I mentioned that one of the tests [https://thelastredoubt.com/triplanetary/] – all solitaire – I ran to try out the game and rules was a three-ship setup of the solar system “grand tour” scenario. One of the ships started on Ganymede, and a photo I’d included showed the course. Here’s an explanation of the course. In retrospect, i](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/06/triplanetary-course-final.jpg) Above is the overall course from the beginning through turn 13, as the corvette begins to make spee…
Art is not merely in the eye of the beholder. Also – we’ve come to conflate “high art” with art – and worse, “art” with things that are neither beautiful nor requiring skill, nor even comprehensible without referencing the world around them at the moment instead of a work in and of themselves. Brian Niemeier in an epic set of tweets defines the responsibility of the artist, which Bradford Walker gathers up [https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2018/06/narrative-warfare-yes-sjws-they-are.html]…
The usual art post may slide into Tuesday as I got a bit distracted. I finally received my copy of the third edition of Triplanetary, brought back to life by Steve Jackson Games via a kickstarter project. Unlike the designers edition of OGRE, they’d learned their lessons and didn’t suffer from a year delay which the previous project had due to its near-catastrophic success. The game has a long history [https://infogalactic.com/info/Triplanetary] – and is one of the first games designed by Marc…
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One of the aspects of 4th gen and distributed warfare is how easy it is to dismiss individual attacks as just “rogue actors”. It’s not like the Tzarnev brothers, or your random joe jihad driving a truck of peace, or using a knife of peace, or (even in Europe, though less often) a gun of peace to enthusiastically greet the nearest snackbar with an “aloha!” are part of a military organization with a strict hierarchy, regular drills, and uniforms. It lies in part in the “unseen” – or what Eric Ray…