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Moves Issue25.Pdf MOVES nr. 25. pubilahed F&mar)/Marrh iW6 $2.50 - - - - - . - .- . I -- -- Opening Moves This is the frrst of a regular serres of cotumns in which the Edrtor w~llspeakdrrecttv to the R~aderson topics chos~nm a purely whrmsical fashron Readers at? rnvrted to wrrt~dfreclly lo the Edtfor lo grve hrm therr vr~wsand to prowde possrhle topics for future co/umn.r An ''Official" War,pmin~L~npue Editor/Execntive Art Director Redmond A. Simonsen From time to time. people of various Mana~inkEditor Kevin Zucker Art Director Manfred F. Milkuhn persuasions wonder aloud about that millen- nia! day when thcrc'll be an organization Contributing Editors that regularizes wargaming in the same way Richard Berg. Omar Dewitt. James F, Dunnisan, Frederick Georgian. that the Chets Fcdcration oversees chess and Phil Kosnett. Steve List, Mark Saha. Jerrold Thomas the PGA organizes golf. erc. My response is MO\%S Mu~u:ma.15 cnpvn~hrD 197h. Srmulatlonr PuhTicatinn5. lnc. Printed In U.5.A All r~phirrrrervcd. All usually aloud snort and a "not bloody likely." cdb~triill.and ycncrnl mall rhnuld he addrccicd to 5vmulatlnnr Puhllrabionr. Inc.. 44 Fart 23d \Ireel, Weu Ynrk. when prcrred fnr more rational comment. 1 '4 '4 ?. IOnln. MOi'E.7 Ir ptihllrhed hb rnonrhlv. One war ~uh~criprionrl%tx lcrutd arc availrhlr for $8 M (U.5 ) answer a< follou,~: Rack irrucr ur r~nglccopirn r~t~hc curreni lrrue are a\ailahle a1 52 .W pcr copv. Plrasc remit hv check or monr* nrder, onlr. 4U.S. lundk ontv.1 I. All the leagues, unions, federations and Printine bv Rrflrx Offrct. lnc.. rxlcrlor pmducrlon bu lnhn Rnnkr. Binding hv Apolln Blndev. whatever that have profcqsinnaIi7.ed and AKTITI.h. SLrflMISSI0,VS Readcrq are lnrltod rn suhm~lanrclcc Tor ps$thlc publication tn ,UOWJ Mupzrnf regularized other sports and games are M.znu~cr~pI$mu51 hc rrvurlttcn. dnuhlc.rparcd. on 8'4 x I I wh~tehnnd. wirh pencrour rnarprm. Pleare mcludc dealing each with only one game with one set vnur lull namr nrr cach MT pnce. and vour namr and addrccr on thc covct page. If ?nu virh your rnanuscripl of ruleq(or at worst, amateur and professional rcnrrncd. includc a rramped. sell-nrldreced 9x1 2 enrelopc. tn no instance. hnwevrr. can SPI assume retponrihiliry Ica rn?nuwrrplr and ~ll~rrlrnrlnnrnull rpeclficallr %nlrcitcd. rules and/or men's and women's rules). There is no sin~le,organized league that holds tournaments of. lor example, all gamec in - - . -- -- - -. - -- . which one hitr a ball over a net (tennis. volleybaI1, ping-pong, etc,). In wargaming, In this issue... one is faced with hundreds of games. which, though related, are radically different in Sterling Persons, Incorporated SPX R&D Staff many critical wavs. The proqpects for fairly ... rating players, rendering mlcr decisions. and all the other official flapdwdIe involved in World War T Profile Geoff K. Burkman profe~~ional/tournament-levelcompetition are made very dim hy thir conrideration of Sorcerer Scenarios Arnold Hendrick diversity aIonc. 2. Wargaming is even less a rpectator sport SPI Game Design Seminar, than chess (its clorest profecrrionalized Abstract In J.F. Dunnigan et a1 analog). Chess only penetrated the public consciousness when Bobby Fisher manaeed to up the ante into the hundred-gand class. Complicating Blue & Gray Mahroni Young Inciden tallv. the buzz over chess (in the U.S.) died out pretty quickly once Fisher went back Opening MOVES Redmond A. Simonsen into the woodwork. Relatively few people are really interested in chess: even fen~es are Designers' Notes The Editors interested in wargarning. And chess has been around a lot longer than conventional civilian war gamin^. Footnotes The Readers 3. Much of what motivates peopie to play wargames has nothing to do with eames and Forward 0bse wer Richard Berg competition. per se. Many people plav simply for information or as an exercise. I play for Playback The Players competition (1'11 plav almost any game with a grim determination to win), but that doesn't Feedback/Playback mean that I'm the archetypical wargarner; a Questions Vox Populi. Vox Dei si7eable number of people don't much care who wins - they jurt play. Now, the preceding arguments don't exclude the possibility of a national or international association of garners (on the line? of the NMRA in model railroading). But the Simulations Publications. Inc., M East Urd Stmt. Mew Yotk, N.Y. 1OO1O functions of such an organization are very different from a league that formalizes competition in sports or games (ves, I know I continnvd nn pap221 Russian Player rimply takes the number of Germans voluntarily withdrew their mech- sine or motorized units he is supposed to anixed units and the Rusrianr proceeded to have in each army assembly area (we dn have knock thcir brains nut against dug-in the complete Order of Battle for the German infantv. -JFD Rusrians, it~~.ludingnot only the divisional numbers. hut also the regiment<. Wnfor- tunatel!. we couidn't use the regiments). The The initial phase of firefiehr has been Rursian Player then does not know the actual completed. The two-part map is done and strength of these rifle and mntorized units, WORK IN PROGRESS the hnric game system agreed upon. Work is since they vary all the way from Q to 8, hut progressing quite rapidly on phase two. This lPlpasp rlo nor ord~rthese gamrs in edrrance neither does the German know what strenglh phase sill introduce modified observation of annnunrpnrPtir of rhpir uvaiJuhilit,v they are. The strength ir not revealed until rules incorporating sight distance and it;SK- T. ] the t~nitseither attack or are attacked. This relativc height. This Ea~t factor will also can he rather hocki in^ tor the Germans, affect the existence of defilade. since there is an orerr& rule which allows them to expend a certain number of This game hopes to introduce some fairly We ended up with a game scale of nine Movement Points to attack a unit at either '/z rophisticated artillew rulet for the squad kilometers per hex. This rovers an area from level. Off-board fire will come in several or '/I the overrunning German unit's just north of ViEehsk lo just north of Gomel. strength. If the attack is successful, and flavnr5. either planned, tarEet of opporttinitp from just west of the Dnieper to the outskirts the defending unit is either destroyed or or as rapid supprewive fire from dedicated of Moscnw., it covers Amy Group Center's batteries. main axis of advance in 1941. The game pu~hcdaqide. the Germans can proceed with thcir movement. The overrunning unit opens in early Jdy, with Turns covering two Other items which are being introduced a5 simply lwes its Zone of Control and we write are overwatching firm. tank fire and days. All units are divisions. except tor the mnvcmcnt ability until the next Turn. The German motorized units, u'hich are in movement, mincs and smoke. Data is being game also contains numerous scenarios. The regimentat-six kampfgruppen. We're still accumulated to add the following weaponr Historical Scenario has the Germans playing around with the mechanics that will spqtemr: M113z, TYO. MICV, XMI. artillev advancing to jupl heyond Smolen~k. &rk hest, bur, as it stands now. there are delivered mines, laser de~ignator5.CLGP, according to their originaI plan, and then 8. ripid, remi-active Zones of Control. The and as.iorted ewtesia. Jrad Hart?~~ pulling the mechanized units out for German motorized units use a unit-integrity rthl~ilding. This produced the battle of rule. which allows two or more units of the Yelna. in which the Russians threw Terrihl~ Swifr Sn~nrd. the mufti-map. Tame division. when stacked together, to enormous number5 of units at thc defending regimental level Gettysburg game. has double their Attack and Defense Strength. German infantry. A question that is debated entered its Final qtages at development. A11 This puts a premium an combined to this day is whether or not the Russians the mapwork and counter-mix determination operations between units of the same division could have actually stopped the German has becn completed and all that remains are in the same hex. The Russians. on the other mechanized units. The German mechanized the finish in^ touches on the rules and some hand, are vew much at the mercy of units wcre quite weak all of the fighting polishing of the edges. Plaflesting, however, leadership. Deployment gives the exact from they had just done. Rut the fact remains, the continues in earnest, as several optional rules location for the various Russian armies (groups of three or more divisions), as well as the army commander. The army comman- A S~crinnot'tkr Trm'hl~bSneifi Swnrd Pla?tr.rt map ders have Seen evaluated on a scale of 2 to 5. with 5 being the highest. This rating is given on the counter, as well as a rather high Movement Allowance. Thir sating represents two things: it represents a Defense Strength (ba~edupon the ability of the leader to gather together the numerous stragglers that were wandering aro~~ndat the time). It also represents the range of control; any Russian units within two to five hem would be able to attack or defend at Full Strength. Any units not within this span of control would have their Attack and Defense Strengths cut in half. In addition, units must be in supply for purposes of movement. Attack and Defenqe "Supply" are dependent upn being able to trace to a leader who. in turn.
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