History's Losing Sides - a podcast by Herr Dr

One item I discussed on the Episode 2 was a series of posts on BGG with designer Harry Rowland. They occurred in December 2011 when Mr.Rowland was selected as the featured wargame designer of the month. I've always been a BIG fan of Mr.Rowland's work: Empire in Arms, World in Flames, Days of Decision, etc.

I posed the following question to Mr.Rowland:

That brings up a question; How you [Mr.Rowland] would rate the relative chances (from favored to win vs didn't have a snowball's chance of winning) of the losing side to have actually won the conflict - both the relative order and a categorization of that chance:

1) Brits American Revolutionary War

2) CSA in American Civil War

3) Germany and friends WWI

4) Germany and friends WWII

5) USA in Vietnam

6) Carthage and the Punic Wars

7) Pompey and the Roman Civ War

8) Napoleon in 1815

9) The Whites in the Russian Civ War

10) The Republicans in the Spanish Civ War

Link to Mr.Rowland's response:

http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/rowland-on-historys-losing-sides-pdf

And a link to forum where Mr.Rowland entertained and responded to a long series of questions from wargamers on BGG:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/694008/bgg-wargame-designer-of-the-month-harry-rowland/page/1

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