Comments on: Military (Wargame) Spending Budget Slashed

By: tsutek

tsutek — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:29:05 +0000

Oh yeah, while I’m at it – If you know of something like TWE that is still in active development, please give us a link or name or something.. In the meantime, I’ll have to make do with TWE (Which I started using wayy back when it was still called Circa7000 BTW :)

By: tsutek

tsutek — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:25:18 +0000

There is a manual for TWE, just install it and you’ll find one. The original manual was in a terrible .doc format, which OpenOffice managed to turn into a nice searchable indexed PDF. The manual is not the most logically segmented one I’ve seen but at least it’s pretty comprehensive (Not sure that it’s authored with v1.04 in mind though, there seems to be inconsistencies, like the manual says you cannot change a unit template instances’ graphic but in fact you can, at least in v1.04)

I’ve been looking around the web for some TWE activity.. Every site/forum seems dead? If anyone knows of any TWE community that’s still active these days please let me know. I am constructing a TWE mod/campaing (sci-fi/man vs machine) and any external insights into the authoring environment would be welcome.

By: Poki Mo

Poki Mo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:15:39 +0000

Is there any manual for TWE?

By: thaihoangtuan

thaihoangtuan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:32:55 +0000

Doi tai

By: twb

twb — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:20:41 +0000

The metric Peggle is actually known as the “Molyneux,” and is 6643KB, which is the size of a ZIP-compressed copy version of 1993’s Syndicate.

Due to a quirk in the choice of the original measurement source, the calculated Molyneux inflates itself every year, to the point where in CY 2007, one Molyneux was said to require more storage than the combined hard drive space of every computer attached to the Internet. However, whenever the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures orders a reassessment, it’s found that the latest Molyneux just doesn’t measure up to Syndicate.

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:23:39 +0000

Doubly ironic as there was, indeed, a metric peggle. (At least proposed, not sure if it was ratified by RPS or not…)

Brog – file size does indeed still matter for some people, in some circumstances. At work? No problem? At home? Yea, 43 peggles will download in a couple-several hours. If I’m going to DL something at work and bring it home on a (69-70 peggle) flash drive, then it matters.

araczynski: – Peggles ARE the real unit. There is no other.

By: Txiasaeia

Txiasaeia — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:42:08 +0000

Fifteen metres to the peggle, but that’s at sea level. Now, back in *my* day, there were five stone and three centimeters to what you would call the peggle, but what we would call a horse’s head. That was just a figure of speech, of course, because real horses’ heads weighed somewhere around the neighborhood of an X-Com or so.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:18:07 +0000

MeestaNob, that was brilliant. It fooled me!

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:09:20 +0000

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!

By: RobotLiberationArmy

RobotLiberationArmy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:33 +0000

@araczynski:
I don’t know what’s funnier, that fact that a recurring joke makes you so angry or that you apparently have no concept of how systems of measurement came about (protip: the ‘cheeseheads’ in Washington never invented anything).

By: Jason Lutes

Jason Lutes — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:18:00 +0000

I like the idea of the War Engine, and years ago, when it as known as the Wargame Development Kit, I even started a pulp adventure mod for it, but the underlying rules system is pretty damn clunky. I really wish someone would put out a construction kit like this with a solid ruleset, a little more polish, and campaign support, because that would be all the entertainment I’d need for a good long time…

By: Okami

Okami — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:04:50 +0000

I’d use the metric system for file sizes, if I’d knew how many metres are in one peggle.