Simmons Games: Napoleon’s Triumph Sample Game shows well why I am looking for an affordable copy of this game. The graphic design is simply brilliant, the game system relatively compact and unusual, the whole thing looks more like one of the old military planning games than a classic wargame. Many possible ways the conflict can develop, depending on how the players decide. Simply all-around well made.
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Junior General is a very interesting website with many (free!) paper "miniatures" for classic miniature-based wargames such as Professor Sabin's Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World. Easy to produce (print, fold, glue, done) and give the battlefield a 3D feel with minimal time and money investment.
Currently, I am dealing with the Macedonian armies and the strategies of Alexander the Great for reasons (Great Battles of History: Alexander). Apparently, excerpts from the History of the Art of War by Hans DelbrĂĽck are still one of the best first points of contact to learn more about this topic.
Great Battles of History: Deluxe Alexander I need to read through, as the box should arrive at my place soon. I just don't know how to occupy the table in the living room for several hours without causing marital crises ...
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? - 11,000 years old. Wow.
Ruins of Babylon irreparably damaged by Iraq War - "But those who visited Babylon after the country's liberation in 2003 report that it is almost impossible to distinguish what are ancient ruins - and what was destroyed by the coalition forces." - the result of the axis of stupidity. What are a few millennia of cultural assets when you can wage a war to distract from domestic political problems and to secure the economic interests of your donors ...
What the end of the world looks like - «Approximately 20 million curies, half as much as during the Chernobyl disaster, were released», explains nuclear expert Vladimir Kuznetsov. A radioactive cloud drove a veritable swath of contamination hundreds of kilometers into the Urals. But containment of the accident damage only began ten hours later. The local administration waited for a signal from Moscow.
Full map of Europe in year 1000 - wouldn't that be something for the rider of the shockwave?
The Birth Control of Yesteryear - in ancient Greece. Fascinating.
Babylonian Explanation for the Nebra Sky Disk?
The Nebra Sky Disk is an astronomical clock:
A Babylonian cuneiform script from the seventh century BC and the detective work of a Hamburg astronomer have solved the mystery of the Nebra Sky Disk: Rahlf Hansen deciphered a leap month rule that can be read from the 3600-year-old bronze disk.
With the rule, the lunar year and the solar year are resynchronized - the lunar year is slightly shorter than the solar year and therefore runs out of sync over time, with the rule on the disk the owners knew when they had to reset the lunar calendar by inserting a leap month.
It's quite amazing to consider that the disk is from the Bronze Age. And Babylonia and Saxony are not really close to each other (although the records are almost a thousand years younger, making the achievements of the disk's manufacturers even more interesting).
Dresdner was the "SS Trust Bank"
A study commissioned by Dresdner Bank itself documents the bank's involvement in the Nazi regime, which went far beyond the involvement of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. These three banks were also the ones whose dissolution was recommended in the OMGUS reports (which, however, was not implemented).