The Empire-class battleship, Los Angeles-class heavy cruiser, and Austin-class destroyer were the preeminent Early War warships deployed by the United States of America against the alien Shang and their Terrestrial allies. Creations of the Fleet 2300 Project, they revolutionized American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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World War II did not make Europe a peacenik society. The most militantly peacenik movements had their day of course but fell to the harsh realities of life on Earth in the end. They continued to spar with others and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of my new life goes back to Gamma Trianguli. Free Tibet. Shambhala. I was at a crossroads when I went there. They helped me decide what I wanted to do with my life. I know lots of people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of the best third generation virtual worlds required top-of-the-line computer systems to run. At first this limited the player base to a fraction of the population, but technology improved and cheapened the ability to get better performance out of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If one good thing came out of World War II, it was that Europe never fought each other again. They learned the horrors they could inflict on each other, and for the first time they were recorded in motion pictures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I retired after War’s End. Took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Hooked up with old friends of course. Handled a crisis or two you’ve heard about if you’re reading this. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third generation of virtual worlds brought high-end graphics together with online play and many memorable worlds still played to this day found their origin. The famous Lord British, the Wing Commanders, and the Mechs of War are but three[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forge of Wars: Tactics is designed to be a fast paced game of miniature-style infantry combat. I’ve played games for years and I’ve always wanted a way to play quick and dirty battles. Yes I love involved systems with rules[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
World War II ended with the Allies acting as occupying powers of Germany and Japan. The decimated countries could not rebuild on their own, so we moved in and began to rebuild them ourselves. It was one of the most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War built the largest military we’d ever fielded. We measured our star fleets by the thousands. Our armies counted hundreds of millions of men and women. We fought across hundreds of star systems. It was the largest war any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…