Hello back at you, DerekH.

Thanks for the reference to Mosse. I'm curious to read it, and now that I've taken a look at the reviews on Amazon even more so. Seems to counter the notion that the carnage of the western front de-glorified war in popular culture.

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Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory, and Modris Eckstein's The Rites of Spring are both about the social and cultural impact of the war. Neither are a history of the war, nor are they military history, but interesting reading on how the First World War influenced the ...

<r> Re: S&T 51 WWI, Did the game "work"?<br/>
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I thought it modelled the situation fairly well, but could never find anyone interested in playing it, so only solitaired it. Web Grognards site has a much more thorough description, and some post play analysis at <URL url="http://grognard.com ...

<r> I played several of SPIs WWI games way back when. The S&T First World War had an interesting system, I seem to recall a CTR where you could expend points representing manpower / armaments for losses rather than retreat. And declaring an overall status for each front (similar to Third Reich ...

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I am not interested in a game where you have to "gather resources".<br/>
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The logistics in getting the resources to the front is a different matter - and interesting in its own right.<br/>
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Does anybody have a link to an ACW ...

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BTW I do disagree that Germany forced Russia from the war - Russia, in the form of the Bolsheviks, pretty much simply decided that the war agaisnt Germany was not a priority, and paid whatever price they had to to get out of it. It ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Joe 98<br/>
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Not so much the game engine as the philosophy. The philosophy is to get large amounts of supplies to the front so you can win a battle at the pointy end.
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Then my guess is that you'd enjoy playing ACW ...

<t> Actually WW1 was as much about the development of tactics, if not more so, than WW2. All the new technology - machine guns, long range artillery, tanks, aircraft, submarines, etc. - required development of new tactics to make good use of. In WW2 those tactics continued to be refined as the ...

<r> Wow, an AAR from the developer. Thanks Frank!<br/>
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It sounds great. An AI able to select between vastly different strategies is well worth waiting for. My concern was (is) that the testing, and then tweaking, of this AI could take longer than testing a typical one-track AI approach.<br ...

Hey KaiserBill,

Join the ranks waiting for this one. Its been a long time coming, and now at Matrix its overshadowed by all of the WW2 etc. etc. games. But we have to keep the morale up around here - it will be worth the wait.

<t> Why do I get the feeling that GoA isn't going to be home for Christmas this year? There hasn't been anything official posted recently, no screen shots, no site, no beta test AARs, nada. And developing the new approach to AI isn't going to be easy - my project management "spidey sense" is ...

<t> Great story Dirtdog. Wish I had something to share, but all of the family stories are from WWII. <br/>
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There are very few Great War vets left now here in Canada. They did have some interviews with them on Rememberance Day. A few years ago I read Sandra Gwyn's Tapestry of War, which looks ...

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I heard somewhere that part of how these horrendous figures happened is that the generals didn't trust their soldiers to be intelligent enough to handle the fire & maneuver type tactics that would've been very helpful. Have any of you heard this ...

Oh, so I might be able to "click and remove the idiot" ? [:)] ACW did have costs for doing so, if I remember correctly.

Thanks Ray.

<t> I'd also primarily be a solo player for this game, and I think this type of AI is even more incentive to buy it.<br/>
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Too many game AIs are based on a "best game" approach. The developers program an AI that will beat inexperienced players, that is until they play enough to understand how ...

<t> Asking for a favourite WWI general is a little like asking what is your favourite vegetable. I'd really rather discuss my favourite beverage, or even breakfast cereal, for that matter.<br/>
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Being a canuck I'm going to have to second the vote for Currie. IronDuke's comments are well ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake<br/>
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The "cultural myopia" theory seems quite plausible to me<br/>

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IMHO the effects of cultural differences between Western and Japanese tend to be exagerated. The intent of cultural studies (i.e. Ruth ...

<t> I always find it ironic that so much emphasis is placed on the cultural anthropological explanation for Japan's military planning. The cultural myopia theory seems somewhat akin to the pre-war notion that the Japanese would make poor flyers...<br/>
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There are rational, historical reasons ...

<t> Ninety years ago today Britain declared war on Germany for invading Belgium, thereby expanding the scope of the war beyond Europe to around the globe...<br/>
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Can't wait for this game of The Great War to come out.<br/>
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BTW, it would be really nice if somebody official from Matrix ...

<t> Just curious - what do you intend to do with the Brits, Dutch, French in this scenario? And what about objectives, victory conditions, etc? Motivation for a Japanese offensive would be very different in 1922, or even 36, than the drive for oil that spurred PH and the historical war in 41. <br ...