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Poster: Doug Holt
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Fields of Corn & Rye

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"...I was pretty sure that I had found something that might do the job." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, discusses a way he's found to address an old itch, namely adding texture and/or crop fields to tabletop settings. Check out what he finds to be a reasonable, cost-effective approach, considering that "...sometimes I think we have made ourselves a picture perfect world and lost something along the way."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/11/2024


On wargames campaigns (after Polemarch)

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"If one is to do this, it is quite useful to read Caesar to see the kinds of things he considered important when choosing if or when to give battle." Prufrock muses about the value of running campaigns for the ancients gaming he prefers. See why "It turned out I'd rather refight Zama for the tenth time than try to sustain interest in endless minor encounters between similarly equipped neighbours over local concerns."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/28/2024


Lord Stanley arrives at Piggy Longton 1472

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"...Piggy Longton is under the certain threat of Yorkist attack." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, sets the stage for our next Piggy Longton encounter. Why must Lord Darcy cautiously accept help from one who is "...gaining a reputation of duplicity based upon political expedience."?

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 1/29/2024


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Game: Next War: Korea



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Publisher: GMT Games
Series: GMT Next War Series
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Mitchell Land
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Description:


Sixty years of tense, uneasy peace are shattered as the Korean Peninsula erupts in renewed warfare. One historically, ethnically, and culturally homogeneous people polarized and separated by superpower politics and economics hurl men, weapons, and material into the maelstrom of modern combat in an attempt to settle their arbitrary division once and for all.


Articles


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Article Description
387
Date: 6/7/2021
Poster: Doug Holt
“All Along The Demilitarized Zone”: Playing Next War: Korea (Part 5)

"The result of these competing approaches to the conflict was an absolute meat grinder whose results were akin to something like the Somme or Verdun." Ian Sullivan concludes his gripping GMT Games' Next War: Korea replay. See why he comments that "…Grant’s phrase was ringing in my head as I played through this game."
386
Date: 5/31/2021
Poster: Doug Holt
“All Along The Demilitarized Zone”: Playing Next War: Korea (Part 4)

"Along the eastern coast, the Allies blasted across the DMZ, and moved into North Korea." Ian Sullivan continues with part four of his intense GMT Games' Next War: Korea replay. The pendulum seems to have swung, and then: "The turn became a disaster, however, with the Red triumph at sea."
385
Date: 5/7/2021
Poster: Doug Holt
“All Along The Demilitarized Zone”: Playing Next War: Korea (Part 3)

"The Allies have turned the Seoul metropolis into a huge fortress and will attempt to use it to break the KPA onslaught." Ian Sullivan is back with his fast moving GMT Games' Next War: Korea replay. It's an ongoing slugfest, with neither side pulling any punches. And then: "It was in the east where the Chinese made a bold bid to push through the Allied lines."
384
Date: 4/23/2021
Poster: Doug Holt
“All Along The Demilitarized Zone”: Playing Next War: Korea (Part 2)

"In a brutal move, the KPA employed chemical weapons...". Ian Sullivan continues his intense GMT Games' Next War: Korea replay. The North Koreans are pressing across the width of the Peninsula, but more is to come: "…turn 4 will be big, as the first Chinese units should enter the fray."
383
Date: 4/14/2021
Poster: Doug Holt
“All Along The Demilitarized Zone”: Playing Next War: Korea

"Turn 1 was a near disaster for the Allies." Ian Sullivan is back, this time playing a fast-paced GMT Games' Next War: Korea. Ian chose the intense strategic surprise scenario, which leaves him musing that "…the Combined Joint Forces Commander is feeling a sudden kinship to Leonidas about right now."
382
Date: 2/7/2020
Poster: Doug Holt
Next War: Korea and Red Phoenix

"...Dear Leader decides to stir the pot ...". Brad, in his Hexsides & Hand Grenades blog, relates how an excellent novel inspired him to consider how GMT Games' Next War: Korea "…could be adapted to fit the situation…". Looks like fun!
381
Date: 9/9/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
Attack the ROK: non-Allied Strategy Considerations in Next War: Korea

"This is a fantastic amount of combat power that you must employ in some of the worst terrain for tanks and infantry fighting vehicles..." Dan Stueber goes into the tough but interesting options for the North Koreans in GMT Games' Next War: Korea. Just remember, your "... SCUD’s and other Theater Weapons if available are the North Koreans 'Ace in the hole'"!
380
Date: 8/31/2016
Poster: Doug Holt
Defend the ROK: Allied Strategy Considerations in Next War: Korea

"The DPRK has to squeeze everything they can through the 'waist' of Korea..." Dan Stueber covers strategies for the Allied player in GMT Games' Next War: Korea. In short: survive the onslaught, then turn the tables "once the DPRK has shot it’s bolt"!
379
Date: 12/31/2014
Poster: Mark D.
Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Replay

Brad walks through a replay of the Next War: Korea introductory scenario "Seoul Train". Excellent tutorial for those new to the game.
378
Date: 5/28/2014
Poster: Mark D.
Big Board Gaming: Scenario

Kevin at Big Board Gaming opines briefly on Next War: Korea and then directs us to a very interesting new scenario.
373
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
Replay

374
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
Review

375
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
Review

376
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
Review

377
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
Michael Peck: Review