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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

EP14 The Game of War

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Dan Carlin

Classical, Discussion, Rome, Ancient, Military, History, Archival, War, Modern

4.88.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Dan discusses his background in miniature wargaming and then talks to one of the architects of a popular Second World War themed video game about the genre, its development, growth and challenges. 1. War Games through the Ages 3,000BC to 1,500AD by Donald F. Featherstone 2. How to Play War Games in Miniature: A Forgotten Wargaming Pioneer Early Wargames by Joseph Morschauser

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0:00.0

It's hardcore history.

0:04.9

I imagine given the subject matter that I talk about on this program that there are

0:13.5

quite a few people in the audience that have played strategy and tactic war gaming type

0:18.7

games on their computer or video console or what have you over the years.

0:25.1

That's a subject that interests you, going to have an interview on this program where

0:29.5

we talk to one of the founders of a company who makes the most up to date modern types of

0:34.0

games with a historical theme and all that.

0:38.6

I found by having the conversation with him that a lot of the same sorts of decisions

0:45.3

and trade-offs and questions and quandaries came up in their development meetings that

0:51.3

we had in the development meetings for war remains, the virtual reality project I worked

0:56.1

on.

0:57.1

That's at the World War I Museum in Kansas City by the way, if you want to see that.

1:03.7

If you like that kind of stuff, a fascinating interview with Maximilian Ria, whose game

1:09.6

is Hell Let Loose, and it's a fascinating concept.

1:13.4

We'll talk to him a little bit later.

1:15.6

It was, if there is a Ben, Ben's idea that we talk about, we set up the context to that

1:20.9

with a little personal stuff which I don't like to do.

1:24.0

I told Ben, I said, who cares, it's not very interesting.

1:27.6

Me talking about my life and Ben said, well, it's not very interesting.

1:30.1

Whose fault is that?

1:31.9

That's a hard one to have a pithy comeback for.

1:35.9

But the reason he brought it up is he said, you talk about war games in the program all

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