Rindis

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Old-time wargamer, and into all sorts of geekery. http://www.rindis.com/blog http://www.rindis.com/fox-den/

Cover of Stephen W. Sears' Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac. (Mine is the Mariner Books Kindle edition, but this same cover has been used for just about every edition so far.)
VASL screenshot showing the situation and early movement in Advanced Squad Leader scenario HF8 "Fahrenheit 352".
Cover of Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (1): The Red-Brick Castles of Prussia 1230-1466. It features a reconstruction of Marienwerder by artist Peter Dennis, and the usual gray-blue trade dress of the Fortress series.
Cover for Designing Wargames, a collection of essays originally written in 1976 by Richard Berg, Tom Dalgliesh, John Hill, Don Lowry, Mike McGuire, Al Nofi, John Prados, Randy Reed, and Lou Zocchi; edited by Dana Lombardy and Don Lowry.
Battalion Combat Series; Danger Forward. This shot is at the end of July 10 from the Axis perspective (looking south). Americans are making headway, and PG KG was completely immobilized by a failed SNAFU roll.
A shot of nearly the full BCS Danger Forward map as of the end of day/turn 1. The Americans are just starting to head inland, while elements of the Herman Goering division are still stuck away from the main action.
Cover of the The Killing Moon, by N.K. Jemisin, showing what I assume is supposed to be royal palace of Gujaareh.
Clip of SFB Ship System Display for photon torpedo-based planetary defenses. Full sheet shows five DEFSATS, and six ground-based photon launchers (one per hexside). Originally from Advanced Missions.
Cover of Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker, Yale University Press, 2019. [I am not sure about that "Y"; it is sticking up above the rest of the name for no reason....]
Cover for the seventh issue of Lowrys Guidon, a supplement for the Lowrys Hobbies Catalog, giving updates, and additions. This one is from around November 1973, and includes a Gary Gygax article recounting a _Don't Give Up the Ship_ battle.
Cover of The Conquest of Saxony AD 782-85, Campaign #271 from Osprey Publishing by David Nicole. Cover is by Graham Turner, and is from the two-page spread "Carolingian Forces Are Defeated By Saxon ‘Rebels’ In the Suntel Hills in AD 782".
Cover of issue #51 (January-February 1972) of Panzerfaust. The first of two issues printed by offset press while it was still a wargaming fanzine run by Don Greenwood.
Cover for the short short story Journey Home by May Barros.
Cover of Abaddon's Gate, book 3 of The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). Art by Daniel Dociu; looks Berkey-inspired to me, and shows... spacecraft? that might appear in the novel somewhere, but you'll never be able to tell.
Components of the GMT game, Thunderbolt: Deluxe Edition, compiling all of the three releases in the Ancient World series. Top left is the box top and top right is the box back. The Spain & Mauretania map is spread out and largely covered by other components. The upper corners have army displays and reference cards; the left has the seven counter sheets (and a final half sheet in the top center); lower right is the two other maps (folded) of Italy and Carthage+Numidia; and bottom center are the five books giving the main rules, all the 'set specific' extra rules, and the scenarios.
Cover for "Inventing the Renaissance" by Ada Palmer (in particular, the U of Chicago Press Kindle edition). It features a photograph of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, sculpted by Benvenuto Cellini, and nicely Pinied by his sword and the typeface.
Cover for Osprey Publishing's "Pylos and Sphacteria 425 BC", which is the 261st volume of their Campaign Series. Peter Dennis did four two-page spread illustrations, and the cover is taken from the last one, showing the Spartan last stand of the siege.
Turn 3 of the "Across the Volturno" scenario in Italy '43. The Allies have a slow start, but the entire German inland/eastern flank is in bad shape (especially, since the unit holding Benevento gets removed right after this).
Cover of Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre, 2021 Open Road edition.
End of game for Empire Builder: Europe. I had just won with a delivery to Seville. Sadly, my note app did not save the end-of day money totals.
Cover of issue #111 of Campaign, The Magazine of Strategy Games, Winter 1983 Featuring in this issue: Three Origins Report, Strategies in Civilization, and a review of another Gettysburg game... more. This would be the final issue, as it went out of business at this point, and no one ever picked it up. The just-released PDF version includes a two page editorial from me, and a page about the business from Don Lowry.
Cover for Pocket Star Trek novel #2, The Entropy Effect, by Vonda N. McIntyre. Second version - first was part of the Timescape imprint, and had a white background instead of blue. Art by Wayne Barlowe. TMP Enterprise and uniforms are shown, but the book is more properly in TOS. Sulu has grown a mustache and his hair out in the novel, so he presumably did a read-through before doing the art (though by a end-of-book comment, that should probably be a more 'starter' mustache).
Screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV, during the quest "A Need for Speed". My WoL Rylea is inserted into a grainy black-and-white Noir flashback wearing a trenchcoat, sunglasses and porkpie hat (and looking good). Nashu is in her suit at the right side.
Cover of the translated book 1, volume 1 Ascendance of a Bookworm by Miya Kazuki.
Action during a game of Knights of the Air, with a Sopwith Snipe (blue "base") approaching a Fokker DVIII (tan base) while the latter is coming out of an Immelmann Turn.
Cover of Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard: Mosby, Morgan, and Forrest in the Civil War, by Robert W. Black. Part of the Stackpole Military History Series (with a trade dress showing a medal and a gray-blue outer border [indicating ACW history]).
Cover for The Dragonbards Trilogy by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, featuring Nightpool, The Ivory Lyre, and The Dragonbards.
Final positions, Commands & Colors: Ancients Ex 3, River Sabis. Roman win, 7 to 3.
Cover for issue #110 of Campaign: The Magazine of Strategy Games. Undated, inside, it is given as July-August 1982 (it ran late). Featuring: The Real Dark December: The First Winter in Russia, 1941 Review and Variant on The Third Reich '81 Review of Ironbottom Sound with Designer's Notes
Cover for Bruce Catton's Terrible Swift Sword, part two of his Centennial History of the American Civil War. Pocket Cardinal edition, 1st printing, 1967.
A little into a game of Chitin I, a melee occupies the middle of the board as forces clash over the harvest.
Cover of the 40th anniversary edition of the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, by Gene Roddenberry, based on the primary poster for the movie. (Also: Pocket Books Star Trek (TOS) #1, though not mentioned on the cover.)
Cover for issue #109 of Campaign, The Magazine of Strategy Games (May-June 1982). Featuring: Reviews on Winter Storm; Battle Over Britain; Combat, Normandy and Beyond; McPherson's Ridge and Napoleon at Austerlitz Plus many small review, designer's notes on Tanktics, and more....
VASL screen shot of the first turn of J260 "Retaking Hill 772".
Cover for Osprey Men-at-Arms #409: The Hussite Wars 1419-36. The cover is a crop of Angus McBride's art of Jan Zizka, a Hussite peasant, and Hussite spearman.
Cover of the Diversion Books edition of Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams. This is just the Project Gutenberg version put into Amazon's Kindle format, and loses footnote linking in the process.
Shot of the Chariots of Fire Troy scenario late in turn 4. The Danaans (Greeks, brown) have gotten a good chunk of their army across the Scamander. The two lines have come into contact, and Trojan army (red) is about to get into trouble. Danaan units will also rout, but the multiple lines of reinforcements will carry the day.
Front cover for furry-contemporary-fantasy-lesbian-romance Fairy Tales by Robin.
A screenshot of Crusader Kings II, showing the introduction to the "Iron Century" start (AD 936), added to the game in patch 3.2.
Cover of Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, seventeenth printing. Has a quote from Obama, a NYT bestseller endorsement, and note of Spielberg's movie, Lincoln.
Cover for Star Trek: The Next Generation giant novel Vendetta for Peter David. Typical two-three portrait + Enterprise format image.
Cover for Indigo Rain, furry novella by Watts Martin.
Cover of Campaign: The Magazine of Strategy Games, issue #108 (March-April 1982). Featuring: The Battle For Leyte Gulf The Final Sortie of the Imperial Japanese Navy Reviews of Storm Over Arnhem, Assault On Tobruk, Demonland, and Raider Armor Rules Design Theory Strategy in Dune and more....
Cover for C.J. Cherryh and Jane Fancher's Alliance Unbound. Part two of a series covering the start of the war concluded in the classic Downbelow Station.
Cover of _The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War_. Nitpicks - Lincoln is shown without his beard, which he had at this point—though it was very new, so not actually that far off. On the other hand, the train is a stock (3D model?) shot with an American locomotive—and those didn't exist until 1868. I'm also unsure about that final serif.
Board situation in Renegade Legion: Centurion intro scenario "Chance Encounter" during turn 2. Tanks take a bit of killing here, but the carnage is already beginning.
Cover of the 1967 Pocket Edition of The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton. My personal copy is the fourth printing (1971). "Cover photograph courtesy of Culver Pictures, Inc."
Cover for issue #107 of Campaign: The Magazine of Strategy Games Featuring: Review and Strategies of GDW's A House Divided Review and Strategy of two Yaquinto Napoleonic games—The Great Redoubt and Thin Red Line Reviews on Tanktics, Ironbottom Sound, Norway 1940, Kanev and more...
Men of Iron: Infidel scenario Dorylaeum. I (Crusaders) have had one wing smashed by the Seljuk medium cavalry, but the second line of knights did a lot of damage to them. The Norman pikes have marched out for a new line, which is now dissolving in the face of cavalry superiority.
Component spread of 7 Wonders: Duel and Terraforming Mars. The former has a component tray, and looks like the small deck should be split up. (Also has a pad of scoring sheets and larger cards that were still in the box.) Terraforming Mars has two sheets of tokens, player mats, three packages of cards (all one deck, I think), and *lots* of cubes.
End of the Plain of Alsace (game 1). We had smashed each other's right flanks, but Patch got most of the Warriors for a win here.
Beginning of turn 5, showing movement from end of 4 through part of 5. The D6 is about to turn and finally get a close overloaded shot into the rear of the CS.
Lunch at Firehouse Barbecue in Fallbrook. Babyback rib plate; their original and sweet sauces are very good.
Cover for issue #106 of Campaign: The Magazine of Strategy Games. Featuring: Strategy and review of GDW's 1941; Thoughts on the GenCon East convention; Reviews of Tunnels & Rolls and The Battle of Austerlitz; and much more...
New loading screen added to Stellaris with patch 2.3, which added the Ancient Relics expansion.
Screenshot of EU5, showing the production of goods.
Cover for issue #105 of Campaign: The Magazine of Strategy Gaming. Featuring: Strategy in War At Sea and Drive on Stalingrad; Review of AH's New Bulge '81; and Three Views of Pacific Origins.
Original opening menu for Imperator: Rome from Paradox Interactive. A grand strategy game covering Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia from the time of the initial rise of Rome as a regional power to the fall of the Republic.