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Ardwulf's Lair has been bringing you gameplay, news, information and commentary on games since 2007. Focusing on strategy games and wargames, the Lair releases new videos regularly. Subscribe!
Unboxing Doomed Battalions
13:36
28 дней назад
Unboxing | I, Napoleon (GMT Games 2024)
12:20
2 месяца назад
WBC 2024 Vendor Hall Walkthrough
6:25
2 месяца назад
Simplicity vs Complexity in Wargames
1:28
2 месяца назад
Origins 2024 Vendor Hall Walkthrough
53:42
4 месяца назад
Charles S. Roberts Awards In Memoriam 2023
2:20
4 месяца назад
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@dennissulsberger9091
@dennissulsberger9091 10 часов назад
Thanks!
@rogue7744
@rogue7744 11 часов назад
Pretty excited about getting this (sale going on). Great unboxing as usual, ty very much!
@robertmoffitt1336
@robertmoffitt1336 16 часов назад
Missed it live, caught it after work...Wow! What another absolutely CLASSIC interview/show! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ OMG...the ending...ROFLMFAO!😂 The toilet strikes again! 😄😄😄
@jefft786
@jefft786 20 часов назад
I remember going to several game conventions and Alan emceeing the auctions "Anzio, the game with a map that could only have been done with a banana dipped in diesel oil!"
@EricTheMadviking
@EricTheMadviking 21 час назад
Missed it live, great show. For some reason when I saw the thumbnail I read it in the context of Big Pharma, or Big Oil, lol.
@ardwulfslair
@ardwulfslair 14 часов назад
This was actually the intended (tongue in cheek) inference (but not the topic)
@sstewart116
@sstewart116 22 часа назад
thank you alan!
@hansennathan
@hansennathan 23 часа назад
Sorry I couldn't watch this live, but it was great to hear you talk shop again Alan. I miss working with you and everyone else at VPG.
@thomasbandy
@thomasbandy День назад
I’ve almost polished off a bottle of Laphroaig, my first, a 10 year single malt. Awesome stuff…
@ExtraSqueaky
@ExtraSqueaky День назад
I really wanted to order the two Enemy Action games that are for sale, but ~$100 for shipping to Europe is just bonkers.
@Jackdaw5
@Jackdaw5 19 часов назад
Indeed. It's the major downside of a US-centred hobby.
@Aquadoc1962
@Aquadoc1962 День назад
Good Show!
@chinapoliticsfromtheprovin6133
Another fine show, thank you. May I add that taking a week off every year when the Compass Games convention is held--whether you attend or not--may be an appropriate way of commemorating you contracting COVID there two years in a row. And surely there must be an avatar available for that feat.
@bayonetbrant
@bayonetbrant День назад
The night of Monday 11 November, we're going to fill in for Gary over at the Dragoons ru-vid.com2wF32g3Ve8Y?si=r5GcTzfoBA1nM4vO
@chinapoliticsfromtheprovin6133
Thank you for a very fine episode. A sound survey of a company that was increasingly refining its work. It would not be easy to do the same for another publisher but ATO might be worth it, given that their output is far less and might therefore merit a deeper discussion of their games.
@Columbiagamesinc
@Columbiagamesinc 5 дней назад
Great job. We really appreciate your thorough introduction to Hârnworld.
@Columbiagamesinc
@Columbiagamesinc 5 дней назад
Thanks for sharing the pre-release of the Chybisa Hardcover. Kickstarter backers can expect delivery soon.
@Kili121416
@Kili121416 5 дней назад
Really feeling the mention of the tragic loss of the Lighthorsemen at the Neck. Those scenes in the film are so so powerful. Purchasing the game from Australia is expensive.
@ardwulfslair
@ardwulfslair 5 дней назад
Good thing it wasn't published in Australia!
@Kili121416
@Kili121416 5 дней назад
@@ardwulfslair Indeed.😀
@DarkOmegaMK2
@DarkOmegaMK2 5 дней назад
PASTA POINTS!!!
@rogue7744
@rogue7744 6 дней назад
Freakin awesome! Really good interview. Ty Ardy!
@robs5688
@robs5688 6 дней назад
So, I've heard you're the man in love with his own voice. I'd have to say I agree with that sentiment.
@chinapoliticsfromtheprovin6133
@chinapoliticsfromtheprovin6133 5 дней назад
When it's a fine voice and a smart one as they are with Ardy, that's more than okay with many of us.
@jojothedogfacedboy
@jojothedogfacedboy 6 дней назад
Not sure if you can change the title, but the episode number is wrong. I think maybe a copy-and-paste error from GMT Part II?
@ardwulfslair
@ardwulfslair 6 дней назад
You are, of course, correct.
@Kili121416
@Kili121416 6 дней назад
Great Game
@mikeb4085
@mikeb4085 7 дней назад
Great guest and video
@SGrey-fk3zf
@SGrey-fk3zf 7 дней назад
I really wish I had watched this live. Great video.
@robertmoffitt1336
@robertmoffitt1336 8 дней назад
You need to have Dana back on, this one was in the "instant classic" category.👍
@ThymeKeeper
@ThymeKeeper 8 дней назад
I love the Platoon Commander system. It's a lot of fun to play. I wish the card decks were more extensive, but that's a minor quibble.
@ThymeKeeper
@ThymeKeeper 8 дней назад
The Naked Gun also features Reggie Jackson in his first dramatic role :D
@ThymeKeeper
@ThymeKeeper 8 дней назад
The Leslie Nielsen comedies were funny (the ones that were actually funny) BECAUSE he was a dramatic actor. As he said on Saturday Night Live, he said unfunny things in an unfunny way and people thought that was funny :).
@chinapoliticsfromtheprovin6133
@chinapoliticsfromtheprovin6133 8 дней назад
Thanks for the video. I may have misread the subject of the episode given what the content turned out to be. But on the off-chance that the final minutes returned to the title advertised, may I note that one major reason why modern wargaming is often difficult to categorise is that political considerations were increasingly adopted into designs as war itself changed. Here, one can include the COIN series (see 'Andean Abyss'); the brilliant work of Brian Train ('Tupamaro', 'Chile '73', and the like); Joe Miranda's designs ('Nicaragua', among many others); and SPI's 'Power Politics' series, which turned to politics as a way of understanding conflict ('Canadian Civil War') and wars within wars ('Plot To Assassinate Hitler', 'South Africa'). And when one gets overwhelming (if ugly and tragic) wins on the operational level as in the Gulf Wars, sometimes the only thing left are representations of the tactical. It's as tough to design modern wargaming then as it is to define it. Thanks again.
@robertmoffitt1336
@robertmoffitt1336 8 дней назад
34:08 GW1 for me, 35th TFW, AF Security Forces, E-5, 85'-91'. Unable to game anything mid 80s to present. Not sure why, it just bothers me. Got Ln'L Heroes of the Falklands and it's expansion, then Alexander of the Players Aid recommended an audio book, Three Days in June by James O'Connell. I eventually traded the Ln'L games in to NK after finishing the audiobook. I can really only game with close friends, and I struggle with that often enough. It bothers me that I came back when so many others did not, to put it bluntly. I struggle with that and it makes gaming difficult at times. 15:10 "If you don't like this kinda thing you will probably think you are drinking a burning tire." LOL! 😄😄😄
@turks1966
@turks1966 8 дней назад
MMP's fall sale 11/7-11/12 this year
@raymow9683
@raymow9683 10 дней назад
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. Everything fit in my 2 trays and with the player aids, maps, etc on top it fits tight in the box with no problems standing on edge/pieces falling out. Also my counters were fine. The cardboard tray held the wood cube baggies in their places again with no movement with the smaller media charts designed to fit inserted into the cardboard trays. I printed off v1.4 rules along with the updated combat & assault/charge aid cards and dove right in. Production quality is excellent and solitaire suitability is ideal.
@ItalianDC
@ItalianDC 11 дней назад
do you have the organizational cards to slide in the baggies for download somewhere?
@uncledarren4262
@uncledarren4262 12 дней назад
I still have all 3 of the original, AD & KH editions + my original game binder, custom character sheet template we would photocopy, all the custom art and character sheets from our 80's games.
@JCJCfromBC
@JCJCfromBC 12 дней назад
I'm surprised that the title Twilight Struggle was not mentioned, taken from JFK's 1960 inaugural address written by Ted Sorensen. I think that the game's title and box cover helped it to take off.
@341dom
@341dom 13 дней назад
Don’t forget Gulf Strike from Victory Game.
@341dom
@341dom 13 дней назад
My favorite is GMT’s Next War Series.
@341dom
@341dom 13 дней назад
Hello from Pittsburgh
@robertmoffitt1336
@robertmoffitt1336 13 дней назад
What is croconol? What is bocce bowl? I don't have either one of those. Is it bocce bowl, or bocce ball? Didn't sound like something I'd be interested in though. I have to? I'd rather have a beer.
@christophersmith3301
@christophersmith3301 13 дней назад
A 7th Armd Brigade logo'd water bottle? Nice. (One of my former "homes" from about 35 years ago) :)
@Bahrainmark
@Bahrainmark 14 дней назад
Good show, I will revisit APTO soon again. working though my pacific games for May 1942-May 1943
@strelnikoff1632
@strelnikoff1632 14 дней назад
Enjoyed this episode. Fire in the Lake is probably my best game title although.... as a disillusioned Việt combat vet I despise the book. Platoon was the most realistic Việt Nam movie. The way they talked, their operations etc. Oliver Stone was a Inf soldier in 25th Inf. The first half of Full Metal Jacket was great, the second half was like a cartoon. As you already know, you owe it to yourself to see Paths of Glory. Cheers.
@RommelsAsparagus
@RommelsAsparagus 14 дней назад
The Thin Red Line is not a war movie, it's a philosophy movie. It's about American Transcendentalism, which for what it is, is as good as SPR.
@RommelsAsparagus
@RommelsAsparagus 14 дней назад
Ardy: It's his Quebecois accent, and yes, he's pronouncing it correctly.
@RommelsAsparagus
@RommelsAsparagus 14 дней назад
Dan: It's like being the Dick Irvin of wargaming.
@bibleboardgames
@bibleboardgames 14 дней назад
Thank you for the video gents! I think you all help to make a sustainable war game market by buying the games. Designers & publishers have an interested audience which is nice to have. I don't remember hearing 'Hubris' much but I remember when hummas was ubiquitous. Bridge on the River Kwai might make a good war game. One map could be tactical or squad level to blow up a bridge, Another map could be operational building railways.
@ExtraSqueaky
@ExtraSqueaky 15 дней назад
One organizational topic: could you please, please remove that 5 minute (with the music) cut out of the videos before uploading it?! Otherwise (as usual): great show!
@ardwulfslair
@ardwulfslair 15 дней назад
So I do not upload the live shows; RU-vid adds them directly to the feed after a day or so. I do agree that it would be preferable to trim that off, but I'm not doing it manually.
@seanmulroy6897
@seanmulroy6897 15 дней назад
another fine topic , and love the people of youtube/wargamming , that are intreacting on your vid ( p.s. sorry don't do Baseball )
@kenx8176
@kenx8176 15 дней назад
I feel like this was … fine? A lot of people have better memories of it than I do. We tended to get stalemates at one or two choke points.
@Frank-Voight-Kampff
@Frank-Voight-Kampff 17 дней назад
Thank the fates the games are okay. I say that without kidding, at our age we have spend thousands and thousands of [money] on those! 😅
@DragonsTeeth2
@DragonsTeeth2 17 дней назад
Had it, never played it, sold it. Have recently started SFB again, would love to get into F&B too. Difficulty is finding players, people seem to prefer short and simple games these days
@FalkFlak
@FalkFlak 18 дней назад
The combat movement rules are so disfunctional, the combat maneouvres so extensive the combat magic descriptions so vague it's a stretch to call it a system. Even the translator often didn't know what to do with it. I've talked to one. There is so much effort you have to put into the toolbox to make a campaign and fix loose ends in the rules its almost easier to make new system from scratch.