A Grognard’s view of Wargames According to Mark: An Historian’s View of Wargame Design
by RockyMountainNavy, 23 January 2024 Wargames According to Mark: An Historian’s View of Wargame Design is a heavy book. I am not talking about the content (yet) …
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Digging under the hood
Inevitable Wargame to History ~ 1943-1945 from Dissumula Edizioni
RockyMountainNavy, 19 September 2024 On something of a whim, in May 2023 I pledged my support on Kickstarter to a small wargame named The Soft …
Wargame to History ~ First go at The Battle of Khalkhin Gol
RockyMountainNavy, 15 September 2024 Are you a wargamer that prefers to play battles named after nearby cities or rivers? Do you know that you have …
A Wargaming Perspective of “Engineers of Victory”
by Aaron Danis, 15 August 2024 Engineers of Victory (2013) is a misleading title. The author, Paul Kennedy of The Rise and Fall of the Great …
Don’t Fall In Love With Your Mental Model — Origins Edition
by Ian T. Brown, 8 August 2024 Don’t fall in love with your mental model—since about 2018, that’s been a mantra I’ve used whenever I challenged …
Boxing Terrain Fortresses in Skies Above the Reich
RockyMountainNavy, 5 August 2024 In mid-2024, GMT Games released the Second Printing of Skies Above the Reich designed by Jerry White and Mark Aasted. First …
History to Wargame – Operation Attila: The 1974 Invasion of Cyprus
RockyMountainNavy, 7 July 2024 I constantly seek to expand my knowledge of the Falkland War of 1982 in part because that war was amongst the …
Boomer Busting in Twilight: 2000 4th Edition – Hostile Waters
RockyMountainNavy, 27 June 2024 Creating a game setting based on the military is hard. Look no further than the recently released Call of Duty: Black …
Canon Plus or Minus for Twilight: 2000 4th Edition
RockyMountainNavy, 13 June 2024 In my early June 2024 article “Pop nukes in Twilight: 2000 ~ Surviving Nuclear War Amongst Conspiracies” (found right here on …
Pop nukes in Twilight: 2000 ~ Surviving Nuclear War Amongst Conspiracies
RockyMountainNavy, 6 June 2024 One of my favorite roleplaying games is Twilight: 2000. In the game, players are cast in the role of survivors in …