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(See "Role-playing pioneers" archive for discussions about Gary Gygax, Jim Roslof, Frank Mentzer, Donald Kaye, Darlene Pekul, Stephen R. Marsh, David "Diesel" LaForce, Rick Loomis, Jim Holloway, Lenard Lakofka, Ford Ivey, Robin Wood, Dave Nalle, Richard Halliwell, Kim Eastland, Teeuwynn Woodruff, Martin McKenna, Keith Poulter, Steve Perrin, Ian Marsh, Teeuwynn Woodruff, Bryan Ansell)
If you have the inkling to help out with any more bios in draft space, I have a couple of dozen or so needing anywhere from a little to a lot of TLC: User:BOZ/Draft pages. BOZ ( talk) 23:31, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Oh no, it looks like Jennell Jaquays has died. :( BOZ ( talk) 13:03, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
:( Guinness323 ( talk) 16:19, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
I missed this one, but apparently
James Herbert Brennan died a few weeks ago.
BOZ (
talk) 12:51, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
K-k-k-eeping up with this, here is the next letter! A little longer than J, but L will be longer, and M will be a lot longer, but for right now here we are:
Kafer Dawn (145),
Kafer Sourcebook (145),
The Kathol Rift (234),
Kellar's Keep (168),
KFZ.1 Kubelwagen: Volkswagen Type 82 (29),
Killer Crosshairs (231),
Kindred of the East (248),
The Kingdoms of Kalamar (236),
King of Chicago (214),
Kingsport: The City in the Mists (186),
KViSR Rocks! (133)
BOZ (
talk) 13:13, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
You did get a little more for the Shadowdale one, but do you see anything more for Tantras (module) and Waterdeep (module)? BOZ ( talk) 09:14, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
I was double checking your archiving of the "A better year" thread, and I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything there. If you have anything more to add to any of these, that would be awesome.
Do you see anything more for
BASH! (role-playing game)?
BOZ (
talk) 08:20, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
I know you're on vacation, but people seem to know that because they keep the deletions going. ;) If you are able to check at all, do you see anything more for Krister Sundelin? BOZ ( talk) 11:56, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Got anything for the source tags on
Deal Me In and
The Last Hurrah (Advanced Squad Leader)?
BOZ (
talk) 17:30, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
If you've got anything for them, yesterday I started
A Paladin in Hell and
The Bestiary (Dragonlance: Fifth Age). :)
BOZ (
talk) 11:17, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Do you have covers for these adventures?:
The Shattered Circle,
Wrath of the Minotaur,
The Sylvan Veil
BOZ (
talk) 12:06, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm taking a break for now on creating new articles, but I recently restored the long-ago redirected
Fire in the East as there was a review for it. :)
BOZ (
talk) 10:18, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
OK, here we go, I managed to get issue #8 for Games International completed, which means we are halfway done with this magazine. :) I may or may not continue with these weekly, we will see. All the red links below are in draft space for now. Anyway, today I started these:
International Cricket (board game),
Topple (game),
Jump the Queue,
MBT (board game),
Fight for the Sky,
Ace of Aces: Wingleader,
8th Army (board game),
Tales of the Loremasters,
Quelbourne: Land of the Silver Mist,
Journey to the Magic Isle,
Demons of the Burning Night.
BOZ (
talk) 19:48, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Moving right along to GI #13 and my mad quest to try to get to the end this week! ;) Today, I started
Liftoff!,
Chamelequin,
Clubhouse Baseball,
How to Launch Your Own Board Game*,
5th Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the Indian Ocean,
The Siege of Jerusalem,
Starfire (role-playing game),
Panzer Battles (video game),
Head Coach v3,
Pro Football Simulation.
BOZ (
talk) 19:06, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Hey there! :) To start the year off with, I decided to finish off the reviews from The Games Machine that I had not touched from earlier. I understand there are a number of mini-reviews in the magazine, and I will come back to those eventually. My play for the meantime is to go through Different Worlds and its 47 issues. I have perused most of the issues so far to get a feel for it, and this will be the first magazine I go through where the majority of review subjects already have articles. :) The first 10 issues had much fewer reviews than most of the issues after that, so this week I will try to get through the first 10 issues, but after that I will switch to one or two issues per week. My office is still closed this week, and no idea when we will reopen, so with any "extra" time I am going to resume the rather lengthy project of User:BOZ/Pyramid. :) After finishing DW, we will see where I go from there! :) BOZ ( talk) 17:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Long hiatus temporarily interrupted. :) I realized earlier this week that I had missed
The Keep (board game) while working on Imagine, so I created a draft for it - actually, I had incorrectly identified it as a review for the RPG adventure also published by Mayfair, but it was correctly pointed out to me that this review was actually for the board game, so I rectified that situation. :)
BOZ (
talk) 17:56, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
While you were working on the SPI wargames above, I went through the
List of SPI games and there are a bunch there with notability tags and other sourcing issues, but I also found a few articles that were redirected to the list page so I moved them to drafts for now:
Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC,
NATO: Operational Combat in Europe in the 1970s,
Patrol (board game), and
Ragnarok (board game). The first two were created by the same user, Patrol was around for several years, and the last one was by yours truly. The NATO game was speedy deleted the same day it was created, as it was unsourced; I later restored and redirected to the list in hopes that it could one day be salvaged. Armageddon and Patrol were nominated for AFD along with all the other articles created by the same user on the same day he created them (along with Patrol since he also made an edit to that one), at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC. (
To the Green Fields Beyond (game) was kept as it was an Origins Award winner;
Dixie (board wargame) was redirected to the list page, but I restored it a few years ago while working on Ares magazine). Armageddon was redirected to the list page, while Patrol was actually redirected to a similar game. Trainwrecks like these are the main reason most people hate bundled AFDs, especially uneven ones. Ragnarok actually had one review in Space Gamer based on its original publication in Ares magazine but was redirected at AFD because I did not know of any other reviews at the time, but I believe it was also republished as a standalone game later. If there are sources out there to make any of these worth restoring, then we will have to make that happen. :)
BOZ (
talk) 12:27, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
In the first issue of Phoenix, John Norris thought the game considerably less complex than other wargames covering this historic period, but noted that "The level of complexity can be varied by the use of optional rules, which can raise the game from a simple slogging match to a fairly good simulation of the capabilities of the armies involved." Norris thought the weakest part of the rules was "the simulation of morale; this is only done through an optional Panic Level." [1] Guinness323 ( talk) 19:22, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Now, since you split this section off, and since I mentioned that there were other SPI games with notability issues, and since you do a way better job on wargames than I can do, if you wanted to take a look at any of the others I found, here they are!
I went though everything in
Category:Simulations Publications games, and these have notability tags:
Citadel of Blood,
King Arthur (board wargame),
Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965-1966,
Vector 3, and
Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora
These have no citations at all, or at least none that contribute to notability:
Battle for Germany,
Cemetery Hill (game),
Dreadnought (naval wargame),
Grunt (board wargame),
Highway to the Reich,
Panzer Armee Afrika (board game), and
War in Europe (game)
The following games have only one review cited:
Agincourt (game),
Arena of Death (game),
Barbarian Kings,
Berlin '85,
Conquistador (game),
Dragonslayer (board game),
Fifth Corps (game),
Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith,
Hof Gap,
Introduction to Adventure Gaming,
Napoleon's Last Battles,
The Omega War,
Renaissance of Infantry,
Rescue from the Hive,
Sauron (game),
Spies!,
StarForce: Alpha Centauri,
StarGate (board game),
StarSoldier,
The Sword and the Stars, and
The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora (some articles had one independent review and one from an SPI magazine like Ares, but I did not list those here since there are plenty that have just one! nor did I intentionally list anything that won an Origins award)
On these, sources are listed, but there are no citations present in the article:
Across Suez,
Chinese Farm (board game),
Golan (game),
The Next War (board game), and
Panzergruppe Guderian (game)
And for miscellaneous issues that may need attention,
The Campaign for North Africa has sources but no reception so far
It's a long list and I've got lots of other stuff I wanted to look at on a higher priority, but if you spot anything that grabs your attention, or one day find yourself looking for something to do, or just get on a roll, knock yourself out or spend a year slowly going through that. :) BOZ ( talk) 04:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey not bad, less than a year - nine months actually! :) Now, if you really want to be a super completest and work on every article we have for SPI games, of the 85 articles currently in the SPI games category, these are the only ones that I had not seen any significant edits from you:
After the Holocaust (game),
BattleFleet Mars,
Commando (role-playing game),
Dallas (role-playing game),
Demons (board game),
Invasion America (board wargame),
Swords & Sorcery (SPI),
Universe (role-playing game). :)
BOZ (
talk) 11:27, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Now, if you want to be a super extra completest, the last thing I would have for this section would be the following articles that you have worked on before, although it might have been a while, but they just need a cover image if you can find one!:
Agincourt (game),
The Creature That Ate Sheboygan,
Dawn of the Dead (game),
Dixie (board wargame),
Grunt (board wargame),
Time Tripper (board game),
Titan Strike!,
War in the Ice.
BOZ (
talk) 12:01, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
References
It was truly a herculean effort for you to get through all the SPI games above, and even more impressive that you have apparently more than doubled the number of articles in that category over the past year or so! :o But there is nothing left in that category that you haven't already done, so if you like, we can look at other companies you have mostly cleaned up on, whenever you need a break from other things?
You've improved everything on the MicroGame line so far except for The Lords of Underearth. Dragons of Underearth is an RPG probably based on that game, and The Air-Eaters Strike Back! is a sequel to a different MicroGame. The Fantasy Trip was their biggest RPG (with the supplements Fantasy Masters' Codex, Fantasy Masters' Screen, and In the Labyrinth (supplement) and adventures including Death Test, Death Test 2, Master of the Amulets, Orb Quest, Security Station, and Tollenkar's Lair), and Monsters! Monsters! is another early RPG that they produced. Another historical game is The Trojan War (board game). That's it, you've gotten the other ones. :)
Articles uncreated then? Material first of all for The Fantasy Trip not yet created includes Advanced Melee and Advanced Wizard (which may or may not warrant separate articles one day?), The Forest-Lords of Dihad, Treasure of the Silver Dragon, Treasure of Unicorn Gold, and The Warrior-Lords of Darok.
As for their board games, the following are listed at BGG aside from the ones above: Command at Sea, Fire When Ready, A Fistful of Turkeys (if you can find enough to bring it back from here), and lastly Stalin's Tanks: Armor Battles on the Russian Front.
Not that much! I will take a look at a few more companies eventually, preferably ones like these with a limited amount of releases - no more monster production companies like SPI! LOL :) BOZ ( talk) 01:25, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year. :) Back in 2020 we had gone through all the Origins Award/Charles S. Roberts Award winners from the 1970s and started articles for anything that did not have one. While you have been going through the Phoenix reviews and also now starting new articles, that reminded me that we left off with 1980. I saw quite a few reviews for Origins winners in what you have added so far, so it's not a stretch to think we might get a few more from the early 1980s as well? For the record, here are the remaining redlinked winners from the time period where Phoenix was in publication, in case any of these did actually have reviews:
If you find reviews in Phoenix so we can start any of those then great, otherwise we will get to them eventually. :) BOZ ( talk) 22:07, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Just noting that I recently added three PBM Origins Award winners:
Starship Command,
Forgotten Realms, and
Fall of Rome. :)
BOZ (
talk) 05:12, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
You may or may not know of these already, but I went through all the titles at http://tacticalwargamer.com/magazines/magazines.htm and searched on archive.org, and these are what I found:
RPG magazines are much better represented on there, unfortunately! There may be more that I did not find, of course. But, this is at least something to work with. BOZ ( talk) 15:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
I restored Air Force (game) and moved it to draft space. :) BOZ ( talk) 13:16, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
BOZ ( talk) 13:17, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
One thing I should point out, and I think you may have access to some issues, but at User:BOZ/Casus Belli I have noted more than a few wargame reviews from that French publication - a much higher percentage than usual for an RPG magazine. :) BOZ ( talk) 05:36, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Just a heads up, as long as you have your wargame sources out; I recall that Games International reviewed wargames in nearly every issue, and that includes quite a few that I started as noted and are all linked to above: Desert Falcons* (GDW, 1988), The Peninsular War (Rostherne Games, 1973), Onslaught (TSR, 1987), La Bataille d'Albuera: Espagnol (Clash of Arms, 1987), The Emperor Returns (Clash of Arms, 1986), Fight for the Sky (Attactix, 1982), 8th Army (Attactix, 1982), Turning Point: Stalingrad (Avalon Hill, 1989), Arnhem Bridge (Attactix, 1982), Modern Naval Battles (3W, 1989), Tomorrow the World (3W, 1989), Light Division (3W, 1989), Hitler's Last Gamble (3W, 1989), Europe Aflame (TSR, 1989), Usuthu! (Valhalla Games, 1989), 5th Fleet (Victory Games, 1989), Rise and Fall (Engelmann, 1989), Napoleon's Battles (Avalon Hill, 1989), Red Barricades (Avalon Hill, 1989), Shell Shock! (Victory Games, 1990), and Modern Naval Battles II (3W, 1990), and possibly others if I missed them! BOZ ( talk) 23:23, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
In case you have the sources to make it work, the only
MicroGame without an article is
Sticks & Stones (board game)
[19]. :)
BOZ (
talk) 01:14, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't know if this is redundant to what you already had, but someone did take the time and trouble to put User:Rindis/Sources together. :) BOZ ( talk) 12:46, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
To give myself something to do, to help out with your quest on the The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming, I went through all the reviews on pages 128-187 and found links for everything there - hope that helps. :) I think I fairly accurately matched up the names of the games since the ones in the book tended to be abbreviated, but the ones with a ? were ones that I could not find a BGG link for. I included every game in the list, even the ones too brief to truly be considered reviews. BOZ ( talk) 16:05, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Good work on John Hill by the way - that article has always looked pretty funky, and now it's improved. :) I don't know how many of these are wargame designers, but if you see anything at User:BOZ/Games deletions#Designers and artists worth working on, I can help you make that happen; I have drafts going for about half of these. BOZ ( talk) 12:35, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
I added links to Nick Palmer for all the articles that cited The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming. I noticed a few that had other authors, so I switched those to Palmer, but if other people were involved in the book and I made an error, those will be easy to find using my edit summary of "fix name of author and add link". I also caught a weird citation on Stellar Conquest, see #3 under the Reception section and tell me what you think. :) BOZ ( talk) 04:27, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
LOL, thanks to us Category:Wargames introduced in the 1970s is enormous. :) You likely noticed me creating "RPG supplements by year" categories, so I will probably want to do the same for this category as well later this week because it's grown considerably. :) BOZ ( talk) 02:26, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
I went ahead and went through the index in the back of The Complete Book of Wargames to see what is done and not yet done, and at this point it is mostly done. :) I hope this helps! BOZ ( talk) 15:12, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if these were on your radar, but I found reviews for
Dark December (game),
Dauntless (game), and
Battles of the Hundred Days so I started them, in addition to
Crescendo of Doom from last week. :)
BOZ (
talk) 21:30, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
In case you haven't seen it before, my current huge project is User:BOZ/BTG reviews noticeboard which has its own section for Wargames. :) In particular, since you've done lots (and lots and lots!) of Simulations Publications games, I want to let you know that while I did not list all the SPI games reviewed in "Moves" (too many!) there are still some there in case you want to hit any of them, namely: Chicago, Chicago! with at least one independent review listed on that noticeboard page. :) BOZ ( talk) 00:01, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
Do you have any sources to help build up the reception sections on
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (board game) and
Gorkamorka?
BOZ (
talk) 17:44, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Partly for the sake of building up articles that need it, and partly to stave off future deletion attempts, I think it is a good idea to pick a few articles with potential here and there for a little improvement. Do you see any more sources to help build the reception section on the Origins award-winning
Adventures in Middle-earth which was once nominated for AFD? Or do you see anything for other award-winners
Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games) or
Settlers of America: Trails to Rails?
BOZ (
talk) 12:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
See anything more for another award-winner, The Shackled City Adventure Path? BOZ ( talk) 00:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
I expect that Starfleet Voyages may have some more sources? I would say the same of award winner Qin: The Warring States. The Maztica Campaign Set also seems like it has been getting more attention lately. I think Zargo's Lords might be one that you might be able to find more on. BOZ ( talk) 23:59, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
I've got a few more here, for whenever. System 7 Napoleonics is a somewhat obscure award winner that has a couple of reviews from Dragon, but maybe your wargame sources have more for it since you last looked at this one three years ago. Similarly, I wonder if Vector 3 has another review or two? Also to toss in a more recent D&D adventure, The Dungeon of Death seems like it has potential. :) BOZ ( talk) 23:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Guinness323,
As you may know, Ogre, to which you have significantly contributed, is continuing to be assessed for GA, and I have observed your changes, which are commendable and improve the article substantially.
Nevertheless, the current consensus is not established yet, but the current general view is that the article is likely B-class or C-class after those improvements. I have added some of my possible suggestions in the GA Reassessment Notes under the talk section for this article, so if you could follow those suggestions and add more factual detail to ensure that it could hopefully retain its GA status that would be great- VickKiang ( talk) 00:45, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
If you'd like to start an entry on that (from List of SPI games), I'd be happy to expand it from pl:Gwiezdny kupiec. That game was (illegally?) published in late communist Poland, and became a cult classic, which is confirmed by RS which certainly makes it notable. A Polish sf writer wrote an accompanying story, and the game has even a number of modern era retro-reviews like this one (I can list more for you if you'd like to machine translate them). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC) Ps. Also ping User:BOZ. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:51, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
@ BOZ:, just to save you the time and effort of creating stubs for the following, I will be creating these articles in 2023:
If I can find more sources, I'll also create the following:
And of course, I will always be available for help with other projects or articles. Guinness323 ( talk) 19:28, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
I found another review for Freedom in the Galaxy in issue 77 [78] along with two wargames about China. BOZ ( talk) 17:02, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Letting you know that the edit notice is now live - if you edit any article with refideas listed on the talk page, you will get the notification. :) BOZ ( talk) 23:54, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
So, you posted this thread a little over a year ago, at which point it looked like this before I started hacking away at it: [85] with an ambitious 40 articles that you intended to start, another 14 in the maybe and another 23 as hopefuls with just one source. I am proud to report that you have started more than half of that entire list, including almost 3/4 of the ones that you were definitely planning on doing. :) This, I must say, was in addition to many other wargame and other articles you started that were not even on this list, as well as me pestering you to work on articles whose notability was challenged and/or that I just wanted to see what you could do with them. I always feel that you do some really impressive things here, and I hope you continue as long as you can and still want to. :)
True confession time, I know you started this thread to save me the work of creating stubs, but I went ahead and did several more anyway earlier this week. :) I took a look at the list that was left, and found anything that I could point at being in at least two solid sources, and made a stub for each of those. So, think of them as something you can look at whenever, but I gave a starting point for Siege!, SSN, Stonewall, Troy, Yalu, March on India, Verdun, and Viva! BOZ ( talk) 19:50, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
How did you stumble upon those?
FYI: https://web.archive.org/web/20220814110606/https://www.rebel.pl/rebel-times/147-grudzien-2019.html - it was live few weeks ago, sigh. The pdfs are still there. I'll add the review from #10 to that article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:57, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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This game depicted the 1631 battle not the 1642 one. I played it as a child and remember King Gustav having a piece. He was dead by 1642 and I wouldn't recall his name if not for the game. Please read this [86] also for proof of what I am saying. Lost in Quebec ( talk) 17:47, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ ( talk) 00:17, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
(See "Role-playing pioneers" archive for discussions about Gary Gygax, Jim Roslof, Frank Mentzer, Donald Kaye, Darlene Pekul, Stephen R. Marsh, David "Diesel" LaForce, Rick Loomis, Jim Holloway, Lenard Lakofka, Ford Ivey, Robin Wood, Dave Nalle, Richard Halliwell, Kim Eastland, Teeuwynn Woodruff, Martin McKenna, Keith Poulter, Steve Perrin, Ian Marsh, Teeuwynn Woodruff, Bryan Ansell)
If you have the inkling to help out with any more bios in draft space, I have a couple of dozen or so needing anywhere from a little to a lot of TLC: User:BOZ/Draft pages. BOZ ( talk) 23:31, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Oh no, it looks like Jennell Jaquays has died. :( BOZ ( talk) 13:03, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
:( Guinness323 ( talk) 16:19, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
I missed this one, but apparently
James Herbert Brennan died a few weeks ago.
BOZ (
talk) 12:51, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
K-k-k-eeping up with this, here is the next letter! A little longer than J, but L will be longer, and M will be a lot longer, but for right now here we are:
Kafer Dawn (145),
Kafer Sourcebook (145),
The Kathol Rift (234),
Kellar's Keep (168),
KFZ.1 Kubelwagen: Volkswagen Type 82 (29),
Killer Crosshairs (231),
Kindred of the East (248),
The Kingdoms of Kalamar (236),
King of Chicago (214),
Kingsport: The City in the Mists (186),
KViSR Rocks! (133)
BOZ (
talk) 13:13, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
You did get a little more for the Shadowdale one, but do you see anything more for Tantras (module) and Waterdeep (module)? BOZ ( talk) 09:14, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
I was double checking your archiving of the "A better year" thread, and I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything there. If you have anything more to add to any of these, that would be awesome.
Do you see anything more for
BASH! (role-playing game)?
BOZ (
talk) 08:20, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
I know you're on vacation, but people seem to know that because they keep the deletions going. ;) If you are able to check at all, do you see anything more for Krister Sundelin? BOZ ( talk) 11:56, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Got anything for the source tags on
Deal Me In and
The Last Hurrah (Advanced Squad Leader)?
BOZ (
talk) 17:30, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
If you've got anything for them, yesterday I started
A Paladin in Hell and
The Bestiary (Dragonlance: Fifth Age). :)
BOZ (
talk) 11:17, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Do you have covers for these adventures?:
The Shattered Circle,
Wrath of the Minotaur,
The Sylvan Veil
BOZ (
talk) 12:06, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm taking a break for now on creating new articles, but I recently restored the long-ago redirected
Fire in the East as there was a review for it. :)
BOZ (
talk) 10:18, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
OK, here we go, I managed to get issue #8 for Games International completed, which means we are halfway done with this magazine. :) I may or may not continue with these weekly, we will see. All the red links below are in draft space for now. Anyway, today I started these:
International Cricket (board game),
Topple (game),
Jump the Queue,
MBT (board game),
Fight for the Sky,
Ace of Aces: Wingleader,
8th Army (board game),
Tales of the Loremasters,
Quelbourne: Land of the Silver Mist,
Journey to the Magic Isle,
Demons of the Burning Night.
BOZ (
talk) 19:48, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Moving right along to GI #13 and my mad quest to try to get to the end this week! ;) Today, I started
Liftoff!,
Chamelequin,
Clubhouse Baseball,
How to Launch Your Own Board Game*,
5th Fleet: Modern Naval Combat in the Indian Ocean,
The Siege of Jerusalem,
Starfire (role-playing game),
Panzer Battles (video game),
Head Coach v3,
Pro Football Simulation.
BOZ (
talk) 19:06, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Hey there! :) To start the year off with, I decided to finish off the reviews from The Games Machine that I had not touched from earlier. I understand there are a number of mini-reviews in the magazine, and I will come back to those eventually. My play for the meantime is to go through Different Worlds and its 47 issues. I have perused most of the issues so far to get a feel for it, and this will be the first magazine I go through where the majority of review subjects already have articles. :) The first 10 issues had much fewer reviews than most of the issues after that, so this week I will try to get through the first 10 issues, but after that I will switch to one or two issues per week. My office is still closed this week, and no idea when we will reopen, so with any "extra" time I am going to resume the rather lengthy project of User:BOZ/Pyramid. :) After finishing DW, we will see where I go from there! :) BOZ ( talk) 17:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Long hiatus temporarily interrupted. :) I realized earlier this week that I had missed
The Keep (board game) while working on Imagine, so I created a draft for it - actually, I had incorrectly identified it as a review for the RPG adventure also published by Mayfair, but it was correctly pointed out to me that this review was actually for the board game, so I rectified that situation. :)
BOZ (
talk) 17:56, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
While you were working on the SPI wargames above, I went through the
List of SPI games and there are a bunch there with notability tags and other sourcing issues, but I also found a few articles that were redirected to the list page so I moved them to drafts for now:
Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC,
NATO: Operational Combat in Europe in the 1970s,
Patrol (board game), and
Ragnarok (board game). The first two were created by the same user, Patrol was around for several years, and the last one was by yours truly. The NATO game was speedy deleted the same day it was created, as it was unsourced; I later restored and redirected to the list in hopes that it could one day be salvaged. Armageddon and Patrol were nominated for AFD along with all the other articles created by the same user on the same day he created them (along with Patrol since he also made an edit to that one), at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armageddon: Tactical Combat, 3000-500 BC. (
To the Green Fields Beyond (game) was kept as it was an Origins Award winner;
Dixie (board wargame) was redirected to the list page, but I restored it a few years ago while working on Ares magazine). Armageddon was redirected to the list page, while Patrol was actually redirected to a similar game. Trainwrecks like these are the main reason most people hate bundled AFDs, especially uneven ones. Ragnarok actually had one review in Space Gamer based on its original publication in Ares magazine but was redirected at AFD because I did not know of any other reviews at the time, but I believe it was also republished as a standalone game later. If there are sources out there to make any of these worth restoring, then we will have to make that happen. :)
BOZ (
talk) 12:27, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
In the first issue of Phoenix, John Norris thought the game considerably less complex than other wargames covering this historic period, but noted that "The level of complexity can be varied by the use of optional rules, which can raise the game from a simple slogging match to a fairly good simulation of the capabilities of the armies involved." Norris thought the weakest part of the rules was "the simulation of morale; this is only done through an optional Panic Level." [1] Guinness323 ( talk) 19:22, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Now, since you split this section off, and since I mentioned that there were other SPI games with notability issues, and since you do a way better job on wargames than I can do, if you wanted to take a look at any of the others I found, here they are!
I went though everything in
Category:Simulations Publications games, and these have notability tags:
Citadel of Blood,
King Arthur (board wargame),
Search & Destroy: Tactical Combat Vietnam 1965-1966,
Vector 3, and
Voyage of the B.S.M. Pandora
These have no citations at all, or at least none that contribute to notability:
Battle for Germany,
Cemetery Hill (game),
Dreadnought (naval wargame),
Grunt (board wargame),
Highway to the Reich,
Panzer Armee Afrika (board game), and
War in Europe (game)
The following games have only one review cited:
Agincourt (game),
Arena of Death (game),
Barbarian Kings,
Berlin '85,
Conquistador (game),
Dragonslayer (board game),
Fifth Corps (game),
Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith,
Hof Gap,
Introduction to Adventure Gaming,
Napoleon's Last Battles,
The Omega War,
Renaissance of Infantry,
Rescue from the Hive,
Sauron (game),
Spies!,
StarForce: Alpha Centauri,
StarGate (board game),
StarSoldier,
The Sword and the Stars, and
The Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora (some articles had one independent review and one from an SPI magazine like Ares, but I did not list those here since there are plenty that have just one! nor did I intentionally list anything that won an Origins award)
On these, sources are listed, but there are no citations present in the article:
Across Suez,
Chinese Farm (board game),
Golan (game),
The Next War (board game), and
Panzergruppe Guderian (game)
And for miscellaneous issues that may need attention,
The Campaign for North Africa has sources but no reception so far
It's a long list and I've got lots of other stuff I wanted to look at on a higher priority, but if you spot anything that grabs your attention, or one day find yourself looking for something to do, or just get on a roll, knock yourself out or spend a year slowly going through that. :) BOZ ( talk) 04:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey not bad, less than a year - nine months actually! :) Now, if you really want to be a super completest and work on every article we have for SPI games, of the 85 articles currently in the SPI games category, these are the only ones that I had not seen any significant edits from you:
After the Holocaust (game),
BattleFleet Mars,
Commando (role-playing game),
Dallas (role-playing game),
Demons (board game),
Invasion America (board wargame),
Swords & Sorcery (SPI),
Universe (role-playing game). :)
BOZ (
talk) 11:27, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Now, if you want to be a super extra completest, the last thing I would have for this section would be the following articles that you have worked on before, although it might have been a while, but they just need a cover image if you can find one!:
Agincourt (game),
The Creature That Ate Sheboygan,
Dawn of the Dead (game),
Dixie (board wargame),
Grunt (board wargame),
Time Tripper (board game),
Titan Strike!,
War in the Ice.
BOZ (
talk) 12:01, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
References
It was truly a herculean effort for you to get through all the SPI games above, and even more impressive that you have apparently more than doubled the number of articles in that category over the past year or so! :o But there is nothing left in that category that you haven't already done, so if you like, we can look at other companies you have mostly cleaned up on, whenever you need a break from other things?
You've improved everything on the MicroGame line so far except for The Lords of Underearth. Dragons of Underearth is an RPG probably based on that game, and The Air-Eaters Strike Back! is a sequel to a different MicroGame. The Fantasy Trip was their biggest RPG (with the supplements Fantasy Masters' Codex, Fantasy Masters' Screen, and In the Labyrinth (supplement) and adventures including Death Test, Death Test 2, Master of the Amulets, Orb Quest, Security Station, and Tollenkar's Lair), and Monsters! Monsters! is another early RPG that they produced. Another historical game is The Trojan War (board game). That's it, you've gotten the other ones. :)
Articles uncreated then? Material first of all for The Fantasy Trip not yet created includes Advanced Melee and Advanced Wizard (which may or may not warrant separate articles one day?), The Forest-Lords of Dihad, Treasure of the Silver Dragon, Treasure of Unicorn Gold, and The Warrior-Lords of Darok.
As for their board games, the following are listed at BGG aside from the ones above: Command at Sea, Fire When Ready, A Fistful of Turkeys (if you can find enough to bring it back from here), and lastly Stalin's Tanks: Armor Battles on the Russian Front.
Not that much! I will take a look at a few more companies eventually, preferably ones like these with a limited amount of releases - no more monster production companies like SPI! LOL :) BOZ ( talk) 01:25, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year. :) Back in 2020 we had gone through all the Origins Award/Charles S. Roberts Award winners from the 1970s and started articles for anything that did not have one. While you have been going through the Phoenix reviews and also now starting new articles, that reminded me that we left off with 1980. I saw quite a few reviews for Origins winners in what you have added so far, so it's not a stretch to think we might get a few more from the early 1980s as well? For the record, here are the remaining redlinked winners from the time period where Phoenix was in publication, in case any of these did actually have reviews:
If you find reviews in Phoenix so we can start any of those then great, otherwise we will get to them eventually. :) BOZ ( talk) 22:07, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Just noting that I recently added three PBM Origins Award winners:
Starship Command,
Forgotten Realms, and
Fall of Rome. :)
BOZ (
talk) 05:12, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
You may or may not know of these already, but I went through all the titles at http://tacticalwargamer.com/magazines/magazines.htm and searched on archive.org, and these are what I found:
RPG magazines are much better represented on there, unfortunately! There may be more that I did not find, of course. But, this is at least something to work with. BOZ ( talk) 15:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
I restored Air Force (game) and moved it to draft space. :) BOZ ( talk) 13:16, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
BOZ ( talk) 13:17, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
One thing I should point out, and I think you may have access to some issues, but at User:BOZ/Casus Belli I have noted more than a few wargame reviews from that French publication - a much higher percentage than usual for an RPG magazine. :) BOZ ( talk) 05:36, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Just a heads up, as long as you have your wargame sources out; I recall that Games International reviewed wargames in nearly every issue, and that includes quite a few that I started as noted and are all linked to above: Desert Falcons* (GDW, 1988), The Peninsular War (Rostherne Games, 1973), Onslaught (TSR, 1987), La Bataille d'Albuera: Espagnol (Clash of Arms, 1987), The Emperor Returns (Clash of Arms, 1986), Fight for the Sky (Attactix, 1982), 8th Army (Attactix, 1982), Turning Point: Stalingrad (Avalon Hill, 1989), Arnhem Bridge (Attactix, 1982), Modern Naval Battles (3W, 1989), Tomorrow the World (3W, 1989), Light Division (3W, 1989), Hitler's Last Gamble (3W, 1989), Europe Aflame (TSR, 1989), Usuthu! (Valhalla Games, 1989), 5th Fleet (Victory Games, 1989), Rise and Fall (Engelmann, 1989), Napoleon's Battles (Avalon Hill, 1989), Red Barricades (Avalon Hill, 1989), Shell Shock! (Victory Games, 1990), and Modern Naval Battles II (3W, 1990), and possibly others if I missed them! BOZ ( talk) 23:23, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
In case you have the sources to make it work, the only
MicroGame without an article is
Sticks & Stones (board game)
[19]. :)
BOZ (
talk) 01:14, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
I don't know if this is redundant to what you already had, but someone did take the time and trouble to put User:Rindis/Sources together. :) BOZ ( talk) 12:46, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
To give myself something to do, to help out with your quest on the The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming, I went through all the reviews on pages 128-187 and found links for everything there - hope that helps. :) I think I fairly accurately matched up the names of the games since the ones in the book tended to be abbreviated, but the ones with a ? were ones that I could not find a BGG link for. I included every game in the list, even the ones too brief to truly be considered reviews. BOZ ( talk) 16:05, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Good work on John Hill by the way - that article has always looked pretty funky, and now it's improved. :) I don't know how many of these are wargame designers, but if you see anything at User:BOZ/Games deletions#Designers and artists worth working on, I can help you make that happen; I have drafts going for about half of these. BOZ ( talk) 12:35, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
I added links to Nick Palmer for all the articles that cited The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming. I noticed a few that had other authors, so I switched those to Palmer, but if other people were involved in the book and I made an error, those will be easy to find using my edit summary of "fix name of author and add link". I also caught a weird citation on Stellar Conquest, see #3 under the Reception section and tell me what you think. :) BOZ ( talk) 04:27, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
LOL, thanks to us Category:Wargames introduced in the 1970s is enormous. :) You likely noticed me creating "RPG supplements by year" categories, so I will probably want to do the same for this category as well later this week because it's grown considerably. :) BOZ ( talk) 02:26, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
I went ahead and went through the index in the back of The Complete Book of Wargames to see what is done and not yet done, and at this point it is mostly done. :) I hope this helps! BOZ ( talk) 15:12, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if these were on your radar, but I found reviews for
Dark December (game),
Dauntless (game), and
Battles of the Hundred Days so I started them, in addition to
Crescendo of Doom from last week. :)
BOZ (
talk) 21:30, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
In case you haven't seen it before, my current huge project is User:BOZ/BTG reviews noticeboard which has its own section for Wargames. :) In particular, since you've done lots (and lots and lots!) of Simulations Publications games, I want to let you know that while I did not list all the SPI games reviewed in "Moves" (too many!) there are still some there in case you want to hit any of them, namely: Chicago, Chicago! with at least one independent review listed on that noticeboard page. :) BOZ ( talk) 00:01, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
Do you have any sources to help build up the reception sections on
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (board game) and
Gorkamorka?
BOZ (
talk) 17:44, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
Partly for the sake of building up articles that need it, and partly to stave off future deletion attempts, I think it is a good idea to pick a few articles with potential here and there for a little improvement. Do you see any more sources to help build the reception section on the Origins award-winning
Adventures in Middle-earth which was once nominated for AFD? Or do you see anything for other award-winners
Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games) or
Settlers of America: Trails to Rails?
BOZ (
talk) 12:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
See anything more for another award-winner, The Shackled City Adventure Path? BOZ ( talk) 00:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
I expect that Starfleet Voyages may have some more sources? I would say the same of award winner Qin: The Warring States. The Maztica Campaign Set also seems like it has been getting more attention lately. I think Zargo's Lords might be one that you might be able to find more on. BOZ ( talk) 23:59, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
I've got a few more here, for whenever. System 7 Napoleonics is a somewhat obscure award winner that has a couple of reviews from Dragon, but maybe your wargame sources have more for it since you last looked at this one three years ago. Similarly, I wonder if Vector 3 has another review or two? Also to toss in a more recent D&D adventure, The Dungeon of Death seems like it has potential. :) BOZ ( talk) 23:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Guinness323,
As you may know, Ogre, to which you have significantly contributed, is continuing to be assessed for GA, and I have observed your changes, which are commendable and improve the article substantially.
Nevertheless, the current consensus is not established yet, but the current general view is that the article is likely B-class or C-class after those improvements. I have added some of my possible suggestions in the GA Reassessment Notes under the talk section for this article, so if you could follow those suggestions and add more factual detail to ensure that it could hopefully retain its GA status that would be great- VickKiang ( talk) 00:45, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
If you'd like to start an entry on that (from List of SPI games), I'd be happy to expand it from pl:Gwiezdny kupiec. That game was (illegally?) published in late communist Poland, and became a cult classic, which is confirmed by RS which certainly makes it notable. A Polish sf writer wrote an accompanying story, and the game has even a number of modern era retro-reviews like this one (I can list more for you if you'd like to machine translate them). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC) Ps. Also ping User:BOZ. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:51, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
@ BOZ:, just to save you the time and effort of creating stubs for the following, I will be creating these articles in 2023:
If I can find more sources, I'll also create the following:
And of course, I will always be available for help with other projects or articles. Guinness323 ( talk) 19:28, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
I found another review for Freedom in the Galaxy in issue 77 [78] along with two wargames about China. BOZ ( talk) 17:02, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Letting you know that the edit notice is now live - if you edit any article with refideas listed on the talk page, you will get the notification. :) BOZ ( talk) 23:54, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
So, you posted this thread a little over a year ago, at which point it looked like this before I started hacking away at it: [85] with an ambitious 40 articles that you intended to start, another 14 in the maybe and another 23 as hopefuls with just one source. I am proud to report that you have started more than half of that entire list, including almost 3/4 of the ones that you were definitely planning on doing. :) This, I must say, was in addition to many other wargame and other articles you started that were not even on this list, as well as me pestering you to work on articles whose notability was challenged and/or that I just wanted to see what you could do with them. I always feel that you do some really impressive things here, and I hope you continue as long as you can and still want to. :)
True confession time, I know you started this thread to save me the work of creating stubs, but I went ahead and did several more anyway earlier this week. :) I took a look at the list that was left, and found anything that I could point at being in at least two solid sources, and made a stub for each of those. So, think of them as something you can look at whenever, but I gave a starting point for Siege!, SSN, Stonewall, Troy, Yalu, March on India, Verdun, and Viva! BOZ ( talk) 19:50, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
How did you stumble upon those?
FYI: https://web.archive.org/web/20220814110606/https://www.rebel.pl/rebel-times/147-grudzien-2019.html - it was live few weeks ago, sigh. The pdfs are still there. I'll add the review from #10 to that article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:57, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
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This game depicted the 1631 battle not the 1642 one. I played it as a child and remember King Gustav having a piece. He was dead by 1642 and I wouldn't recall his name if not for the game. Please read this [86] also for proof of what I am saying. Lost in Quebec ( talk) 17:47, 17 April 2024 (UTC)