Monthly Archives: March 2016
Civ5 AAR: Empires of the Smoky Skies, Part IIII
War and peace and smoky skies ~
By Brant Guillory, GrogDude
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Last session, the war against Pulias to our north came and went. And oh yeah, I’ve got spies that I needed to send.
Freakin’ Canadians
I guess I’m not building a road in that direction. And why the heck do we have archers in a steampunk scenario?
Not just any engineer, a great engineer!
Yeah, it’s not any funnier when we move it out of Africa.
Tracer Rounds: Tactics vs Logistics, the Walking Dead Differential Model
What do you see when you’re watching TV “operations”? ~
A friend of mine – who might eventually read this column and recognize himself and then furiously email with a string of “that’s not what I meant and you know it”s – was posting on social media about The Walking Dead. After the episode where they go room-to-room clearing the radar facility where they think Negan is holed up, he proclaimed “TWD is OAF”.
From the point of view of the room-clearing tactics, which our TWD heroes have perfected over several seasons, he’s probably right. It jives with everything I’ve seen, and the limited amount I was taught. (Remember that I was a tanker back in the ‘90s, before all the MOUT/FISH ops of the past 15 years; if we had to ‘clear’ a house it involved pancaking the place with 55 tons of rolling steel.) But the whole time I’m watching TWD my mind is usually back to the more practical matters.
Allow me to explain…