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====== Web Links ======

[[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dulce_bellum_inexpertis|Dulce bellum inexpertis]]

===== Consims =====

[[https://www.vftt.co.uk/ah_mags.asp?ProdID=PDF_Gen|Avalon Hill GENERAL]]\\ 
Download PDF versions of the magazine covering AH and Victory games.

[[https://ahiks.com|AHIKS]]\\ 
An organization dedicated to serious game play between mature individuals. Free to join.

[[https://morssweb.com/consim/easyships/index.htm|EasyShips]]\\ 
Simple naval combat rules by Mike Fischer for 20th-century ships. Damage model built around fires and flooding leading to critical damage. Minimal record keeping (no check-boxes) while retaining details of ship gunnery and damage resistance. Link is my clone of the zip file offered on [[http://www.cke1st.com/m_games1.htm|Mike's Own Wargames]].

[[https://groups.io/g/vgsfleetleague|Fleet Series on groups.io]]\\ 
A home for refugees of yahoogroups old vgsfleetleague. Essential file repository for fans of Victory Games Fleet Series.

[[https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/|Incompetech]]\\ 
Free online graph paper. Hex grid generator for making your own maps.

[[https://www.strategikon.info/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=24806|Strategikon]]\\ French language wargames forum with extensive discussion of GCACW; includes links to original rules PDFs in French and English.

===== History =====

[[http://www.jamescgroves.com/henry/hcp1a.htm|Devil's Den Sniper]]\\ 
A detailed analysis of the famous photo of the dead sharp-shooter in Devils' Den at Gettysburg. A well-reasoned contrarian conclusion by James Groves of Frostburg MD.

[[https://www.gyges.dk/Himmelbett.htm|GYGES Publishing]]\\ 
Nightfighter control methods: how things worked in a Dunaja, Henaja, Wilde Sau, and Zahme Sau nightfighter interception. Website by Michaël Svejgaard.

[[http://polyticks.com/Hole/index.htm|Sickles Hole]]\\ 
Unconventional insights on the Gettysburg campaign and battle by Bob Butler of Carver MA.

[[http://www.uboatarchive.net|U-Boat Archive]]\\ 
British War Office documents from WWII concerning their understanding of U-Boat numbers, training, tactics, and losses, based on interviews with captured German sailors.

[[https://uboat.net|uboat.net]]\\ 
Database of U-Boats, skippers, patrols, and merchant ships. The go-to source for data on the U-Boat war.

[[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2014/9/29/navigating-truth-behind-amelia-earhart-and-fred-noonan|Amelia Earhart]]\\ PBS article //Navigating the Truth Behind Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan//. Scroll down to the comments section for some contrary opinions.

[[https://naval-encyclopedia.com/|Naval Encyclopedia]] [[https://www.seaforces.org/|Sea Forces]]

===== Publishers =====

[[http://www.multimanpublishing.com|Multiman Publishing]]\\ 
Providing PDF files of game-specific [[https://mmpgamers.com/gcacw-downloads-ezp-8|rule books]] of the GCACW series. (Why buy the cow when milk is free?) 

[[https://napoleongames.com|Operational Studies Group]]\\ 
Keeping the [[vmod:napoleons_last|NLB]] game system alive as The Library of Napoleonic Battles. Not a huge fan of battle games in general, but [[vmod:napoleons_last|Napoleon's Last Battles]] is one that got me into wargaming.

[[https://plaayclassic.com|Plaay Classic]]\\ 
Old-school table-top dice and cards sports games.

[[http://www.revolutiongames.us|Revolution Games]]\\ 
Support smaller publishers when they make games that you like. Recommended games: [[vmod:celles_gazala|Celles, Gazala]].

[[https://www.tabletop-sports.com/news.php|Tabletop Sports]]\\ Discussions and downloads covering a large array of published tabletop sports sims.

===== Software =====

[[http://acts.warhorsesim.com/index.asp|ACTS]]\\ (Automated Card Tracking System) A website for logging remote game play in lieu of plain email. Not just for card-driven games...the Generic Module can work quite well with many standard hex and counter games. It is the default platform for GCACW tournaments.

[[https://www.gimp.org|GIMP]]\\ 
GNU Image Manipulation Program. Graphics package.

[[https://imagemagick.org|ImageMagick]]\\ 
Command line tool for batch operations on image files. Particularly useful in batch operations and slicing counter sheet scans into individual game-piece images.

[[http://www.vassalengine.org|Vassal Boardgame Engine]]\\ 
The essential Java app needed to run vmod files.
===== Sports =====

[[http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2004/04/two-thousand-years-of-willie-mays.html|2000 Years of Willie Mays]]\\ What does it mean when a baseball simulation claims to be "accurate"?

[[https://sabr.org/journal/article/why-do-games-take-so-long/|Why Games Take So Long]]\\ 
SABR article investigating the increase in baseball game time from 1908 to 2017. TL;dr not enough batted balls in play; each strikeout and walk adds a few more pitches to resolve than a plate appearance ending in a batted ball ball.