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If a glass cup is honestly considered too loud for a tournament as we saw upthread, you can guarantee Pop-a-Matic dice would be too. The only sensible thing to do, honestly, would be to draw chits instead of roll dice.

This is specifically addressed by D6.82 which notes that British Carrier crews are represented by Infantry HS instead. A nice historical touch. Not sure it was covered yet, but AFV crews of all nationalities, with the exception apparently of the Japanese, were expected to either stay with their...

The rules being discussed, as they were presented, in effect prevented players from lighting objective buildings on fire and using unloaded passenger vehicles as suicide overrun machines. I think in that case, the long term consequences you allude to would be wholly positive: making players...

The mutual agreement is there. The tournament director agrees to host the players. The players agree to abide by the tournament director's .... em, direction. They follow the schedule, they play who they are told, and they abide by the rules, or suffer the consequences determined by the TD/host...

You're correct in that there were definitely accusations that they deliberately deflated the balls to make them easier to throw and catch. I would find it very easy to believe the officials didn't bother testing each ball's air pressure to ensure it was in the range of the correct PSI. The...

This is not true, and in fact Tom Brady was not an exception - in the NFL (and the CFL) each team uses its own balls while on offence in every game. The quarterbacks are allowed to inspect the balls before the game and I believe they are rubbed down by the teams in order to remove any residual...

Banning Kindling and the use of passenger vehicles for anything but carrying passengers requires "many more hours" of practice in order to be competitive? I'm not sure I'm buying that given that the bans seem to be on stuff no one does anyway.

One or two of the fellows responding to you apparently never played the original SL and may be unaware of the rich history of the development of the rules and were too quick to respond. I'm not sure which rules you're referring to, but it is very fair to say the ASL rules were written not just...

The Tournament Director(s). :) Apparently

I described it in my scenario design book, which is where Mark learned the term. Right Markie? :)

Nice photo of a victory parade by Serbians - they are driving a Canadian Grizzly AVGP which was abandoned in the former Yugoslavia, along with some other military equipment, by its Canadian owners. Never heard an "official" story on this one but with only three regular force infantry regiments...

It's not about you. :) The question was asked what the creator of this site might have thought about political discussion, I tried to provide some context to cast light on that question. Others may have different memories of the period, I can only go off of memory as not a lot of the "old" site...

This is from 19 years ago now. The discussions from that time indicate the site was more of a gaming club for video games complete with ladders. I guess at some point someone had the bright idea to expand the membership by including board wargame discussions.

The profile link is to jog your memory, the site looked a lot different back when Don was active and there were a number of blogs which were highly profiled. The site used to have a front page and gaming articles - it actually looked a lot like grogheads.com looks today, with the forum intended...

I got the impression that Don couldn't find another outlet/audience for his political views and thus often posted about them here or his gamesquad blog. See his profile here: Dr Zaius | GameSquad Forums

There is. You can PM anyone on the site you like and discuss it on your personal page.

You've never heard a song, saw a TV show, or read a book about military history? How many ASL scenarios have been inspired directly by a film or documentary? Put another way, music and sports bring people together. Politics divides them. That's the difference. People who support different...

GS isn't "big tech", you may be confused about how it is owned and operated. My understanding is Cary paid for it out of pocket and decided he didn't like the harsh tone of the political discussions. I do agree with you on the monopoly Facebook, YouTube and the actual "big tech' has on what is...

At the very least let's hope everyone learned what a stadium (hereafter oval) is. It was disappointing that the exact shade of green for that oval (hereafter thingie) was never specified though. It would be terrible to see the thingie rendered both incorrectly and improperly named.

As noted above, that there is errata which I may have missed before. Honestly, I sit down with the OBA flowchart every time OBA comes up in a game so I suspect we are doing it right since we tend to read through it thoroughly, but I'd have to sit down with both flowchart and the article to see...