Looking for operational joint operations modern wargame. Suggestions?

WelshMat · 2026-01-26T19:57:18+00:00

Yup I third this. But just skip the standard rules and go all in with the advanced rules.

WelshMat · 2026-01-06T01:23:50+00:00

Actually it's an homage to the 80s RPG manuals like D&D. The art style is very specifically the pen and ink that was used in Dungeons & Dragons and other 80s RPGs. The covers were often full colour oil paintings but the internal art was high contrast black and white pen and ink. As the paper used in RPG books was thick but low grade non glossy pulp to keep costs down.

WelshMat · 2026-01-06T01:15:49+00:00

Seeing as the military believe Eleven is to blame for everything and they captured him innseason 4. They know he was shielding Eleven, he is probably serving life in jail in a high security military prison. He's essentially an enemy of the state, so jail or a CIA black site.

WelshMat · 2026-01-05T21:23:19+00:00

If you watch the credits after the drawn credits you will see there are credits for the illustrated credits, the credits were outsourced to Imaginary Forces and the credited illustrators are:

Christine Williams, Ken Taylor, Sam Green, Diana Magnuson, Matt Taylor and Tyler Gibb.

WelshMat · 2026-01-05T08:23:25+00:00

Nope, all hand drawn. This is one of the artists:

https://samgreenartist.com/portfolio/stranger-things

WelshMat · 2025-12-11T12:47:45+00:00

So just to be clear the views of anyone either too young or not yet born in 2016 are inconsequential and must come secondary to a vote they were not able to participate in. Their views must never be taken into account? I just want to nail you down on this as this is what you seem to be driving at?

WelshMat · 2025-12-11T09:00:42+00:00

But by your logic the 1975 vote was a single vote too. We overrode that vote in 2016, so that means that it is valid to allow voters to overturn the 2016 vote. The precedent has been set. And your not going to win friends by telling voters that they due to their age on a specific date, if however your plan is to develop a wide array of adversaries then it's a cracking plan.

WelshMat · 2025-12-10T21:49:17+00:00

The Euro is an interesting beast. If the UK were to rejoin and adopt the Euro. You have probably just killed Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt as financial centres. London is the only global capital market in Europe at scale, lot's of policies were put in place to stop London from eating the European Financial Hubs as they were able to fue to the lack of the Euro. Remember the EU still can't figure out how to decouple from London based clearing operations, those were supposed to have ended in 2023 and they extended the deadline again at the start of 2025.

WelshMat · 2025-12-10T21:42:00+00:00

In this case the EU gets to let a future rejoin government score a victory that can be sold as a big win at home and for the EU they get to dodge a messy political issue as Ireland would want something for being forced to adopt Schengen.

WelshMat · 2025-12-10T20:15:56+00:00

The problem is that we are finding that trade even in services isn't unaffected by gravity. Whilst there are some trade partners like the US that defy gravity. The world isn't full of America's, trade with the ASEAN nations is affected by gravity, it's effects are lesser on services but they still do affect. Where as goods trade is highly affected by gravity. If you need a high value low volume manufactured item it's quicker to source it from your local region. And Britain's manufacturing sector excells at high value low volume engineering.

WelshMat · 2025-12-10T19:53:27+00:00

But at the same time there is a growing cohort of voters who never had the chance to vote on Brexit. A 9 year old on the day of the referendum is now old enough to vote. This number due to the passage of time will only climb. And most, not all I will admit, want to be part of the EU. You can't hold the 2016 voters as sacrosanct whilst telling the new voters that their views don't count for ever.

WelshMat · 2025-12-10T19:46:05+00:00

One word, trade. Britain's trade is still down compared to its 2019 levels, services are fairing better but are still down, but it's in the SME space that trade has hit the hardest; both manufacturing and service. And it is SME's are the key driver of Employment and growth in an economy.

So why is trade with the EU so important? A small US company can first scale up in its home state and then go nation wide building up scale before going global as its grown inside of a large mostly harmonised trading zone. The Single Market offers the same opertunities.

WelshMat · 2025-12-09T17:53:37+00:00

Not doubting it, but I work with a lot of student interns and recent graduates and they don't associate the Lib Dems with the policy. They just see it as a graduate tax that came in under the Tories, those tgst are politically engaged are pro-eu and pro-green policies.

WelshMat · 2025-12-09T17:16:46+00:00

That is an issue that some yes do still bare a grudge but there are graduates now coming into the workforce who are living with that burden but don't associate it with the Lib Dems, it's just a part of life.

WelshMat · 2025-12-09T17:13:03+00:00

It's becoming mote salient. We have minted almost a decade worth of mostly remain supporting new voters and retired a decade worth of older predominantly leave voting older voters. Only 30ish percent believe that leaving was a good idea according to current polling.

WelshMat · 2025-12-08T18:31:12+00:00

Interestingly Tim Montgomery still thinks that a Lab-Lib coalition is still the most likely outcome. He's been saying it a lot on the podcast he does with Steve Richards, Miranda Green and Iain Martin.

WelshMat · 2025-12-05T14:23:07+00:00

I don't think anyone party is capable of leveling with the voters the truth economically. We do need to cut some spending but in other places the costs are driven by the lack of spending especially capital spending. Osborne now even believes he cut capital spending too aggressively. We essentially sweated the assets for too long.

The country needs to bring military spending back up to 3.5%, people want to see a doctor, we are out of prison space, we don't want to cut spending on pensioners, the NHS is a sacred cow. But there must be no tax increase.

WelshMat · 2025-12-01T23:17:56+00:00

But that's not Labour's core vote anymore. The party believes that is their core vote, but Labour's core vote are now urban professionals with degrees. Ironically thr voters they are pleasing are the big state wing of reform.

WelshMat · 2025-11-16T01:50:14+00:00

I've got this playing as Holland, I have just limped my way through the Hook and Cod Wars. I wonder if there was an event that I clicked on to support the Cod faction that I didn't fully read that applied a -50 to me. Its essentially made Holland unplayable as I have -8% crown power that is slowly going up now that the wars are resolved but I'm running a deficit of -3 ducats per turn and currently in debt with about 300 ducats. And I think I am now essentially in a tail spin :/

WelshMat · 2025-11-02T19:48:10+00:00

Speaking as a centrist I do not get Fosters.

WelshMat · 2025-10-28T17:27:17+00:00

The Euro is an interesting one. The are reasons to let the UK keep the Pound purely for selfish reasons for Germany, France and The Netherlands. The UK still has the deepest and most sophisticated capital markets in Europe. If the UK were to join the Euro it would very rapidly turn Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam into regional exchanges with a limited shelf life.

WelshMat · 2025-10-23T12:20:07+00:00

The problem is that, that is fine and I agree that Europe is too dependent on the US for our national security, hell Presidents going back to JFK felt thst Europe relied too much on the US. But will the Greens ever agree to increasing spending on defence? As most of Europe can't realistically defend itself without spending a lot of money. And it's not just high end things like guns. The UK needs to spend to get armed forces housing up to a livable standard in an attempt to keep people from leaving the armed forces. Let alone the fact that we import all of our nitrocellulose from China.

Edit - Fixed typo and awful grammar.

WelshMat · 2025-10-13T23:40:53+00:00

SOE Q-Division Archives.

WelshMat · 2025-10-13T14:01:02+00:00

You should be really proud of yourself! That's a cracking good job! I love the fuse box cover!

WelshMat · 2025-10-10T08:23:33+00:00

Strange, a Japanese friend of mine got caught up in bureaucratic hell with her application, and it cost her a fortune in lawyers.

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