Love Amabel games! Thanks for the interview

I wish I could speak French 🥲

this is brilliant

Hey Joe, any plans to do this for China war?

Wow, this was great. Thanks Fred and Joe! I really liked Gianmaria's opening. Alex had a lot of surprise moves that I never knew where they were heading. Really thought Jay's strategy was going to win in the end, but Anthony man you took it all the way. Thank you all for sharing your experience with this game. Below I noted some things I saw in the video I didn't understand. Might just take a second watch to clear it up so I'll keep it here in my comment for a reference, but if anyone else can clear it up and doesn't mind sharing, that would be awesome. 51:31 26 of July did not Rally, but Terror and Kidnap in Pinar del Rio 1:07:10 Gov't can only redeploy cubes in controlled spaces and troops to controlled cities or bases Rule Book 6.4.3 pp11 (4th printing) 1:16:25 Did the Syndicate offer to play the shaded Event if the Gov't pays them four resources? 1:30:37 To play "Rebel Air Force" event doesn't 26July need an active guerrilla in Pinar (i.e. before they place the guerilla the get when doing an ambush)? 2:13:26 DRE Op Only Rally in Las Villas I don't see how he goes from two active guerillas to four hidden guerrillas.

Thanks for leading on this, David!

Rodney Smith is awesome! For someone who doesn't know COIN = COunterINsurgency COIN (short for COunterINsurgency) is a series of multiplayer asymmetric strategy board wargames simulating historic insurgency and counter-insurgency conflicts and irregular warfares throughout the world.

Did this review ever come out? Is the game any good? Would love to see more on this...

Super interview ! C'est incroyable comme Jean-Pierre Défieux a marqué toute une génération de joueurs et est à l'origine de beaucoup de vocations !

Merci beaucoup pour votre vidéo. C est toujours agréable de découvrir un passionné et ouvert d'esprit. C est avec ce type de profil que notre loisir qui subit des difficultés à se renouveler peut perdurer. Malheureusement certains joueurs ne sont pas dans cet état d'esprit et c est une des causes de la baisse des joueurs de wargame. Vivement la prochaine vidéo bravo

Merci pour cette très belle interview. De beaux souvenirs me reviennent en mémoire, comme l'époque où Casus Belli était le magazine des "jeux de simulation" et proposait en encart le jeu du championnat de France. 35 ans après, et quoi qu'on en dise, le wargame est toujours là, et bien vivant. C'est super !

What a beautiful game! absolutely stunning. would you say that this game is a good way to get into wargames?

Merci beaucoup pour cet entretien. Très intéressant. Que de souvenirs ! J'ai toujours aimé suivre le travail de Frédéric Bay.

Merci pour l'interview, merci Fred et Fred!

Bonne Interview Fred! Merci beaucoup!

I’d like to see a DUNE or STAR WARS themed COIN game

Also, aren't they over stacked at Gili Gili as they have more then 3 air/ground units there?

Also, in the attack at Gili Gili Shaun rolled a 9, isn't that a critical hit?

Could the Japanese react to the Gili Gili move as it wasn't a battle hex and it wasn't an enemy port?

Finally was able to get a new copy of this in a online bidding war. Very happy with it, I think Cyprus would be the easiest map to start with for new COIN Players. Agree that I don't think BW is a more forgiving game than CL or AB, although I found AB a bit more overwhelming where CL seemed like a lite version of AB and a belter place to start. Nitpick at : 23:28 How was Jeff able to perform a Rob Operation as the EOKA? Isn't that an Irgun operation?

France 1944 is such a fantastic game! Thanks for a great play through of it!

Great stream, Fred!

Was so fun doing this

No french subtitles?

This was a lot of fun to watch, thanks guys. Looking forward to part 2!

Ah just missed the party!

Thank you Fred! What a great video! This interview with Mark is really nice. I am really interested in the hobby and would love to get into it, but i don't know how. just a couple of small questions...What games would you recommend to get into the hobby of wargaming, specifically for those that aren't very familiar with board games, and also those that are a bit familiar with board games. Also, would you say that as long as someone is interested in the game, they can learn any game?

Great show. Mark is always fun to listen to.

A nice interview with room for many backgrounds and a well-thought-out vision.

More reviews please. There couldn’t be a more constructive critique than the one coming from you

J'ai reçu ma copie hier. Je vais le tester ce weekend avec joie et impatience 😊. Je suis deja fan des cartes format "tarot" !

Buy Scott a microphone.

Mark is an unfailingly interesting and engaging interviewee.

Great interview and great editing 😊. Mark is a treasure and has absolutely the right idea about enjoying the games. Fred and Liz make a great interview team. A great contrast.

Great conversation, really enjoyed this 😀

Love the background....

thank you

What a nice interview ! Thank you Fred and Liz for inviting Mark. A true lover of "paper time-machines". I like the way Mark & you state that every gamer is creative because you cannot immerse in a fictional word if you are not creative yourself. So, in a way, wargames is a tool to make history creative (and that's the difference between a history book and a history game). Also I smiled when Mark put ASL and Squad leader in his top 5 ;) A great interview once again !

Following up on Mark's comment about numbers, I'm currently reading Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac - and I really find the book unsatisfactory because it's not sufficiently analytical. When I wrote for Strategy & Tactics magazine, the real appeal for me was its data-driven approach to history. S&T sacrificed the story part of history for sharp analysis. And that analysis revealed the history better than the long-winded historical narratives I had read elsewhere. That said, I agree wholeheartedly with Mark that the best wargames are not buried in numbers. The best games advance theories that use numbers to convey a proof. And proof is not about combat factors and DRMs. Proof is what determines the outcome despite the numbers. Factors like geography, leadership, morale, speed, and surprise are far more important than combat strengths and weapon specs. The truth in history is between the words and beyond the numbers.

On Mark's comment about standing at the Angle at Gettysburg looking out over the field. I"ve been there, and done that, and had the exact same reaction.

I do enjoy winning, but it's more about how I get there. I know my opponent enjoys winning too, so I may as well throw them a bone right :)? Anyway, I mostly play solo anymore and one of the reasons why is that I am mostly interested in consuming the physical production of a game and thinking about the system. Winning, while enjoyable, is almost beside the point. I don't even need an opponent to appreciate the things I enjoy most about games.

The General did sometimes analyze the game in so much depth that they basically solved it. To play ideally you need to do X, Y, and Z on each turn. Afrika Korps is probably the best example of this. There's almost no point to playing the game at that point. I don't resent anyone playing a game the way they want to, but sometimes maybe I just want to try something new and don't care if I am playing the most efficiently.

Great episode!

Very nice video, this is one of the warmest, most beautiful channels

I love cube rails games never got into the 18xx yet.

Mark is a legend. This was a great chat :)

Great interview! So glad that our individual journeys have all had a chance to intersect ... Excelsior!

When Mark mentioned that Normandy footage with that American soldier dropping like "a sack of potatoes" I knew immediately what he's talking about. I get emotional over it too. Ever since i was old enough to understand my mind has been filled with questions about him. What was his name? Where was he from? Was he missed by a lot of folks when they got that letter about his death? Did he believe in the mission to liberate France, or was he answering the call to adventure? Just a few of the questions of the many thousands i've had over time.

I was so honored to be a guest on the show thank you so much

mark is an amazing human being!