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Post by OFTHEHILLPEOPLE on Aug 20, 2018 10:27:56 GMT -8
As mentioned: Dan Carlin's "Blueprint to Armageddon" on Youtube. You're in for a long listen.
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Post by ericfromnj on Aug 20, 2018 11:15:29 GMT -8
agree that the players need to know of a pascifist character ahead of time. Doing non lethal in a combat heavy game can be done. I played a transmitter specialist in D&D and his specialty was battlefield control not combat spells. While he wasn’t a pascifiat per se he might as well have been because e tended to avoid damaging spells.
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mrcj
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Post by mrcj on Aug 22, 2018 19:44:41 GMT -8
A few thoughts. First Saving Private Ryan is 20 years old. I just wanted to put that out there to remind everyone how old they are. I am old, OLD, OOOOLLLLDDDD! A few other interesting more recent WWII movies are Enemy at the Gate and Pearl Harbor. But really the WWII films from the seventies and before are where its at.
Space Combat. I like the idea of a skills test. That aught to speed up play a little and give each player rolls to make and a contribution toward winning or losing.
Board games. Metagaming did a line of microgames if you wanted to shift into a board game. I own Ram Speed and it is a nifty fast pasted little strategy game for bronze age naval warfare.
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nanoboy
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Post by nanoboy on Aug 25, 2018 5:58:35 GMT -8
There are WWII events just sitting there waiting for awesome film adaptations. You can just imagine the scene in Operation Chariot when Lieutenant Commander Beattie is under interrogation. The German commander is gloating to him about how the Campbelton mess will be easy to clean up. When it explodes, Beattie smiles and says, "We're not quite as foolish as you think!" That's movie gold right there. The whole affair has a small scope with high stakes, so it's really a good basis for a movie. I think the tale of Taffy 3 is possibly the war's best example of an upset win by an underdog. The Japanese successfully outwitted American naval command and threatened to crush a large contingent of American marines. Only a small force sits between a mighty Japanese fleet and the annihilation of the Allied landing force on Leyte. That tiny fleet managed to fling every underpowered bit of ordinance they could at the Japanese and somehow managed to win. The degree of courage and valiance exhibited in the Battle off Samar is some of the greatest of the war.
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Post by chronovore on Sept 4, 2018 6:03:01 GMT -8
As mentioned: Dan Carlin's "Blueprint to Armageddon" on Youtube. You're in for a long listen. "They used to be an absolute hotbed of human culture. The cutting edge of art and science and literature and thought and philosophy! I mean, all these things that the Germans really prided themselves on. Music! An incredible people that guys like HG Wells were intimidated by! Couldn’t help but admire them, but was intimidated by how ahead of things they seemed to be, how advanced they seemed to be in all these areas. How strangely ironic though, that a people that are so advanced in those areas can have so many blind spots in areas that one would think are related to the higher culture aspects. Do the people who are producing such cutting edge higher culture… how do they miss something that’s as likely to be damaging to your international reputation as what history now calls ‘The Rape of Belgium?’”This quote really stuck with me.
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bobcatt
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Preferred Game Systems: AD&D 1e, 2e, 5e, Top Secret/S.I., Classic Traveller
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Post by bobcatt on Sept 6, 2018 8:28:11 GMT -8
"good" WWI films include: Sergeant York (1941) The Blue Max (1966) Gallipoli (1981) The Trench (1999)
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