Guns, Dice, Butter

Welcome Guns, Dice, Butter Episode XXX NOV 11, 2020

On this episode, game designer Kim Kanger and a panel (Roberto’s The Good, The Best, The Glorious game club) discussing GCACW (Great Campaigns of the American Civil War) from Avalon Hill and MMP and Ed Beach and I do our final die roll in our final of the GCACW BPA tourney: the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

0:06 Kim Kanger intro...point of origin

0:17 Becoming a designer; design philosophy

0:35: Why these conflicts; Dien Bien Phu

0:47: What’s next on the design plate? Kyiv, Russia and elsewhere, Heart of Darkness and Barbarossa.

1:14 Ed Beach and I toss the final dice in GCACW BPA Online Tourney

1:44 The dice are tossed!

1:49 Roberto and The Good, The Best, The Glorious game club talk GCACW

2:03 Volko Ruhnke takes good and bad regarding GCACW

2:23 Challenge of the game…commander mindset

2:44 Battle resolution…the call for more multiplayer versions of our beloved 2 player wargames

3:08 Wrap, on my gaming plate, shout outs and god bless the republic.

Welcome Guns, Dice, Butter Episode XXIX SEP 16, 2020

On this episode, game designer Ben Madison and a panel (JR, Mr Herman and WBC Curdis) discussing OCS (Operational Combat Series) from the Gamers and MMP.

0:05 Ben Madison intro...point of origin

0:22 White Tribe and Absolute Victory

0:36: THE MISSION and christianity's struggle to become a world religion

0:49 Death in the Trenches and a unique combat resolution system

1:02: What's on Ben's design plate and "delicate" topics in wargaming

1:22 OCS Panel discussion...does Herman know OCS?

1:37 Why play OCS

1:53 Charcoal fueled trucks, op tempo and Herman tells a story about meeting a few Rommel staff officers 

2:09 Fog of War and the great OCS artillery dust up

2:29 Successors to OCS? Logistics in wargames

2:59 Wrap, on my gaming plate, shout outs, go Beloved Minnesota TWINS!

Guns, Dice, Butter continues in the summer of 2020.

0:05 Conversation with Ed Beach: game designs published (Here I Stand, Great Campaigns of the American Civil War, etc.)...point of origin...current GCACW WBC BPA tourney finals match

1:29 Swampcon crew resumes panel discussion of "Which wargames published 2016 > 2020 should we be playing?"...discussion resumes with Between the Wars...WW2...modern.

2:30 Wrap up, shout outs and "what's on my gaming plate"

Guns, Dice, Butter continues it return after a four year break in the conversation.

0:04 Gareth and Curtis: The Napoleonic Wars: Gareth point of gaming origin, The fantastic WBC Nappy Wars tourney

0:17 Data, a dog and opening moves

0:33 Gaming personalities and player countries, the dick move and the attack of the Rohan

0:47 Gaming the system, Nappy Wars vs Empires in Arms

1:05 We lost Curtis. Gareth wraps it up with a thoughts on Nappy Wars v3

1:21 Jeff Lester point of gaming origin, Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905

1:40 Wargame design

1:52 Jeff’s game, The Manchurian War, Der Weltkrieg, WWI East front, other games on the Russo – Japanese conflict

2:02 Swampcon crew (JR, Young Chris and Roberto) resume the panel discussion of “Which wargames published 2016 > 2020 should we be playing?”…we resume with the American Civil War

2:22 We continue with the Imperial Age

2:40 We conclude with WWI

2:53 Wrap up: shoutouts, gaming thoughts, June 6, 1944, anger, the republic, positivity, Harry Caray, the CLASH!

Guns, Dice, Butter returns after a four year break in the conversation.

0:00 Conversation with Mark Herman regarding Richard Berg

1:12 Herman and Berg Redux

1:30 Panel discussion (Swampcon gang: JR, Chris and Roberto) regarding "So, what wargames published 2016 - 2020 should we be playing?" (given that GDB missed the last four years).

2:42 Remembering a few our gaming mates (R.Coffey, R.Moyers, R.Berg). Other bits and bobs. 

Great to be back.

Related data:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/254976

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/198680/welcome-gaga-zone-wargames-high-fanboy-bases-and-l

Welcome to episode XXV of Guns, Dice, Butter: a series of conversations with members of the wargaming tribe.

0:00: Opening and episode preview

0:07: Fran Diaz, Game Designer, Polis

0:58: Esteemed historian, author and storyteller Adrian Goldsworthy and game designer extraordinaire Mark Herman discuss Rome and what not

2:08: Mark Herman and Pericles

2:49: Episode wrap up

Episode references:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/151903/ancients-wargames-glory-was-greece-and-grandeur-wa 

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1545400/prancing-peloponnese-1st-mn-gives-polis-punt-some 

New to wargaming? Consult this: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/206813/wargame-grasshopper-noob-rookie-padawan-list 

Guns, Dice, Butter, with now over 80,000 downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgamegeek, Consimworld and many other places that gamers hang on the web.

GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com 

Welcome to episode XXIV of Guns, Dice, Butter

0:00 Intro: Guns Returns!

0:04: Richard Berg and Mark Herman

1st segment: Point of SPI orgin, Tiny Tim, Herman’s career as a roadie for Lover, Berg’s singing career

2nd segment: Design and game components

3rd segment: What makes a good multiplayer wargame? Herman & Berg works in progress.

4th segment: Depth of historical knowledge drives designs: Ancients: battles, operational dynamics, logistics

1:07: GaGa Panel: Marty Sample, Wendell Albright, John Alsen

1st segment: Background on GaGa list (game lust & fanboys): Games discussed: Enemy Action Ardennes, Liberty/Victory Roads, Napoleon’s Triumph, Fire in the Lake, COIN (Falling Sky and Liberty or Death) 

2nd segment: Roll playing wargames: Here I Stand/Virgin Queen, Sekigahara, Amateurs to Arms, Kingdom of Heaven, Genesis

3rd segment: Card Driven Wargames and others: No Retreat series, Command & Colors, Empire of the Sun, Pursuit of Glory, Unhappy King Charles, Triumph of Chaos, Carthage: 1st Punic War

4th segment: It’s been a FABULOUS ten year run for wargames

2:38: Wrap up

References:

Gaga List: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/198680/welcome-gaga-zone-wargames-high-fanboy-bases-and-l

My Session Reports: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/175938/1st-mnsawatdeeherr-dr-session-reports

Guns, Dice, Butter, now with over 70k downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgamegeek, Consimworld and many other places where gamers hang on the web.

GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/

Welcome to Episode XXIII of Guns, Dice, Butter: Feb 17 2015, Fat Tuesday Special!

0:00 Intro: It’s Mardi Gras! Spring is near!

0:05 Curtis Baer: WBC stories:  Point of Origin, Matt & Joe’s Devil Cauldron, Pitch Car, THE BIG GAME, François’  wild NAP WARs game, Red Neck Life, WBC food, Being the coach of the RANGERS!, the Honorary Fez

0:41 John Butterfield: Point of Origin, Early days at SPI, the playtest room for Campaign in North Africa, John’s great designs: Freedom of the Galaxy, Ambush, Hell’s Highway, RAF, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Enemy Action Ardennes, SPI Strato-matic League, The Beloved 1987 Minnesota Twins

1:40 Bryan Collars: Point of Origin, Greenville Mafia, WBC: The Boardgame (preorder on GMT Games)

2:23 Mark Herman, Wendell Albright, Herr Dr: Logistics & Supply in Wargames: “The Spectrum”, Victory Games’ elegant & unique The Korean War, Dunnigan’s Breakout & Pursuit, 1776, Empire of the Sun, importance of logistics in ancients campaign & the GREAT book on Macedonian logistics, Napoleon in Russia, Victory Games’ The Civil War, For the People, GMT/Simonitch’s upcoming new civil war game, Dunnigan’s ACW game, the famous NAP’s retreat from Russia infographic, Herman’s upcoming Churchill game chatter

3:23 Maymi Hayakawa & Gesine Stanienda: Red Winter, Tonkin, Gameon.con in Seatle, the ASL room (eegads!), entering the hobby from non traditional avenues, Ancients games, Poniske designs (King Phillips War, Maori Wars)

3:59: Wrap up: Overflowing gaming plate; our wargame hobby is pumping.

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A few of the items mentioned on the show:

Videos:

Tonkin "how to play" video: Tonkin - Cao Bang 001

Last Days in Vietnam

Breaker Morant

Books:

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion – Guelzo

Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army - Engels

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. - Coover

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Sheehan

Stats:

Charles Joseph Minard’s : Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813

Games:

Breakout & Pursuit SPI Dunnigan

Ambush, Freedom in the Galaxy, Hell's Highway, RAF, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Enemy Action: Ardennes - Butterfield 

The Civll War - Smith, For the People - Herman, The Korean War - Balkoski

Tonkin - Kanger

Red Winter - Mokszycki

Dien Bien Phu - The Final Gamble - Kanger

In Country: Vietnam 1965-75 - Miranda

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Guns, Dice, Butter, now with over 50k downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgamegeek and many other places where gamers hang on the web.

GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/

Welcome to Episode XXII of Guns, Dice, Butter; a series of conversations (238+ minutes in this case, given, our 238th Fourth of July) with members of the wargaming tribe.

O:05 Joe Balkoski: intro to gaming, SPI stories, Minuteman, War in the Ice, City Fight & Wacht Am Rhein, Operation Typhoon

0:33 Joe: Cover art to Patton’s Third Army, Redmon Simonsen, SPI Peak, Transition to Avalon Hill Classic, end day at SPI,

0:54 Joe: AH days, Victory Games, The Korean War

1:09 Joe: Great Campaigns of the American Civil War, Computer Gaming, post gaming, 29th Division, returning to the tribe

1:40 Nick Karp, Discussion of Desert Fox, games in the pipeline for Shenandoah Studio

2: 00 Mark Herman, Enrico Viglino, Marty Sample: “Perspective” overview, the game the Bermuda Triangle (and a discussion about the ability to control weather in the true spirit of what Richard Berg calls “playing a game from the god perspective”), Sim City, Integrated Poly/Mil Leadership, WiF/DoD, Kevin Zucker’s Napoleonic series of games, Berg’s Carthage & Rise of Roman Republic, Karp’s Vietnam 

2: 20 Mark, Enrico, Marty: Enrico’s Scale & Scope rant, D&D, La Grand Guerre, Mark’s great story about John Glenn (yes, THAT John Glenn), Churchill’s bunker and mind, Unconditional Surrender, Supreme Commander, Days of Dis

2:42 Mark’s Churchill design goes to the Peloponnesian War, Lace Wars/Red Sash, games that give you orders: Musket & Pike, Hastings 1066, Men of Iron, Flowers or the Forest, playing Angicourt at SPI

3:03: Items that distract from “perspective”, tactical WWII games, disturbing swimsuit attire, Mark’s Rommel story (yes, THAT Rommel), Patton, reprint of Pacific War, new WBC location discussion

3:25 Salvatore Vasta: Discussion of his new design Unconditional Surrender

4:00 Guns, Dice, Butter wrap: gaming plate, shout outs

4:07 Remembering some of our dear gaming mates that have passed

4:13 Applenista

Guns, Dice, Butter, now with approximately 50,000 downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgame Geek, Consimworld, elsewhere and the GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/

Items mentioned on the podcast:

La Grande Guerre session report:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/16190004

The Korean War session report:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1191569

 Liberty Roads session report:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1187618

Empires in Arms session report:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1170211

1st MN Historical Wargaming Society:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/875

Wargamers paying it forward:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/174505

Lace Wars

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28559

Welcome to episode XXI of Guns, Dice, Butter.

0:00 Episode Preview

0:06 Don Greenwood: Don provides a preview of WBC (World Boardgaming Championships) 2014

0:36 Ted Raicer: Ted discusses his point of origin in the hobby/game design, Paths of Glory, Dark Valley, his recent iPad game collaboration with Shenandoah Studio, Drive on Moscow and his game pipeline.

1:41 John Alsen: John gives us an after action report for Consimworld Expo 2014 and tells us about the upcoming wargames demo’d at Monstercon.

2:23 Episode Wrap-up: Shout-outs, what’s on our gaming plate and other odds & ends.