Mon, 24 December 2012
Happy Holidays 2012, tribe! Again, thank you for your listening support during our first year of Guns, Dice, Butter. Hope to have the first episode on 2013 posted just after the new year. It will cover ancients wargames: Greece & Rome. Already have it 1/2 finished; a great conversation with a designer of one of these games. Just need to get the panel discussion with the gamers finished. And, a link to the data file: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?233@@.1dd6d36f/235!enclosure=.1dd80d53 ...associated with the chart below. Many great ancients games to be played in 2013. Have been on binge of ancients gaming lately; session reports of PAX, Siege of Jerusalem, Caesar at Alesia and The Siege of Alesia posted on BGG (boardgamegeek.com) for each of these titles.
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Mon, 17 December 2012
Mentioned this on the podcast: an excellent list on BGG (boardgamegeek.com) by Tom Grant (host of the podcast I've Been Diced) regarding insurgencies and wargames that inspired episode X of Guns, Dice, Butter: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/6478/insurgency-and-terrorism Many of us have been using BGG for years. For those of you new to BGG, just scroll down the list, click on the game that interests you and away you go (you'll be dumped to the game page that has a ton of resources: files, lists, forums, ratings, comments, etc related to the game. BGG is an incredible resource for the gaming hobby: EVERY board game ever published has its own "page". Also, stumbled across this article on the Roman model we briefly discussed on Episode X: http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/they-make-a-solitude-and-call-it-peace-counterinsurgency-the-roman-model
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Tue, 11 December 2012
Passed the 15k downloads of Guns, Dice, Butter today. Thank you for listening!
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Tue, 11 December 2012
I was thinking about a question Volko asked on Episode X: "Why don't you like to game modern conflicts?". Basically, I answered on the podcast that it was due to story; that somehow the stories from the past are "richer". It may be that we've had A LOT longer to develop the narrative with stories of yore that stories from present times. I also remembered that I had conducted a poll on BGG a few years ago regarding what are gamers' favorite armies/least favorite armies to game out: image below. Something about pushing around roman legions in a rich political game context (a Pax Romana, Carthage: The First Punic War or even a grand tactical like Siege of Jerusalem). Maybe it is that the game designers bake in more political dimensions with those conflicts than with a WW2 (exceptions: Empire of the Sun, World in Flames, etc) or modern design. Maybe it is that the more recent conflicts grab more attention on the toys (ex: panzer tanks). Of course, Volko's COIN series and Train's variety of modern conflict games (ex: Algeria) aren't guilty of that (of ignoring the political dimension - or a focus on "the toys"), but I think so many of the games we began with were (ex: The Avalon Hill Classics). Of course, there other issues with modern conflict games: too raw, too messy, etc. Anyways, I'll take a non WW2 era game over a modern or WW2 game anytime when it comes to wargaming: I'd play Empires in Arms over any WW2/modern game. Or, any number of ancients games for that matter.
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Tue, 11 December 2012
Results from a poll on BGG in early December 2012: about 200 wargamers responded in the first day of the poll...initial results regarding what podcasts they listen to: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/895791/wargamer-activities-in-2012 A good way to celebrate the 15,000th download of Guns, Dice, Butter today. Thank you to the listeners for your support.
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Fri, 7 December 2012
Listener Ratings from Boardgamegeek.com polls during 2012. Sample size averaged between 37 and 75. Thank you for taking the time to respond. Mr.Berg captured has captured the gold ring so far in 2012 with a 4.7 rating (5=great, 1=poor) for the highest listener rated episode.
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Thu, 6 December 2012
Welcome to Episode X of Guns, Dice, Butter. 0:01 Intro 0:06 Conversation with Mercury Games: Richard Diosi (Doc Stryder) and Kevin Nesbitt 0:32 Panel discussion with Mark Herman, Brian Train and Volko Ruhnke regarding insurgencies and wargames: Wide ranging discussion examining wargames that model insurgencies (see website for link to games on insurgencies and national/strategic will games), political dynamics of insurgencies and insurgency games in the pipeline from this group of designers (A Distant Plan {Afghanistan}, Fire on the Lake {Vietnam}, etc). 2:18 Wrap up
Direct download: Guns_Dice_Butter_Episode_X_Dec_7_2012.mp3
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Thu, 6 December 2012
Linked the Herr Dr twitter account to this website. It should now provide notification of website posts, episodes being published, etc. My handle is Herr Dr. I am still holding out vs. Facebook; will get the newest/best social media/networking from the Applenista and post the link when we pick one. Planning to post Episode X later this evening; was able to get conversation with Mercury Games, a brand spanking new wargame co, today. Best of luck to them and their first game to published - which we discuss on the Episode X - plus the LONG panel discussion with Herman, Train and Ruhnke regarding insurgencies and wargames.
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Wed, 5 December 2012
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Mon, 3 December 2012
Episode X of Guns, Dice, Butter will feature a panel discussion including Mark Herman, Brian Train, Volko Ruhnke regarding politics and war; specifically insurgencies. We'll discuss how they insurgencies are modeled in wargames, what works/doesn't and a wide variety of games published and those in the pipeline. In preperation for that episode, see this link for a few data files: 203 Episode X will also include, hopefully, an interview with the lead(s) for a new wargaming company and the usual GDB odds and ends. Hope to publish in mid December.
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