Playing a game in the Grand Operational Simulation Series requires quite some bookkeeping: Support Status, Fuel Status, AmP, ADV, Assets,… Not all the information can be tracked on the Army Record Tracks. The Vassal Module of Hurtgen: Hell’s Forest comes with a handy Supply Chart. Inspired by that I created a spreadsheet to help with …
Quick heads-up: After moving the site to the new domain I intend to ‘clean up’ the site a little. Hopefully this will make it easier to navigate and improve the readability. Over the next few days I will experiment with the settings. I don’t expect any major disruptions, but can’t promise there won’t be any …
When Brazilian Customs finally decides to release your counter trays months after you ran out of trays and you feel way more relieved than you should feel.
Quick update: I just changed domains for this site. What used to be gringogamer.wordpress.com is now gringogamer.space. I do hope that the change is absolutely transparent to everyone. But please let me know if you experience any problems. Links to the old domain should still work as they are just re-mapped.
Based on a short discussion on twitter the other day about AI opponents in computer games I was wondering how often Machine Learning is used for such a job? Probably in most cases either an overkill or way too complicated. But there must be a (small) group of conflict simulations where this could be easily …
Reading up on rules for artillery is tiring.
The problem with ziploc bag games is that it’s very easy to overlook on the shelf. Here’s a reminder that I should play more often Revolution Games’ Battles of the Bulge: Celles.
Learning how to play Hurtgen: Hell’s Forest. Here’s a view of my current gaming area where I’m going through the excellent youtube tutorial series for the Bloody Bucket scenario by The War Gamer.
And yes, the next GOSS article should be online tomorrow. I will rant talk about the Supply rules… oohh!
Fire in the Lake is my favorite title in GMT‘s COIN series. But Pendragon: The Fall of the Roman Empire comes in a close second.
Look what arrived today… more Hurtgen Forest reading material.
Unfortunately, the day still has only 24 hours.
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