Connections 2025! (Part I) Professional meets Commercial Wargaming
by Aaron Danis, 18 August 2025 “The basic premise of Connections is that whatever purpose or context you apply wargaming in, you can have a useful, …
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Inaugural SPI Alive in 2025! (Part Deux)
Aaron Danis, 11 August 2025 Mea culpa: Sorry it’s taken so long for part 2, but I spent the last week at the Connections professional …
Inaugural SPI Alive in 2025! (Part I)
Aaron Danis, 25 July 2025 My friend Lance and I attended the Russ Gifford’s “SPI Alive in 2025!” (aka SPI Fest) convention held for 5 …
Wednesday War Stories ~ Operation Citadel (Kursk), 5 July-23 August 1943, and the Battle for Prokhorovka, 12 July 1943
Aaron Danis, 2 July 2025 In 1976-ish, I read the book below by Martin Caiden, which described the purported largest tank battle in history, which …
First Look: Kevin Zucker Releases the Motherload on Napoleonic wargames, game design, and SPI
Aaron Danis, 23 June 2025 Napoleonic wargame designer Kevin Zucker has quietly released in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) and HTML format 38 copies of his Wargame …
Wednesday War Stories ~ The 1967 Arab-Israeli War – 5-10 June 1967
Aaron Danis, 11 June 2025 The 1967 Arab-Israeli War, aka The Six-Day War, was the 3rd and most pivotal Arab-Israeli war in the modern era …
Blue & Gray Deluxe Edition – A Faithful Deluxe Reprint of Two SPI Quads
Aaron Danis, 28 March 2025 Blue & Gray Deluxe (B&GD) Edition from Decision Games arrived at my doorstep the other day somewhat unexpectedly. I was …
Wednesday War Stories ~ The Battle of Khafji, 29 Jan–1 Feb 1991
Aaron Danis, 29 January 2025 The Battle for Khafji (al-Khafji) was the first ground combat of the Persian Gulf War between the Coalition and the …
The Battles for the Ardennes Deluxe Edition by Decision Games
Aaron Danis, 16 January 2025 The Battles for the Ardennes (BftA) is a deluxification of the original Simulations Publications, Inc., operational-level game of the same …
Inaugural FoxCon – 2024
Aaron Danis, 30 November 2024 My friend Lance and I attended the Desert Fox Games’ FoxCon convention held from 8-11 November at the Dallas Games …