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TANKSgiving! – Kursk: The Biggest Tank Battle
Refighting Kursk, on-the-go! ~
Michael Eckenfels, 26 November 2016
The Conflict-Series of games on the Android device are great little hex- and turn-based wargames that cover a wide variety of battles from World War II. The developer of these games, Joni Nuutinen, is a solo programmer that creates these games in his free time, and he heavily supports them as well by constantly updating them and listing detailed reports of what he’s done to improve his games.
At 3.99 USD per game, they’re inexpensive and terrific time wasters. To date, I own 19 of them (yes, nineteen), which I’ve purchased here and there over a year and a half or so. As you can tell, I’m fairly addicted to them, and even went so far as to ask Joni several questions and create a Q&A article, which I am currently working on.
Check out his “Conflict-Series” in the Google Play store if you’re interested.
In the spirit of TANKSgiving, I decided to take a deep dive into the Conflict-Series title, Kursk: The Biggest Tank Battle. Can I lead the Germans to victory where they failed historically? Or will I get the German armies shredded even worse?
This game isn’t easy, but admittedly, I’ve played through it more than a few times. I’ve won only one time out of multiple attempts; the Soviets are damned difficult to defeat, especially as they have a lot of tank reserves. Since I control the German forces (and there’s no option to play the Soviet side; in every Conflict-Series game, you play one side only, though Joni has developed more than a few titles that look at a battle from both sides), I have several tough Panzer divisions at my disposal, but not nearly as many as I’d like.
You can find a plethora of information on the Battle of Kursk online, or in hundreds of books available out there. If you’re reading this site, chances are you’re already passingly familiar with the battle and what happened.
(This map was found at EmersonKent.com, which credits the United States Military Academy Department of History.)
TANKSgiving! – The Future of Tanks? Polyversal!
The guys at Collins Epic show off what they think the future of tanks will look like ~
Byron Collins & Friends, 24 November 2016
You can find more details on their site here
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TANKSgiving! – Gaming Nostalgia – Track Commander
#TBT at GrogHeads – with a TANKSgiving memory for you!
Somehow, there’s a strong suspicion that role-playing a tank crew doesn’t include the hours of motor pool maintenance, hanging parts, boresighting, changing fuel filters, or breaking track, huh?
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TANKSgiving! – The Great War “Tanks” expansion
Cyrano goes back to the trenches for the earliest days of tank warfare with a look at the “Tanks” expansion for The Great War ~
Jim Owczarski, 19 November 2016
Since the powers-that-be hereabout have imprudently given me another platform, I’ll make this particular teapot just a bit more tempestuous: Memoir ’44 is a war game.
The best-selling installment of Richard Borg’s Command and Colors system — and one of the best-selling war games of all time — is criticized for its abstractions, its toy factor, its simplicity, its lack of tactical granularity, and, for all I know, the devaluation of the dollar against the yuan. I for one, while acknowledging its limitations, love the toys, the card-play that creates uncertainty, the straight-forward rules, and the ability to fight the entirety of the D-Day landings in an afternoon.
It shouldn’t, then, be too great a surprise that I was looking forward to the Plastic Soldier Company’s release of The Great War, Mr. Borg’s take on World War I, and particularly the tank expansion. The bicentennial of the war is upon us and I wanted to see what tweaks would be brought to the system to make it more than just World War II with less elegant tanks.
TANKSgiving Scenarios!
Want to game with some TANKS this year for TANKSgiving?
GrogHeads, 24 November 2015
How about a little tank-heavy assist to get you gaming over TANKSgiving?
Lets get started with a pair of scenarios from the guys at Lock’n’Load for their Tank on Tank games.
How about a tank shootout for the old BayonetGames Warfighter-series Movement to Contact?
- US Mission: Warfighter-MTC-Steel Jester
- OPFOR Mission: Warfighter-MTC-Blackhorse Slither
(if you need the maps, they can be downloaded here and here)
And if you’re a pixel-pusher? How about last summer’s GrogHeads Central Command Origins Scenario for Flashpoint Campaigns?
- This one includes the PowerPoint briefings, but you need to move the maps around yourself. Download it here.
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