Pacific War - Rules Teach and Play with Mark Herman - Featuring Ardwulf Lair

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In collaboration with Ardwulf Lair ( / @ardwulfslair ) this video is the first of a series dedicated to learning Pacific War, with designer Mark Herman, from GMT Games.
Pacific War, designed by Mark Herman is a Strategic wargame that covers all of the Pacific Theatre of World War 2, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the climatic summer of 1945. Released for the first time in 1985 by Victory Games, over the last three decades, this game acquired a cult status, and the absence of reprint made it even more treasured by wargamers.
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
02:10 Gary's presentation
08:10 Mark Herman appears
21:28 Historical context of the battle of Coral Sea
30:55 Sequence of play overview
30:35 Game starts
01:43:20 Debrief
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7 авг 2024

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@hendrikd2113 Год назад

Hearing Mark yell at flat-earthers was a treat.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

For once he wasn't yelling at me!

@lesliedavis775 Год назад

Ardwulf, thanks for executing the Vassal clicks in this video and for being an insightful wargame historian/reviewer, and one of the hobby's most beloved drinking companions. Hope we get a chance to meet at Compass Expo so we can fight face-to-face over the Wellington's Victory game map.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@sentient02970 Год назад

This is a great walkthrough of a huge game. Thanks guys for pulling this together.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@jtsjc1 Год назад

Thanks guys I'm ready for another one. Its great having Mark on the stream.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Our pleasure! Not sure I'm ready yet for another stream though... 😓

@lesliedavis775 Год назад

Thanks again Mark for both of your Pacific wargames, which are not only the best games ever published on the Pacific war, they're two of the best games ever published on any war! And thanks also for your expert briefing about the South Pacific theater in this video. Gamers have never really understood the sparsity of carrier battles - and the almost goose egg history of big gun battles in the Pacific. In my opinion, the Pacific War is the greatest simulation game in history. It's a monster cardboard history lesson, not a game of triple-turret bumper boats.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

I must say the game was very different then what I expected. Really excited to get on that journey of learning it.

@lesliedavis775 Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 Fred, thank you for coordinating this playthrough with two of the best wargame commentator/tutors in the hobby. Having Mark's curated tutorial is invaluable to the community and having Gary there to help run Vassal is a terrific bonus. Last, but not least, YOUR you tube wargame designer interviews and teaching videos are intelligent and extremely helpful, even to grognard gamers like me. You are the best beginner wargamer in the world, and I mean that as a compliment!

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

haha, I'll take it as one.

@thomasbandy Год назад

Wonderful video, great discussion and an expert maître des cérémonies with Fred. Looking forward to more!

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

thanks Thomas, glad you enjoyed it. Looking forward to episode 2!

@georgedrever Год назад

Great video, and what a privilege to be taught the game by Mark himself. I'd definitely love to see this format repeated with a campaign scenario, where the game becomes even more rich and deep in strategy and choices.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it! And we should have new videos coming next year.

@philb4944 Год назад

Good stuff. Looking forward to the other videos in this series.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Glad to hear it! Episode 2 should be on the Ardwulf's Lair channel next month so stay tuned.

@dutchww Год назад

Thanks, can't wait for the next one!

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

I'm also excited about it. It should be on Ardwulf's Lair in November. I just need to get more practice until then.

@warrenbruhn5888 7 месяцев назад

What I took away from this is that Mark Herman has a summer ☀️ house 🏠! Looks like possibly a fun game. I used to play Gary Grigsby's old DOS Pacific War computer 🖥 game.

@HomoLudens1871 7 месяцев назад

And one day I will get there!

@clarkcommando1983 Год назад

Great video kudos to all. Mark if you see this I love your designs

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Thank you very much!

@clarkcommando1983 Год назад

I always say if a player has interest they will stick with it and learn it. Meaning yes it’s ok for beginners. I base this on introducing many players to wargaming. The simplest game doesn’t work if the player has no interest. I have taught A world at war to a complete newbie.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

I agree with that to a large extent.

@jamenta2 Год назад

Great interview and fascinating. Thanks! ps: It took me 5 days to clip Pacific War. There's no way Gary could have done it in 3 days. Come on.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Haha, he is a professional clipper though

@edackley8595 Год назад

You gotta WANT IT!

@nouse3771 Год назад

Curt Schilling a war gamer? Involved in publishing the PW , wow!!

@edackley8595 Год назад

Just in signing the contract, but didn't get it done.

@erichkeys Год назад

Merci Fred. Hope you’ve been well my friend. 😊

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

I have, have you?

@erichkeys Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 I have

@xusafgrunt 7 месяцев назад

Just got the game for christmas! I love the engagement scenarios but would love to play a campaign with someone, unfortunately, my wife nor my friend base have interest, ill have to figure something out

@HomoLudens1871 7 месяцев назад

If you are ready to play on Vassal I am pretty sure you can find people to play on BGG.

@aaronsibley39 Год назад

At 1:25:26 Mark says that L1 gets a +1 modifier for every three steps. Thats incorrect L2 get +1 per three. L1 +1 per 6 steps. L0 +1 per 12 steps. This means that the allied cap actually misses…😮

@kenmontesano6560 Год назад

Isn't the attack on the carrier performed with a L2 fighter? In that case has the +1 modifier added to the attack and the carrier sunk?

@Skyrider68 Год назад

So, kind of followed what was happening, I think. Seemed like a pretty fair amount of back and forth off-board with the charts, which broke my concentration a bit. With Gary's big strike at the end, was there anything you could have done differently in that engagement, Fred? Or was it just some well-timed great dice rolls on Gary's part that turned the tide?

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Hey Michael, sorry for the late reply! I think I would have played differently how my principal task force moved and would have tried keeping more distance with japanese task forces.

@Skyrider68 Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 Have you logged any more playtime with the game? I'm always interested in PTO naval games, but Pacific War does seem like a beast at face value.

@wsclulin Год назад

I would replay the same scenario

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

That's what I was saying at the end, planning on playing it another couple of times.

@wsclulin Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 looking forward to the next; great video, great channel. Thanks for posting

@scottrowland2989 Год назад

Have you done anymore Pacific War videos?

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Mark and I are still waiting for Ardy to make time for us 😢

@przemekbozek 9 месяцев назад

Any chance for this getting continued?

@HomoLudens1871 9 месяцев назад

You have to ask Gary! He keeps avoiding the question 😭

@przemekbozek 9 месяцев назад

@@HomoLudens1871 Will do, once I watch another of his streams 😁 Just noticed "1871" in your id, didn't expect you to be that old 😉

@HomoLudens1871 9 месяцев назад

I am, indeed, a grognard vampire. The fact that someone looking so young playing wargames should have gave you a hint...

@pizzafrenzyman Год назад

in 1985 I was playing computer games on a Commodore 64. Why can't the counter printers pre-clip games for an extra $10 or $20?

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Some publishers do, I guess it depends on the counter size and the number of counter sheets.

@erichkeys Год назад

Counter trays should be included in the box for the price and size of this game. I mean $125 for a game without trays? Come on GMT don't nickel and dime your costumers. 😁

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

I am not sure they would have fit inside of it, they should have been outside of the box, hence not practical to ship as whole product I think.

@erichkeys Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 Oh I see, Fred. Makes perfect sense now.

@erichkeys Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 Really liked this teach and play. Mark is quite the entertainer lol

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

That being said I would have enjoyed a couple of counter trays, not sure where to get them at a decent prince in the UK.

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Yes, Mark is a lot of fun to have on, an ideal guest.

@helenaconstantine 7 месяцев назад

Fred is not a serval, neither is Gary an ardwulf.

@HomoLudens1871 7 месяцев назад

How can you be so sure?

@MrSomethingdark Год назад

Am I crazy or is the map crazy? Did they make some rando map?

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

What's crazy about it?

@MrSomethingdark Год назад

@@HomoLudens1871 OH, I am so sorry about this comment. I discovered Pacific War 4 days ago and some of the first viewings of the map looked like it was a mirror image of S Pacific amalgamated with Australia. It really broke my mind in a few places. I understand it now xD Sorry

@aaronsibley39 Год назад

Why are you using force markers and not Task force markers for your naval moves. At 1:00:26 Fred brings up the Allied display. All units are still in force 16 including the LRA. The naval units should be in a TF. Ardwulf is doing the same, force markers not TF markers. If this is to help teach beginners how to play, this basic mistake should not appear…😮

@HomoLudens1871 Год назад

Hey Aaron, good catch. We've noticed it and corrected it later in the stream.