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hello everyone, i would like to know if there is a TDG for PC for civilian use. i think some of us, simple passionate men with these kind of stuff could help developing and improving this kind of games.. thanks

Man, more of this!!!

Great lecture! I've tried designing Medieval wargaming rules myself and encountered the same problems with sources, consumer expectations, publisher and market place demands. I like your proposed solutions.

Interesting talk, thank you very much for sharing. From what i understand you think that i shouldn't be using dark age miniatures to represent the 53rd (Welsh) Division in Boltaction?

12:16 Freudian slip :)

Excellent ideas about Agincourt/Crecy.

Something that would deepen the analysis is a simple observation (that the talk comes close to in the mid part but never quite gets to). The vast majority of wargamers, and virtually no designers of wargames, have any interest in accuracy. What they care about is something different I would call verisimilitude - they care that the rules 'feel' right, not that the rules simulate something. Wargamers often talk about 'accuracy' but that is just the vagaries of language, failing to understand that it does not quite mean accuracy conflates two conceptually different things. And it does impinge towards the end of the talk, where much of the recommendations reflect the speaker striving for verisimilitude. Because the distinction is not made the question of how you model and how you measure accuracy (essential first steps to simulation) is never really addressed.

Ed Smith's, Wars of the Roses, rules, published by Decalset more than half a century ago, were specific and honed to that period.

The recruits were not chosen to increase the diversity of the organisation - to suggest otherwise is to be either ignorant or pushing a political stance which had not festered into existence at the time. All walks of life then had rather more to worry about than the precise ratio of particular groups of people.

Extremely informative. Thank you.

Dr. Jones, you teach in Lancaster, PA when you're Stateside? Any chance you'll be attending the Fall In! convention at the beginning of November? As an avid wargaming, armor-wearing, academic, archaeologist myself, I've love to meet up with you to discuss two medieval battle projects I'm working on at the moment!

15:22 Hmmmm sword and board?

What a fantastic lecture! Would have loved this club when I was an undergraduate ;)

If mechanisms like SAGA work in other periods, then the core mechanisms to basically roll dice seems sound.. It is very loose in historical terms but then it's aim is as you say is to "game for fun" a cerebral Kriegsspiel it is not.

I'd point out that, at least as of the halfway point, one could not glean from the video that there is any table top wargaming but miniatures. That leaves a broad genre of board wargames entirely out of consideration. No comment is made on the rules systems employed there because, it appears, Dr Jones is entirely unaware of their existence.

Listening to that, I think by myself, the dear Doktor has lost the point a bit. Wargames, whether on a PC or on the tabletop, are just just this : playing war as a GAME. I own a plethora of rulesets and none is claiming to provide a historically accurate simulation of a battle / campaign of medieval times. And I doubt, that such a Ruleset would really provide the fun people seek in games that may last anywhere from one to 3 hrs before players loose concentration. Also the widespread wish of so called " balanced Armylist" is diametrally the contrary of what happend in reality, aside from terrain aspects, weather, diseases, disappearing drafted conscripts etc.which struck many armies on campaign. Aside from major issues such as providing provisions, sanitation, repairworks for thousands of men and their equipment , horses etc. . Of course one could add such things by means of "unexpected events" but is this fun to play ? In the end, unless an author of a ruleset has a philantropic mindset, the work must be paid...usually through sales. And dry and bitter reality does not sell. If people spend their sparetime with collecting and painting hu dreds of minis , terrain, buildings etc, they don't want to remove the first 3 units before the battle starts because of diarrhea and or dysentry....or the horses break down after a 9" move because they couldn't be fed for 3 days before the battle due to lack of vegetation...aside from warriors haunted by famine or thirst ( crusades, HYW, TYW, ACW,..no ?). So unless someone comes up with an, again abstract and hopefully not too complicated, collection of such realistic events and behaviour of men at war, I stick with what we have as rulesets and enjoy a good 2-3 hr. GAME-Session, witjout worring too much whether my knights have been in the, historically correct, whatever this means, order...😊

imo, the one ruleset that has struck me as the best fit for medieval and some ancient warfare is Field of Glory, simply by virtue of paying so much attention to the importance of terrain, morale, and commander influence. Ultimately though I think the biggest hangup of systems, regardless of understanding of the rules team of period warfare, is Umpire or no Umpire. Without an Umpire, you can never have a fog of war, orders cannot be confused beyond some dice system, and calculations for combat are usually more fluid and faster since there isn't a dedicated party to hash it out.

Your discussion of alternative medieval era rules that better reflects the culture and values of the area reminds me of how the Crusader Kings series demonstrated the politics of the period much better, dispensing of the realist model of nation states and showing how dynastic politics influenced countries behavior. Thus it's a much better model of the period than, say, Europa Universalis 4.

I hear a lot of pedantic complaining, but with no alternatives or solutions proposed.

Excellent talk, really thought provoking.

Excellent analysis of the issues involved in designing wargames that are applicable to periods other than just medieval. "Mechanism" creep where rule systems that work for one specific conflict are morphed to cover everything is particularly irritating.

this. was. AWESOME. Listened while painting P&S

A very interesting talk, and rather enlightening. It certainly has given me some ideas about how to enliven my own big battle medieval game scenarios. One point I would make in defence of wargames figure manufacturers however is that almost by definition wargames figures have to be stereotypes otherwise they're not fulfilling their primary role on the tabletop of telling the players, at a glance, what they represent. It's an "Anglo Saxons have moustaches in the Bayeux tapestry" type effect.

Amazing lecture! Many of your thoughts and conclusions are similar to mine :) I made a set of medieval rules for my club, maybe I will publish them one day and then I will gladly hear your opinion about them ;)

Great stuff. Perceptive and well argued!

WOW This is WOKE RAINBOW DEI PROPAGANDA.

You missed Jean Laidlaw CA, who was one of the first WATU gamers

Dr. Jones, your conclusion that the medieval era is not being considered in terms of military practice or technology based on an observation from wargaming period names makes so much sense!

I stopped listening after she announced her pronoun

Fantastic lecture. Very interesting thoughts regarding the balance between a sort of quantitative view of victory as opposed to a cultural view of victory. Thanks for your time Robert!

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That Design Challenge section was extremely informative. Thank you.

DEI would have Europe speaking German, Italian, Japanese. The commander of the WRNSs did not select any woman to work with Gilbert Roberts. No she selected the cream of the crop and especially those with the skills for this war gaming task force. Those WRNSs were talented. I think the WRNS commander was likely top shelf as she understood what Roberts needed and who in her cadre could deliver those skills. She also knew what the WRNSs needed to give them military bearing. Do not overlook the movie Sink the Bismark. A WRNS officer makes quite a contribution during the early days of the war. The movie is fictional in many parts, but the actress plays a stellar role in this old flick. I do not want to down play what the WRNSs were, especially, these WRNSs. They were all a cut above most people, and their contribution to the defeat of the Axis was significant and at a time when were highly valued in work like this.

What about Trevor Dupuy?

Many thanks for this opportunity to share some of my experiences. This is my youtube channel account (Micael Sousa). Most of the videos are in Portuguese, but some are in English.

3:26 Micael Sousa: No apology for language skills needed, the entire talk was incredibly coherent & well explained.

Is there any YT of an actual game?

Well, it was fun to watch. Don't know if you've seen Drachinifel's wargame simulations on UA-cam, but they illustrate the idea well. They did multiple scenarios on a possible battle of Jutland, and it was quite extraordinary.

Cole rated Axis and Allies too low on BGG. 🙂

Good talk, very informative. I'll be more than happy to see more

Great stuff.

Awesome.Great Scenario for current and future Scenario.Great😅 Scenario for War gaming and special scenario aspects.Its a great War gaming design development and decision. On warfare gaming design ,am in.

A great video

I had no idea this was a thing! Thank you! P.S. Legalize Dueling, imo. Maximum Freedom, Maximum Responsibility. Societal pressure release imo based on Honor and perceived status. Just my 2 cents.

Fascinating talk, thank you for sharing it!

I love the clarity and focus of your design process. Including your being driven by conscious constraints (e.g.,. total time, number of decisions, etc). Luke (lead, Burden of Command)

These fucking law professors and this law institution at Georgetown is completely fucking treasonous!😢😢😢😢 there will be a bunch of you convicted of fucking treason in the United States before long!😢😢😢😢😢😢

anyone know what the tournament rules of root are that he talks about?

Thanks to Georgetown University Wargaming Group, and especially to Sebastian Bae and Nick Wernert for the invitation to hold the presentation and the great time spent. I am available to answer any question, and people can contact me anytime if they are interested to know more about the topic and my designs 'The Collapse' and 'The Spanish Road' including to join the playtest for 'The Collapse'. Thanks again and hopefully to present more times with you. Daniel Hernández Iniesta

This guy can put together a really good presentation about game design! (He can also put together a really good game btw)