Putin Strikes

[besilarius]

http://modernconflictstudiesgroup.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/i/DB3925FDF3B49AB2

All the games no one else will do on the present day conflicts.
Let's hope the Pentagon buys a few copies.  Wasn't it Aegean Strike by Victory Games that they bought up in preparation for involvement in the Arab-Israeli situation at that time?

[panzerde]

I don't know if the Pentagon will buy any, but I did. For <$40 that was a no-brainer.

[avrotim]

It's got nukes.  I'm in!

[avrotim]

The counters are lookin good.

[panzerde]

Boy, those German divisions look like serious business!


Not that the Russian Guard divisions are anything to sneeze at. Much of the rest of the NATO forces look kind of anemic.

[bayonetbrant]

Many of the NATO forces are brigades instead of divisions, it looks like

[panzerde]

From reading the game description that's apparently a big part of the game - trying to contrast divisions and brigades to highlight strengths/weaknesses of current doctrine that emphasizes brigades over divisions. The counter mix certainly seems to reflect that.

[Crossroads]

http://modernconflictstudiesgroup.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/i/DB3925FDF3B49AB2

All the games no one else will do on the present day conflicts.
Let's hope the Pentagon buys a few copies.  Wasn't it Aegean Strike by Victory Games that they bought up in preparation for involvement in the Arab-Israeli situation at that time?

Jim Dunnigan, author of some 100+ boardgames in case the name does not sound a bell, wrote in his Wargames Handbook the best simulation in hindsight of the First Gulf War was Gulf Strike, by Victory Games. So yes  :)

[mirth]

http://modernconflictstudiesgroup.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/i/DB3925FDF3B49AB2

All the games no one else will do on the present day conflicts.
Let's hope the Pentagon buys a few copies.  Wasn't it Aegean Strike by Victory Games that they bought up in preparation for involvement in the Arab-Israeli situation at that time?

Jim Dunnigan, author of some 100+ boardgames in case the name does not sound a bell, wrote in his Wargames Handbook the best simulation in hindsight of the First Gulf War was Gulf Strike, by Victory Games. So yes  :)

Interesting. I picked up a copy of Gulf Strike a couple years ago. Should dig it out of the pile.

[Crossroads]

http://modernconflictstudiesgroup.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/i/DB3925FDF3B49AB2

All the games no one else will do on the present day conflicts.
Let's hope the Pentagon buys a few copies.  Wasn't it Aegean Strike by Victory Games that they bought up in preparation for involvement in the Arab-Israeli situation at that time?

Jim Dunnigan, author of some 100+ boardgames in case the name does not sound a bell, wrote in his Wargames Handbook the best simulation in hindsight of the First Gulf War was Gulf Strike, by Victory Games. So yes  :)

Interesting. I picked up a copy of Gulf Strike a couple years ago. Should dig it out of the pile.

I thought I'd check his actual quote, and what he said was actually the opening paragraph for chapter 9, "Wargames at War".

Here goes:

On August 2nd, 1990, as Iraq was invading Kuwait, the high command of the American forces in Washington, DC, swung into action. One of the first things the Pentagon officials did was to wargame out the unfolding situation. All of the Pentagon's computerized wargames were  too slow off the mark for this job. So later that day, the first wargame at Pentagon was a commercial one. With all the billions spent on computerized wargames since 1945, America's most efficient military operation in this century was initially planned using a game (Gulf Strike) that could be bought by anyone in most hobby stores for under fifty dollars. 

O0

[Crossroads]

I don't know if the Pentagon will buy any, but I did. For <$40 that was a no-brainer.

+1  :)

[mirth]

http://modernconflictstudiesgroup.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/i/DB3925FDF3B49AB2

All the games no one else will do on the present day conflicts.
Let's hope the Pentagon buys a few copies.  Wasn't it Aegean Strike by Victory Games that they bought up in preparation for involvement in the Arab-Israeli situation at that time?

Jim Dunnigan, author of some 100+ boardgames in case the name does not sound a bell, wrote in his Wargames Handbook the best simulation in hindsight of the First Gulf War was Gulf Strike, by Victory Games. So yes  :)

Interesting. I picked up a copy of Gulf Strike a couple years ago. Should dig it out of the pile.

I thought I'd check his actual quote, and what he said was actually the opening paragraph for chapter 9, "Wargames at War".

Here goes:

On August 2nd, 1990, as Iraq was invading Kuwait, the high command of the American forces in Washington, DC, swung into action. One of the first things the Pentagon officials did was to wargame out the unfolding situation. All of the Pentagon's computerized wargames were  too slow off the mark for this job. So later that day, the first wargame at Pentagon was a commercial one. With all the billions spent on computerized wargames since 1945, America's most efficient military operation in this century was initially planned using a game (Gulf Strike) that could be bought by anyone in most hobby stores for under fifty dollars. 

O0

Awesome. Thanks for posting that.  O0

[Crossroads]

Pretty cool. You could not make that up  O0

[jomni]

Will Putin buy this?

[Crossroads]

Will Putin buy this?

Maybe the historians one day can reveal the strike was only cancelled at the very last minute due to that pesky Polish Mech Bde near Kaliningrad not budging?