After Action Reporter

Servant Corps over on the Dwarf Fortress forums pointed me to an AAR/Lets Play that he completed using an ancient wargame called “Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator“, or “CONMEPS” as it is known by its fans.  The summary info from Wikipedia is that:

Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator, often known as ConfMEPS or simply Conflict, is a turn-based government simulation game. It was designed by David J Eastman and published by Virgin Interactive in 1990. It was available for DOS, Atari ST, and Amiga (with extended graphics).

The game is set in 1997. The prime minister of Israel has just been assassinated, leaving the player to run the country as the new prime minister. The player’s objective is to cause the defeat of the neighboring four states, either by invasion (not necessarily by Israel, as the other states can and do invade each other) or political destabilization.

It’s a great read and ends, well, predictably badly for everyone involved! But if you’re interested in good old games, as Servant Corps is, or just love a good war/political game, I suggest you go check it out!

If anyone has been wondering why there haven’t been many updates recently it is because my wife gave birth to our first baby three weeks ago and we’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months! Baby Teeny Tiny Pirate is doing just fine, although he prefers to swashbuckle than sleep right now. I’ll endeavor to complete the Sims story in the next couple of weeks and I’ll look at expanding the Dwarf Fortress tutorial as well. Oh, while I’m here, fans of Dwarf Fortress should keep an eye on a great wee Dwarf Fortress blog, it has all the up-to-date news you could want and Josh even takes the time to write up notes on long DF podcasts.

I’m also going to start some new AARs in due course. I was planning on a Hearts of Iron 3 diary, but since I hear the game is a bit rubbish I’m going to have to come up with an interesting new plan! We’ll see!

** Update! Watch Stonesense work while a game is running! ** Great news for Dwarf Fortress fans, there are two new and great tools for you to play with! First up, a replacement for Dwarf Manager called DwarfTherapist. Very much worth a look. Second, Stonesense, a fortress viewer that lets you explore your fortress like it’s an isometric pixelart game. If only we could play Dwarf Fortress in this kind of view!