Here in Cross Lanes West Virginia we have 13" of snow, with another couple of inches expected on Saturday. Time for a game of "The Ardennes Offensive"?

Major Mess, yes, I am referring to the Low Carnage settings. These should be standardized for game play. As for the weapons sounds, these are included in Spwaw 2016.

<t> Well, I finally switched over to SPWAW 2016, but I did customize a couple of the OOBs to better fit my core forces in the long WWII campaign. I didn't change any of the stats, but I did alter the layouts of a few formations. Now, I need to decide who to use first: I may startup a German campaign ...

Whether you agree with it or not, it's going to happen, so why bother with it? This is why I've stayed out of the discussion until now.

Tomorrow Nov 10 is the 240th birthday of the USMC. Let us celebrate the legacy of the Corps, their history, their heroes and their continuation into this 21st Century. Semper Fi!

<t> One of the things that disappoints me about the USMC Long Campaign is the fact that as the island war starts in 1943, the Japanese AI in defense never changes its strategy: it always stacks up troops to defend the water's edge. It DOES sometimes defend in depth, with mutually supporting bunkers ...

Ok, I'm glad you were paying attention. I haven't watched the entire miniseries in a while, so it's time for me to revisit it.

This particular scene is from the Okinawa episode, and shows a supposedly empty Japanese bunker. This illustrates the type of war that US Marines fought in 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uVOoqTAbNc

<r> This is an 8-part series which was released in 1998, narrated by Walter Cronkite, with commentary by John Keegan. I downloaded the entire series from YouTube, and it's fascinating. It traces the development of warfare for the last 5000 years, and provides an interesting overview of world ...

<t> He had it on Thursday, but didn't go to the hospital until Friday, when the chest pain got severe. He didn't even realize he'd had one. His doctor said it was a major one, and it could've killed him. They did an emergency cath, and found out he had an artery that was 100% blocked, and another ...

<t> Well, for me the ultimate goal is to win a decisive victory in every battle of a long campaign. I've spent a lot of time in constructing my ultimate core forces in SPWaW, especially as the Marines. My combat group in 1942 changes drastically over the next few years, as the real life USMC did. By ...

<t> Okey dokey, I'm having a bit of fun with this topic. I just started a German long campaign in SPWaW, and I constructed a SS Kampfgruppe. Sure, I now that there are SS apologists who wrote histories about their campaigns, but playing as the ultimate bad guys makes me feel different than when I ...

I do have to admit that I get a bit creeped out whenever the Japanese launch close assaults. The sound effect is "banzai!" [X(]

<t> Whenever I play against the Japanese in SPWaW, there's a sense of bloody-mindedness that takes hold of me which is unique in my wargaming experience. After all of the documentaries I've watched and the books that I've read on the Pacific War, there is something about these battles which makes it ...

Alright, before all of you rebels get your knickers in a bind, consider this: wargames can simply offer an alternative Confederate flag (the Stars & Bars)as an option to the battle flag. Case closed.

<t> I was involved with SPWAW for a few years, and there was a lot of infighting involved in it. I won't go into any details, but thankfully a few of the players got involved and updated the game on their own. Once programmer Mike Wood got involved, they made several improvements on top of SPWAW 8 ...

<t> One of the strangest things about SPWaW is when enemy units retreat INTO your defending unit's hex. Subsequently you must retreat out of it, if you can, or engage in hand-to-hand combat (using ALT-M). Sometimes I can do neither, and the Japanese wipe out my Marines. This is a maddening ...

<t> Yeah, I remember the buzz about RtM, and I felt that it was way too ambitious considering the technology of the time. This is what led me to Schwerpunkt's "Russo-German War", which is a fine game in its own right. That's the closest to a "monster game" that I ever bought, other than a couple of ...

<r> ...the last battle of WWII, and one of the costliest. See this episode of the Battlefield series: <URL url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQa8jxAI-A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQa8jxAI-A</URL><br/>
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This is one of the few campaigns in history in which both commanding Generals ...

<t> This is one of the most difficult of all missions one can be required to do in SPWaW. I've found in my USMC campaigns that the Japanese tend to defend at the water's edge, which increases the difficulty of establishing a beachhead. The thing to do is use all available naval bombardment and air ...