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Happy Birthday mate!

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March. An excellent release date for Frederick, one of history's greatest forced-marchers.

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Magnificent!

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Awww. I missed this. Happy Birthday Chris...and tagwyn.

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Luckily for the South, Davis didn't spar much with Robert E. Lee ;) It seems it didn't take much to get on Jefferson Davis' bad side. It only took a newspaper article in which Beauregard suggested that the Confederate army would be in Washington already if his original plan of attack before the Bull...

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I've seen this subject covered in the first book of Shelby Foote's excellent Civil War trilogy: Fort Sumter to Perryville . (page 121) In the weeks after Bull Run, General Beauregard wanted to make a sudden thrust across the Potomac and divide the Union, east and west, by seizing the territory betwe...

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Oy vey! :mdr: But for the record: I'll personally buy a beverage of choice (a la beer or suitable substitute) for those who create a playable "War of the Worlds" scenario for VGN :D If someone can come up with the parameters, I'll try with the graphics. ;) http://neptoon.homestead.com/mdl_MAR_Fight...

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I wish I was good at paintshop... would love to make an ETW box art with the guy wearing Gordon Freeman glasses. :thumbsup: http://neptoon.homestead.com/ETWHL.jpg I dunno...he comes off a bit like Austin Powers. So I take it that this is one of those games rich in eye candy and a bit lacking in dep...

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Happy Birthday, Monsieur Thibaut!

Some famous French military figures wish to give you a toast ---and a cake. Just get your piece before General Joffre does.

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- does anyone rember an excelent TV series about the subject which i beleive was one of the first to extensivley use private diaries etc? You might be thinking of the Ken Burns documentary film- The Civil War -it was something of a revelation even to Americans. I think another literary aspect to th...

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I think it's the fact that its like the starter for the main course as regards the First World War. It's the first time that mass produced weaponry and supply allowed massive armies to be fielded. The deadliness of the weapons involved meant that defence easier than assault, and huge numbers of liv...

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I still have the Avalon Hill version of the SPI game Frederick the Great . Other than spiffing up some of the map and counter colors they didn't change much as the game was a gem as is. I'd also love to see a game on this subject. Running around the map as the soldier-king trying to stave off one di...

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Thanks Jarkko and Old Peter. :) However, as you can see by the zoomed out map, I still have a continent to go. Plus, there needs to be a winter version. Then it needs to be cut up into the individual region files. I may be inhabiting a rubber room before it's done. :wacko: http://neptoon.homestead.c...

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Thanks Lodi :) Actually, I'm not so much interested in modifying the terrain characteristics as in modifying the look. With AACW, I've been experimenting a bit with the area between Washington and Richmond but it's still incomplete. It's a huge job. Given the overall size of the map it'll be a looon...

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Graphically, I was curious as to how the maps in Ageod games like BOA and AACW are created. I'm assuming it starts as a very large flat art file that gets sliced into separate components or tiles so the game engine can display them more quickly.

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In general 'pound' refers to the weight of the shot, so the higher the number the heavier the shot. However, official pounder designations were not always a reliable indication of actual projectile weight. Horse artillery refers to units where the artillerymen, loaders, etc. were mounted on their ho...

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Is it possible for Russia in the game to bring a certain amount of pressure to bear on Turkey? The terrain in the Caucasus Mountains is lousy of course but a Russian offensive there did throw the Turks back quite a distance in 1915, before events elsewhere forced Russia to pull back their troops.

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No politics on AGEOD's forums, thank you. Yes...I agree. Best to keep 'current' politics off the forum. In other forums I've seen political discussions in off-topic forums degenerate into an endless maelstrom of soap-boxing, demagoguery and eventually ad-hominem attacks. It's better to keep things ...

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My Halloween cartoon for 2008.

Don't eat all your candy on the first night.

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Okey-dokey.

Gladwyn came off looking a bit like a villian, but oh well.

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I was always very fond of Avalon Hill's PanzerBlitz/PanzerLeader/Arab-Israeli War family of platoon and company level games. They weren't as detailed and realistic as Squad Leader , but they were simpler and easier to learn. You could actually play them in the time it took to fight a tactical battle...

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Thanks for the helpful info guys. :) Did you do that? or you found it on the internet? It's a digital painting using Photoshop and a wacom tablet. It's come a long way, but it's still a work in progress. :blink: In the beginning he looked more like Vin Diesel. :D http://neptoon.homestead.com/Prelimi...

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Thanks guys.

What size in pixels should they be?

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I must confess I don't own the game, but would something like this work?..

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Plus, a PC game with depth is entertainment at a bargain price considering the initial investment versus the hours of diversion it gives you. Especially when you stack it up against attending a sports event or even the movies nowadays. However, games like these do demand a mature attention span, his...

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Strategic games usually have a tougher time keeping a large devoted audience over time. Usually because the audience isn't that large to begin with. But overall I don't think AACW is doing too badly. There are some forums over at Matrix that don't get a post for days or weeks.

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Whatever Pocus got was probably rather mundane. But, I'm sure it's what he really wanted. ;) http://neptoon.homestead.com/PocusBliss.jpg (among other things building the first and so famous "dancing bridge") Ahh... Galloping Gertie as that famous bridge was called. Somebody didn't do their engineeri...

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Happy Birthday! Thought I'd give the gift that unwraps itself.

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Franciscus wrote:Richard Wright, a founding member of Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65.

Very sad... Richard Wright was, to me, a genius musician. Now he is playing a great gig in the sky leure:

If he is, at least he's got company to play with. Syd Barrett from the band's early days died a few years ago.

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Athena in space? I'm there.

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