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  1. Michael Dorosh

    Why the ASL hate?

    By the same token, discussions on this very forum revealed that when asked if they saw "little war movies in their head" when playing ASL, a number of respondents - including some very gifted players - said that they did not, including at least one that professed only to see numbers and...
  2. Michael Dorosh

    Rarity Factors

    The RF is a little unit dependent, rather than just nationality dependent, but the DYO system kind of figures everything is generic. I think it is safe to say softskin rarity for the most part is based on their appearance in standard infantry battalion tables of organization and equipment...
  3. Michael Dorosh

    Operation Biting

    I've never heard the operation name for this one, it's always been referred to in histories simply as "the Bruneval Raid." Which is neither here nor there, just of interest to me. Scenario seems fine. One suggestion to the aftermath, you have: After a fierce retreating battle, they got away...
  4. Michael Dorosh

    Could a computer be good at playing ASL?

    I suspect it is in this one: "Star Trek" The Ultimate Computer (TV Episode 1968) - IMDb
  5. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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.
  6. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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...
  7. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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...
  8. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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...
  9. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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...
  10. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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...
  11. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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.
  12. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    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...
  13. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

    The Tournament Director(s). :) Apparently
  14. Michael Dorosh

    Grudge Rules as Tournament Rules

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

    New game in development

    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...
  16. Michael Dorosh

    GS up for sale again?

    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...
  17. Michael Dorosh

    GS up for sale again?

    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.
  18. Michael Dorosh

    GS up for sale again?

    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...
  19. Michael Dorosh

    GS up for sale again?

    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
  20. Michael Dorosh

    GS up for sale again?

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