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Pottery: making a dead dish.

"Basic Ways of Improving Medical Support for the Troops in the Second Period of the Great Patriotic War"

"Improving the Military Medical Service During the Years of the Great Patriotic War"

10K is attempting to put attack and defense information on both sides of counters. I think we cracked it and will set a new standard for playability regarding handling units and markers.

10K didn't want Horsemen Unleashed to represent logistics about as well as the Germans planned their biggest campaign. It's a struggle.

I spent yesterday evening taking Soviet naval gunfire off of effects cards and putting it onto counters. The change has no effect on how the game represents history but will de-clutter the table a bit.

My personal process for resolving playtest notes is interesting.

2 of us had a great conversation last night, getting our heads together on several subjects. We are working a mechanic that will present some information in a new way, to de-clutter the table and slightly speed play without changing the game mechanics at all. Some improvements are big, some small.

One of 10K's Horsemen Unleashed series reasons for existing is to put on a gaming table factors other than firepower that matter a lot to who wins battles. Efficiency and morale are obvious, but we also emphasize operational competence: how quickly and well a country's forces can start a battle.

I am listening to Ardwulf's Lair episode 210, Counter Clipping Live from Winterfest. Ardy just commented that Blitzkrieg Legend is one of his favorite depictions of the France 1940 campaign because it avoids factor inflation, which designers could use to make the Germans able to win on schedule.

10K Games is designing the Horsemen Unleashed game system and its first game, Symphony of Destruction. The system is a hex-and-counter wargame at 10KM per hex, in 3-day game turns, that covers WW2 in Europe. Symphony presents dozens of scenarios of the struggle between East Prussia and Leningrad.