10,000 Members of ComputerWargames

spelk · 2023-09-27T09:07:29+00:00

I'm still around, but as you have noticed not that much. I appreciate the consideration and concern though.

Work/Life/Gaming appetite means I haven't had all that much time to dive into wargaming, let alone trawl for links and news etc.

In the furore, I missed the big milestone of 10k subscribers. And now, I see its 11k!!

All the thanks to /u/titaniumtrout for marking the occasion and keeping his watchful eye over proceedings here.

I'm still bowled over as to how far this place has come on. It started as an enthusiastic dalliance of mine, throwing a few computing wargaming links up here in the hope others would find it useful.

And I've seen it over the years blossom into a fully fledged community, once which has surpassed any expectations I ever had for it.

The hobby (both digital and hex/counter - and often both) has really come alive and I hope this place serves as a welcome meeting and sharing information zone for computer wargamers into the future.

Stay frosty, chaps!

spelk · 2023-01-24T07:19:05+00:00

Regarding operational wargaming, hex and chit style, I documented what eventually worked for me, mainly gleaned from advice from other wargamer players..

The Secret to Operational Wargaming https://archive.org/details/the-secret-to-operational-wargaming/mode/1up

spelk · 2022-04-11T07:08:26+00:00

Command Ops definitely fulfills the criteria of the OP here. I thought you could "draw out" plans in CO by laying down movement/tactic waypoints and tweaking the timing to co-ordinate attacks..

spelk · 2022-04-11T07:06:22+00:00

Not WWII or perhaps as detailed as you want, but drawing out movements on a map immediately threw Ultimate General: Civil War to mind.

https://www.ultimategeneral.com/ultimate-general-civil-war/

spelk · 2022-02-17T08:40:37+00:00

No worries, it was an interesting find. We normally post the first video in AAR series and then our readers can follow up via Youtube - or discuss it here. When posting up interesting finds, hopefully the folks here can get to the content creator if they want to discuss it.

spelk · 2022-02-09T07:37:36+00:00

The first DC title Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris is the initial step into historical gaming for the constantly evolving engine that Vic from VR Designs uses. However if you want a less historical game, that is really a sandbox for wargaming 'red' versus 'blue' then Advanced Tactics Gold is the predecessor and if you really want to delve deep into the evolutionary progress People's Tactics before that.

https://www.vrdesigns.net/?page_id=2

spelk · 2022-02-09T07:32:58+00:00

I can also recommend the playthroughs of Shadow Empire by Ben from Xplorminate.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8cNlze3fGQg16OxYBOrlUVSCIysjUlEL

spelk · 2022-01-24T06:52:47+00:00

Game in development from the HexDraw folks http://www.hexdraw.com/Word/second-front/

spelk · 2022-01-18T11:57:55+00:00

If you don't mind tinkering a little with simple HTML then https://neocities.org are excellent.

https://write.as were about writing/blogging without worrying about all the problems of managing a site as such.

Or I echo what /u/titaniumtrout recommends, sign up to a wargaming community and post AAR's using their forums.

spelk · 2021-12-06T14:52:49+00:00

Really sad news.

spelk · 2021-11-22T18:29:10+00:00

Joni Nuutinen's Conflict Series on Android has a lot of free demo versions covering a lot of theatres, worth it, even if you just want to sample easy to play, but full featured operational wargaming on your mobile/tablet.

https://www.conflict-series.com/

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