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Bill Owen
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Why Tractics now?
Most of the buyers of one of the nearly identical print versions of Tractics came from the Facebook fan group for Tractics. Most were...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Duckbills: Tractics variants & errata
Mike and I will produce an irregular newsletter for Tractics that you can download for free. Click here for its webpage (that included...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Tractics Features
Because there are 8 different versions of the second edition of Tractics, I added a webpage that explains the features. Since the...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
"E Gary Gygax would be proud"
Another guest post after receiving the new edition. This one is from Terry Terry: "Tractics Review The updated edition of Tractics has...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
Panzermaster
Here I pass on what one of the Quick Reaction Force let me know, Pete Mousseaux. The QRF were volunteers who agreed to receive initial...
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Bill Owen
- Dec 17, 2021
- 1 min
Tractics Now Available & Facebook Fan Group's QR Code
After 26 months, 1811 emails and phone calls with Mike Reese, TRACTICS is NOW AVAILABLE. Yes, all caps. I'm shouting WHOOPIE! For those...
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Bill Owen
- Nov 29, 2021
- 1 min
Tractics' IFM, Indirect Fire Mode
As we put the final touches on Tractics for release asap, I wrote a blog post on Wargame Campaign: https://wargamecampaign.wordpress.com/...
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Bill Owen
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
Tractics About To Be Detected
We have been busy with correcting the final typos and adding new material. So even though I should know better, I am confident that we...
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Bill Owen
- Sep 11, 2021
- 5 min
Tractics: What's New
This second edition for Tractics still includes all the Classic Rules as in the first edition. The big difference is that the graphic...
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Bill Owen
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
Fast Rules
My desire to see a new edition of Fast Rules came out of my disenchantment with many contemporary rulesets. I remembered fondly of Fast...
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Bill Owen
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
MGs
While working on Tractics for over a year now, I have 890 emails on corrections, changes, and updates. From those and several phone...
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Bill Owen
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Why Tractics?
Tractics: Is a Reference work: hundreds of AFVs, guns, mortars and small arms. Is a marvel! Consider the excellence of the game's breadth...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
Commercial Wargames and Experiential Learning
One of my wargame friends, David Redpath, shared a short article about wargames and learning that I felt addressed why a game like...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 19, 2021
- 1 min
Making World War II Scenarios
Between fine-tuning the final details on Tractics, Mike Reese occasionally explains rule rationale and gives me links to consider. For...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
Valentines Day: Tractics Testimonials
Tractics is that you really felt like you were commanding individual tanks. All the details in the rules gave you a feeling of each type...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 11, 2021
- 2 min
Do we live simultaneously?
The 5000’ General is waxing philosophical while peering at the battlefield from his light plane. What is time? Noted British wargame...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
Style of Play can make a big difference
In working with Mike Reese for nearly a year on the second edition of Tractics, I have learned about the difference in how he played the...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 24, 2021
- 3 min
Searching for Tractics in those bushes
One thing that made Tractics games so exciting was the hidden set-up. As the player moving on the board (or after setting up hidden...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
Terrain trade-offs
A guy on Facebook asked about the pros & cons of modeling hex terrain. Even my friend, a fine modeler more than a gamer, decided that 4"...
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