Category: Cold War-Turns-Hot Games
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, March 3, 2024, or: Weekend Update, Part the First…Getting Into Weekend Mode
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Bird's Eye Games, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), MicroProse Software, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: CodaEarly Afternoon, Sunday, March 3, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s a nice, mild early spring day here in eastern New Hampshire (or “Almost Maine). Currently, the temperature is 52°F (12°C) under cloudy conditions. With humidity at 58% and the wind blowing from the north-northeast at 7 MPH (11 Km/H), the feels-like temperature is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, February 19, 2024, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second…and Monday is Workday for this Writer
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Madison (NH), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: CodaMid- to Late Morning, Monday, February 19, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, folks, and welcome to the Presidents Day edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s a beautiful but frigid late winter morning here in my corner of New England. Currently, the temperature is 20°F (-7°C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 50%…
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Computer Game Review: Regiments (2022) – NATO and Warsaw Pact Clash in Alternate Version of 1989 West Germany Where Glasnost and Perestroika Did NOT Lead to Peace
Regiments Developed by: Bird’s Eye Studios Published by: MicroProse Software Release Date: August 16, 2022 Genre: Tactical Real-Time Tactics (RTT), Cold War-Turns-Hot (Alternative History), 1980s-Era Combined Arms Warfare Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, July 4, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Fifth (Independence Day Edition)
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Adults-Only Games, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium, June 22 & 23, 1990, Blu-ray Collection, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Cold Waters, Creative Writing, Groundhog Day (1993), John Williams (Composer), John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Leap of Faith, M1 Tank Platoon (1989 PC Game), Movies, Music Reviews, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: CodaIt’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Even though noon is – as I begin this post, anyway – less than two hours away, it’s already 87°F/31°C under mostly sunny conditions, and it’s going to be hotter still. Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high of 96°F/35°C.…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Mastering the Mobile Defense Skirmish in ‘Regiments’*
* On Easy difficulty level A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. – Frank Whittle I’m getting good at playing the Mobile Defense variant of skirmishes on Regiments. Before I watched Amazon Women on the Moon last night, I decided to play a 30-minute-long session of Regiments,…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A Discussion of Mobile Defense Skirmishes in ‘Regiments’
“Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War About Regiments If you’re a regular reader of this space, you will doubtlessly recall that gaming is one of the…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Starting 2023’s Gaming with the Updated ‘Regiments’ in Mobile Defense Mode
Old Gamers Never Die: Tackling the ‘Mobile Defense’ Skirmish in Regiments If you’re a regular visitor to A Certain Point of View, Too, you may remember that late last summer – in the last weeks of August – I purchased Regiments, a real-time tactical game depicting conventional combat in an alternate version of 1989 in…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Meeting Engagements in ‘Regiments’ are a Tough Challenge for This Armchair Tactician
Adrift in the Fog of War Last night, for the first time since I bought Regiments in mid-August, I tried another of the three types of Skirmish single battles in the recent Cold War-turns-hot real-time tactical simulation created by Bird’s Eye Games and published by MicroProse. In addition to Attack (the type of mission I’ve…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Getting Better at Playing the ‘Attack’ Skirmish Mission in ‘Regiments’
“In case of doubt, attack.” – Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. USA I’m getting better at playing Regiments. I’m not yet as good a commander of armored forces as George Patton, one of America’s best-known generals from the World War II era and the namesake of the U.S, Army’s Patton series of main battle tanks.…
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