Author Archive for trask
Trask is a long-time gamer, world traveler and history buff. He hopes that his scribblings will both inform and advance gaming as a hobby.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand Streaming on Netflix
Spartacus: Blood and Sand is my current guilty pleasure on television. Sure, it makes “300″ look like “Citizen Kane,” but it is great bloody fun! Anyway, some of my friends griped they could not see it, since it is on a subscription channel. I just noticed today that it also available on Netflix as an [...]
The Great Munchkin Bookmark Giveaway is Over!
Congratulations to Jon in Arizona, winner of the Great Munchkin Bookmark Giveaway! Thank you to everyone that participated and watch this space for further contests!
Trask, The Last Tyromancer
Catalyst Game Labs Financial Issues as a Teachable Moment
Catalyst Game Labs announced today that a recent audit revealed some financial irregularities, specifically some missing funds. The Catalyst press release indicates one of the owners caused the issue and is working with the company to rectify the situation.
This is certainly newsworthy and I will be asking Catalyst about the future of the company at [...]
Ia Drang Valley After Action Report
The Ia Drang valley hosted one of the most famous and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam war. It is most popularly known from the book We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang – the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam and the film We Were Soldiers . Wargames Illustrated is posting some interesting material [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2010 Hyperlinked List of Exhibitors and Vendors
GTS, the Gama Trade Show 2010 starts on March 22, 2010 and here is my yearly hyper-linked list of all the exhibitors. There are 98 exhibitors this year, which is up from last year(76). This is good news in itself, but I am also heartened to see some new participants like Wyrd Miniatures and Collins [...]
Peter Graves 1923-2010
Rest in peace Mr. Phelps. Tom Cruise never held a candle.
Computer Simulations and Modern Warfare
Foreign Policy magazine has a great article about the use of computer simulations and how they are used by the American military. “America’s Army” does get a mention, but there are several other programs either underway or planned that leverage games to train soldiers. It also mentions some of the pitfalls of virtual training. Interesting [...]
Photographing Miniatures and Game Books: Solutions from a Bad Photographer
I am a bad photographer. The only reason I ever shoot anything is because I cannot find a better shot of the object in question somewhere on the web. Sadly, for my game reviews and especially the miniatures, the web does not have any images I can use. Instead, I lean on technology to make [...]
Contest: The Great Munchkin Bookmark Giveaway!
UPDATE: We have a winner! Thank you to everyone that participated and watch this space for future contests!
Steve Jackson Games “Munchkin” is one of my favorite card games, easy to learn, some complex strategy and the “Kneepads of Allure!” While preparing for the GAMA Trade Show later this month, I discovered a cache of Munchkin [...]
