I always wanna post this and finally there’s a place fits.
Imagine you’re a paratrooper, throw out of the plane into a war zone just because Montgomery is an idiot. A war reporter took a picture of you then you became an iconic legendary of wargame cover about this war, and with a confused numb face.
I always love read AAR blog from a wargamer, not mention he create so many good timelines.
I may share more blogs which I loved later but always needs to remind there’s a nostalgic and stubborn vibe within, and I wouldn’t recommend to argue with a Baby boomer or early Gen X lol.
I’m surprised to see Hiroo Onoda appears as a hero in scenario at Butaritari island of the The Proud and The Few. As a basic hero image, he will transport every scenario in the whole game, what an ironic coincide for him.
Anyway after I got my minor victory, the rest part is the rabbit hole of wargame. Reality materials splashed everywhere, and force you look back.
Don’t forget the civilians, wargamers always like to forget.
The Makin Island Raid: What Really Happened to the Marines?
Captain Ralph H. Coyte was given the responsibility of making the surrender plea. He wrote a surrender note and then set out with his runner, Private William McCall, to contact the Japanese and deliver the message. What happened next is unclear, as American and Japanese versions differ.
Japanese Lieutenant Taniura Hideo describes the delivery of the note in his memoir. He states that Coyte entrusted the note to an islander who took it to the Japanese headquarters, which was located in the Chinese On Chong Trading Company building. When he found the building deserted, he took the note to Emily Hugill, who had a trading store in Ukiangang Village. Emily was originally from the island of Abaiang, 100 miles south of Makin. She was part European and could read English.
the hospital seems on the left!A few days later, when calm had returned to the island, Emily passed the surrender note to Kanzaki Chojiro, the manager of the NBK (South Sea Trading Company). Kanzaki had lived on the island for years, was also married to a part-European woman, and no doubt was a Japanese person who Emily knew well and trusted. When Lieutenant Taniura came to Makin bringing reinforcements for the decimated Makin Defense Force, Kanzaki delivered the note to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHGaPSxSQT4
Genuinely excited there is finally a thread I can post about PANZER FRONT AUSF.B for the PS2 because yes, that’s right, of course a crack team of autists who worked for enterbrain made a whole ass tank simulator in the year 2000 so it runs at about 10, 15 frames a second if you’re lucky as the EMOTION ENGINE crumbles under the weight of absurdly detailed tank models.
Check out this badass, stylish start screen:
And arguably the greatest main menu on the console because you know what you’re getting into. That’s fucking TACTICS baby
full set of realism options in your fucking ps2 game hell YES lol
unfortunately this does not work on my actual PS2 because it’s a PAL game so I can’t take sick screenshots of me struggling to play it at low fps but I’ll take some in the emulator later lol.
aka 大発動艇 brings Hiroo Onoda back again. I think this man who wasted his life on meaningless was happy now, at least someone really want to shoot him this time, cut off his head and after boil it up in a pot , then sent his skull to girlfriend in US, post on LIFE magazine. Before the crazy shit happened, Let’s about the landing craft before play.
Talking about landing, it’s easily think of D-day. Because you’re finally awake, the roar of the waves assaults your brain. This time you’re not floating in the sky above the Nazis, now you’re in a metal trench and forgot to make yourself a cup of coffee caused this is the new version moving trench, quickly towards to the enemy.
You were wondering who plan and made that shit. So at 100m close to the beach, you bring out your ipad and ask to chatGPT, a damn name appeared again: the British.
Just like Churchill’s countless huge military disasters throughout his life, this time he will make his mark in World War I and described it less than 10 words in his autobiography. In 1914, Churchill proposed a naval attack on the Dardanelles, based on erroneous reports of Ottoman.
A special variant of self-propelled lighter was designed by the British naval forces for amphibious operations, carrying stockman, miners and farmers from West Australia and New Zealand, took a ship to hit the beach. As lame as the whole operation, that variant called X-lighter.
While Churchill was busy sending the children of pacific exiles to hell, H.G. Wells, now considered the father of wargame, same as all the British educated only white people is human, and declared in the same year The War That Will End War. After 5 years at Paris Peace Conference, lead by the Lodge family would along with other expansionists, will support U.S. colonial rule over the Philippines though after so many years war with Philippine independence.
Like all great projects, this treaty only solved 15% of the white problem, left 100% of the non-white problem unresolved. During the hostilities raged across the central island of Luzon and several other major island, Japan quickly target American as No.1 enemy in its National Defense Policy on sea.
Also attempted to become a member of an empire capable of sending people to hell, The Imperial Japanese Army invested heavily in research and development for a hypothetical conflict with the U.S. Aimed to developed a specific Landing Craft for amphibious operations. After almost 10 years development, the serial number from A to D, they basically could put everything to death with this new invention from sea.
The Japanese keep the Daihatsu Landing craft in secret, but finally used in killing Chinese of 1937. Victor Harold Krulak, while a lieutenant in an intelligence outfit in Shanghai, take pictures of this craft and believe it’s the future of highly efficient killing. As all bureaucrats runs an inefficient pace of sending own people to deaths, the report reviewed as ‘some nut out in China’.
However, as an American killing machine that would later be spitting on by the American people in Vietnam war, Victor was not someone who gives up easily. Upon seeing the report’s comments, he quickly partnered with a desperate businessman to rapidly manufacture a vessel called LCVP aka landing craft, vehicle, and personnel which modeled after the Daihatsu-class landing craft.
Amazing post thank you muaad!!!
A Vic Viper from Gradius with F-16 and F-22 by Hunter1983TFC
When a moment you realize that scrolling shooter games perfectly share the air combat revolution of the Vietnam War and the Lightweight Fighter program.
Air fight in the universe is also the Jet Age, it seems very odd if you think about this.
the ultimate grognard bugbear:
i’ve been waiting to see this come out for at least 12 years by now, although i’m surprised Graviteam is still continuing to update both Mius Front and Tunisia (and pump out expansion packs for the former at least once a year) with the slight inconvenience of a war still raging in eastern Ukraine
one of the best games you can’t really buy on Steam or GOG - and also serves as a good introduction to John Tiller’s specific flavor of computer wargame - is John Tiller’s Campaign Series on Matrix/Slitherine, which is basically just a grab-bag of those WW2 Talonsoft games you’d see at Office Max during the late 90’s or early 2000’s
Wargame Design Studio is basically making new, refined versions of John Tiller’s newer games, but they also cost like 40 USD each, while Campaign Series costs only 30 and you get 5 games in one bundle. It has also been updated by this mostly one-person effort, so you can at least play it on modern Windows and enjoy minor QoL updates; you get a ton of content for what you pay for - the Pacific or Asian fronts, the Eastern front, and the Western front, and playing this is also a good way to gauge if you’ll actually enjoy Tiller’s specific design ethos and philosophy, which is incredibly granular and detailed
Italian illustration (1907) mocking the US Navy’s ‘Great White Fleet’ that sailed the world between 1907-1909.
Although GUNDAM has always hovered between toys and serious war story, but I found that sometime the model publisher love to add more military style of marking sticker for its jet origins flavor.
Somehow explains why they made an Apocalypse Now-style ad.
Scramble is a turn based WW2 dogfighting game about the Battle of Britain and they inexplicably added 3vAI co-op to it today which is awesome. I got this game for free and still have no idea how to play it
Over the last 40 years, crews used several types of artillery for the work, including a recoilless rifle, an M60 tank, and a World War II-era Howitzer, loaned to WSDOT from the U.S. Army.
