A list of puns related to "Howard Thompson (wargame designer)"
I found 4 senarios of Europa by GDW at a yard sale yesterday. There is a million pieces so I havent gone through them all but they look to have everything. The senarios I found are Markita Merkur, Fire in the East, Western Desert, and Torch.
Someone asked him who’s the best shooter you’ve seen and he answered Klay, but gave props to Steph for changing the league. Definitely an interesting answer
This is not his AMA, please follow the link to participate.
AMA Proof: https://twitter.com/Toadkillerdog/status/650342074559152128
edit: Looks like his AMA is now closed. Thank you to all who participated!
Libertadores del Sur is a two-player military simulation wargame of the Southern Theater of the Latin American Wars for Independence, pitting Spanish Royalist forces battling for supremacy against Latin American Patriot forces. The idea of creating a wargame out of Latin America’s struggles for independence first came to me in 2006, when I was following in the path of Argentine General José de San Martín and his legendary Army of the Andes’ trek over the Andes Mountains. The sheer scale and majesty of those mountains deeply impressed upon me what San Martin had accomplished from a military-logistical perspective, in crossing an army over them. San Martin’s liberation of Chile was a breath-taking military achievement that easily ranks alongside Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps in terms of its audacity. Outside of Latin America, however, General San Martin’s name and his military exploits are almost unknown. South America’s relative geographic isolation from the rest of the world, I believe partially accounts for the relative obscurity of this topic in military history. But I think South America is almost a tabula rasa, when it comes to military history from a larger world perspective, so helping to tell this story interested me greatly.
I speak both Spanish and Portuguese and have worked and traveled extensively in Latin America. I was intrigued by the cultural pervasiveness of the story of Latin America’s Liberators throughout the continent. Indeed, Bolivia is named for Simon Bolivar. The Constitutional Capital of Bolivia the city of Sucre is named for Antonio José de Sucre, one of Bolivar’s ablest generals. The cultural and historical influence of the great Latin American liberators is ubiquitous, but stop your average Latin American person on the street and most will only know vague generalities about Bolivar, San Martin, or O’Higgins, much like their North American counterparts when asked specifics about Washington’s military campaigns. While traveling, reading and walking over the South American battlefields of General San Martin in Argentina and Chile and General Simon Bolivar’s in Colombia, I was struck by the incongruity between the epic nature these Liberator’s achievements, juxtaposed with their largely overlooked status in the annals of military history.
With these ideas in mind, I linked up with my friend and game design partner Matt Shirley in 2009, while we were both living in Hawaii via the O
... keep reading on reddit ➡Libertadores del Sur is a two-player military simulation wargame of the Southern Theater of the Latin American Wars for Independence, pitting Spanish Royalist forces battling for supremacy against Latin American Patriot forces. The idea of creating a wargame out of Latin America’s struggles for independence first came to me in 2006, when I was following in the path of Argentine General José de San Martín and his legendary Army of the Andes’ trek over the Andes Mountains in 2006. The sheer scale and majesty of those mountains deeply impressed upon me what San Martin accomplished from a military-logistical perspective in crossing an army over them. San Martin’s liberation of Chile was a breath-taking military achievement that easily ranks alongside Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps in terms of its audacity. Outside of Latin America, however, General San Martin’s name and his military exploits are almost unknown. South America’s relative geographic isolation from the rest of the world, I believe partially accounts for the relative obscurity of this topic in military history. But I think South America is almost a tabula rasa, when it comes to military history from a larger world perspective, so helping to tell this story interested me greatly.
I speak both Spanish and Portuguese and have worked and traveled extensively in Latin America. I was intrigued by the cultural pervasiveness of the story of Latin America’s Liberators throughout the continent. Indeed, Bolivia is named for Simon Bolivar. The Constitutional Capital of Bolivia the city of Sucre is named for Antonio José de Sucre, one of Bolivar’s ablest generals. The cultural and historical influence of the great Latin American liberators is ubiquitous, but stop your average Latin American person on the street and most will only know vague generalities about Bolivar, San Martin, or O’Higgins, much like their North American counterparts when asked specifics about Washington’s military campaigns. While traveling, reading and walking over the South American battlefields of General San Martin in Argentina and Chile and General Simon Bolivar’s in Colombia, I was struck by the incongruity between the epic nature these Liberator’s achievements, juxtaposed with their largely overlooked status in the annals of military history.
With these ideas in mind, I linked up with my friend and game design partner Matt Shirley in 2009, while we were both living in Hawaii via th
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