Category Archives: History
The Kirov-class Battlecrusiers Part 1
Nebakenezzer posted a few great posts on the AIRPOWER thread on SA recently, I’ve asked his permission to publish them here! Please check out his blog at https://horseformer.blogspot.ca/! Infodump on Kirov-class Battlecrusiers Note: this infodump is quick and dirty. I have two sources for this infodump: a Osprey book on Soviet Battlecrusiers, and this extensive series […]
Seventy Years of OPFOR
The Many OPFOR Nations The asymmetric OPFOR has been haunting the training grounds of the US Army for seventy years now, beginning shortly after World War II. Having an inherently dissimilar force is effective at training an army to face an opponent that looks, moves, and fights differently. OPFORs have run the gamut from overly […]
Back Blogging Battleships
So, it’s time for the Cold War battleships to sail again, simply because I’ve been looking up a lot of information on their hypothetical modifications. And what I saw was interesting enough to write about. First, the 1980s reactivation of the Iowas. Historically, their modifications were minor in comparison to some of the other proposals. […]
Ready… or not? On the availability of units.
Ready or not? When creating a new scenario one of the challenges is to decide not only which units should be included but also how many of them will actually be able to fight. So the question is: Ready or not? The German “Bericht zur materiellen Einsatzbereitschaft der Hauptwaffensysteme der Bundeswehr” (Report for the readiness […]
They Came From The Lua Script
So, now that I’ve gotten a reveal of one of my least favorite scenario works out of the way, I can move on to happier stuff. One of my scenarios I feel the most admiration for is They Came From The Museum. Now I can reveal the making of it. _ _ _ _ The […]
ICBM Basing Modes – Where can I hide my ICBMs today?
I came across this post from Maimgara who posted this excellent prose on SA’s AIRPOWER/Cold War thread. Without further ado, I present Maimgara’s ICBM Basing Modes – Where can I hide my ICBMs today? –The Management I recently came across the fantastic Arms Control Wonk blog and podcast, which on Oct 10 did an episode on a […]
The Terrible Secret of Myanmar Defense Revealed
Happy New Year, Baloogan Campaign readers. As a New Years resolution, I vowed to post about the “making of” some of my favorite Command creations. Or, in this case, my least favorite Command creation. Now, I like bad things. I like reading bad things, like the the niche cult mess of the NFL SuperPro. I’ve […]