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Bruce Geryk

Bruce Geryk has written 92 posts for Wargame_[space]
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Wild Weasel #4

Timeline News: 2:19 Alan Emrich: 12:15 Top solitaire games #6-10: 27:38 Links to items mentioned Three Moves Ahead #351: Weekend of Wargaming Kickstarter for Moscow ’41 VentoNuovo Games Legion Wargames pre-order page Multi-Man Publishing Microgame Design Group Arquebus Operation Dauntless Red Winter Lock ‘n Load free downloadable WW2 demo Lock ‘n Load free downloadable modern […]

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My kingdom for a phalanx

“Is anyone in the tabletop space writing critical analysis or is everything still a buying guide?” That question popped up in my Twitter feed* just as I was trying to write an introduction to this latest video. And it’s the same question I asked myself when I first started doing videos. Ever since Internet video […]

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Wild Weasel #3

Timeline News: 1:46 Nick Karp: 11:39 COIN collecting: 27:04 Links to items mentioned Fatal Alliances: The Great War from Compass Games Don’t Tread on Me! from White Dog Games Print and play repository at wargamedownloads.com Bounding Fire Productions China-Burma-India: The Lost Theater from the St. Louis ASL Club Nuts Publishing The Chosin Few from Victory […]

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Wild Weasel #2

Timeline News: 6:10 Tom Chick: 14:57 A good map is hard to find: 31:48 Links to items mentioned Sekigahara P500 by GMT Games A good video on Sekigahara by ACoupleofMeeple Holdfast: North Africa 1941-42 Kickstarter Operational Studies Group’s Peninsular War II preorder Europa Simulazioni’s 1813: Napoleon’s Nemesis Decision Games High Flying Dice Games Ironbottom Sound […]

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Launch of the Wild Weasel

Timeline News: 6:00 Mark Herman: 18:15 Top Five list: 30:48 Links to items mentioned Kickstarter for Pub Battles: Brandywine GMT Games P500 Legion Wargames One Small Step Games Triumph of Chaos pre-order from Clash of Arms Games Last Stand Games Victory Point Games Multi-Man Publishing C3i Magazine from RBM Studio Zones of Control on Amazon […]

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Area-Effect Gaming

A long time ago I bought a game called Storm Over Arnhem. I think I was 14 years old. Because I was 14 years old, I didn’t realize just how groundbreaking the game was. All I knew is that I loved playing it. I didn’t know it then, but this was a system so good […]

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Vulture Culture

I recently picked up a copy of Howard R. Simpson’s “Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle That America Forgot” (Brassey’s Inc: 1994) as part of my obsessive quest to read everything about Dien Bien Phu that I could possibly assimilate during the course of my video project about this fascinating conflict. The American attitude towards […]

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Hell on a Very Small Map

It isn’t often that two games on the same subject get released in the same month. Unless that subject is zombies, in which case there were two games released each day last week. But my mailbox presented me with MMP’s Storm Over Dien Bien Phu as well as Legion Wargames’ Dien Bien Phu: The Final […]

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Greenmail on the Red Planet

Designs that reject a genre’s fundamentals are like counterfactual history: what if things had happened this way? Rails Across America was just this kind of gem: a brilliant streamlined rethink of the rail tycoon genre that encouraged bold expansion, dirty tricks, and wild gambles, all because it focused on the broader decisions of rail empire […]

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Momentum in the Valley

I think of non-academic military history being divided into two categories: popular history, and wargamer history. Popular history is the general understanding of events as they happened. It might be influenced by books, or movies, or serious BBC documentaries with people taking very serious poses and discussing events with the aid of file footage. Wargamer […]