Tag: Cold War-turned-hot games
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Triumph and Tragedy in the Med: A ‘Sea Power’ After-Action Account Told as a Press Release
Press Release: Naval Battle in the Eastern Mediterranean October 21, 1984 The Navy Department reports that, 12 hours after Warsaw Pact forces began hostilities in Western Europe following the deposition of the ailing General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko by Soviet hardliners, the USS Nimitz carrier battlegroup successfully fended off coordinated air and submarine attacks by Soviet…
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Old Gamers Never Die: A ‘Sea Power’ After Action Report (Told as a News Story)
F-14 Pilots Thwart Soviet Attack in the Norwegian Sea ABOARD USS NIMITZ, March 1, 1985 In a series of intense aerial clashes above the Norwegian Sea on Day 12 of the ongoing war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, F-14 pilots from the USS Nimitz carrier battle group emerged victorious, shooting down four Soviet Backfire…
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ will Get a New (and Free!) DLC Upgrade in Mid-April of ’23!
All right, Regiments fans! Listen up; I have a brief heads-up message about Bird’s Eye Games/MicroProse’s exciting new upgrade for the Cold War-turns-hot game that’s scheduled for mid-April. You recall, I’m sure, that Regiments received what the developer – and the fine folks over at “New MicroProse” – said would be the game’s first (and…
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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: ‘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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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ – Lessons from the Battles of Grasleben: There is NO Shame in Tactical Retreats!
Lessons Learned from the Battles of Grasleben: There’s No Shame in Retreating “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!” – Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from playing Regiments’ Grasleben Attack scenario multiple times is that even though the objective of the mission is to capture and successfully defend as…
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Old Gamers Never Die: ‘Regiments’ – Lessons Learned from the Battles of Grasleben
Introduction – Regiments: A Game About Cold War I Released During Cold War II I grew up during the second half of the first Cold War between Russia (then the core republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and the Free World led by the United States and its allies. For almost half my…
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