{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Guns,Dice,Butter XXIII: FEB 17, 2015","description":" \r\nWelcome to Episode XXIII of Guns, Dice, Butter: Feb 17 2015, Fat Tuesday Special!\r\n0:00 Intro: It’s Mardi Gras! Spring is near!\r\n0:05 Curtis Baer: WBC stories:  Point of Origin, Matt & Joe’s Devil Cauldron, Pitch Car, THE BIG GAME, François’  wild NAP WARs game, Red Neck Life, WBC food, Being the coach of the RANGERS!, the Honorary Fez\r\n0:41 John Butterfield: Point of Origin, Early days at SPI, the playtest room for Campaign in North Africa, John’s great designs: Freedom of the Galaxy, Ambush, Hell’s Highway, RAF, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Enemy Action Ardennes, SPI Strato-matic League, The Beloved 1987 Minnesota Twins\r\n1:40 Bryan Collars: Point of Origin, Greenville Mafia, WBC: The Boardgame (preorder on GMT Games)\r\n2:23 Mark Herman, Wendell Albright, Herr Dr: Logistics & Supply in Wargames: “The Spectrum”, Victory Games’ elegant & unique The Korean War, Dunnigan’s Breakout & Pursuit, 1776, Empire of the Sun, importance of logistics in ancients campaign & the GREAT book on Macedonian logistics, Napoleon in Russia, Victory Games’ The Civil War, For the People, GMT\/Simonitch’s upcoming new civil war game, Dunnigan’s ACW game, the famous NAP’s retreat from Russia infographic, Herman’s upcoming Churchill game chatter\r\n3:23 Maymi Hayakawa & Gesine Stanienda: Red Winter, Tonkin, Gameon.con in Seatle, the ASL room (eegads!), entering the hobby from non traditional avenues, Ancients games, Poniske designs (King Phillips War, Maori Wars)\r\n3:59: Wrap up: Overflowing gaming plate; our wargame hobby is pumping.\r\n===========\r\nA few of the items mentioned on the show:\r\nVideos:\r\n \r\nTonkin "how to play" video: Tonkin - Cao Bang 001\r\nLast Days in Vietnam\r\nBreaker Morant\r\nBooks:\r\nGettysburg: The Last Invasion – Guelzo\r\nAlexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army - Engels\r\nThe Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. - Coover\r\nA Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Sheehan\r\nStats:\r\nCharles Joseph Minard’s : Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813 \r\nGames:\r\nBreakout & Pursuit SPI Dunnigan\r\nAmbush, Freedom in the Galaxy, Hell's Highway, RAF, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Enemy Action: Ardennes - Butterfield \r\nThe Civll War - Smith, For the People - Herman, The Korean War - Balkoski\r\nTonkin - Kanger\r\nRed Winter - Mokszycki\r\nDien Bien Phu - The Final Gamble - Kanger\r\nIn Country: Vietnam 1965-75 - Miranda\r\n\r\n===========\r\nGuns, Dice, Butter, now with over 50k downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgamegeek and many other places where gamers hang on the web.\r\nGDB website: http:\/\/gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com\/\r\n","author_name":"Guns, Dice, Butter","author_url":"http:\/\/gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com","html":"