<t>I recently got started, or tried to get started, with Cossacks:Back to War. This is an RTS with resource development and management as it's very soul. You usually start out on a barren portion of the map, unable to see anything but the small circle you occupy, with only a chief and twenty ...

The screen shots look like Rorsarch Test blots. The whole thing looks like Sudden Strike revisited in an attempt to correct many of the obvious errors in that particular genre.

Most interesting comment? Most of the artists and a large part of the company are women.

<t>female view points would be interesting because of their difference. Let's face it: we pretty much know what our own reactions are goig to be, right down to the point of who's mad, who's philosophical and who needs to increase their medication dosage.<br/>
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Along the same lines, do we know ...

"Black Bear", although it's not really a march. Otherwise, JP Sousa in just about anything.

"First Sergeant! Tell the men I said 'No prisoners!'"

George Armstrong Custer, Battler of the Little Bighorn

<t>The battlefields of Verdun, the Somme, the Marne, Ypres and Flanders. I stood there and could not imagine having to charge across those fields into machine guns, wire and fortified trenches without cover or concealment. <br/>
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The very air is still alive with memories.<br/>
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PzB - this is great! I printed it, framed it and hung it in my den!

And you have a fine and heroic military history, as well.

Welcome to the ranks.

Anything by Sousa, but Under the Eagle!

<r>Obviously, Slaak' is overwhelmed with compassion at this point. Somebody needs a nap!<br/>
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When I bought my new rig, the OS was not an option. Windows XP, period. Yes there are other OS's available, but are they compatible with the rest of the world. I have been wrestling for weeks ...

Yes - I have been watching the coverage on CNN. Very little information available other that the last transmission was garbled.

A terrible tragedy.

I haven't seen the list. What sort of stuff are they releasing?

Yeah...this was posted months ago on the PE forum.They're currently posting chapter 4.

I don't think I want sophisticated weapons of mass destruction controlled by anything whipped up by Bill Gaters during one of his recurrent wet dreams!:p

One day the world will end, and all the sign will say is "nothing really wrong - technical glitch".

Fallschirmjaeger: essentially, Steel Panthers was a board game converted to PC, or that's how it always seemed to me. You move, the AI moves, and all calculations including fuel, ammo and morale are handled by the game AI for both sides.

<t>I'm not sure I know what the real subject of this thread is. I understand that you express yourself on those forums that you think best serve the purpose, although I would think that trying to change the minds or habits of strictly board gamers would best be done on their forum, since that's ...

Several times in the last few days I have posted responses to various threads, only to find that they don't show up. These weren't flames or inappropriate comments, just ordinary thoughts and respnses.

Why is this board being censored, and what are the ground rules?

<t>I think veldor just introduced us to one of those eternal truths you hear about but seldom encounter, when he says "people like games that they are GOOD at". I think that says it all, about any contest man involves himself in, except, of course, for the sad-masochistic amongst us.<br/>
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<t>I identify a problem with your proposal, Les - rather, I should say I identify a problem with the intended targets of your proposal. One of the problems with wargaming, particularly board style play, is that it is too slow and thought-intensive for the MTV-bred kids of today.<br/>
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