I’ve been working on the technology tree. One part of that is creating unit images. They’re looking pretty darn nice. This is an image of a modern tank.

Kind of a shame that the units are so small. There’s a lot of detail in that little image. Here’s that same image [...]

Time to take a minute to update everyone on the progress of the game. Here’s a rundown of the major items -
What’s working?
Single player game (including unit orders, movement, combat, turn-replay functionality, load/save game).
Multiplayer game (including the networking code so players can find each other on a LAN, setup a game, play a game, [...]

This is a video of a mortar attack in Iraq (4.6 MB). The insurgents start firing mortars at a (presumably US) military base in Iraq.  They fire, adjust their aim, fire again, adjust their aim… A few minutes into the video, artillery fire back at the mortars.  So, how’d the artillery know where [...]

Something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while is the way game rules affect game strategy. It’s something I haven’t written about until now because I’m unsure that I can put my thoughts into an understandable, written form. Specifically, some games allow players to have groups of units attack a single target, [...]

This is a video of the US military’s new Javelin antitank missile system (Link1, Link2, Link3) used against a T-72 tank. It’s fired from the shoulder, has a range of over a mile, the missile uses infrared to track its target (“fire and forget”), and it hits tanks from the top - where the [...]