Recent content by Gary McClellan

In case you missed it, M&P #2 was released yesterday, on the Seven Years War http://www.johntillersoftware.com/MusketAndPike/SevenYearsWar.html

Think about two of the more important types of international competition out there for team sports. Use the analogy from Football (soccer for us US types) of the UEFA Champions League, and the World Cup. Now, consider the big 3 team sports in the US (Football, Basketball, Baseball) What...

Well, sports culture here in the US is far more oriented to US leagues. Yes, there's the Olympics, and a few international sports (golf, tennis), but the core of sports fandom in the US truly does focus on US Football, Baseball and Basketball, and in none of them is international competition...

Lets see. I was at the 1982 Nebraska-Oklahoma Game (in Lincoln). Which was most notable for this play: http://youtu.be/0X7phZvI-jM Otherwise, I was to a game between the Senators and A's at RFK just before the Senators left DC (so, early 70s), various Royals games over the years...

Also grew up in Lincoln (Go Spartans!) ETA: As to the "only a few bad apples"... I dunno at this point. Look at the last decade or so in the Big 12 OU: Rampant Booster abuse, see Rhett Bomar OSU: Program bought and paid for by T. Boone Pickens (not a scandal per se, but still). Alcohol...

Well, in the end, pitching rules all. That tells me, that surprising as it may be, the winner is going to come out of the National League. The Phillies are the easy pick. Fantastic rotation, and a good enough pen (especially with that rotation). On the other hand, their lineup can be anemic...

Ah, the old debate. College sports vs Pro? There are lots of reasons that people take to prefer one over the other, but watching the continuing implosion of the Big 12, and the lawsuits, threats, verbiage and the like, I've come to a conclusion. I prefer Pro because they are at least honest...

heh, I'd disagree with your characterizing the LoTR movies as great, I'm too much of a source purist (especially on Two Towers), and CTHD isn't from Hollywood, so that narrows "my" list at least a hair. That said, one has to admit that not everyone sees eye to eye on what makes a "great" movie...

Well, are we asking the right questions? Even if you grant that there are few (if any) really good sci-fi movies out there right now, you can take a step further. What's the last truly "great" movie to be made in your eyes? Any genre. Is the problem that Sci-Fi movies are in a creative...

4 - REACTIVE BATTLE TEMPLATES Once having engaged the units nearest to the enemy, you have to let them go without worrying too much about their good or bad fortune. Only you must be careful not to yield too easily to requests for help. -- Napoleon [WIL39:112] The battle...

Gents, here is an analysis sent in by Gerald Nivison NAPOLEONIC WARGAME ANALYSIS #1 Battle Templates Gerald J. Nivison, PhD + gjnivison@yahoo.com (c)2007 Contact the author to write articles (without fee) for magazines or on-line publications. 26 January 2007...

Arimus, Rich Hamilton is a scenario designer for HPS, so if there were such a beast, he'd know about it. Maybe there should be, but unless the PzC engine is different than the ones I work in, there is none.

Nope... the only way to track it down is good old brute force elbow grease. One little trick I've seen in other games (never edited in the PzC games, but it works in the others), is open the scenario in the scenario editor. Look very closely at the Units dialogue. If it cuts off in a wierd...

I'm not sure what you did to the oob file, but one thing you can do is pull the .oob file off of the cd and replace the one you think is broken.

I'm leaving for the week, but if you don't have anyone before I get back, I'm always game for Pea Ridge.