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Our hosting provider is doing infrastructure upgrades (from spinning disks to SSD as well as ancient AMD to somewhat less ancient Intel Xeon machines) on February 28 into the 29th so there may be more downtime than usual but hopefully a faster forum on the other side of the upgrades!

Fleet Tactics Author Wayne Hughes, Who Influenced Generations of Naval Officers, Dies at Age 89 (Seapower) RIP.

Great article in military simulation games and real life implications: https://www.c4isrnet.com/it-networks/2019/02/22/what-if-anything-can-the-pentagon-learn-from-this-war-simulator/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Socialflow+DFN&utm_source=facebook.com

Hoping your 2019 is a good one.

Welcome to Fight Club: Wargaming the Future (War on the Rocks)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all from our family, both physical and virtual! What do you wish for from your modern wargaming in 2019?

A TV series based in 43 volumes comic book about a modern Japanese Aegis destroyer back in the time at Midway Battle times, similar to "The Final Countdown", but with a very extended alternate history plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zipang_episodes

The forum software has been upgraded (as if you couldn't tell). Theming and such will come over time. Let us know if you run into issues or find something you particularly like! Happy hunting

Tom Cruise Teases “Top Gun 2” Movie With An F/A-18F Super Hornet Photo (Aviationist)

This topic was initiatiated at http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?s...amp;#entry18886 but after the long and painful writing below, I think it's better begin this new topic I can't say what's my favorite submarine film (in general, for me, the war movies are bad movies), and I remember my grandfather was submariner (sunked in C-3 by a torpedo fired by U-34). But some unknown mad Spaniard had presented a truckload of submarine films someplace in the Net (in spanish), and I can now refresh memories with some titles, some of them unknown to me previously, other famous films, other apparently infamous films, and of course I've not see all of them, but this is a …

I don't want to do spoilers or tell-a-tale, but this week I did rewatch this TV series (I saw it probably 1982) and surprisingly the plot is directly Cold War related! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare_Man

Law of the Sea: A Policy Primer (Fletcher School)

Neat site showing objects close to Earth. http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/

Interesting author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._W._Singer And more concrete, this book relative our "study field": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Fleet:_A_Novel_of_the_Next_World_War

Wargaming Unpredictable Adversaries (and Unreliable Allies) (Strategy Bridge)

Next War: Wargaming the Changing Character of Competition and Conflict (Strategy Bridge)

My own personal opinion, of course, but I can hardly think of a better choice. Well done. Congrats to my American friends.

Over the years I've wanted to make tutorial videos for Harpoon Classic. That has happened minimally in fits and starts via: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPKrveki4y2fcobCgcmi9xS-JTgw-iHN5 For at least a year now I've been wanting to gauge interest in livestreaming HC (Twitch, Youtube Live, etc.). Please answer the poll included and comment with any additional information you are willing to share such as: 1. What day(s) of week and time(s) of day you would want to watch. 2. What chat mechanism(s) you would use for interacting. ...

I certainly enjoyed playing Defcon a few times and enjoyed watching it even more. Now they add VR, sounds like a cult winner to me! https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/15/defcon-vr-is-a-free-virtual-war-room/

Merry Christmas all, expect some HC builds 1st quarter 2017. I'll mainly be attempting to get the gradual turns and altitude changes in line but maybe a few other fun things will come to fruition along the way!