Category: Strategy Games
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ – More Lessons Learned from the Battles of Grasleben in Skirmish Mode
Regiments – More Lessons Learned in the Battles for Grasleben “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War At ease, ladies and gentlemen. Please take your seats; the briefing will start in a moment. I…
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RIP Mikhail Sergeyvich Gorbachev – An Obit with Significa and Insignifica
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in Armored Brigade, Bird's Eye Games, Blogging, Cold War (1945-1991), Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, M1 Tank Platoon (1989 PC Game), MicroProse Software, Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-2022), Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Strategy Games, U.S. HistorySignifica Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the former Soviet Union, died yesterday in Moscow at the age of 91. The man who rose to power following the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev (1982), Yuri Andropov (1984), and Konstantin Chernenko (1985) and was paramount leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Reliving Pickett’s Charge in ‘Ultimate General: Civil War’
“The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things… It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.” ― Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative If you are a regular reader of A Certain Point…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A Quick Look at ‘Ultimate General: Civil War’
Even though I spend most of my days here in New Hometown, Florida writing (whether it’s on my two blogs or other projects), sometimes I like to kick back and relax with a good computer game…or two…or three. And even though I do like space-fantasy games such as Star Wars: Rebellion or Star Wars: Rogue…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, May 31, 2021, or: The Immediate Past, Present, and (Near) Future….
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Monday, May 31, 2021. In the United States and its territories, it is Memorial Day, a federal holiday originally set aside to honor the men and women who died while serving in the military in our country’s wars but is now mostly the…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A First Look at ‘Armored Brigade’
TITLE: Armored BrigadeGENRE: Simulation, StrategyDEVELOPER: Veitikka StudiosPUBLISHER: Slitherine Ltd./Matrix GamesFRANCHISE: Armored BrigadeRELEASE DATE: Nov 15, 2018 As someone who grew up in the shadow of the Cold War (1946-1991) and can still remember that the present Russian Federation was one of 16 “republics” in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), I have long been…
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Old Gamers Never Die: My All-Time Favorite Computer Games
I have loved computer games ever since my father’s brother Sixto gave me my first personal computer – an Apple IIe with a color monitor and an Imagewriter printer – in 1987. At the time, I was still studying journalism at what was then called Miami-Dade Community College, and I badly needed a home computer…
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Computer Game Review: ‘Strategic Command WWII: World at War’
The Challenge of Command As we enter the sixth month of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the third month of living with social distancing and an economic lockdown, I have found ways to keep myself occupied and not go “stir crazy.” As a writer and blogger, I usually spend my waking hours at my desk,…