{"id":754,"date":"2012-09-17T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=754"},"modified":"2012-09-17T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T12:37:58","slug":"40k-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2012\/09\/40k-in-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"40k in Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story came up on Slate the other day about soldiers playing 40k in Iraq and Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/gaming\/2012\/09\/warhammer_40k_why_american_troops_love_to_play_a_game_featuring_orks_necrons_and_space_marines_.html\">Warhammer 40K: Why American troops love to play a game featuring Orks, Necrons, and Space Marines. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, soldiers are reflexively given too much respect for even such a mainstream source to scorn dudes playing with toy dolls, so it&#8217;s actually discussed fairly reasonably. \u00a0It even seems like the author put some effort into learning more about 40k. \u00a0I enjoyed the many links to items on Games Workshop&#8217;s website. \u00a0The trip to the NOVA Open is a double nice touch, that&#8217;s pretty cool; the NOVA guys must have been excited.<\/p>\n<p>The one guy interviewed mentioned developing a grid based scheme to play without miniatures. \u00a0I&#8217;d be curious to hear what he came up with and how well it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story came up on Slate the other day about soldiers playing 40k in Iraq and Afghanistan: Warhammer 40K: Why American troops love to play a game featuring Orks, Necrons, and Space Marines. &#8211; Slate Magazine Fortunately, soldiers are reflexively given too much respect for even such a mainstream source to scorn dudes playing with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2012\/09\/40k-in-combat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[272,274],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tabletop","tag-40k","tag-miniatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}