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Hot Blood & Cold Steel - Hot Blood & Cold Steel
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Hot Blood and Cold Steel. Face to face game design, war, politics, history and science fiction gaming from two player to megagames! Hot Blood & Cold Steel. Hot Blood & Cold Steel. Hot Blood and Cold Steel. Figures on the HBCS cards showing a German in the trenches and four British soldiers. Including two officers) launching an attack on the German sentry. This is the WW1 night-time trench raiding. Set that the domain was originally purchased for. It was designed as a WW1 skirmish. A very fast play SF.
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Megagame Maximum Effort: June 2012
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Friday, 15 June 2012. Le Grand Projet, chopped into manageable bits. I've been thinking about my gaming efforts of late and thought I needed to bring some order to the chaos. I'm now grouping my activities into a couple of projects to provide some focus for myself for short periods of time. So, while I've designated. As my Grand Project for the coming years, I've tried to set myself a few minor projects to keep things manageable. I'd like to finish a few of the others as well and close it off. By Too Fat...
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Megagame Maximum Effort: August 2011
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Friday, 19 August 2011. Difference between economic strategies. I came across this single line in Stevenson's book - it seemed to sum up the differences in approach between the British and the Germans. Munitions output was lowered, to release labour for shipbuilding and to reduce imports." (p.324). 1914 - 1918: The History of the First World War". David Stevenson. Penguin, 2004. [ISBN: 0-140-26817-0]. Posted by Nick Luft. Monday, 15 August 2011. Review of French Tanks of World War I. From a tactical view...
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Megagame Maximum Effort: February 2012
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Thursday, 16 February 2012. BBC series to focuss on industrial mobilisation in WWI. BBC is showing a new series on military planning and logistics, called Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War. Presented by military historian Saul David. While last week's show was on mobility, this week it's on industrial mobilisation. In WWI. It should be right up our alley. What's not to like about the shell crisis of 1915? Posted by J de Jong. Monday, 13 February 2012. However, Menelik immediately trie...
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Megagame Maximum Effort: April 2012
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Monday, 30 April 2012. Patrouilleurs, the Belgian assault troops of WWI. Last weekend I visited Ypres with a couple of friends because one of them wanted to celebrate his 40 anniversary with battlefields and beer. An excellent combination. On Saturday we toured the Passchendale museum in Zonnebeke, the trenches on Hill 62 and the Hooge Crater museum. On Sunday we visited the Yser Monument and the Aachen coastal battery near Oostende. From the spring of 1917 small groups of patrouilleurs. Were formed at d...
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Megagame Maximum Effort: October 2012
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Friday, 12 October 2012. WWI and megagame links. Posted by J de Jong. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). WWI and megagame links. Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group. Jim Wallman's games pages. Megagames Nederland on Facebook. There was an error in this gadget.
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Megagame Maximum Effort: The opening of the Memorial for le Mille on May 9th 1915
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012. The opening of the Memorial for le Mille on May 9th 1915. On May 9th 1915, the monument was christened for the 1,000 redshirts that accompanied Garibaldi on his trip to Sicily in 1860, beginning the liberation of Southern Italy. Gabriele dAnnunzio, Italys most famous poet was recalled from Paris to whip up public fervour for war. France paid off his debts so he wouldnt be arrested. Id think dAnnunzio got what he wanted. By 1918 over 670,000 Italians had lost their lives. I checke...
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Megagame Maximum Effort: September 2012
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Thursday, 20 September 2012. Broad and narrow gun wheels. When we were in the Imperial War Museum. Last Friday, Nick and I discussed the big differences in the design of field artillery pieces before and after WWI. Take, for example, the British 18 pounder. Brought into use in 1904 and the 25 pounder. What caught my eye, however, were the wheels. The pre-WWI gun still used big wooden, spoked wheels, while the later models used smaller rubber tires. And most importantly, those tires were broader. The Resi...
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Megagame Maximum Effort: October 2010
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Tuesday, 5 October 2010. I am fairly sure now that the black-box military game design in the bag. I need to write it up and test it. Now I have seen the map of Ted Raicer's "First World War" game, I suspect it will be very similar. And as it is an umpires' sub-game it will survive better first contact with the players. Posted by Nick Luft. Report on CLWG Conference Session. A) I outlined our idea - and that of David Stevenson's book "Cataclysm" - that the war was won through the exhaustion of the other s...
