{"id":11582,"date":"2024-10-16T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:28:02","slug":"games-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/games-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Games in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Class Wargames decided to play W40K which set me thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>About boardgames and DnD again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Boardgames<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The W40K stuff took me towards the Battle of Actium. I found two games on Board Game Geek, and added them to <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/collection\/user\/DaveLevy\">my collection<\/a>. One has probably gone, the other, <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/1709\/trireme-tactical-game-of-ancient-naval-warfare-494#buyacopy\">Trireme <\/a>seems available on the market, although the rules seem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tISQPO0BXhc\">quite complicated<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lasercast.bigcartel.com\/product\/2mm-scale-triremes-and-quinqueremes\">some model boats<\/a> if we can <a href=\"https:\/\/letmegooglethat.com\/?q=ancient+naval+wargame+rules\">find simpler different rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While reviewing the book, Class Wargames, I wrote this, &#8220;While looking at the realism of the games, Barbrook summarises Clauswitz\u2019s essential components of good generalship as coup d\u2019oeil, psyching the enemy, concentrating forces, outflanking and hot pursuit.&#8221; I wonder if they work for ancient naval battles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150428035412\/http:\/\/homepages.ihug.co.nz\/~devisser\/\">Final Decrees<\/a>, which would be fun to work out how to play. Bureaucrats in a failing empire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DnD<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dndbeyond.com\/characters\">DnD Beyond<\/a> still works, as does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heroforge.com\/\">Hero Forge<\/a>, but might be best to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/dnd5e.wikidot.com\/wizard:bladesinging\">Bladesinger<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Wargames decided to play W40K which set me thinking. About boardgames and DnD again. Boardgames The W40K stuff took me towards the Battle of Actium. I found two games on Board Game Geek, and added them to my collection. One has probably gone, the other, Trireme seems available on the market, although the rules&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[60],"tags":[2127,543,530,921,2128],"class_list":["post-11582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-actium","tag-culture","tag-dungeons-dragons","tag-games","tag-wargames"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/113317460618955803","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/games-jacquesdillies-unsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11589,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions\/11589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}