GrogCast Season 3 is escaping into the wild!

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Airborne Rifles

Thanks again for the kind words, mirth. I'm as vain as the next guy, and I enjoy being told I'm good at something.

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Wes

Mirth, if you want a leg up on the South China Sea situation in gaming and haven't checked these out you might want to:

Interview with Jon Compton where he discusses games on the subject (including Breaking the Chains):

http://armsandinfluence.typepad.com/IBD/IBDEp59.mp3

The article Compton wrote is in Counterfact #1.

And the book he mentions (and it IS the bible on the subject):

Anti-Access Warfare: Countering A2/AD Strategies - Sam J. Tangredi

http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Access-Warfare-Countering-A2-Strategies/dp/1612511864/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457737529&sr=8-1&keywords=Anti-Access+Warfare

Hope these help.
"I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."  - Frank Herbert

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Wes

Quote from: mirth on March 11, 2016, 06:33:02 PM
Thanks, man!

Your welcome :)

And seeing you're a fan of AAR's (I don't know where I got that idea from...) this is a favorite of mine you might enjoy:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@@.1dd52f7d/667

The word you are looking for is 'narrative'. Enrico Viglino (love him or hate him he is a true grog) mentions it throughout his videos. He looks for the story that the game is trying to tell you and while not going into as much descriptive detail as Joel went into I feel they are both describing the same thing. To me it is the most important part of the experience otherwise we're just pushing cardboard on paper.
"I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."  - Frank Herbert

avrotim

currently working on: Crowbar, Thunder in the East, Attack of the 50 Ft Colossi
Currently building: nothing

Wes

"I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."  - Frank Herbert

mirth

Wes, thanks again for the links and info. I just ordered the book you recommended  O0
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Arctic Blast

Good episode. I never knew mirth could be such a fanboy.  >:D

Wes

Quote from: mirth on March 12, 2016, 01:59:52 PM
Wes, thanks again for the links and info. I just ordered the book you recommended  O0

No problem. After I listened to the podcast I bought Counterfact #1 and realized this was the book I was looking for. I loved Jon's comment that you could learn more from Monopoly about the SCS situation than from the games being created about it. I have Red Dragon and it just felt all wrong...like playing WWII PTO with China pasted over the JPN parts. :)

Here's some stuff if you want to get inside their head:

An Introduction to the Modern Chinese Science of Military Supraplanning
https://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/dnb/download/7726

China's New War Concepts for 21st. Century Battlefields
http://www.ipcs.org/pdf_file/issue/1577903632IPCS-IssueBrief-No48.pdf

The Emerging Anti-Access/Area-Denial Challenge
https://csis.org/publication/emerging-anti-accessarea-denial-challenge

Countering China's A2/AD Challenge
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/countering-china%E2%80%99s-a2-ad-challenge-9099

Anti-Access/Area Denial: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
https://www.usnwc.edu/Lucent/OpenPdf.aspx?id=95

Some snacks there as well as full buffets...:)
"I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."  - Frank Herbert

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Emeraldlis

Just wondering .......when does the next episode go up ? I'm missing my fix !!! I'm thinking it's going to be episode eight-ooooooo  :buck2:
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm " winston Churchill 😉
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune , or to take arms against a sea of trouble ,and by opposing end them "  hamlet  🎭

A bad hobbit is hard to break - Staggerwing
Booooo!!!!! Repeat !!!!!!!   - MetalDog

bayonetbrant

We let B_C take a vacation (I know, right? what we were thinking?!?!) so it'll be next week, if he can get it done in time when he gets back
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Emeraldlis

He'll be joining a union next ......and expecting holiday pay and such ...sheesh !!!!! He's no right to go off adventuring without first running it past the grogheads listeners committee ( that's a total of one at the moment  , moi !!, committee member that is, not listeners   :) )  :knuppel2:  :2funny:
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm " winston Churchill 😉
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune , or to take arms against a sea of trouble ,and by opposing end them "  hamlet  🎭

A bad hobbit is hard to break - Staggerwing
Booooo!!!!! Repeat !!!!!!!   - MetalDog

bob48

You may well be the only listener after you've heard me babble on for almost an hour..................
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