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Upcoming simulation game, perhaps of interest: https://airdefendergame.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3985030/Air_Defender/

Training tool/game Strike Group Defender by ONR and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Strike Group Defender NPS Brief 2014 (pdf)

Hi All, So I have been getting into old computers lately as a hobby, and one of the things which is interesting to me is that many early games were playable for me under, say, MS DOS, whereas newer games often aren't. The one I'm thinking of this evening is called Red Sky at Morning, by Simulations Canada. It reminds me quite a bit of Harpoon in naval focus, if not scope—it's much more grand strategy than tactics. 99% of the game is perfectly accessible, though complex. I'm still unsure what some of the options are for, or how they interact. Has anybody played this game? I seem to remember reading something about Simcan still existing somewhere, I'd love to get in …

BM-21 Battery – weapon of war, which is enormously widespread and capable of creating some real havoc, at least against lightly armored targets. BM- 21 battery is consisted of eighteen forty-tube 122mm rocket launchers and they could bomb enemy positions with 720 rounds of non-persistent Sarin or Hydrogen Cyanide in a single 20 second salvo, reload and replicate that strike 10 minutes later. BM-21 Battery used in War Cabinet Game is suitable for surprise attack against troop concentrations, strong points and command centers. How would you counter BM-21 Battery?

Drive on Moscow: How I Conquered Russia on My iPad (War is Boring blog)

Anyone else here playing that game? I picked it up during the Christmas sale at Matrix and played Guadalcanal with a friend. When I counter-invaded Guadalcanal, sunk two carriers and captured Port Moresby as Japanese, he surrendered... Anyone up for a PBEM with this? Smaller scenario and Japanese side preferred.

Twenty-Seven Years of A-10 Warthog Computer Games (War is Boring)

Picket Duty, Fletcher-class DD facing kamikazes on Okinawa, very detailed boardgame and card simulation of a destroyer defending the US Fleet of aproaching kamikazes. Very probably worth of viewing:

Probably many of interest: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2

We Shall Fight Them on the Tabletop: What the Game of “Churchill” Teaches Us About Alliance Politics (War on the Rocks)