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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!
Published: September 7, 2024 01:54
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and…
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
Published: August 31, 2024 05:28
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we…
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
Published: August 24, 2024 05:28
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion,…
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Published: August 16, 2024 17:02
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear…
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
Published: August 9, 2024 22:58
This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of…
Gap Week: August 2, 2024
Published: August 2, 2024 04:17
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing…
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
Published: July 26, 2024 21:51
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary…
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres
Published: July 19, 2024 19:26
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and…
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024
Published: July 12, 2024 16:26
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that…
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
Published: July 5, 2024 21:14
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate…