Category: MicroProse Software

Old Gamers Never Die: Mastering the Mobile Defense Skirmish in ‘Regiments’*

Jan 26, 2023

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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* 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,…
Old Gamers Never Die: A Discussion of Mobile Defense Skirmishes in ‘Regiments’

Jan 9, 2023

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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“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…
Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, January 4, 2023, or: Things That Brought Me Some Joy in 2022

Jan 4, 2023

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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Although I will not remember 2022 with a great deal of fondness, I can’t say that the year was devoid of its momentary joys and pleasures. After all, I’ve watched some great movies (on home media, unfortunately, but I still watched them), read some interesting and entertaining books, listened to music I had not listened…
Old Gamers Never Die: Starting 2023’s Gaming with the Updated ‘Regiments’ in Mobile Defense Mode

Jan 3, 2023

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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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…
Old Gamers Never Die: Meeting Engagements in ‘Regiments’ are a Tough Challenge for This Armchair Tactician

Oct 26, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Bird's Eye Games, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Gaming, MicroProse Software, Regiments (2022)

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…
On Books & Reading, or: Reading Habits, the TBR Stack Got Bigger, and a Quick Life Update

Oct 10, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson I love books. I love to read. I learned to read at an early age. I don’t remember when I started to read, but my mom used to tell me (and anyone else, for that matter) that Tata, my maternal grandmother, taught me to read before…
Old Gamers Never Die: Getting Better at Playing the ‘Attack’ Skirmish Mission in ‘Regiments’

Oct 1, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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“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.…
Book Review: ‘The Third World War: The Untold Story’

Sep 21, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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Dies Irae: The Story Continues…. In early 1982, Sidgwick & Jackson of London and Macmillan Publishing of New York published The Third World War: The Untold Story, a war novel co-written by General Sir John Hackett and seven collaborators, many of whom had co-written The Third World War: August 1985, published four years earlier and,…
On Books & Reading: An Oral History of 9/11, and Observations About ‘The Third World War’ Duology

Sep 19, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Amazon, Books, Computer and Video Games, Conservatism in the U.S., International Relations, MicroProse Software, Regiments (2022), The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, The Third World War: August 1985, To Be Read (TBR) Stack, U.S. Politics

The Growing TBR Stack My copy of Garrett M. Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 arrived yesterday at 4:56 PM. I retrieved it from our front porch where the Amazon Prime driver had dropped it off, and within a few minutes I had taken it out of its shipping…
Book Review: ‘The Third World War: August 1985’

Sep 15, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Bird's Eye Games, Book Reviews, Books, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, MicroProse Software, Red Storm Rising, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Regiments (2022), The Third World War: August 1985, Tom Clancy (author)

On May 1, 1978, London-based Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. published The Third World War: August 1985: A Future History, a work of near-future speculative fiction by Sir John Hackett, a retired general in the British Army, and a group of co-authors that, according to the publisher, included an admiral, an economist, and a diplomat, all…