10-28-2007, 06:59 AM
Really...they do...and what's worse, they bite big donkey di..ks...
Cheers, and respects, to all of the different type of gamers here. Ave.
WWII was so much more than the trite "tank vs tank" fights that get so much popularity in wargaming. My interest, having been drawn into wargaming as an "in the shadows" historian, has always skewed the way I approach scenario making. How much literature is there on the miserable Italian campaign in East Africa...or, forbid, the Dutch East Indies, as examples? Virtually none. Nevertheless they do make up the patch work quilt that was WWII in it's entirety.
It is a fact that there are those who: (1) want to win..., (2) don't care...and give less than a sh...t about winning or loosing but just love to fight, and (3) those miserable creatures, like me...who can look at the deployment of a disaster, for hours on end...and wonder what it would have been like to have been in the shoes of the loosing side...so I go and try to recreate the inexecrable situation...and then share it with others...egad.
Find solace that there will always be that group of people who sequester themselves and blather jibberish to one another and themselves, (2) those who espouse ranting balderdash and demagogery, for the sake of it,...and (3) those who mumble, incoherently to themselves and one another...like me...
I like the maps, when they are finally completed...I like doing the OOB's...it is really quite pleasing to look at a scenario when it is finally laid out...I like trying to figure out how I can frustrate everybody when I make completely unatainable victory conditions...and I don't give a rat's a...ss who cares...
If any of my scenarios would entice someone to track down a good book on any of the obscure areas of WWII that I like recreating, that would be satisfaction enough. It appears, however,...that that is too much to ask for...consequently I will keep trying. And all of us will continue expounding on "halftracks", "armour penetration capabilities", infatry fights vs armor, mud vs clear and on and on, ad nauseum...
Se la vie, se la guerre...
Cheers to all
Guberman
Cheers, and respects, to all of the different type of gamers here. Ave.
WWII was so much more than the trite "tank vs tank" fights that get so much popularity in wargaming. My interest, having been drawn into wargaming as an "in the shadows" historian, has always skewed the way I approach scenario making. How much literature is there on the miserable Italian campaign in East Africa...or, forbid, the Dutch East Indies, as examples? Virtually none. Nevertheless they do make up the patch work quilt that was WWII in it's entirety.
It is a fact that there are those who: (1) want to win..., (2) don't care...and give less than a sh...t about winning or loosing but just love to fight, and (3) those miserable creatures, like me...who can look at the deployment of a disaster, for hours on end...and wonder what it would have been like to have been in the shoes of the loosing side...so I go and try to recreate the inexecrable situation...and then share it with others...egad.
Find solace that there will always be that group of people who sequester themselves and blather jibberish to one another and themselves, (2) those who espouse ranting balderdash and demagogery, for the sake of it,...and (3) those who mumble, incoherently to themselves and one another...like me...
I like the maps, when they are finally completed...I like doing the OOB's...it is really quite pleasing to look at a scenario when it is finally laid out...I like trying to figure out how I can frustrate everybody when I make completely unatainable victory conditions...and I don't give a rat's a...ss who cares...
If any of my scenarios would entice someone to track down a good book on any of the obscure areas of WWII that I like recreating, that would be satisfaction enough. It appears, however,...that that is too much to ask for...consequently I will keep trying. And all of us will continue expounding on "halftracks", "armour penetration capabilities", infatry fights vs armor, mud vs clear and on and on, ad nauseum...
Se la vie, se la guerre...
Cheers to all
Guberman
