Category Archives: Article
Squadron sizes
Knowing fighter squadron sizes is useful for new scenario builders. Though not perfect in every single case, a good rule of thumb for a fighter squadron deployed at an air base in Command is 10-24 aircraft. The low-end is for an underequipped or battered unit, the high-end is for a USAF squadron at full paper […]
I have a military-themed ebook out
I, Coiler, have a new ebook out. It’s called the Volunteer Force Threat Brief, and it’s on Kindle here. I’ll be honest. This may be one of the first literary tributes to an OPFOR manual out there. Those were, no joke, one of the primary inspirations for this. I’ve had this army called the Volunteer […]
Finding A Place For an Unusual Scenario
Most of the time, picking the location for Command scenario is not very difficult for me. But not all. I was making a scenario where the player takes control of a group of coup plotters controlling a limited force. The scenario itself stalled out for a variety of reasons , but the story of its […]
The Hired Goons Campaign
One of the most inventive uses of Command to tell an unconventional story is Yooper’s “Hired Goons” interactive Let’s Play. Inspired by the old game Strike Commander , it involves thread participants voting on everything from procurement (which as of this post is the main topic of the thread as the team replenishes its losses) […]
More OPFOR Manuals
In light of my post on my fake countries, I might as well share some more real fake countries, and no, that is not an oxymoron. Here’s the second volume of my OPFOR manual collection. Alongside the Circle Trigon/Krasnovian/Donovian manuals in the first post (visible here), this contains several Commonwealth OPFORs. “Musorian” soldiers in the […]
Fake Nations
The creation of fictional nations for the sake of training exercises is not a new thing. For my Command exercise scenarios, I have gone one step further from simple “REDFOR” and made several fictional countries, with interesting results. Suffolkistan From: SEAL Submarine Exercise. Suffolkistan is a fictional designation for the real area of Suffolk County, […]
The Rules of The Game
Andrew Gordon’s The Rules Of The Game used to be my favorite history book of all time. Now, I view as history let down by bias. The large volume is still a magisterial history of the Battle of Jutland and the development of the Royal Navy in the 1800s. It covers the battle itself, and […]