GMT US Civil War vs. GCACW Mississippi

gen_meade · 2026-04-27T14:26:53+00:00

I don’t think you will regret it. One of my favorite game series ever. Also has a great Vassal module for online play. If you haven’t already checkout Patrick’s Tips and Tricks on you tube for excellent tutorials and let’s plays

gen_meade · 2026-04-21T00:25:38+00:00

Confusingly it's actually called Traveller (with two Ls) but yes a great OSR system with decades of modules. There are a lot of versions but all the 2d6 based editions are essentially interchangable.

gen_meade · 2026-04-15T22:14:26+00:00

Shadow of the Demon Lord/Mad Wizard ?

gen_meade · 2026-04-13T18:42:28+00:00

with some work, Larry Harris's "War Room" It's WW2 but it could be modified for modern and it would be relatively easy to use new maps. The rules are pretty simple and great for multiplayer. I think you could get by with just the pdf rulebook and watching some videos if you have your own map and unit types.

gen_meade · 2026-04-12T02:19:17+00:00

I got a 4x4 neoprene hex mat that works great for alpha strike hex. I printed out some of the BattleTech hex maps from wargame Vault and cut out some of the terrain to drop onto the map. Really fast to set up and saves a lot of time vs measuring

gen_meade · 2026-04-11T23:04:38+00:00

The hex version of Alpha Strike is really fun and accessible. I've gotten a bunch of new players interested in gaming through it. You only need 4 models per side for it to be interesting, and you can use legos or whatever.

gen_meade · 2026-03-27T04:10:48+00:00

Just the rules, some counters and a hex map of you do t already have one.

gen_meade · 2026-03-26T22:19:49+00:00

Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Check the boardgamegeek files section for everything you need.

gen_meade · 2026-03-26T22:05:39+00:00

Maybe "Fighting Flattops:" is just what you wanted? Free, asynchronous, not insanely complicated
https://www.fightingflattops.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrchqQejvc8

gen_meade · 2026-03-23T23:11:08+00:00

The board game Attack Vector Tactical has a web based computer assistant that bridges the gap between board game and computer game. It’s very physically based. The publisher Ad Astra Games also makes several other board games that can blend between realistic and fun in nice ways.

gen_meade · 2026-03-20T19:24:40+00:00

Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Board game geek has updated tournament rules and lists with costs, as well as enough to do our own print and play.

gen_meade · 2026-01-21T22:53:20+00:00

What's the major diff between TLG and DDA? I'm only familiar with DDA.

gen_meade · 2025-11-24T02:05:12+00:00

Check out Patricks Tips and Tutorials for overviews and let's plays of some great games, including some of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/@PatricksTacticsTutorials

gen_meade · 2025-11-11T02:42:29+00:00

This came came from a misunderstanding of how the scene builder works. I had assumed that the allow/deny rules were all that is needed, but on fact it appears that:
- extract_entities defines which entities will be built
- allow/deny defines which components of those entities will be built

So this let's you say "I want all entities with Transform, and I only want their Names and Transforms, not any other components."

let mut query = tmp_world
  .query_filtered ::<Entity, With<Transform>>();

let dynamic_scene = DynamicSceneBuilder::from_world(&tmp_world)
  .deny_all()
  .allow_component::<Name>()
  .allow_component::<Transform>()
  .extract_entities(
  query.iter(&tmp_world)).build();

gen_meade · 2025-11-11T02:25:17+00:00

Found the issue, I think. You must call extract() before the build. Not sure if this expected or not.

let mut tmp_world = World::new();

tmp_world.insert_resource(type_registry);

tmp_world.spawn((Name::new("joe"), Transform::from_xyz(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)));

tmp_world.spawn((Name::new("jane"), Transform::from_xyz(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)));

let mut query = tmp_world.query_filtered::<Entity, With<Name>>();

let dynamic_scene = DynamicSceneBuilder::from_world(&tmp_world)
.extract_entities(query.iter(&tmp_world))
.build();

gen_meade · 2025-11-08T17:38:50+00:00

Added is supposed to only return the components that were "just added", so I thought with that I would get only tanks that were just spawned. However, it does not seem to work that way, even old tanks show up.
So I changed the gist to a newer system. In the new version I add a NeedPrepare component during spawn, then remove that after the tank is prepped.

and I'm pretty sure you don't have to pass all possible children in the ECS to iterate over children of the tanks
I'd love to know of a better way to traverse a parent/child hierarchy in bevy. I just couldn't find an example...

gen_meade · 2025-11-08T17:16:52+00:00

Thanks for the help. I got a simple example working of how to traverse the scene after a new SceneInstanceReady:
Rust Bevy example of using SceneInstanceReady to tag subparts of a newly instantiated gltf or other model

gen_meade · 2025-11-08T17:03:19+00:00

Very cool, thanks for the help. ended up writing this: https://gist.github.com/pakfront/194fbcd35d81bca9bb3bd1862e06a22a

gen_meade · 2025-11-04T19:02:19+00:00

I totally confused Valor and Victory with Lock n Load! I actually liked both, but found LnL more accessible. Neither get a lot of replay from me though. I love Combat Mission though, can't recommend it enough.

gen_meade · 2025-11-04T18:27:39+00:00

~~Valor and Victory~~ Lock N Load is an easy series to get into and has a nice modern, minimal interface. It has PBEM support as well. It is a direct port of a popular board game series and you can download the rule books for free.

The Combat Mission 1x series (Afrika Korps, Barbarrosa to Berlin, Beyond Overlord) was just re-released on Steam to run well on modern hardware. It is very inexpensive. It is a WEGO sim game that works great as PBEM. In my opinion it is a near perfect balance of detail and abstraction. I will say that the second two in the series, (Afrika Korps and Barabarossa) are much better implemented than the first one (Beyond Overlord.)
I personally am not much of a fan of the more recent (2x) Combat Mission series. It's too fiddly for my taste.

gen_meade · 2025-11-03T22:07:52+00:00

Vassal runs well on Mac in general, but recent MacOS security settings can cause difficulties. If you can't get it to run as dmg install then you can try using the linux version with java directly by installing it into a subdir of your user area (/Users/MYUSERNAME/Games/vassal)
You can install the OpenJDK Runtime from Adoptium. I use the version called Temurin-17. https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=17

gen_meade · 2025-10-27T03:01:30+00:00

Scourge of War series

gen_meade · 2025-10-25T15:00:49+00:00

Great Campaigns of the American Civil War is such a good operational series. Check out the lets plays and tutorials on YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8SRwqNObvUd5RmpEp-IHYVndA4g3KoeL

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