Tactical Wargamer Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Ok Looking for some decent powerpoints or animated battles I could show and make a lesson of for 15 year old army cadets. Any idea guys? Links would be appreciated. Thanks So Much...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 There is a set of minitures rules and paper cutouts available online for exactly that purpose. I'll have a rummage and see if I can find it ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 ta da: http://www.juniorgeneral.org/ Goal: This web site is intended to promote the use of historical simulations as a tool for teaching history by providing free resources that anyone can use. The simulations make use of historical miniatures (paper or plastic toy soldiers), maps and counters, and matrix arguments. The simulations are designed for students in grades 6 - 8. Each scenario is complete with everything needed to run the simulation except dice and rulers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Wait, what? 15 year old cadets? Where is this, Uganda? :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Probably something like this: http://cadetforces.mil.nz/ ot this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadet or more specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadets_Canada rather than this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_Cadet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I remember an Afghan girl in a university tutorial I was teaching saying something like "In Afghanistan they take boys as young as 13 and dress them in a uniform and teach them how to march and to shoot military weapons." "Oh yeah," I said. "That happened to me too. And I grew up in Sydney." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 http://www.civilwaranimated.com/ Ok Looking for some decent powerpoints or animated battles I could show and make a lesson of for 15 year old army cadets. Any idea guys? Links would be appreciated. Thanks So Much...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 JonS and Blackhorse, Bravo Zulu Repeat Bravo Zulu Oscar Foxtrot Sierra Two of the coolest sites I've seen and complementary, too! Sure wish such goodies had been available when I was a schoolkid! Of course, one had to be a great deal more resourceful back then. In junior high, I made a pass at one of the Pook's turtle Union ironclads. http://www.pookturtleproject.org/ Working from a decidedly uninformed period illustration (showed a rounded casemate), I carved and sanded it from balsa wood and wanted an iron finish on the casemate, so I painstakingly smashed up a bunch of pencil leads and rubbed the graphite powder into the wood. Looked good, but it was messy to handle, since I forgot my brief stint as a little kid building balsa and tissue flying models, whose surfaces were covered with butyrate dope. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 RCMP, You asked for Powerpoint battles? This should help. Rather broad coverage in terms of topics. Talking huge! http://www.theartofbattle.com/ War of 1812 http://www.warof1812.ca/1812anim.htm The search phrase "animated battles" will keep you busy for a long time. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 RCMP, Just finished watching my recording of Battle Rats: Iwo Jima on the Military Channel (U.S.). I thought it was basically excellent, marred by some idiot in production who thought it would be cool to superimpose a graph paper grid on the historic color. Sucked as an effect and was very annoying and distracting. This show is basically an advanced form of the battle walk, in that the hosts not only explore the key terrain topside, but really get into the tunnel complexes, revealing all kinds of insights as to how things looked from the Japanese side and what the Marines were up against. All in all, a tremendous guide to the battle. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mididoctors Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 http://www.civilwaranimated.com/ that site is really good 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooz Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Thanks to all for the many great links! Keep 'em coming! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Wait, what? 15 year old cadets? Where is this, Uganda? :confused: Haha well 15-18 year olds. Canada 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Thanks guys some nice sites. The flash videos look good but the lecture hall I'm in has no wifi. Not sure can one save the flash videos? Any good power points anyone has come across? Thanks great sites!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 All Powerpoint: http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/CSI/CSIBattlemaps.asp http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american_civil_war/Animations/Civil%20War%20Prelude.ppt http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american_civil_war/Animations/Antietam.ppt http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american_civil_war/Animations/Chancellorsville.ppt http://www.the-art-of-battle.350.com/The_Battles.htm Thanks guys some nice sites. The flash videos look good but the lecture hall I'm in has no wifi. Not sure can one save the flash videos? Any good power points anyone has come across? Thanks great sites!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 RCMP, You asked for Powerpoint battles? This should help. Rather broad coverage in terms of topics. Talking huge! http://www.theartofbattle.com/ War of 1812 http://www.warof1812.ca/1812anim.htm The search phrase "animated battles" will keep you busy for a long time. Regards, John Kettler Great thank you so much this site was great especially for grade 10's kiddies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 All Powerpoint: http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/CSI/CSIBattlemaps.asp http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american_civil_war/Animations/Civil%20War%20Prelude.ppt http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american_civil_war/Animations/Antietam.ppt http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american_civil_war/Animations/Chancellorsville.ppt http://www.the-art-of-battle.350.com/The_Battles.htm WOW!!! Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 This one is improved and has more to offer: http://www.theartofbattle.com/ Highly recommended!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 RCMP, You're welcome! How splendid to be able to access so much, so quickly, and with so little work! As someone who used to do his research old school, I really appreciate the wonder that is the Web. When it comes to actually working with the data, though, unless you've got a lot of display room and computational horsepower, it's easier to work with books, particularly if the alternative is hacking through PDFs. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 ...it's easier to work with books, particularly if the alternative is hacking through PDFs. Agreed. Once I've read a book I can usually go right to the page that has the information I want. Searching through a PDF is frustrating. The search engine usually can't find what I'm looking for which leaves me going through the whole damn thing page by page until I come across it. Until they come up with a search engine that thinks like I do, they are just time wasting bumblers as far as I'm concerned. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kugel Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 These type of schools always had me wondering how war would be covered. Is it done with academic rigor? Or is is full of emotions and nationalism? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixxkiller Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 What kind of school do kids not play Counterstrike to learn to get head-shots? ;p 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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