Category: Crusade in Europe (Command Series game)
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, April 22, 2024, or: One Week Ends, Another Begins
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Crusade in Europe (1985 game), Crusade in Europe (Command Series game), Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), MicroProse Software, New Hampshire Weather, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Spring 2024Late Morning, Monday, April 22, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, folks, and…it’s Monday! (Yay?) As I begin this, my 1,505th post in A Certain Point of View, Too, it is a cold spring morning in New England. Currently, the temperature is 37°F (3°C) under sunny conditions. With the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 8…
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My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists
My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five “Favorites” Lists Movies Books (Non-fiction) Books (Fiction) Computer/Video Games Songs (Standards, Mostly)
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, May 20, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Acting Lessons, Adults-Only Games, Amazon, Being a DIK (2020 Game), Blogging, Blu-ray Collection, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Crusade in Europe (Command Series game), Kindle Create (Publishing App), Leap of Faith, Life in Florida, Love and Sex, MicroProse Software, Movies, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Regiments: Second WaveIt’s almost noon as I sit here at my desk in my corner of Lithia, Florida, on Saturday, May 20, 2023. I’ve been up since 7:30 AM, which – per my usual schedule – amounts to “sleeping in late.” Oddly, I don’t remember checking the time before I fell asleep trying to watch Star Trek;…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 14, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Amazon, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Blogging, Blu-ray Collection, Cheryl T, Computer and Video Games, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Crusade in Europe (1985 game), Crusade in Europe (Command Series game), Family History, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in South Florida, MicroProse Software, Movies, Personal Thoughts, Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection, Things I MissWell, here we are, Dear Reader, on Sunday, May 14, 2023, aka Mother’s Day 2023. It’s almost 9 AM in the Tampa Bay area, the sun is out, and – for the moment, anyway, it’s cool outside; the temperature is 71°F/22°C. Overall, it’s the kind of day that, in my previous neighborhood in South Florida,…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Completing My First Operation in MicroProse’s Real-Time Tactics Game ‘Regiments’
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in Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, Computer Games, Crusade in Europe (Command Series game), M1 Tank Platoon (1989 PC Game), MicroProse Software, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Red Storm Rising (1988 game), Regiments (2022), Silent Service II, Ultimate General: Civil War“Winning isn’t everything–but wanting to win is.” ― Vince Lombardi I did it. I won my first victory as a combined arms field-grade commander in Regiments. As you know from previous posts in the Old Gamers Never Die series, I recently bought this cool new game developed by a small European studio, Bird’s Eye Games,…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Confessions of a Digital Armchair General
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in Blogging, Computer and Video Games, Computer Games, Crusade in Europe (1985 game), Crusade in Europe (Command Series game), Family History, Gaming, Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Silent Service II, Steam, Strategic Command series, Strategic Command WWII: World at War, Strategy GamesChildhood Dreams vs. Cold, Hard Reality When I was nine years old and my mom allowed me to dream about careers that were realistically out of my reach because I have cerebral palsy, one of my “I want to be X when I grow up” roles that I wanted most was “professional military officer.” Even…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, June 9, 2022, or: Rainy Thursday, & How I Spent My ‘Hump Day’
Hi there, Dear Reader. It is early afternoon in Lithia, Florida, on Thursday, June 9, 2022. It is a hot, humid, and sometime rainy day in the Tampa Bay area. Presently, the temperature is 80°F (27°C) under rainy conditions. With humidity at 80% and the wind blowing from the west at 6 MPH (10 KM/H),…
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘M1 Tank Platoon’ Campaign – Mission Accomplished
As you know, a few weeks ago I discovered that Atari – which owns many of the original MicroProse Software company’s intellectual properties – and Interplay Entertainment had released many of the games I owned in the 1980s and 1990s on Steam and GOG.com. They were, of course, tweaked so they would run on Windows…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A Player’s Guide to ‘Crusade in Europe’ (Part Four of a Series)
Hello and welcome once again to another installment of Old Gamers Never Die: A Player’s Guide to ‘Crusade in Europe.’ “You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower If you’re new to A Certain Point…
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