rshu@ads.com (Richard Shu) (07/22/89)
From: rshu@ads.com (Richard Shu) [mod.note: This note is crossposted to sci.military and rec.games.programmer. Followups have been redirected to rec.games.board; you can change it as you deem appropriate, but remember that followups to sci.military will only be accepted if they specifically address military technology. - Bill ] I've noticed that there are almost no postings on sci.military about wargaming (a la Avalon Hill or SPI). The few postings asking about the Harpoon domain are the only ones I remember. Surely this is not because there are no wargame enthusiasts out there? Does this topic fall in the scope of sci.military or do we need a rec.games.war newsgroup? [y.a.mod.note: I would suggest that rec.games.board is the most appropriate group for such discussions, though r.g programmer might be better suited in this case. I figure there are a lot of wargamers reading sci.military, so I decided to allow this "public service announcement" 8-) - Bill ] I used to play wargames in high school and college. I don't play hardly at all now. I spend too much of my time coding up military scenarios at work to spend my personal time doing it too. In fact, I will soon be working on a project to build a computer simulation of Avalon Hill's TacAir wargame as well as a Scenario Generation Assistant for the same game. I'd be more interested in wargaming if I could have computer assistance in doing things like maintaining the board and transmitting moves across the net to other players. Has anybody worked on computerized wargames? Rich (responsible-p ADS message) NIL (si:halt)