Tue, 29 January 2013
Welcome to Episode XIII of Guns, Dice, Butter: (Season 2: #3) 0:00: Episode Intro
0:08 Greenwood: Intro to gaming
0.17 The jump to Avalon Hill
0:30 D&D, SL, ASL and peak at AH
0:44 Nappy Wars, start of Avaloncon/WBC
1:02 WBC Survey
1:10 What is Don playing?
1:27 Thompson: Niagara Broadgame Weekend: Ardennes 44, It Never Snows
1:40 Eclipse
1:43 Playing Greenwood in BKN
1:53 All hail Pax Porfiriana
2:08 Solomons Campaign/Operation Shoestring
2:14 Wrap: Shout outs, on the table/on the plate, the call for ideas/volunteers/support regarding a world wide wargamer recruitment weekend.
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Sat, 26 January 2013
Episode XIII will feature a conversation with Don Greenwood; convention director WBC, Avalon Hill chief of staff, designer/developer of many great wargames (ASL! , 3rd Reich, Breakout Normandy, etc) and consummate gamer. Hope to post in early Feb 2013.
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Wed, 16 January 2013
Welcome to Episode XII of Guns, Dice, Butter: (Season 2: #2) 0:01 Intro 0:11 Jim Dunnigan, a co-founder of modern wargaming and SPI 1:20 Wrap up 1:25 SPI Commercial (the first ever commercial on Guns, Dice, Butter) Survey of Dunnigan games ("top" 100) available on www.gunsdicebutter.com, www.consimworld.com GDB discussion board or GDB Guild on www.boardgamegeek.com Jim Dunnigan's website www.strategypage.com
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Tue, 15 January 2013
Episode XII will be a conversation with one of the founders of wargaming and SPI, Jim Dunnigan. Hope to have it posted in a few days. Link to survey of Dunnigan games on the GDB consimworld website: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?233@@.1dd6d36f/258!enclosure=.1dd81bcc Link to BGG thread when Mr.Dunnigan featured as a wargame designer: http://rpggeek.com/thread/602022/bgg-wargame-designer-of-the-month-jim-dunnigan/page/1 Also, a discussion of Dunnigan games here:
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Tue, 8 January 2013
Welcome to Episode XI of Guns, Dice, Butter: (Season 2: #1) 0:01 Intro: Wargamer recruitment, mini wargame cons in Jan/Feb and other odds and ends. 0:07 Conversation with Fred Schachter, designer of Siege of Jerusalem (SoJ). Fred tells about his early days in the hobby at SPI, designer SoJ, his work on The Napoleonic Wars series of games and few games in development (Rebel Raiders, Mussolini. 1:07 Conversation with Enrico Viglino (game reviewer {video BGG} extraordinaire) regarding wargames covering the ancients period: Rome and Greece. We discuss 30+ games in this space. See website for two data files regarding these games. 2:37 Wrap up, shout outs, more industry news, a bit on Triumph of Fascism, next episode previews and other bits and bobs. For more info: www.gunsdicebutter.com , discussion board on consimworld.com and a guild on boardgamegeek.com
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