I like the idea of using stock prices for dice rolls - can you explain a bit more?

It was in the 1960s that I first started using 20 sided dice - made out of 20 equilateral triangles. This gave you 20 5% increments for tank hit chances etc. It was well before I ever heard of dungeons and dragons ...

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Started in the 1960s in Richmond, London:

https://vintagewargaming.blogspot.com/2009/04/following-three-posts-are-series-of.html

We used a logarithmic scale for movement - seemed like rocket science before computers.

It meant you could have close combat (10 cm = 100 metres) and long distance ...

Hi Nikel,

I got it working !!! NCP AACW WIA - and now World War One Gold

The WW1 tip came from an old thread - just copy the entire directory from the old pc where it was working.

http://www.ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=237&t=54333

I'm too exhausted to play.

Hi Nikel,
I think I will settle for having NCP working on one of the PCs. I can't get it to work on the others despite trying to do exactly the same file choices and sequence.
WW1 and WW1G I can't get working on any of them. It may be something to do with trying to install DivX/DirectX.
I'm too ...

I've pushed my luck too far and tried to install World War One Gold from the same strategy pack.

Failed.

Update an hour or so later !

I got NCP to work on one PC - Windows 11 pro.

I installed to C:\NapoleonsCampaigns

Used Notepad to enter the serial number - and it saved !

The version was 1.06 from a Ageod Strategy Pack 2

I updated to 1.10b with a download from Patches scrolls as linked from the ...

I'm having aggro with this too - trying to install on Windows 11 PCs.

I tried adding the serial number but it wouldn't let me save the file - even though I am the administrator.

On another PC I keep getting access violation errors.

Thank goodness I still have some older PCs that games work on ...

I was introduced to wargaming almost 60 years ago playing with "Bish" Iwaszko who had a business making dioramas for defence companies - here's an old article on his WW2 stuff.

https://vintagewargaming.blogspot.com/search/label/Bish%20Iwaszko

We had a logarithmic scale so that you had about 10cm ...

Thanks for the reminder of this.

I fired mine up and noticed it was a late version 1.10e QF2 = quick fix.

I don't remember what this quick fix was for (and it will not affect gameplay for most people most of the time) but you may want or need to search the web as the Ageod forum with updates and ...

I'm with briklebritt - more small scenarios please.

Historical, fictional or semi fictional. Maybe even variants of the existing ones? I made some simple variants of Flashpoint Campaigns and Command Ops scenarios by altering the objectives which was easy because it didn't require any programming ...

If the Russians wanted to attack BAOR they would do it on a Wednesday or Saturday because they were sports days and you couldn't find anybody with authority to do anything - especially if there was more than half an inch of snow because the Brits can't cope with that.
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Here's a few more pictures of the rail destroyer - including one of it being used in Italy:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/schwel ... ough-1944/

They were made by Krupp.

A blunder?

Exceeded only by the declaration of war against the USA in 1942?

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The wargame industry has a lot to thank Hitler for.

I was about to say it works fine for me - but now I find it doesn't - I get an access violation on start up. Maybe some recent windows update wrecked something.
NB I'm on a PC which was upgraded to windows 10 - I have found for instance there are some other games that won't work - e.g. Valor and ...

Excellent.

And thank you for all the beautiful games over the years.

Sid Meier's Gettysburg
Civilization 2 and 3
Combat Mission Beyond Overlord
Several by Ageod - Birth of America, AACW, Alea Jacta Est
Campaigns on the Danube by Frank Hunter
Advanced Tactics

So many, and I barely scratch below the surface of any of them. I am owner of many; master of none.

In some ...

The game was originally a board game by Philippe Thibaut - one of the Ageod game designers.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5410/la-grande-guerre-14-18

Calvinus real name Luca Cammisa has a website for some of his later board games although it does not appear to have been updated fora while ...

RTFM page 99

Useful having to visit that marketing office in Italy, especially in ski season

Incidentally, isn't "Calvinus" of "World War One" game based near there?

Epsom I think.

Iain McNeill Slitherine/Matrix Combined at some point ? 20 years ago.

Was a game player and designer. Spartan I think was his.

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Are you near the old air base at Cottesmore? My late parents lived at Castle Bytham.