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Platforms That Never Were: A-6F
The A-6F Intruder II was a proposed upgrade of the long-serving attack aircraft that would have added more advanced engines, a more capable radar, and air to air missile capability. Although initially approved, it was cancelled in favor of the ill-fated A-12 Avenger, which in turn collapsed. Previous posts in the “platforms that never were” […]
The 1965 Cutoff
So, in my innumerable Command editor forays and bits of research for the waves of scenarios I never expect to actually make in full, I’ve found one year where I view the most interesting, novel alternate history scenarios as no longer being possible. 1965. It’s a pretty sudden cutoff. I think the two big reasons […]
Command-related Posts on Coiler’s Creative Corner
Since I started Coiler’s Creative Corner, I’ve made a lot of posts on there. Since many of the Command-related posts have been pushed aside by the non-Command ones, I thought I’d give links to some of the ones on that topic, so people interested in wargaming don’t have to dig through posts on book reviews […]
Don’t be Afraid to Invent New Bad Guys
I came across this post from Aivlis who posted this excellent post on the Command Matrix Forum’s Options for Black Sea Conflict thread. The one thing that I notice in a lot of the “Cold War 2.0” scenarios is a disregard for believable strategy or goals on the Russian side, which is also invariably the antagonist. People like to […]
Platforms That Never Were: F-19
The F-19 is one of the most unusual hypothetical platforms in Command. Other such units are based off clear design specifications, while the F-19 is based off a mix of a misconception, a model, and a fiction book. The F-19 designation has been controversial from the start, as it was skipped over, from the F/A-18, […]
Exercise Scenarios-A Follow Up
I’ve posted a sort of follow-up to my recent post on exercise scenarios over at my own blog. There, I talk about how to make the same “actor” unit play different “characters” by equipping it with different loadouts. Coiler’s Creative Corner: One Fighter, Two Adversaries
Why MIRV?
I came across this post from DesperateDan who posted this excellent prose on SA’s AIRPOWER/Cold War thread. Without further ado, I present DesperateDan’s Nuclear Weapons/Trident Effortpost II – Cobalt Thorium G Edition. –The Management A brief introduction to your eventual destruction The first few fission based nuclear weapons were relatively small in explosive yield, but with early […]