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Valor & Victory: 1918 (Remembrance Day Special)

November 7, 2022

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Here is the video replay of Sunday’s stream, where there’s a fair amount of rambling on …

World War I in general.
Why many wargamers don’t “like” World War I.
Why WW2 games shifted to WW1 sometimes don’t work.
How we’ve adopted Valor & Victory to play 1918 battles.
A turn of solitaire demo.
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And finally, my historical wargamer’s view on the recent Netflix “All Quiet on the Western Front” film.

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zorg

Nice one Jim this may get some folks into playing WWI game’s.
Artillery hunted Artillery in the first war. I remember seeing a story was about they have spotters at the front watching for the gunfire of the enemy guns to get the position to their guns. Because I was thinking this could be a good was to get some excitement in boring school algebra classes.

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oriskany

Indeed, the only REAL difference between WW1 and WW2 artillery (at least in tactical wargaming terms) is the lack of flexibility in WW1. Basically, no radios. Pre-planned artillery barrages, creeping barrages, phased barrages, and the counter-battery barrages you mention were all certainly factors, it just had to be meticulously planned in advance.