[Snowfox]

Jo, jag vet vem han är, han gjorde mycket oväsen av sina östfrontsspel och agitaitva politiska idéer på extrema socialistkanten att han hamnade till vänster om Jack Radey.

Han fick ett östfrontsspel publicerat i The Wargamer, det var urtråkigt att spela. Men jag antar att varje generation måste uppleva detta själv.  

[Strv102r]

Till vänster om Jack Radey? Det trodde jag var omöjligt! Då hamnar man ju i den del av cirkeln som borde kallas nationalsocalism...

[Snowfox]

Till vänster om Jack Radey? Det trodde jag var omöjligt! Då hamnar man ju i den del av cirkeln som borde kallas nationalsocalism...

Nja det finns nog en liten yta kvar, hur har annars alla dessa utbrytargrupper lyckats finna sin plats? Men det ska vara en intressant upplevelse att råka ut för hans argumentation. Vill minnas att han härjade på de gamla newgrouplistorna.

[Delirium]

People's Front of Judea?

[Vvornth]

Lou Coatney är litet av en profil på Internetforum, som ofta skryter om hur överlägsna hans hemmagjorda spel är på att korrekt återge avståndsförhållandena mellan stora östeuropeiska städer.

Låter ungefär som om man klamrar vid den enda niche man kan vara bra på.

[Mode]

Låter ungefär som om man klamrar vid den enda niche man kan vara bra på.

Kartor?

[sunszu]

Hei,
Lou's spilldesigner er noe av det mest hurtigspilte og interesante spillene på temaene jeg har forsøkt. Spesielt anbefaler jeg 1st El Alamein.

Det nevnes tid det tar å lime og klippe opp et slikt spill?
Det tar litt tid men er verd det.
Ja, skriv det ut på farvet papir og lim opp. Anbefaler spesielt bokpapp. Ta med en vanlig spille brikke og sammenlign tykkelsen for å få noe som er så nært vanlig tykkelse som mulig.
Kartet på lyse beige papir feks.

- Fred Førde
Leder Arcon 26
Spill klubb Ares, Oslo Norge

PS: As Jack Radey and Lou's politics, you are completely of base. Google his thesis and reread some of Jacks old articles for Grenader. Then come back to the forum and apologise.

[Snowfox]

Det är kul att du gillar hans spel, det bästa som finns är att finna ett spel som "klickar".

Radey var en mycket intressant designer som jag gärna sett fortsätta med designjobbet. Jag håller på att lusläsa reglerna till Duel for Kharkov och även om de är processintensiva så har det det där som fångar mitt intresse. Coatney....har bara spelat det östfrontsspel som han fick publicerat i the Wargamer och han stal några timmar av mitt liv...

Vad gäller ditt PS:

Sänk svansföringen, den passar dig inte.

[Elias Nordling]

The Man Himself bad mig posta detta:

My wife Reidun has translated for me the comments by you and others about
  Moscow Attacked!, 1st Alamein, and my politics.  Allow me to offer a few
  corrections and please post them for me under the thread.
 
The boxes - including Alamein itself - can indeed be taken, frontally, but the position
  is more usually broken open by attacks on the other boxes or in the more open
  south.  The 1st Battle of Alamein was the wildest one and Rommel's best
  chance to break through, because of the thinnness of units.
 
When defending a box, the Allied player usually invokes No Retreat! which
  means half his units can be eliminated on an R2 forced retreat result.
 
The hexes are roughly artillery range in width, which is why they stop enemy
  movement and force advancing enemy units to attack ... or pull back.  The
  mechanics are very classic, harkening back to the earliest Avalon Hill games,
  but they are effective with the spent/dispersed units rule.  Indeed, disaster
  usually occurs, if a player doesn't keep units in reserve to plug holes.
 
The game can be very close, and my older son Robert often beats me by
  taking Rommel-like low-odds risks to break open the British position and
  seize the initiative.  It has been exhaustively playtested.
 
As to Moscow Defended!, it is fast and simple, but does its job.  Rules do
  exist as notes on the combat results, terrain effects, etc. webpages.
  Some of the guys here in Norway seem to like my games, but they do
  have the designer within reach, to hold me accountable for rules
  clarifications.
 
Regarding Sturm nach Osten published in the Wargamer, it still has an
  active following, thanks to its breakout and armor refit rules,
  rubber band strengths of some units, etc.  It is hardly "boring."  
 
And probably the best game I will ever design, German Eagle vs. Russian
  Bear, is free on my www.coatneyhistory.com webpage.
 
I am running mini-tournaments of both 1stA and MD! this Friday, at ArCon26,
  here in Oslo.  http://www.spillfestival.no/arcon26/program.php
 
I was amused by Snowjerk's 180-out assessment of my politics, which would
  astonish and grimly amuse Jack Radey.  I doubt the Russians and Jack's
  other friends appreciate my research and thesis about the Katyn Massacre
  (1940) as a Cold War issue, even now.  (You can read my thesis via my
  LCoat webpage.)  And I fought the Left and Soviets hard in the public
  forums back in Alaska in the 70s and 80s.
 
Until Cheney&Bush, I considered myself to be a Reagan Republican, and it
  should be noted that Kosovo and Iraq were "neoconservative" - Trotskyist
  - operations which have caused strategic and economic disaster for the
  West, which would have gratified Lev Bronstein immensely.
 
I know Sweden is pretty remote - even here in Norway I can't find a decent
  pencil sharpener, photocopy shop, matt board to mount units, etc. - but if
  some of you fellows can make it west to ArCon this weekend,
  please drop by my table and say hei.
 
All the best.

Lou
  Coatney, http://LCoat.tripod.com/index.htm
http://www.coatneyhistory.com
  (Free games, cardstock model ship plans, etc.)

[Snowfox]

Well Lou, I remember disctincly that your political position was discussed a bit in the wargaming club where I spent lots of time in during the early 80's. So the hat off for managing to fool all of us.  

As a matter of fact I am happy you stay on the right side of the line.  

However, the translation of my comment on Sturm Nach Osten fell short. It wasnt that it was boring that was the reason for stopping spending time on it. Your design, as presented in the Wargamer, didnt feel like it was hanging together considering the time/space scale used. Your designfocus was not to my liking. Simple as that.

Let me finish with some friendly advice, we dont use namecalling here. Elias should have noticed and fixed it when forwarding your post but I guess his brain was pretty mushy from sitting next to a heatsource in the middle of a heatwave when posting.  

[Elias Nordling]

Elias, my thanks to Fred Forde for speaking about my games here,
  and my thanks to you for posting my riposte to the criticisms
  of them ... and of me.
 
As to Snowcritter's opinion of Sturm Nach Osten,
 
"Your design, as presented in the Wargamer, didn't feel like it
  was hanging together considering the time/space scale used.
  Your design focus was not to my liking."
 
... the design focus he describes is exactly why it remains popular
  in certain circles, so he's still 180-out.  
 
The Oslo University's wargames club should resume meeting this
  autumn, and seems very welcoming to visiting wargamers - possibly
  even Swedes.    If anyone wants to try 1st Alamein, Moscow
  Defended!, or German Eagle vs. Russian Bear face to face against
  their designer ... who loses playing them even against beginners,
  more often than not ... let me know.
 
By the way, I got my undergraduate degree in philosophy from Augustana
  College - "Uppsala West" - Rock Island, Illinois.  As a student assistant,
  I was working in the archives and special collections room, when Jan
  Troell was researching Swedish-American family diaries, letters, etc. for
  his 2 films about Swedish-American immigrants which starred Max von
  Sydow and Liv Ullmann.
 
The only heriditary link we have to Scandinavia ... that I know of ... is
  that Aberdeen University mathematics dean William Jack's ancestors
  had apparently been from the Shetland Islands, a big Viking hangout
  ... and our baby son did indeed turn out to be Rohan the Red(-haired).

And now, back to (writing) my book ... about model ship building
  and naval wargaming.
 
Again, all the best to everyone ... including SnowFox ... over there.
 
Lou
  Coatney, http://boardgame.geekdo.com/thread/318557/a-hidden-gem
 
Also, I presented a defense/explanation of my Siberian Reserve
  rule (in Moscow Defended!, among other games) under the BGG
  thread My Favorite Rule, at
 
http://boardgame.geekdo.com/geeklist/10 ... ent1607568
 
Thanks again.

[Patrick_T]

Hej Elias,

Jag spelade 1st ALamein med Lou at Galore 2013. Som sagt tidigare, Det är inte så svårt att ta CW "boxes": Om CW får DR under Axis anfal, de lämnar boxen och är "spent", och Axis kan inte ta boxen, ännu ... Nästa CW phase, "spent" enheter kan inte flytta sig, och då måste CW hitta andra enheter att flytta till boxen, men då måste de enheter anfalla alla Axis enheter i deras ZOC (eftersom de var inte i boxen i början av deras phase). Nästa Axis phase kan de då flytta in i boxen.

"Spent" systemet är byggt för att simulera initiativ som man får eller förlorar under ett slag.

Och nu en trevlig info: Jag precis skapade ny karta och enheter till spelet (och jag är inte den första :o):
talk.consimworld.com/WebX/.ee6ca2d/86
talk.consimworld.com/WebX/.ee6ca2d/88
Finns också under BBG.

Mvh, Pk.

[Elias Nordling]

Jag kan ärligen säga att jag inte har någon aning om vad vi pratar om längre