I’ve been reading The Fall of Berlin by Antony Beevor, who also wrote the phenomenal Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943. Both books deal with the incredible brutality of Weorld War II conflict in some detail.
Beevor documents pretty carefully the barbarity of the Red Army as it advances across Greater Germany - the rape and slaughter […]
I’ve been playing Battle for Middle-Earth II, and I have mixed feelings about it at this satge. I am perhaps 5 missions into the Good Campaign - the single-player missions as the forces of good (in this case Elves, and on occasion, Dwarves).
I haven’t played the original, so I can’t comment as to any advances […]
How much strategy is in your average RTS?
This interesting History of Real Time Strategy makes the observation:
… rarely does a game actually reward players for actually employing a particularly complex strategy with few units of low power against a far larger force which, by most calculations, should emerge the victor …
Troy at Flash of Steel […]