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Monster Wargame
A monster game is a game that is either very large, very complex, or both. One criterion sometimes adopted is the number of pieces; a game which puts greater than 1000 counters into play at once may be considered to be a monster game. This classification can technically be applied to any board game, but most commonly refers to the kind of non- abstract wargames in which a large amount of time is needed to play each turn as a result of a relatively high commitment to period accurate military realism. There is controversy over which would have been the first monster game in the field of wargames with many stating that Drang Nach Osten! ( GDW, 1973) was pretty universally accepted as the first monster wargame. Drang Nach Osten and its companion, Unentschieden led to the Europa Series games, a giant WWII game. Wargames that are considered monster games include: See also *Europa (wargame) *War in Europe (game) *List of board wargames *List of wargame publishers *Simulation game *Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game
A game is a structured form of play (activity), play, usually undertaken for enjoyment, entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games). Games are sometimes played purely for enjoyment, sometimes for achievement or reward as well. They can be played alone, in teams, or online; by amateurs or by professionals. The players may have an audience of non-players, such as when people are entertained by watching a World Chess Championship, chess championship. On the other hand, players in a game may constitute their own audience as they take their turn to play. Often, part of the entertainment for children playing a game is deciding who is part of their audience and who is a player. A toy and a game are not the same. Toys generally allow for unrestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simulations Publications
Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship '' Strategy & Tactics'', in the 1970s and early 1980s. It produced an enormous number of games and introduced innovative practices, changing the course of the wargaming hobby in its bid to take control of the hobby away from then-dominant Avalon Hill. SPI ran out of cash in early 1982 when TSR called in a loan secured by SPI's assets. TSR began selling SPI's inventory in 1982, but later acquired the company's trademarks and copyrights in 1983 and continued a form of the operation until 1987. History Origin and early years Jim Dunnigan had been introduced to Avalon Hill wargames while serving in the U.S. Army in Korea. Upon his return to civilian life in 1964, Dunnigan began to contribute articles to Avalon Hill's house publication '' The General'' and independent wargaming magazine '' Strategy & Tactics''. In one of his contributions to ''The Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simulation Game
Simulation video games are a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities. A simulation game attempts to copy various activities from real life in the form of a game for various purposes such as training, analysis, prediction, or entertainment. Usually there are no strictly defined goals in the game, and the player is allowed to control a character or environment freely. Well-known examples are war games, business games, and role play simulation. From three basic types of strategic, planning, and learning exercises: games, simulations, and case studies, a number of hybrids may be considered, including simulation games that are used as case studies. Comparisons of the merits of simulation games versus other teaching techniques have been carried out by many researchers and a number of comprehensive reviews have been published. Subgenres Construction and management simulation Construction and management simulation (CMS) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Wargame Publishers
{{Wargaming List of wargame publishers is an index of commercial companies that publish wargames. * 3W or World Wide Wargames – publishers of the wargaming magazine '' The Wargamer''. * A and A Game Engineering – concentrating on air and naval rules ACIES Edizioni- publishers of wargames like ''Lepanto'' and others. * Agema.org.uk – publishers of the ''Game of War'' 18th century/Napoleonic rules, ''Salvo'' WW2 naval, and ''Challenge & Reply'' WW1 naval, among others. * Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. (ADB) – publisher of ''Star Fleet Battles'' (SFB), along with the related strategic game '' Federation & Empire''. * Australian Design Group (ADG) – publishers of ''World in Flames''. * Avalanche Press – publishers of the ''Great War at Sea'' and ''Panzer Grenadier'' series, among others. * Avalon Hill – the first publisher of board wargames, Avalon Hill (AH) made many classic games, such as ''Squad Leader'', ''Third Reich'', and ''PanzerBlitz'', bought out by Hasbro in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Board Wargames
This is a list of board wargames by historical genre (and some subgenres) showing their publication history. All games can be presumed to have been published in English unless another language is noted. Historical *'' The Art of Siege'' ( Simulations Publications, Inc., 1979) *''Combined Arms'' ( Simulations Publications, Inc. – '' S&T'' #46, 1974) Ancient Early Middle Ages *'' Belisarius: The Byzantine Empire Strikes'' (Decision Games – '' S&T'' #210, 2002) *''Byzantium'' ( Warfrog, 2005) *'' Dark Ages: Tactical Warfare, 500-1300'' ( Simulations Publications, Inc., 1971) *'' Norseman: Viking Kingdoms of the North Sea'' (Simulations Canada, 1985) *''Viking'' ( Simulations Publications, Inc., 1975) *'' Viking Raiders'' ( Standard Games, 1987; Eurogames, ) *'' Vikingatid'' ( Trollspel, 1998 ) Middle Ages *'' Agincourt'' ( Simulations Publications, Inc., 1978) *'' The Black Prince: The Battle of Navarette, 1367'' ( Simulations Publications, Inc., 1979) *''Conquistad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Case Blue
Case Blue (German: ''Fall Blau'') was the German Armed Forces' plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II. The objective was to capture the oil fields of the Caucasus for two purposes: to enable the Germans to re-supply their low fuel stock and also to deny their use to the Soviet Union, thereby bringing about the complete collapse of the Soviet war effort. After Operation Barbarossa failed to destroy the Soviet Union as a political and military threat the previous year, Adolf Hitler, the ''Führer'' of Nazi Germany, recognised that Germany was now locked in a war of attrition, and he was also aware that Germany was running low on fuel supply and would not be able to continue attacking deeper into enemy territory without more stock. With this in mind, Hitler ordered for the preparation of offensive plans for summer 1942 to secure the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus. The operation involved a two-pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gamers
The Gamers was a wargaming company founded and run by Dean Essig in Homer, Illinois. Their distinction was the focus on a few series, with special rules for each individual game. This made it easier to play new games within a series that was well known to the players. Homercon, a convention for The Gamers games was held each September in Homer, IL from 1990 until 2012. This company was bought out by Multi-Man Publishing Multi-Man Publishing, LLC ("MMP"), founded in 1994, is a Maryland based game company that publishes many Wargaming, wargame titles, including ''Advanced Squad Leader'' and Operational Combat Series. History Multi-Man Publishing (MMP) was founded ... in 2001 who continues to publish new materials for the original Gamers series and new games and game series designed by Dean Essig. Games The Gamers produce games in several different series: * CWB – The ''Civil War Brigade Series'' simulates battles at the brigade level during the American Civil War. * RSS/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XTR Corp
In cryptography, XTR is an algorithm for public-key encryption. XTR stands for 'ECSTR', which is an abbreviation for Efficient and Compact Subgroup Trace Representation. It is a method to represent elements of a subgroup of a multiplicative group of a finite field. To do so, it uses the trace over GF(p^2) to represent elements of a subgroup of GF(p^6)^*. From a security point of view, XTR relies on the difficulty of solving Discrete Logarithm related problems in the full multiplicative group of a finite field. Unlike many cryptographic protocols that are based on the generator of the full multiplicative group of a finite field, XTR uses the generator g of a relatively small subgroup of some prime order q of a subgroup of GF(p^6)^*. With the right choice of q, computing Discrete Logarithms in the group, generated by g, is, in general, as hard as it is in GF(p^6)^* and thus cryptographic applications of XTR use GF(p^2) arithmetics while achieving full GF(p^6) security leading to su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Campaign For North Africa
''The Campaign for North Africa'', subtitled "The Desert War, 1940–43", and generally referred to as ''CNA'' by wargamers, is an exceptionally detailed strategic " monster" board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the entire North African Campaign of World War II. Description ''The Campaign for North Africa'' has been called the longest board game ever produced, with estimates that a full game would take 1,500 hours to complete. Reviewer Luke Winkie pointed out that "If you and your group meets for three hours at a time, twice a month, you’d wrap up the campaign in about 20 years." It has also been called the most complex wargame ever designed, with the commonly cited example (noted in SPI's advertising) that Italian troops require additional water supplies to prepare pasta. The map board alone is 9.5 ft (3 m) long. Although nominally a two-player game, the rules recommend ten players divided into two teams of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In The Pacific
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the Theater (warfare), theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II, Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theatre of World War II, South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China had been in progress since 7 July 1937, with hostilities dating back as far as 19 September 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on 7 December (8 December Japanese time) 1941, when the Japanese simultaneously Japanese invasion of Thailand, invaded Thailand, attacked the British colonies of Malayan Campaign, Malaya, Battle of Singapore, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway To The Reich
''Highway to the Reich'' is a grand tactical monster board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the World War II Allied operation known as Operation Market Garden. Description In September 1944, Allied paratroopers attempted to seize 100 km (60 mi) of German-held highway and bridges in the Netherlands to open a bridgehead over the Rhine. Ground-based units were then sent up the highway in an attempt to consolidate the bridgehead. ''Highway to the Reich'' simulates this operation on a massive scale, using thousands of counters, a map board almost 3 meters (9 ft) long, and a 106-turn campaign game that can last hundreds of hours. So many errors were found in the original set of rules, and so many errata issued that the company published a second edition of the rules six months after the game's release. Components * four 22" x 34" paper hex grid maps, joined end to end to create a 22" x 136" map covering, scaled to 600 m (656 yd) per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In Europe (game)
''War in Europe'' is a grand strategic "monster" board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that attempts to simulate the entirety of World War II's European theater of operations from 1939 to 1945. One of the largest wargames ever produced, ''War in Europe'' features 4000 counters, four rulebooks, and nine maps that when placed together cover an area of 38.5 ft2 (3.6 m2). The game is nominally a three-player game (Allied, Axis, Soviet), but each side can be represented by teams of players. SPI estimated the full game would take at least 180 hours. Description In 1974, SPI had produced '' War in the East'', a "monster" wargame (having more than 1000 counters) that simulated the Eastern Front conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union from "Operation Barbarossa" in 1941 until Germany's surrender in 1945. Two years later, in 1976, SPI published '' War in the West'', which covered the Allied-German conflict in Western Europe and North Africa. Later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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