchkin game series

Card Hunter

Middle-earth (1995)

Pokémon Trading Card Game (1996)

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Core Set (2019)

Star Wars: Outer Rim (2019)

Star Wars (FFG)

Brant said Star Trek: Attack Wing (2013) which is from WizKids. Maybe he meant Star Wars: X-Wing (Second Edition) (2018)
 
Star Wars: Rebellion (2016)

Up Front (1983)

Sheepshead (1830) - yes not a wargame and I'm still including it!

Games they hung onto...

Jim
Thirty Years War Quad (Second Edition) (1995) - detergent box version?

Possible better games

Mentioned in the discussion Napoleon's Last Battles (1976)

Bryan
World in Flames (1985) (6 editions!!)

The Russian Campaign (1974) The Russian Campaign by Avalon Hill,

Other games metioned:

Brant
Modern Battles: Four Contemporary Conflicts (1975)

Modern Battles II: Four Contemporary Conflicts (1977)

Possible better games

The discussion moved onto the following games:

Fire in the Lake (2014)

Fire in the Lake: Fall of Saigon (2022)

Fire in the Lake: Tru'ng Bot Update Pack (2020)
 
Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar – Ariovistus (2018)

Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain (2017)

Cuba Libre (2013)

Battles of the American Revolution Tri-pack: Guilford, Saratoga, Brandywine (2017)

American Revolution Tri-Pack #2

CDG Solo System (2022) aka Stuka Joe's Solo System

Paths of Glory (1999)

Death in the Trenches: The Great War 1914-1918 (Second Edition) (2022)

Napoleon's Eagles: Storm in the East – The Battles of Borodino and Leipzig (2020)

Napoleon's Eagles 2: The Hundred Days – The Waterloo Campaign (2021)

Cityfight: Modern Combat in the Urban Environment (1979)

NATO: The Next War in Europe (1983)

Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

Scourge of War

Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa

Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive

Victoria III

Europa Universalis II

Hearts of Iron Series

Chain of Command - Chain of Command (2013)

Et sans résultat! Tabletop Rules for Recreating the Napoleonic Wars (2015)

Mystery Wizard

Commands & Colors: Napoleonics Expansion 7 – La Grande Battles (2020)



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Reply #692 on: September 30, 2022, 09:06:15 AM
Oy vey, we really put you thru the ringer on that one, huh? ;D

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Reply #693 on: September 30, 2022, 09:42:45 AM
Oy vey, we really put you thru the ringer on that one, huh? ;D

Yep!  :bigthumb:



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Reply #694 on: September 30, 2022, 10:30:47 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 4 ~ Crowdfunding

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e4/

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Reply #695 on: October 05, 2022, 01:27:39 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 4
Crowdfunding

Greetings and welcome to episode four. So, I'm sure there are errors in this listener's guide. Many games were discussed and some of them are only in the Kickstarter stage, so no BoardGameGeek entry page. Normally I try to link to BoardGameGeek; however, for this guide, I link to many Kickstarer pages.
I'm also not as confident about the role playing games, so feel free to let me know where I made a mistake.

Game Companies

Academy Games

Catalyst Game Labs

Columbia Games

Compass Games

Gamelyn Games

Legion Wargames LLC

NerdBurger Games

Reaper Miniatures

VUCA Simulations

Warlord Games

Wizards of the Coast

WizKids

Worthington Games

Game Designers

Jon Compton

Geoff Engelstein

Cole Wehrle

Games

Spearhead (1995)

Lasalle (Second Edition) (2021)

Blücher (2015)

Shako: Rules and Army Lists for Napoleonic Wargaming (1995)

Tactica: An Historical Approach to Ancient Wargaming (1989)

CrossFire: Rules and Organizations for Company Level WW II Gaming (1996)

Force on Force: Modern Wargaming Rules (2009)

Carnage and Glory (1991)

Lion Rampant: Medieval Wargaming Rules (2014)

Ambush Alley! A Game of Modern Urban Combat (2007)

Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes (2005)

Commands & Colors: Napoleonics Expansion 7 – La Grande Battles (2020)

General Staff

Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game (2013)

Tiny Epic Kingdoms (2014)

Manoeuvre (2008)

The Russian Campaign: Deluxe 5th Edition

Squadron Strike: Traveller (2018)

Ad Astra Games AVID Assistant - Helps you play above, doesn't look available anymore

China's War 1937-41

SUM8 (2022)

Panzer: Game Expansion Set, Nr 1 – The Shape of Battle on the Eastern Front 1943-45 (2012)

Panzer: The Game of Small Unit Actions and Combined Arms Operations on the Eastern Front 1943-45 (2012)

18 India (2023)

Congress of Vienna

The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire (2023)

Napoleon in Egypt

The Third World War: Designer Signature Edition (2022)

Red Strike

Alexandros and I Am Spartacus! (2020

Napoleon's Eagles: Storm in the East – The Battles of Borodino and Leipzig (2020)

Napoleon's Eagles 2: The Hundred Days – The Waterloo Campaign (2021)

Brief Border Wars 2 (2023)

Memoir '44: Overlord (2004)

1812!: War on the Great Lakes Frontier (2023)

A Glorious Chance: The Naval Struggle for Lake Ontario in the War of 1812 (2023)

Wooden Ships & Iron Men (1974)

No Motherland Without: North Korea in Crisis and Cold War (2021)

1979: Revolution in Iran (2021)

Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea (2022)

Calidar: In Stranger Skies

Battle of Brandywine (2022)

Stonewall Uprising (2023)

Code Warriors RPG

Myth Wars: Battle for Midia (2022)

WWII Commander: Battle of the Bulge (2020)

Schnell Boats: Scourge of the English Channel (2021)

Archie's War: The Battle of Guadalcanal (2023)

BoozeQuest (2021)

Mini Meeple Melee (2023)

Watch Hockey, Get Drunk (2023)

Assault Red Horizon 41: TA/OAS Expansion (2022)

Dragon Bane / Drakar och Demoner - Free League

War World X; A historical card game

UA: Bravery Time. A co-op card game (2022)

Medieval Marginalia Miniatures

Fantasy Trip - Old-School Roleplaying!

Ogre (1977)

Blood on the Clocktower (2022)

Werewolf, also known as Mafia - social deduction game

Pax Pamir: Second Edition (2019)

Root (2018)

AuZtralia (2018)

Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon (2019)

Tide of Iron (2007)

Descent: Legends of the Dark (2021)

Reaper Miniatures: Bones 6 - Tales From The Green Griffin

World At War 85 - Storming the Gap Vol. 1 - All 15 stretch goals!

HeroQuest 2021

Stellaris: Infinite Legacy (2022)

King of Monster Island (2022)

King of Tokyo series

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The Board Game

The 7th Continent - lots of cards!

Elric: Rise of the Young Kingdoms (2023)

Gloomhaven (2017)

The Witcher: Old World

Monster Hunter World: The Board Game

The One Ring (2nd Ed.)

A Coyote & Crow

The Seeker's Guide to Twisted Taverns

Grim Hollow - The Players Guide (2021)

Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent

Everdell

Zombicide: Undead or Alive

Mythic Battles: Ragnarök - I think they meant the Ragnarök version and not the Pantheon version.
 
Castles of Mad King Ludwig

The Isle of Cats: Don't forget the kittens!

Kingdom Death : Monster

Frosthaven

Exploding Kittens

The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls



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Reply #696 on: October 07, 2022, 11:31:13 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 5 ~ Connections Online Showcase 2022

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e5/

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Reply #697 on: October 10, 2022, 10:09:41 PM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 5
Connections Online Showcase 2022

Greetings and welcome to the listener's guide to episode 5. Brant provides references to many of the items discussed in this episode on the podcasts landing page, so if you don't find what you want here, check there too.

People

Jim Dunnigan

Robert "Bob" Justman

Dave Arneson

Matt Caffrey

John Tiller

Books, Articles & Vidoes

War games by Thomas B. Allen

Peter Perla's art of wargaming: A guide for professionals and hobbyists by Peter Perla

Battle lab ~ Uses for (professional) wargaming by Brant G.

In defence of naval supremacy : Finance, technology, and British naval policy 1889-1914 by Jon Tetsuro Sumida

The Marine Corps' Operational Wargame System

Kinghts of the Dinner Table

Games

National Security Decision Making Game - Facebook page

Pandemic (2008)

The Captain Is Dead (2014)

Dungeons & Dragons

Gemstone game



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Reply #698 on: October 14, 2022, 01:24:40 AM
I found two items of interested related to episode 5 and instead of editing and adding them to the listener's guide, I'm going to add them here with a bit of commentary for each.

The first is Mitch Reed's short article, "The Operational Wargame Series: The Best Game not in Stores Now". This is a great overview with excellent pictures of the game. The Marine Corps Gazette article about OWS is very detailed; however, it lacks much in the way of images of the game. Mr. Reed's provides a lot of great images to help you see how the game looks.

The second item is a new research article by Peter Perla called "Wargaming and the Cycle of Research and Learning" published last month in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies. I'll let Dr. Perla speak for himself from the abstract:
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Some thirty years ago, I coined the concept of the Cycle of Research, which described how wargaming, exercises and analysis, coupled with real-world operations and history, have worked together in concert to help the national-security community to understand better political-military reality and its past and future evolutions. When first proposed, I had in mind the uses of Wargaming in the analytical context, or what the community of professional wargamers most often calls research wargaming. Over the years, however, I began to recognize how much the same integration of tools and techniques can—and should—influence education and training for national-security professionals, both uniform and civilian: In essence, a Cycle of Learning. In this paper I explore these ideas more fully. I hope these musings can be of some help and inspiration for future researchers to probe deeper into the application of all our tools in the critically important task of educating future leaders. That task can be made more successful by using wargaming to help structure a framework for PME that integrates the inspiration, instruction, and application of the key knowledge and habits of mind—the mental muscle memory—required to operate effectively in the real world and to demonstrate those characteristics in the game, whatever form that may take.

Because the Cycle of Research was discussed during the podcast I thought this article might be of interest.



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Reply #699 on: October 21, 2022, 10:19:56 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 7 ~ Wargaming Media & 1000 True Fans

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e7/

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Reply #700 on: October 24, 2022, 02:43:33 PM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 7-1/2 ~ The Compass Games Holiday Catalog

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e75/

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Reply #701 on: October 24, 2022, 09:33:11 PM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 7-1/2 ~ The Compass Games Holiday Catalog

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e75/

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Reply #702 on: October 28, 2022, 10:34:47 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 8 ~ GMT Weekend At The Warehouse

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e8/

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Reply #703 on: November 04, 2022, 10:06:31 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 9 ~ Catastrophe Games & Small Press Publishers

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/mentioned-in-dispatches-season-9-ep-9-catastrophe-games-small-press-publishers/

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Reply #704 on: November 11, 2022, 11:55:01 AM
Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 10 ~ Solo Wargaming, with David Thompson

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s9e9/

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