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JIM WERBANETH PUBLICATION LIST ACADEMIC WRITINGS Paper Presented to the Conference of Army Historians, conducted by the United States Army's Center of Military History in Arlington, Virginia, July 27, 2011. "Counterproductive Distractions: Britain's American Diversion in the Pursuit of Victory Over Revolutionary and Napoleonic France." CONFLICT SIMULATIONS DESIGNS Self-Published (July 2006) Rommel at Gazala (World War II Desert Battle in North Africa, 1942)
GMT Games (December 1994) Britain Stands Alone (Hypothetical Situation, German Invasion of the United Kingdom, 1940)
Command Magazine (Issue 9 ― March-April 1991) Inchon (Korean War Operation, 1950) ― Co-Winner of the Charles S. Roberts Award for the Best Post-World War II Game of the Year.
CONFLICT SIMULATIONS DEVELOPMENT
Lock 'n Load Games (2007) World at War: Eisenbach Gap (Hypothetical Soviet-American World War III Battles, Set in 1985)
Flintlock: Carolina Rebels (Revolutionary War Battles Set in the Deep South)
Spearhead Games (1996) They Met at Gettysburg (Civil War Battle)
Spearhead Games (1995) Bloodiest Day: The Battle of Antietam (Civil War Battle)
Titles Completed and Awaiting Publication:
Turning Point Simulations The Siege of Syracuse (Peloponnesian War Campaign, 415-413 BCE)
The Battle of Saratoga (Revolutionary War Tactics, 1777)
The Battle of the Metaurus (Punic War Tactics, 207 BCE)
The Battle of Midway (Naval Warfare in World War II)
The Battle of Tours (Frankish-Arab Battle in Modern-Day France, 732 CE)
The Battle of Stalingrad: Pivot on the Volga (Operational-Level Game of the Drive on Stalingrad and Soviet Counteroffensive)
Joan of Arc's Victory (Strategic-Level Game of the Hundred Year's War)
The Great Northern War: Dread Poltava's Day (Strategic-Level Eighteenth-Century Warfare in the Baltic and Russia)
The Siege of Syracuse (Ancient Warfare in the Peloponnesian War, 415-413 BCE)
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
Book Reviews in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual, published by Florida Atlantic University, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991 Editions.
BOOK REVIEWS
Numerous book reviews published by The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fantasy Review, and Strategy & Tactics magazine, from 1984. Reviews of books on military history and international relations published in Military Review, the leading intellectual journal of the United States Army, starting in May 2009.
AGAINST THE ODDS MAGAZINE PROJECTS 2006 Annual (Published July 2006) Roundtable of Consim Artists (Interviews)
Volume V, Number 1 (October 2006) Precision & Resolution: Precision-Guided Munitions and Combat Resolution in Operational Wargames
AVALANCHE PRESS "DAILY CONTENT" ONLINE ARTICLES
January 30, 2009 His Majesty’s Corsairs (The Bent-Wing Bird Part 2) http://www.avalanchepress.com/F4U_corsair_at_war2.php
January 29, 2009 The Bent-Wing Bird: The F4U Corsair at War (Part 1) http://www.avalanchepress.com/F4U_corsair_at_war.php
November 3, 2008 The Wrong Tank in the Right Place: The American M3 Grant http://www.avalanchepress.com/m3_grant.php
July 24, 2008 The Flawed Queen of the Battlefield: Britain's Matilda Tank http://www.avalanchepress.com/matilda.php
July 1, 2008 The Battle of the River Plate http://www.avalanchepress.com/graf_spee_3.php
June 25, 2008 The Voyage of the Graf Spee (Part 2) http://www.avalanchepress.com/graf_spee_2.php
June 24, 2008 The Voyage of the Graf Spee (Part 1) http://www.avalanchepress.com/graf_spee.php
MILITARY HISTORY MAGAZINE ARTICLE
June 1998 Crusaders' Siege of Antioch
WORLD WAR II MAGAZINE ARTICLE
May 1992 Helpful Conduct by the Enemy (The Battle of Gazala, May-June 1942)
COMMAND MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Issue 45 (October 1997)
Issue 16 (May-June 1992) Eagles in the Sand: The Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC
Issue 9 (March-April 1991) McArthur's Gambit: Inchon to Seoul, September 1950
Issue 1 (November-December 1989) Fletching the Arrows: The Luftwaffe in Spain
MOVES MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Number 77 (October-November 1993) Soldiers: Tactics in the First Months of World War I
Number 61 (February-March 1991) On the Production Spiral: MacArthur's Gambit
FIRE & MOVEMENT MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Number 70 (Holiday 1990) 1914 (Classic Wargaming Series)
Number 66 (June/July 1990) The Siege of Jerusalem: Review & Analysis of the New Edition
Number 57 (August-September 1998) Patton Goes to War (Game Review)
Number 55 (September/October 1987) Encore for the Emperor: A Profile of Clash of Arms' Napoleonic Game (The Emperor Returns)
STRATEGY & TACTICS MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Number 159 (March 1993) Sword of Lead: Why Iraq Failed in Operation "Desert Storm"
WARGAMER MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Volume 2, Number 13 (Origins Convention Issue -- June 1989) Simulations for Education: Learning and Teaching From Wargames
THE GENERAL MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Volume 26, Number 3 (1990) A Flame in the Gulf: The Iran-Iraq War and Firepower
Volume 25, Number 2 (1989) The Laager: South Africa's War and Firepower
Into the Jungle: Player's Notes on Platoon
Volume 24, Number 5 (1988) Swords of the Republic: Roman Play in Caesar
Breaking the Ring: Gallic Play in Caesar
Volume 24, Number 1 (1987) The Pact: Central European Conflict and Firepower
Volume 23, Number 6 (1987) Revolution Against the Revolution: The Nicaraguan Contra War and Firepower
The Long Haul: Axis Strategy in The Russian Campaign
Beyond Manifest Destiny: American Play in Pax Britannica (Reprinted in The General's Special "Best Of" Issue for Origins 1988.)
Volume 23, Number 4 (1987) Fate of Empire: A Solitaire Variant of Stellar Conquest
Volume 22, Number 6 (1986) Struggle for El Salvador: The FMLN and Firepower
Volume 22, Number 4 (1986) Active Retreat: Effective Defense in Panzerkrieg
Volume 22, Number 2 (1985) The Airpower System: Understanding Land-Based Air Assets in Flat Top
THE GRENADIER MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Issue 34 (October 1998) Mission: Grenada (Game Review) LINE OF DEPARTURE PRINT EDITION ARTICLES Issue 69 (Summer/Fall
2011)
Issue 68 (Winter 2010) First Strike, Over the Horizon: Coral Sea Introduces Players to The Second World War at Sea
Going Home to Gaul: A Review of Caesar in Gaul
Queen Victoria's Wars: The Sun Never Sets on Three Conflicts
Coming Attractions: Developer's Notes to The Siege of Syracuse
Issue 67 (Summer 2010) Blitzkrieg to the Edge of the Earth: Mark Simonitch's The Caucasus Campaign Passes in Review
Leaving Luzon: A Review of Panzer Digest Magazine's Solitaire Game The Fall of the Philippines
Broken Battles: The Greatest Flaw of Caesar's Legions
Return to the Battleground: The Matrix Games Editions of the Battleground Series
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes to
Saratoga
Issue 66 (Winter 2009/Spring 2010) When France Faced the Abyss, and the Abyss Stared Back: A Review of Ici, C'est la France!
Greek Against Greek: Fighting the Peloponnesian War With Wooden Blocks in Athens & Sparta
Lessons From the Fall: Things Learned from Avalon Hill's France 1940
Coming Attractions: Developer's Note to The Battle of Midway
Issue 65 (Summer/Fall 2009) SECOND WORLD WAR: FIRST CONTACT ISSUE The Tiger Resists: A Review of Storm Over Taierzhuang
…And the Bell Tolls for Thee: Spain's Agony Comes to the Computer, in HPS Simulations' Spanish Civil War
An Army Not Ready for Victory: Rommel's Last Gamble in Tunisia, in GMT's Kasserine
When Britain Ruled the Waves: Naval Surface Combat in the Age of Dreadnoughts in Jack Greene's The Royal Navy
Issue 64 (Winter 2008/Spring 2009) Indian Armies at War: The Rise of the Mauryan Empire in GMT's Chandragupta
Ancient Tactics By
the Block: Fighting the Battles of the Punic Wars in Richard Borg's
Command & Colors: Ancients Fire at the Foot of the Mountain: SPI's Cedar Mountain in the Great Battles of the American Civil War
Slamming the Back Gate Shut: Fighting the Climactic Battle in Normandy, in Falaise Pocket
Issue 63 (Fall 2008) Las Guerras de la Liberacíon: Una Critica de Guerra a Muerte, en Against the Odds
Birth of a Nation, the Short Version: A Review of Israeli Independence
Airborne Operations in Real Time: Fighting for Greece and Beyond on the Computer, in Conquest of the Aegean
Old Dogs Bite Back 1981: A Scenario for Avalon Hill's MBT
Mongol Dawn: The Mongol Army in Devil's Horsemen
Issue 62 (Spring/Summer 2008) This Was Manila: Review of Manila '45, From Strategy & Tactics
Freedom's Back Against the Wall: The Cold War Turns Hot, in The Next War
The Reich's First U-Boats: The Type IA and Type II Boats for Avalon Hill's Submarine
Mobile Defense on the Plains of Burma: The British Mission in A Master Stroke
Issue 61 (Winter 2007)
Return to the Front: A
Review of Matrix Games' New Imagining of Battlefront
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes to Joan of Arc's Victory: "Render to the Maid!"
Alexander, King and
God: The Greatest Ancient Campaign, in The Conquerors: Alexander the
Great
The Phoenix Comes Home
to Roost: The End of the Great Patriotic War in Red Vengeance
Scenario-Building
Issues in
MBT and
IDF: Problems and Solutions to Designing Scenarios for Avalon Hill's
Modern Tactical Wargames
Issue 60 (Summer/Fall 2007)
The North Sea Monster:
A Review of
Jutland in
the Great War at Sea Series
The New Capital Ships:
Carriers at War Returns to the Computer
The Alternative Press:
Battle-Market and Panzer Digest The Themes of Firepower: The Foundations of Avalon Hill's Game of Man-to-Man Combat in the Modern Era
Issue 59 (Spring 2007)
Vertical Envelopment:
A Review of Airborne Task Force for the Computer
The Truest Microgame:
Fighting for Guadalcanal in Action Front! Watchtower
Coming Attractions:
Developer's Notes For The Hammer and World at War: Eisenbach
Ridge
Krieg und Sieg: World
War II Eastern Front Operations in Avalon Hill's Panzerkrieg
Issue 58 (Winter 2006)
Our Oldest Ally and
Our Newest Enemy: Fighting the Franco-American Naval War of 1922, in
U.S. Navy
Plan Gold
A World Still at War:
A Review of The Operational Art of War
III
The First Toehold:
Amphibious Operations in GMT's Invasion
Sicily
Doctrines of Limits
and Mass: Soviet and Arab Doctrine in Avalon Hill's
MBT
and IDF
Issue 57 (Fall 2006)
Conflicts for a
Continent: Birth of
America,
Born for the Computer
The First Shots of the
First World War: Avalon Hill's 1914, In Retrospective
Additional Rules for
1914: Optional Rules to Adjust and Balance the Game
OnLine of Departure
Support: The US Navy's Lexington-Class Battlecruisers, for
Quarterdeck's The Royal Navy
Issue 56 (Summer 2006)
Once Upon a Time in
Mexico, the French Version: A Review of Cactus Throne
Bloodbath on the Golan
Heights: Armored Tactics on Yom Kippur, in Armchair General
Magazine's
Valley of Tears
Tales of the
Surcouf: Scenarios for the Largest Boat in Submarine
A Choice of Beaches:
Invasion Alternatives in Strategic-Level Operation Overlord Games
Issue 55 (Spring 2006)
The End of Custer’s
Luck: A Review of Battle of the Little Bighorn, From Khyber Pass
Games
Mounting DTP Counters:
Or Not Mounting Them, As the Case May Be
Cavalry and the Far
West: The Promised Insets for the Previous Issue’s Article on Victory
Games’ The Civil War
Shrapnel’s Desert Task
Force: A Review of The Star and the Crescent
Holding Onto That
Hard-Fought Field: Defensive Tactics in the Musket & Pike
Battle Series
Issue 54 (Winter 2005)
Glorious Visions:
Napoleonic Strategy and Tactics in Crown of Glory
Minefield
Alternatives: A Quick and Simple Way of Plotting Minefields in the
Great War at Sea Series
The Missing Keystone:
The Place of Northern Waters in The Great War at Sea
War of Secession:
Elements of Victory Games' The Civil War
Issue 53 (Fall 2005)
God is My Copilot: A
Review of Chennault’s First Fight
Apocalypse Cancelled:
NATO-Warsaw Pact Conflict in GDW’s The
Third World War:
Battle for Germany
Glory and Mortality: A
Review of Campaigns on the
Danube
For the Personal Computer
The Missing Monoplane:
Bristol’s Innovative M1.C, for Richtofen’s War
Panzerschreck
Goes Professional: Brandy Station and Race to the
Vistula
in Panzerschreck Issue 14
The Yom Kippur War,
According to SPI: Middle East Tactics in October War
Optional Doctrine and
Advanced Panic Rules for October War
Spatial Abstractions:
Avalon Hill’s Edition of Stellar Conquest
Issue 51 (Spring 2005)GAME REVIEW ISSUE Death Rides a Pale Pony: Great Battles of History Looks at Great Battles of the Mongols, In Devil’s Horsemen
Issue 50 (Winter 2004)
Atatürk’s Victory: A
Review of Perry Moore’s Bir Büyük Türk Saldiri
Tank By Tank, Shot By
Shot: Simulating Desert Armored Tactics in Avalon Hill’s Tobruk
The Great Pacific War
of 1930:
U.S. Navy War Plan Orange
and The Great War at Sea
Optional Rules and
Player’s Aids for U.S. Navy War Plan Orange and The Great War at
Sea
Like Gladiators They
Fought: Rebel Advantages in I am Spartacus
Issue 49 (Summer-Fall 2004)
Alas Poor Mexico!:
Tactics of the Mexican War in Gringo!
Pyrrhic Victory in
East Africa: Khyber Pass Games' Tactical System in
Jassin 1915
The Troubled Cruiser:
Adding the USS San Jacinto
to The Ironclads and
Shot and Shell
Different Roads to
Waterloo: The Last Campaign in The
Emperor Returns
Issue 48 (Winter 2003-Spring 2004)
Real Turn Strategy:
Science Fiction Wars in Massive Assault
Great Battles of King
and Parliament: Fighting This
Accursed Civil War
Against the Wall:
Urban Combat in SPI's
Berlin '85
Vietnam For Beginners:
Avalon Hill's Introductory Game
Platoon
Issue 47 (Fall 2003)
Winter Fire 1944: A
Review of Korsun Pocket For the Personal Computer
Typhoon on a Desktop:
A Review of Panzerschreck
Magazine's Operation Typhoon
Omnia Gallia In Partes
Tres Divisa Est: Gauls, Romans and a Deck of Cards in
Julius Caesar
The First Blitzkrieg:
The Campaign of
Poland '39
Issue 46 (Summer 2003)
Run Through the
Jungle: Vietnam War Tactics in
Mark H. Walker's Lock
'n Load
The War Ensemble: The
Complete Operational Art of War,
in TalonSoft's Century of Warfare
Frozen Modernity: The
Missing Progress of Avalon Hill's
Firepower
Issue 45 (Spring 2003)
Monster On the Volga:
A Review of the Third Edition of Streets of
Stalingrad
Guns In the Forest:
Fighting the Wilderness War
Globe and Anchor: The
Verdict On Semper Fi For
the Computer
OnLine of Departure
Support: A Scenario For the Broodwar
Expansion to Starcraft
Issue 44 (Winter 2002)
Friedrich Über Alles:
Tactics From the Age of Reason, in Prussia’s Glory
Return of the
Terrorists: America Goes Back to War in
Real War: Rogue States
One Ring to Rule Them
All: The Conflict For Middle Earth in
War of the Ring
Longstreet's Charge,
in Miniature: Fighting the Second Day of Gettysburg With
Harvest of Death
Issue 43 (Fall 2002)
Campaigns Along the
Niagara: A Review of A Mere Matter of
Marching
Age of Victors:
Strategies For Taking the Offensive in
The Age of Kings and
The Conquerors
OnLine of Departure
Support: A Russo-Japanese Steel
Panthers: World at War Scenario, From
Desert Defense 1984: A
Scenario for Avalon Hill's
MBT,
Using Maps From IDF
January Lightning: The
Panzer Offensive of
Budapest '45
Issue 42 (Summer 2002)
The Devil and Deep
Blue Sea: A Review of Uncommon Valor
Almost Famous: Adding
the USS Wyoming to
The Ironclads and
Shot and Shell
Arms Cast Down Before
Caesar: The Romans Against the Gauls, in Avalon Hill's
Caesar (Alesia)
Victory of the Desert
Fox: Moments in History's 1994 Debut With
Triumphant Fox Issue 41 (Spring 2002)
Lenin's War: A Review
of Ted Raicer's Reds!
First Campaign in West
Africa: Togoland 1914 in
Review
The Eclipse of Force:
How Changes in the Paradigm of Operational Warfare Will Change Operational
Games
Playtest Report: Mark
Walker's Engaged!
OnLine of Departure
Support: An Operation Barbarossa Scenario for
Steel Panthers: World at War
Issue 40 (Winter 2001)
RTS American Style: A
Review of Real War
Red Star Over
Afghanistan: Marx Versus Mohammed in
Holy War:
Afghanistan
Zion Aflame: Ancient
Urban Warfare in Avalon Hill's The
Siege of
Jerusalem
OnLine of Departure
Support: Two Scenarios for the Expanded
Starcraft
Issue 39 (Summer/Fall 2001)
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