User:Rindis

Hello, I'm a long time gamer and wargamer. You'll find me in all sorts of places across the web.

I started using VASL way back in the dim times (1997?), and have naturally hung around during the growth of Vassal, which is currently one of my favorite ways to waste time. :) I have created a couple modules, and contributed to a couple others, and have thoughts on some more. Here's what I'm involved in:

Maintainer

 * Barbarossa: Crimea
 * Current Version: 0.4
 * This module handles all the small, or card scenarios. There is a separate module underway that will handle the large scenarios. The developer on it talked to GMT first, so it got regarded as the Official module. Once it's done, we'll see if we collaborate on a single combined effort.
 * I'd like to work out a barebones module + extension system to handle all the games in the EFS series, but since I only own Crimea, that's thinking a bit far ahead yet.


 * Federation & Empire
 * Current Version: 1.2
 * To do: Version 1.2.1 is in the works. Fixes a number of small problems that have been around a while, and fixes the graphic overwrite of the Kzinti Battle Fleet marker. Short of finding more bugs to squash, this is done; I just need to finish re-doing the saved setup files.


 * Pursuit of Glory
 * Current Version: 1.0.2
 * I just recently took this over from the original module creator. I was unhappy with some of how it worked (like using shift-commands on the counters), so I worked up my own version and proposed it to him. Hopefully, everyone else will think it's at least no worse than the original.

Contributor

 * The Russian Campaign
 * I contributed the 2.2 version of the 3rd Edition module. It fixed a problem where the turn tracker gave the wrong impulse order, and actually set up some of the mid-war scenarios (they had just existed as empty setup files before...).

Private Mods

 * Carthage: The First Punic War
 * There's a few glitches with this module. Notably, the city Militia is non-stackable, and disappears if anything is stacked on top of it. Also, there's no Scattered marker in the module. I threw a few ideas at the module owner a couple years ago, and he allowed they were good ideas, and he'd do something about it if he ever got back to it. I then did my proposed fixes on my own, and e-mailed him the results just this January. No response yet.


 * Ogre
 * It's a fairly comprehensive module, including a product I hadn't heard of. However, it doesn't have a hex grid set, and the graphics could be cleaned up quite a bit. I started fiddling with the module, but haven't gone very far with it yet.

To Do

 * Atlanta: Civil War Campaign Game
 * I promised to do a module based on my dad's game over a year ago, but have yet to get to it. I even have some very good all-new graphics provided by someone else. Top of the priority list.


 * Chitin I
 * Ah, microgames. I haven't even cut apart the counters on my copy of this one. With a Vassal module, I may never need to.


 * Holy War


 * Ice War


 * Imperium Romanum II
 * The classic strategic game of the Roman Empire. Everything else is either smaller scale, or tries to tackle the entire history in one go. This is the only one that takes separate wars as separate scenarios. There's a good Cyberboard module, but I just don't like Cyberboard nearly as much as Vassal.


 * Godsfire
 * I'd have to pull my copy out of storage first....