Category: Gaming
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Old Gamers Never Die: Another Victory in ‘Regiments’? I Must Be Learning How to Survive (and Thrive) in World War III
“When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.” – Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., USA Well, I’ll be damned. I won another victory against the Warsaw Pact in the Cold War-turns-hot real-time tactical wargame, Regiments.[1] As you know, I bought this game on the day it was released on Steam, partly because I…
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ – It Wasn’t a Decisive Victory, But I’ll Still Take the Win
“It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side, then this is a valuable bonus.” ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo Well, it took a while. A longer while that I would have liked, honestly. After almost 10 days without…
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Old Gamers Never Die: I Sought the Thrill of Victory in ‘Regiments,’ But Felt the Agony of Defeat
Veni. Vugnavi. Victus i. I came. I fought. I was defeated. Since the weather had not gone from mostly cloudy to stormy after I finished my earlier blog post, I decided to play another Skirmish in Regiments (Bird’s Eye Games/MicroProse, 2022). I figured, well, Skirmishes have a 30-minute time limit, so even if it storms…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 28, 2022, or: Saturday Night Was a Mix of Thunderstorms, Wargames, and Loneliness
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in Amazon, Amazon Music, Bird's Eye Games, Blogging, Books, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, Gaming, Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Love, Sex, & Relationships, MicroProse Software, Personal History, Personal Thoughts, Peter Caddick-Adams, Regiments (2022), SexWell, here I am at my desk on a quiet, mostly sunny Sunday morning in August. Not quite silent, mind you, I’m listening to the digital copy of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded Edition), which I have because I bought the CD album earlier this morning. (Amazon often…
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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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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: Campaigning in ‘Cold Waters’ is Fun, But Not Easy
Hi, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida, and as I said in my previous post, I am taking the weekend off from working on the screenplay I’m writing for Juan Carlos Hernandez and his team at Popcorn Sky Productions. I need to recharge my batteries before I can get more into…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A First Look at Killerfish Games’ New WWII Naval Warfare Game ‘War on the Sea’
Hi everyone! Yes, I’m back with another post for the day; this time around, though, the topic is going to be more fun than the previous one (COVID-19 and why we aren’t flattening the curve yet). As the headline of this post says, this will be a “first look” post about a brand-new video game…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Entertainment is Key to Maintaining Sanity
Living in the time of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is, to put it mildly, quite a challenge for most people, especially those of us who live in the United States. As I write this on the afternoon of April 10, there are 1,673,423 confirmed cases worldwide, with the U.S. in the not-so-great spot of being…
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‘No hay novedad’: Life in the Time of COVID-19
Hi, there. Welcome to another edition of A Certain Point of View, Too, my new blog in WordPress. As I write this, it’s almost six o’clock on Thursday, April 9. Here in my corner of Florida, it’s 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius) under mostly sunny skies. It’s early spring, but here in the Deep…
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