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JIM WERBANETH
PUBLICATION LIST
ACADEMIC WRITINGS
For more academic works, see
Line of Departure Online Features
Academic Blog Post on
GrogHeads.com
“Unlocked Potential: The Legacy of the War of 1812 to the United States”
http://grognews.blogspot.com/2012/06/anniversary-war-of-1812-part-1-of-well.html
Paper Presented to the War
of 1812 Bicentennial Conference of the New York Military Affairs
Symposium, New York City, March 30, 2012.
“Defense, Reaction and Passivity: British Strategy toward New York and New
England in the War of 1812”
http://bobrowen.com/nymas/Jim%20Werbaneth%20-%201812.html
Paper Presented to the Conference of Army Historians,
conducted by the
United States Army's Center of Military History in Arlington, Virginia,
July 27, 2011.
"Counterproductive
Distractions: Britain's American Diversion in the Pursuit of Victory Over
Revolutionary and Napoleonic France."
CONFLICT
SIMULATIONS DESIGNS
Turning Point Simulations (January 2017)
The Sadowa Campaign (Austro-Prussian War in Bohemia, 1866)
Lock ‘n Load Publications
(June 2015)
Rommel at Gazala (World War II Desert Battle in North Africa, 1942) ―
Improved, professional edition of 2006 game.
Self-Published
(July 2006)
Rommel at Gazala
(World War II Desert Battle in North Africa, 1942)
GMT Games (December
1994)
Britain Stands Alone
(Hypothetical Situation, German Invasion of the United Kingdom, 1940)
Command Magazine
(Issue 9 ― March-April 1991)
Inchon (Korean War
Operation, 1950) ― Co-Winner of the Charles S. Roberts Award for the Best
Post-World War II Game of the Year.
CONFLICT
SIMULATIONS DEVELOPMENT
Lock 'n Load Games
(2007)
World at War:
Eisenbach Gap (Hypothetical Soviet-American World War III Battles, Set in
1985)
Flintlock: Carolina
Rebels (Revolutionary War Battles Set in North and South Carolina)
Spearhead Games
(1996)
They Met at Gettysburg
(Civil War Battle)
Spearhead Games
(1995)
Bloodiest Day: The
Battle of Antietam (Civil War Battle)
Turning Point Simulations
(2017)
The Vicksburg Campaign (Civil War Operations in Mississippi, 1863)
The Invincible Armada (Naval Operations Between Spain and England, 1688)
Turning Point Simulations (2015)
The Victory of
Arminius (Ancient Battle of Teutoburger Wald, 9)
The Battle of Hastings (Early Medieval Battle, 1066)
Turning Point Simulations
(2013)
The Siege of Syracuse (Peloponnesian War Campaign, 415-413 BCE)
The Battle of Saratoga (Revolutionary War Tactics, 1777)
The Battle of the Metaurus
(Punic War Tactics, 207 BCE)
The Battle of Midway (Naval
Warfare in World War II)
Turning Point Simulations
(2012)
The Battle of Tours (Frankish-Arab Battle in Modern-Day France, 732 CE)
The Battle of Stalingrad: Pivot on the Volga
(Operational-Level Game of the Drive on Stalingrad
and Soviet Counteroffensive)
Joan of Arc's Victory (Strategic-Level Game of the Hundred Year's War)
The Great Northern War: Dread
Poltava's Day (Strategic-Level Eighteenth-Century
Warfare in the Baltic and Russia)
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
Seven Chapters in 101 Stumbles in
the March of History: What if the Great Mistakes of War, Government,
Industry and Economics Were Not Made?, edited by Bill Fawcett,
Published by Penguin Books, 2016.
Book Reviews in the
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual, published by Florida
Atlantic University, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991 Editions.
BOOK REVIEWS
Numerous book reviews
published by The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, Fantasy Review, and Strategy & Tactics
magazine, from 1984. Reviews of books on military history and
international relations published in Military Review, the leading
intellectual journal of the United States Army, starting in May 2009.
AGAINST THE ODDS
MAGAZINE
PROJECTS
Number 46 (January 2017)
Winning the Battle for History: Germany Versus the Soviet Union
Number 36 (February 2012)
Some Lessons From the Senior Genre: What Board Wargame Designers Can Learn
From Miniatures Rules
Volume V, Number 1
(October 2006)
Precision & Resolution: Precision-Guided Munitions and Combat Resolution
in Operational Wargames
2006 Annual (Published
July 2006)
Roundtable of Consim Artists (Interviews)
COUNTERFACT MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Issue
Number 02 October 2015
The Battle of the
Coral Sea: A Battle Analysis
AVALANCHE PRESS
"DAILY CONTENT" ONLINE ARTICLES
January 30, 2009
His Majesty’s Corsairs (The Bent-Wing Bird Part 2)
http://www.avalanchepress.com/F4U_corsair_at_war2.php
January 29, 2009
The Bent-Wing Bird: The F4U Corsair at War (Part 1)
http://www.avalanchepress.com/F4U_corsair_at_war.php
November 3, 2008
The Wrong Tank in the
Right Place: The American M3 Grant
http://www.avalanchepress.com/m3_grant.php
July 24, 2008
The Flawed Queen of the Battlefield: Britain's Matilda Tank
http://www.avalanchepress.com/matilda.php
July 1, 2008
The Battle of the
River Plate
http://www.avalanchepress.com/graf_spee_3.php
June 25, 2008
The Voyage of the Graf
Spee (Part 2)
http://www.avalanchepress.com/graf_spee_2.php
June 24, 2008
The Voyage of the Graf Spee (Part 1)
http://www.avalanchepress.com/graf_spee.php
MILITARY HISTORY
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
June 1998
Crusaders' Siege of
Antioch
WORLD WAR II
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
May 1992
Helpful Conduct by the
Enemy (The Battle of Gazala, May-June 1942)
COMMAND
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Issue 45 (October 1997)
England’s Final Hour?: Operation Sea Lion
Issue 16 (May-June
1992)
Eagles in the Sand:
The Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC
Issue 9
(March-April 1991)
McArthur's Gambit:
Inchon to Seoul, September 1950
Issue 1
(November-December 1989)
Fletching the Arrows:
The Luftwaffe in Spain
MOVES
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Number 77
(October-November 1993)
Soldiers: Tactics in
the First Months of World War I
Number 61
(February-March 1991)
On the Production
Spiral: MacArthur's Gambit
FIRE & MOVEMENT
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Number 70 (Holiday
1990)
1914 (Classic
Wargaming Series)
Number 66
(June/July 1990)
The Siege of
Jerusalem: Review & Analysis of the New Edition
Number 57
(August-September 1998)
Patton Goes to War
(Game Review)
Number 55
(September/October 1987)
Encore for the
Emperor: A Profile of Clash of Arms' Napoleonic Game (The Emperor
Returns)
STRATEGY &
TACTICS
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Number 159 (March
1993)
Sword of Lead: Why
Iraq Failed in Operation "Desert Storm"
WARGAMER
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Volume 2, Number 13
(Origins Convention Issue -- June 1989)
Simulations for
Education: Learning and Teaching From Wargames
THE GENERAL
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Volume 26, Number 3
(1990)
A Flame in the Gulf:
The Iran-Iraq War and Firepower
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/127255/flame-gulf
Volume 25, Number 6 (1990)
Special Air
Service: The SAS and Firepower
Volume 25, Number 2
(1989)
The Laager: South
Africa's War and Firepower
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/127871/laager-south-africas-war
Into the Jungle:
Player's Notes on Platoon
Volume 24, Number 5
(1988)
Swords of the
Republic: Roman Play in Caesar
Breaking the Ring:
Gallic Play in Caesar
Volume 24, Number 1
(1987)
The Pact: Central
European Conflict and Firepower
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/126882/pact
Volume 23, Number 6
(1987)
Revolution Against the
Revolution: The Nicaraguan Contra War and Firepower
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/127885/revolution-against-revolution-nicaraguan-contra-wa
The Long Haul: Axis
Strategy in The Russian Campaign
Beyond Manifest
Destiny: American Play in Pax Britannica
(Reprinted in
The General's Special "Best Of" Issue for Origins 1988.)
Volume 23, Number 4
(1987)
Fate of Empire: A
Solitaire Variant of Stellar Conquest
Volume 22, Number 6
(1986)
Struggle for El
Salvador: The FMLN and Firepower
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/127568/struggle-el-salvador-fmln-and-firepower
Volume 22, Number 4
(1986)
Active Retreat:
Effective Defense in Panzerkrieg
Volume 22, Number 2
(1985)
The Airpower System:
Understanding Land-Based Air Assets in Flat Top
THE GRENADIER
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Issue 34 (October
1988)
Mission: Grenada (Game
Review)
LINE OF
DEPARTURE
PRINT EDITION ARTICLES
Issue 81 (Spring 2018)
Crisis and Triumph on
the Northern Front: A Review of No Middle Ground
Nathanael Greene at War:
Two Battles of the American Revolution, in GMT’s Guilford
Levels of Difficulty:
The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in the Standard Game of Age
of Empires II HD
The Tactical Turning
Point: Lessons from PanzerBlitz
Issue 80 (Spring/Summer 2017)
ISIS and the New Modern: A Review of Islamic
State: Libya War
Insurgency Among the Stars: Simulating Revolutionary War
in Freedom in the Galaxy
Victory Through Ambush: Tactics
in The Victory of Arminius
Soviet Airborne Night Assault
1980: A Scenario for Firepower
Issue 79 (Fall 2016)
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
AMERICANS AT WAR ISSUE III
Return to the Third World War: A Review of the GMT
Games Edition of MBT
Fictional Battles, Fictional Game:
Battalion-Level Battles of World War III, in Dawn’s Early Light
Raiders of the China Seas: Additional Scenarios for Avalanche Press’
U.S. Navy Plan Orange
Second Front Now!: The Campaign in
the West, in Fortress Europa
Guns in the Forest: The
Climactic Battle of Pontiac’s Rebellion, in The Battle of Bushy Run
Issue 78 (Spring 2016)
Gunflashes in the Night: A Review of Iron
Bottom Sound III
Six Days of War: Middle Eastern Battles in
1967: Sword of Israel
High Definition Addiction: The
Return of Age of Empires HD Edition, in All of its Glory
Battles of the Bundeswehr 1989: Scenarios for Avalon Hill's Edition of
MBT
The Political War: The Portrayal of Politics in Victory’s
Vietnam 1965-1975
Issue 77 (2015)
Amateurs on the Potomac: Fighting the Civil
War’s Neglected Early Battle, in The Battle of Ball’s Bluff
Coming Attractions: Developer's Notes for The Invincible Armada
Variety of Battle: Scenario Design Notes for Firepower
Issue 76 (Fall/Winter 2014)
Big Totally Massive Box of Giant Science
Fiction: Ogre Reborn as the Designer’s Edition
Coming
Attractions: Designer’s Notes for The Battle of Sadowa
Little War on the Frontier: Simple Tactics in the French and Indian
War Battle Collection
The General and the Old Tanks:
Scenarios for the T-55 and T-62 in Avalon Hill’s MBT
Adventures of the Great King: The Avalon Hill Version of Frederick the
Great
Issue 75 (Summer 2014)
AMERICANS AT WAR ISSUE
II
Civil War on River and Sea: A Review of
Rebel Raiders on the High Seas
Tactics Before ASL:
Squad Leader and its Modules
Two Visions of Vietnam:
Command Magazine's Minigames of the Vietnam War
NATO v Warsaw
Pact, 1973: Two Additional Scenarios for the Original Red Star/White
Star, from SPI
Coming Attractions: Paul Rohrbaugh's The
Vicksburg Campaign, for Turning Point Simulations
Issue 74 (Spring 2014)
Empire Made Simple: A Review of Struggle for New
France
Plan Colombia: Counterinsurgency in GMT’s Andean Abyss
Imagining the Modern: The Birth of Hypothetical Modern Tactics, in
SPI’s Red Star/White Star
Mission Capable: The Understated
Problems of the Ambush in Firepower
Coming Attractions:
Developer’s Notes For The Battle of Hastings, for Turning Point
Simulations
Issue 73 (Spring/Summer
2013)
Turning Point in the Central Pacific: Saipan 1944 Takes the
Panzer Grenadier System to the Marianas
The Forgotten Triumph:
A Review of Defeat Into Victory, From Against the Odds
Magazine
Throwing Large Rocks Into Space: Space Combat and Genocide
in Double Star
Free-For-All on Ancient Seas: Simulating
Naval Battles in the Classical Era with Trireme
Issue 72 (Fall/Winter
2012)
Panzers on the Meuse: Review of
Sedan, May 1940 in World at War
The Fox, Alone: Solitaire Gaming with Dan Verssen's
Field Commander Rommel
More Battles of World War III: NATO-Warsaw Pact Scenarios for Avalon
Hill's Firepower
A Very Small Waterloo: Avalon Hill's
Hundred Days Battles
Modern Warfare at Sea: Then-Current Naval Battles in SPI's
Task Force
Three Battles Afloat: Additional Scenarios for
Task Force
Coming Attractions: Developer’s Notes to
The Victory of Arminius
Issue 71 (Spring/Summer
2012)
Across the Delaware: A Review of Washington’s Crossing
A Question of Execution: Promise, Success and Failure in SPI’s
Red Sun Rising
Red Sun Rising Naval Displays
Before the Gates of Paris: The Pivotal Battle of the Great War, in
We Shall Fight on the Marne
Desert Twilight for the Panzerblitz
System: Understanding Avalon Hill’s
The Arab-Israeli Wars
Issue 70 (Fall/Winter
2011)
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
ISSUE
WORLD WAR II ON THE
EASTERN FRONT
Objective Sevastopol: A Review of GMT’s
Barbarossa: Crimea 1941-1942
A Blitzkrieg of Quality: Tactics and Command in
Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the
Bear, Russia 1941-1942
Big Box of Barbarossa: Early Great Patriotic War Tactics in
Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front Deluxe
Ratifying Stalingrad: Why the Decision on the Volga Needed More to Be
Truly Decisive
Issue 69 (Summer/Fall
2011)
MODERN TACTICS: LAND, AIR AND SEA ISSUE
A Newer Swarm of Hornets: A Review of the Most Recent DVG Edition of Hornet
Leader
Détente No More: Three Scenarios for Avalon Hill's MBT
The Age of Jets: SPI's Air War and its Times
Attack Tactics: Using American Carrier Aviation on the Offensive in Harpoon
Classic
Issue 68 (Winter
2010)
First Strike, Over the
Horizon:
Coral Sea
Introduces Players to The Second World War at Sea
Going Home to Gaul: A
Review of Caesar in
Gaul
Queen Victoria's Wars:
The Sun Never Sets on Three Conflicts
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes to The Siege of
Syracuse
Issue 67 (Summer
2010)
Blitzkrieg to the Edge
of the Earth: Mark Simonitch's The
Caucasus Campaign
Passes in Review
Leaving Luzon: A
Review of Panzer Digest Magazine's Solitaire Game The Fall of
the
Philippines
Broken Battles: The
Greatest Flaw of Caesar's Legions
Return to the
Battleground: The Matrix Games Editions of the Battleground Series
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes to
Saratoga
Issue 66 (Winter
2009/Spring 2010)
When France Faced the
Abyss, and the Abyss Stared Back: A Review of Ici, C'est la
France!
Greek Against Greek:
Fighting the Peloponnesian War With Wooden Blocks in
Athens & Sparta
Lessons From the Fall:
Things Learned from Avalon Hill's
France 1940
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Note to The
Battle of Midway
Issue 65
(Summer/Fall 2009)
SECOND WORLD WAR:
FIRST CONTACT ISSUE
The Tiger Resists: A
Review of Storm Over Taierzhuang
…And the Bell Tolls
for Thee: Spain's Agony Comes to the Computer, in HPS Simulations'
Spanish Civil War
An Army Not Ready for
Victory: Rommel's Last Gamble in Tunisia, in GMT's Kasserine
When Britain Ruled the
Waves: Naval Surface Combat in the Age of Dreadnoughts in Jack Greene's
The Royal Navy
Issue 64 (Winter
2008/Spring 2009)
Indian Armies at War:
The Rise of the Mauryan Empire in GMT's Chandragupta
Ancient Tactics By
the Block: Fighting the Battles of the Punic Wars in Richard Borg's
Command & Colors: Ancients
Fire at the Foot of
the Mountain: SPI's
Cedar Mountain
in the Great Battles of the American Civil War
Slamming the Back Gate
Shut: Fighting the Climactic Battle in Normandy, in Falaise Pocket
Issue 63
(Fall 2008)
Las Guerras
de la Liberacíon: Una Critica de Guerra a Muerte, en Against the
Odds
Birth of a Nation, the
Short Version: A Review of Israeli
Independence
Airborne Operations in
Real Time: Fighting for Greece and Beyond on the Computer, in Conquest
of the
Aegean
Old Dogs Bite Back
1981: A Scenario for Avalon Hill's
MBT
Mongol Dawn: The
Mongol Army in Devil's Horsemen
Issue 62
(Spring/Summer 2008)
This Was Manila:
Review of
Manila '45,
From Strategy & Tactics
Freedom's Back Against
the Wall: The Cold War Turns Hot, in The Next War
The Reich's First
U-Boats: The Type IA and Type II Boats for Avalon Hill's Submarine
Mobile Defense on the
Plains of Burma: The British Mission in A Master Stroke
Issue 61 (Winter
2007)
Return to the Front: A
Review of Matrix Games' New Imagining of Battlefront
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes to Joan of Arc's Victory: "Render to the Maid!"
Alexander, King and
God: The Greatest Ancient Campaign, in The Conquerors: Alexander the
Great
The Phoenix Comes Home
to Roost: The End of the Great Patriotic War in Red Vengeance
Scenario-Building
Issues in
MBT and
IDF: Problems and Solutions to Designing Scenarios for Avalon Hill's
Modern Tactical Wargames
Issue 60
(Summer/Fall 2007)
The North Sea Monster:
A Review of
Jutland in
the Great War at Sea Series
The New Capital Ships:
Carriers at War Returns to the Computer
The Alternative Press:
Battle-Market and Panzer Digest
The Themes of
Firepower: The Foundations of Avalon Hill's Game of Man-to-Man Combat
in the Modern Era
Issue 59 (Spring
2007)
Vertical Envelopment:
A Review of Airborne Task Force for the Computer
The Truest Microgame:
Fighting for Guadalcanal in Action Front! Watchtower
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes For The Hammer and World at War: Eisenbach
Ridge
Krieg und Sieg: World
War II Eastern Front Operations in Avalon Hill's Panzerkrieg
Issue 58 (Winter
2006)
Our Oldest Ally and
Our Newest Enemy: Fighting the Franco-American Naval War of 1922, in
U.S. Navy
Plan Gold
A World Still at War:
A Review of The Operational Art of War
III
The First Toehold:
Amphibious Operations in GMT's Invasion
Sicily
Doctrines of Limits
and Mass: Soviet and Arab Doctrine in Avalon Hill's
MBT
and IDF
Issue 57 (Fall
2006)
Conflicts for a
Continent: Birth of
America,
Born for the Computer
The First Shots of the
First World War: Avalon Hill's 1914, In Retrospective
Additional Rules for
1914: Optional Rules to Adjust and Balance the Game
OnLine of Departure
Support: The US Navy's Lexington-Class Battlecruisers, for
Quarterdeck's The Royal Navy
Issue 56 (Summer
2006)
Once Upon a Time in
Mexico, the French Version: A Review of Cactus Throne
Bloodbath on the Golan
Heights: Armored Tactics on Yom Kippur, in Armchair General
Magazine's
Valley of Tears
Tales of the
Surcouf: Scenarios for the Largest Boat in Submarine
A Choice of Beaches:
Invasion Alternatives in Strategic-Level Operation Overlord Games
Issue 55 (Spring
2006)
The End of Custer’s
Luck: A Review of Battle of the Little Bighorn, From Khyber Pass
Games
Mounting DTP Counters:
Or Not Mounting Them, As the Case May Be
Cavalry and the Far
West: The Promised Insets for the Previous Issue’s Article on Victory
Games’ The Civil War
Shrapnel’s Desert Task
Force: A Review of The Star and the Crescent
Holding Onto That
Hard-Fought Field: Defensive Tactics in the Musket & Pike
Battle Series
Issue 54 (Winter
2005)
Glorious Visions:
Napoleonic Strategy and Tactics in Crown of Glory
Minefield
Alternatives: A Quick and Simple Way of Plotting Minefields in the
Great War at Sea Series
The Missing Keystone:
The Place of Northern Waters in The Great War at Sea
War of Secession:
Elements of Victory Games' The Civil War
Issue 53 (Fall
2005)
God is My Copilot: A
Review of Chennault’s First Fight
Apocalypse Cancelled:
NATO-Warsaw Pact Conflict in GDW’s The
Third World War:
Battle for Germany
Glory and Mortality: A
Review of Campaigns on the
Danube
For the Personal Computer
The Missing Monoplane:
Bristol’s Innovative M1.C, for Richtofen’s War
Issue 52 (Summer 2005)
Panzerschreck
Goes Professional: Brandy Station and Race to the
Vistula
in Panzerschreck Issue 14
The Yom Kippur War,
According to SPI: Middle East Tactics in October War
Optional Doctrine and
Advanced Panic Rules for October War
Spatial Abstractions:
Avalon Hill’s Edition of Stellar Conquest
Issue 51 (Spring 2005)
GAME REVIEW ISSUE
Death Rides a Pale
Pony: Great Battles of History Looks at Great Battles of the Mongols, In
Devil’s Horsemen
Half a World Away From Home: Globe-Spanning Naval Operations in Cruiser
Warfare
A Break in the Morning Calm: Raging Tiger and the Next Korean War,
For the Personal Computer
One Bad Day in Afghanistan: Colonial Combat in Maiwand
Issue 50 (Winter 2004)
Atatürk’s Victory: A
Review of Perry Moore’s Bir Büyük Türk Saldiri
Tank By Tank, Shot By
Shot: Simulating Desert Armored Tactics in Avalon Hill’s Tobruk
The Great Pacific War
of 1930:
U.S. Navy War Plan Orange
and The Great War at Sea
Optional Rules and
Player’s Aids for U.S. Navy War Plan Orange and The Great War at
Sea
Like Gladiators They
Fought: Rebel Advantages in I am Spartacus
Issue 49 (Summer-Fall
2004)
Alas Poor Mexico!:
Tactics of the Mexican War in Gringo!
Pyrrhic Victory in
East Africa: Khyber Pass Games' Tactical System in
Jassin 1915
The Troubled Cruiser:
Adding the USS San Jacinto
to The Ironclads and
Shot and Shell
Different Roads to
Waterloo: The Last Campaign in The
Emperor Returns
Issue 48 (Winter
2003-Spring 2004)
Real Turn Strategy:
Science Fiction Wars in Massive Assault
Great Battles of King
and Parliament: Fighting This
Accursed Civil War
Against the Wall:
Urban Combat in SPI's
Berlin '85
Vietnam For Beginners:
Avalon Hill's Introductory Game
Platoon
Issue 47 (Fall 2003)
Winter Fire 1944: A
Review of Korsun Pocket For the Personal Computer
Typhoon on a Desktop:
A Review of Panzerschreck
Magazine's Operation Typhoon
Omnia Gallia In Partes
Tres Divisa Est: Gauls, Romans and a Deck of Cards in
Julius Caesar
The First Blitzkrieg:
The Campaign of
Poland '39
Issue 46 (Summer 2003)
Run Through the
Jungle: Vietnam War Tactics in
Mark H. Walker's Lock
'n Load
The War Ensemble: The
Complete Operational Art of War,
in TalonSoft's Century of Warfare
Frozen Modernity: The
Missing Progress of Avalon Hill's
Firepower
Issue 45 (Spring 2003)
Monster On the Volga:
A Review of the Third Edition of Streets of
Stalingrad
Guns In the Forest:
Fighting the Wilderness War
Globe and Anchor: The
Verdict On Semper Fi For
the Computer
OnLine of Departure
Support: A Scenario For the Broodwar
Expansion to Starcraft
Issue 44 (Winter 2002)
Friedrich Über Alles:
Tactics From the Age of Reason, in Prussia’s Glory
Return of the
Terrorists: America Goes Back to War in
Real War: Rogue States
One Ring to Rule Them
All: The Conflict For Middle Earth in
War of the Ring
Longstreet's Charge,
in Miniature: Fighting the Second Day of Gettysburg With
Harvest of Death
Issue 43 (Fall 2002)
Campaigns Along the
Niagara: A Review of A Mere Matter of
Marching
Age of Victors:
Strategies For Taking the Offensive in
The Age of Kings and
The Conquerors
OnLine of Departure
Support: A Russo-Japanese Steel
Panthers: World at War Scenario, From the Nomonhan Incident
Desert Defense 1984: A
Scenario for Avalon Hill's
MBT,
Using Maps From IDF
January Lightning: The
Panzer Offensive of
Budapest '45
Issue 42 (Summer 2002)
The Devil and Deep
Blue Sea: A Review of Uncommon Valor
Almost Famous: Adding
the USS Wyoming to
The Ironclads and
Shot and Shell
Arms Cast Down Before
Caesar: The Romans Against the Gauls, in Avalon Hill's
Caesar (Alesia)
Victory of the Desert
Fox: Moments in History's 1994 Debut With
Triumphant Fox
Issue 41 (Spring 2002)
Lenin's War: A Review
of Ted Raicer's Reds!
First Campaign in West
Africa: Togoland 1914 in
Review
The Eclipse of Force:
How Changes in the Paradigm of Operational Warfare Will Change Operational
Games
Playtest Report: Mark
Walker's Engaged!
OnLine of Departure
Support: An Operation Barbarossa Scenario for
Steel Panthers: World at War
Issue 40 (Winter 2001)
RTS American Style: A
Review of Real War
Red Star Over
Afghanistan: Marx Versus Mohammed in
Holy War:
Afghanistan
Zion Aflame: Ancient
Urban Warfare in Avalon Hill's The
Siege of
Jerusalem
OnLine of Departure
Support: Two Scenarios for the Expanded
Starcraft
Issue 39 (Summer/Fall
2001)
TENTH ANNIVERSERY
AMERICANS AT WAR ISSUE
Crisis in Tunisia: A
Review of Kasserine
Colonials on the
Attack: SPI's Final Work, in Monmouth
OnLine of Departure
Support: Two Steel Panthers II
Scenarios, Featuring the US Army in the Middle East
Battleground at the
Crossroads: TalonSoft's Seminal
Battleground 2:
Gettysburg
Computer Game
A Lesser Burden:
Improved Record-Keeping in
MBT
and IDF
Issue 38 (Spring 2001)
A Most Solid House of
Cards: First World War Grand Strategy in
Paths of Glory's Second
Edition
Industrial Fantasy:
The World of Warcraft II
Federals Across the
Rappahannock: Union Play in
Stonewall's Last
Battle
Issue 37 (Winter 2000)
Warfare in the Age of
Reason: Eighteenth-Century Computer Battles in
Horse & Musket
Lions of the Desert: A
Review of Sand in the Whirlwind
The Alternative Press:
The Unique Panzerschreck
The Rock of Waterloo:
Low-Level Napoleonic Tactics in
Hougoumont
Rebel Charge at
Corinth: An Overview of Fire in
Mississippi
OnLine of Departure
Support: Two Scenarios for TalonSoft's
Age of Sail
The Battlecruisers
Collide: A Scenario for Avalon Hill's
Jutland
Issue 36 (Fall 2000)
Windows on the
Panther: A Review of Steel Panthers
World at War Version 4.0
Macedonian Twilight:
The Battles of GMT's Phalanx
The Age of Addiction:
Discovering Real Time Strategy Gaming with
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Da Nang Perimeter
1965: A Scenario for Avalon Hill's
Firepower
Issue 35 (Summer 2000)
Rebellion in the Holy
Land: A Review of Khyber Pass Games'
The Jewish War
An Unheralded
Beginning: The Place of Stonewall
in Wargaming History
Between Two Fires, On
Two Fronts: Israeli Player's Notes On the Middle East 1973 Scenario of
The Operational Art of War II
Every Battle
Unforeseen: The Case for Hypothetical Scenarios for Historical Conflicts
Noble Experiments,
Mixed Results: The First American Fleet Boats, for Avalon Hill's
Submarine
A Hex Control Optional
Rule for Proud Monster
Issue 34 (Spring 2000)
Masters of the Horse:
A Review of Cataphract
Freeing the Panther:
An Overview of Steel Panthers: World
War II
Mussolini's African
Dream: A Profile of Lion of
Ethiopia
The Terminated Legacy:
The Computerized 5th Fleet,
in Perspective
Hitler's Panzers
North: Barbarossa's Northern Flank in
Leningrad
Issue 33 (Winter 1999)
Andrew Jackson's
Victory: The New Orleans Campaign in
Battle for the Bayous
We Sail Against
England!: Strategic Issues in
Britain Stands Alone
OnLine of Departure
Support: A Harpoon Classic 97
Scenario for American Shores
Issue 32 (Fall 1999)
The Enhanced Legend:
Desert Warfare in The Legend Begins
Bonaparte and Kaiser:
Examining The Franco-Prussian War,
in Strategy & Tactics
OnLine of Departure
Support: Returning to Iceland in
Harpoon Classic 97 and
Harpoon Classic for Windows
Finer Wings: Optional
Rules for Richtofen's War
The Alternative Press:
The Second Coming of Paper Wars
Issue 31 (Summer 1999)
Upon the Wine-Dark
Sea: Ancient Naval Tactics in War
Galley
Hammer to Fall: A
Review of Turning the Tables
OnLine of Departure
Support: An Early World War III Scenario for
Steel Panthers II
The Great Bug Hunt:
Science Fiction Tactics in the Original
Starship Troopers
Issue 30 (Spring 1999)
Caesar's War, Caesar's
Fortune: A Review of Caesar: Conquest of
Gaul
Empires of the New
World: Colonial Expansion in Conquistador
OnLine of Departure
Support: Scenarios for Steel Panthers and Steel Panthers
III,
Featuring the British Army in World War II
Crossroads Before
Waterloo: The Battle of Quartre Bras in Ney vs.
Wellington
Issue 29 (Winter 1998)
That Tragic Beach: The
Bay of Pigs Invasion in
Cuba Libre!
OnLine of Departure
Support: Two Scenarios for Harpoon Classic and Harpoon Classic
97
Fire to the Front,
River to the Rear: Innovation and Influence in Storm Over
Arnhem
Warriors and Soldiers:
Samurai's Place in the Great Battles of History Series
Night Battle at
Kabatiya: A Scenario for Avalon Hill's IDF
Issue 28 (Fall 1998)
Panthers on the Prowl:
The Complete Steel Panthers Arsenal
La Lucha
Para la Liberdad de la Argentina: Una Revista de Caseros 1852, Por
Randy Moorehead
Blackhorse Charge
1989: A Scenario for MBT
The Alternative Press:
The Boardgamer and Simulacrum
Issue 27 (Summer 1998)
WORLD WAR II ISSUE
Jack's Navy: Two Views
of World War II Naval Combat, in White Ensign/Rising Sun and
Iron Bottom Sound II
Built-In Blitzkrieg:
The Inherent Superiority of the Wehrmacht in Victory in the West
Rommel on the Nile: A
Review of Panzers at the Pyramids
Dark Days in the
Pacific: Three Early Pacific War Scenarios for Avalon Hill's Submarine
Issue 26 (Spring 1998)
The Sunset Empire: The
Third Edition of Napoleon at Bay
Birth of a Nation: A
Review of First Arab-Israeli War
OnLine of Departure
Support: Six Scenarios for Age of Sail
Commander's Displays:
Player's Aids for Caesar
Marching to Die: Early
Great War Tactics in SPI's Soldiers
Issue 25 (Winter 1997)
Take Me to the River:
A Review of Eastwall
Build Your Own
Panzers: Computerized Armor Combat in Wargame Construction Set II:
Tanks!
Issue 24 (Fall 1997)
SPI REMEMBRANCE ISSUE
Last Thrust Before
Moscow: A Look at SPI's Operation Typhoon
Can We Force the
Rhine?: The First Battle of the Third World War in Fifth Corps
The Alternative Press:
The SPI Revival eZine
Rainbow Demons:
Magical Warfare in Sorcerer
Strategy & Tactics
On the Small Screen: The Classic Wargames Video Library
Issue 23 (Summer 1997)
Keep Me on the Glide
Path: Over the Reich Comes to the Computer
Expanding the Unfought
War: Scenarios for MBT, With IDF Resources
Errata to GMT's
Britain Stands
Alone, As
of July 2, 1997
Endgame 1918: A Review
of Ted Raicer's All Quiet on the Western Front?
Gunfire at the Longest
Range: Play-By-Mail Naval Tactics With Thunder at Sea
Issue 22 (Spring 1997)
Battle Sail and
Broadsides: A Review of TalonSoft's Age of Sail
Shiloh's Smaller
Brother: The Tactics of SPI's
Wilson's Creek
The Smell of Oil and
Gas in the Air: The Elements of Tactics in Landships!
Squad Rosters for
Firepower
Issue 21 (Winter 1996)
Sun and Steel: The
Tactics of Feudal Japan in Samurai
Alternatives to the
Alternate History: Variants for NATO, Nukes & Nazis
Spring Storm in the
Ukraine: The Forgotten Battle of
Kharkov
Young Bonaparte in
Italy: Napoleon's 1796 Campaign in Arcola
Issue 20 (Fall 1996)
Forgotten Fronts:
The Great War in the
Near East
In Review
The Return of the
Marlborough Man: A Review of Fields of Glory
First Blood at Bull
Run: Strategy in Forward to
Richmond!
Gettysburg in a Small
Place: Masahiro Yamazaki's
Gettysburg 1863
The Alternative Press:
Perry Moore's A7V
Issue 19 (Summer 1996)
Modern Tactics For a
New Era: Fighting Tomorrow's Wars With TacOps For Windows
A New Arena For
Ambush: A Map and Scenarios for Firepower
Roads to Vicksburg:
The Civil War, Brigade Series and Champion Hill
Areas of Battles:
Developer's Notes to They Met at
Gettysburg
Issue 18 (Spring 1996)
A World of Battles:
The Complete Harpoon Classic on CD-ROM
September Fury:
Tactics in Bloodiest Day
Ramses Goes to War: Pre-Classical Tactics in
Kadesh
Refining the
Battlefield: Rules Variants for Firepower
Aircraft Rosters for
Tac Air
Issue 17 (Winter 1995)
Randy Rolls His Own: A
Look at Rommel at the
Meuse
and Operation Dragon Rouge
Ave Imperator!: The
Elements of Power in Imperium Romanum II
Tighter Ranks: A
Modified Dismounted Doctrine for MBT and IDF
Foundations of
Victory: Reasons for Macedonian Supremacy in the Deluxe Great Battles
of Alexander
Issue 16 (Fall 1995)
Through the Westwall:
A Review of Piercing the Reich
Multimedia Wings: The
Discovery Channel's Wings Over
Europe
CD-ROM
East Asian Inferno:
Understanding The
China War
Developer's Notes to
Bloodiest Day: The
Battle of Antietam
Errata for
Bloodiest Day: The
Battle of Antietam
by Peter Perla and Jim Werbaneth
Somme 1918: A Review
of Black Day of the German Army
Issue 15 (Summer 1995)
From Desert Plains:
The Expanded Game of The Legend Begins
Days of Atonement:
Playing the Israelis in Conflict:
Middle East
The Alternative Press:
Air Power
Battle to the Ends of
the Earth: The Deluxe Edition of The Great Battles of Alexander
Issue 14 (Spring 1995)
Bear in the Water:
5th Fleet Comes to the Computer
The Marches of Rome:
Fighting for Rome's Frontiers in Barbarians
Tutorial to Battle:
Gettysburg
on CD-ROM
Wings Over Germany:
Fighting in the Skies, In Over the Reich
Hard Roads to
Damascus: A Review of Operation Shock Troop
Errata for GMT's
Britain
Stands Alone
Issue 13 (Winter 1994)
Red Blitzkrieg:
Ring of Fire in Review
Opposing the Eagle:
Alea Magazine's Medellín 1809
A Collision of
Empires: The Strategic Foundations of Tannenburg
A Quick Fix: The First
Issue of Game Fix
Deceptive Counterinsurgency: Morale, Pacification and Military Operations
in Vietnam
Issue 12 (Fall 1994)
The System is the
Star: A Review of Triumphant Fox
The Missing Airbases:
A Player's Aid for Gulf Strike
Playtest Report:
The Hills of
Stanley
Playtester's Notes:
Spearhead Games' Bodyguard Overlord
Starvation Island and
Ironbottom Sound: A Review of Campaign for
Guadalcanal
Evolution in Action:
Designer's Notes to Frozen Chosin
Issue 11 (Summer 1994)
War Beneath the Waves:
Submarine Warfare in 3W's Run Silent, Run Deep
Gross Deutschland Goes
to War: A Review of GD'40
Player's Aids for
GD'40
The Alternative Press:
The Strategist
Issue 10 (Spring 1994)
Return to the Last
Parallel: A Review of GMT's Crisis:
Korea 1995
Forgotten Ships:
British 13.5 Inch-Gunned Battleships, for The Royal Navy
by Jim Werbaneth and Ryan Schultz
Combined Operations
332 BC: A Review of Alexander at
Tyre
Issue 9 (Winter 1993)
To Plunder a New
World, Or to Build a New One: Economics in Conquistador
The Alternative Press:
The Research Paper
Playtest Reports:
Landships and Bloodbath at
Borodino
Issue 8 (Fall 1993)
MODERN ARMORED TACTICS
ISSUE
Sinai to Golan: IDF
in Review
Player's Aids for
MBT and IDF
The Ultimate Panzers
Go to War: Two Scenarios for MBT
Issue 7 (Summer 1993)
Lights Out in Europe:
Fighting the Great War Through Fatal Alliances
The Alternative Press:
Perfidious
Albion
and Cry "Havoc!"
Mexican Showdown: A
Look at
Buena Vista
Battle for Empire:
Command's Blood & Iron in Review
Issue 6 (Spring 1993)
Once More, Across the
Don: A Review of Campaign to
Stalingrad
Capitolismo Hicido
Loco: Lords of the Sierra Madre en Bromo y Lucro
Issue 5 (Winter 1992)
Radioactive Moles and
Resurgent Communists: A Review of Red Christmas
Fresno No More: FGA
Sold
Collision at Wagram: A
Review of Napoleon on the
Danube
Issue 4 (Fall 1992)
To the Rijn: Strategy
in Airbridge to Victory
The Alternative Press:
Three Foreign Publications
The Wettest Desert,
The Driest Jungle: Strategy in The
Chaco War
Issue 3 (Summer 1992)
Two by Perry Moore:
Landships and Leros 1943 in Review
Other Invasions:
Variants for
Inchon
Going to the Wall:
Three Games of Siege Warfare
Player's Aids for
Sideshow
Issue 2 (Spring 1992)
The Amateur Press:
The Wargame Collector's Journal
Extended Strategems: A
Variant for Trajan
The Lay of the Land:
Terrain for Firepower
Inchon
Errata and Combat Option
Fast Movers: The
Aircraft of Tac Air
Filling Out the Fleet:
Still More Ships for The Royal Navy
Roads to Moscow... And
From It: Variations on
Battle for Moscow
Issue 1 (Winter 1991)
PREMIER NAVAL ISSUE
A Look at
Jutland: Duel of the
Dreadnoughts
More Battlewagons:
Additional Dreadnoughts for The Royal Navy
Common Seas: Naval
Surface Tactics for Wargamers
The Electronic Cordon:
NATO Air Defense in Computer Harpoon
LINE OF
DEPARTURE ONLINE FEATURES
All articles dated
2008 and earlier were originally published on the now-defunct Line of
Departure/The Wargamer site. In January 2009 they were republished on a
new Line of Departure Online Features site, at
www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features. All projects from 2009 were
published there only.
January 10, 2022
Anatomy of a
Failure: The Defeat of the Soviet Kharkov Offensive, 1942
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/Kharkov.html
December 31, 2021
Churchill the
Indispensable: How the Prime Minister Became the Most Important Figure of
World War II
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/ChurchilltheIndispensible.html
December 19, 2021
Portrait of the Führer as a
Compulsive Gambler: How Winning Early Warped Hitler's Perceptions of
Strategy
www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/hitlerthegambler.html
December 11, 2016
The Logistical Foundations
of Grant's Overland Campaign of 1864
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/Overland.html
December 17, 2014
The 77th Infantry Division in World War II: A Study in Excellence
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/77id.html
May 27, 2013
Battle for Britanny: Analysis of Patton's Post
D-Day Diversion
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/battle_for_britanny.html
December 18, 2012
Normandy
Counteroffesive: An Analysis of the Battle of Mortain, August 1944
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/mortain.html
Heinz Guderian: A Short Biography
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/guderian.html
December 27, 2011
Scott's Mexico City Campaign: Jomini, Clausewitz and Winfield Scott
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/scott_mexico.html
May 5, 2011
One Battle, Three Perspectives: How Three Leading Military Historians View
Grant's Role in the First Hours of Shiloh
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/onebattle.html
January 18, 2011
Military History for
Beginners: My Own Introduction to Teaching Military History at the College
Level
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/online_military_history.html
April 14, 2008
That Classic, Again:
Modern Naval Warfare with Larry Bond's Harpoon ― Commander's Edition
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/harpoon_ce.html
¡Viva El Presidente!:
Fun With Economics and Government in Tropico
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/tropico.html
January 6, 2008
Three Dragons: The
Asian Dynasties Expansion for Microsoft's Age of Empires III
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/asiandynasties_review.html
One Nomination:
Reasons Why StarCraft Might Be the Best Real Time Strategy Game Ever
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/starcraft_bestofrts.html
August 9, 2007
Decisive Stalingrad:
A Preview of
Stalingrad: Pivot on
the Volga
for Turning Point Simulations
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/pivotonthevolga.html
June 24, 2007
Beyond the Classic:
Global War at Sea with Harpoon 3: Advanced Naval Warfare
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/harpoon3.html
April 14, 2007
Indigenous Powers: The
Warchiefs Expansion Expansion for Microsoft's Age of Empires III
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/warchiefs_review.html
June 18, 2006
The Sun Rises Early: A
Review of War Plan
Orange
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/warchiefs_review.html
June 7, 2006
Magnum Opus of the
Pacific: An Overview of War in the Pacific, From Matrix Games
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/wip_review.html
Exploring for the
Ages: The Extra Roles of Explorers in Age of Empires
III
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/aoeiii_explorers.html
November 28, 2008
Fantasyland Goes
Retro: Fantasy Warfare in
Land of Legends
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/landoflegends.html
July 28, 2005
Mrs. Thatcher's War: A
Review of Shrapnel Games' The
Falklands War: 1982
http://www.wargamer.com/hosted/lineofdeparture/falklandswar.asp
Beaches to Breakout:
Battles in
Normandy
for the Personal Computer
http://www.wargamer.com/hosted/lineofdeparture/normandy.asp
June 20, 2005
The Global Game: The
Second World War on the Grandest Scale, in Gary Grigsby's World at War
Computer Game
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/gg_world_at_war.html
February 19, 2005
Ages of Nations: A
Look at Rise of Nations and the Thrones and Patriots
Expansion
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/riseofnations.html
Miniatures March
Across the Monitor: A Review of Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/tin_alex.html
May 2, 2003
The Traveling Trade
Show: A Review of Interstellar Trader 2
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/int_trader2.html
February 2, 2003
Process Into Product:
A Design Methodology for Board Wargames
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/design_proc.html
November 10, 2002
The Moveable Heritage:
How the Evolution of Computer Games Obscures Their Own History and What
Can Be Done About It
http://www.wargamer.com/hosted/lineofdeparture/game_heritage.asp
TalonSoft's Tactics:
Playing World War II Battles With the Campaign Series of Computer
Games
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/campaignseries.html
June 25, 2002
The Raiders: An
Analysis of Naval Surface Commerce Raiding Since the Elizabethan Era
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/raiders.html
May 29, 2002
New Battlegrounds: The
Clone Campaigns Expansion for Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/sw_clones.html
February 7, 2002
Age of the Force: The
Star Wars Universe Comes to Real Time Strategy, in Star Wars Galactic
Battlegrounds
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/sw_battle.html
January 1, 2002
Afghanistan
Post-Mortem: Early Lessons of the War Against Al-Quaida and the Taliban
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/postmortem.html
October 19, 2001
The Law and the
Wargame: My Experience as a Guest at a Premier Law School
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/gameschool.html
October 5, 2001
A Pox on the World:
Science Fiction's Most Disturbing Aliens, in StarCraft
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/zerg.html
Revolution in Hand:
The Potential Impact of the Smallest Computers on Board Wargaming
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/handheld.html
September 14, 2001
The Brutal Road to
Security: First Thoughts on the First War of the Twenty-First Century
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/firstthoughts.html
December 24, 2000
Guide to Conquest: A
Review of the Official Strategy Guide to the Conquerors Expansion
to Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/conquerorsbook.html
October 18, 2000
Invasions in Real
Time: Amphibious Strategies in Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/invasions.html
The Age of Conquerors:
The Conquerors Expansion to Set for Age of Empires II: The Age
of Kings
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/conquerorsreview.html
January 23, 2000
A Case Study of Case
Yellow: The Fall of France in The Operational Art of War Volume I
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/caseyellow.html
July 26, 1999
Defining "Modern:"
Wargaming's Problematic Era
http://www.jimwerbaneth.com/online_features/modernwar.html
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