PLAN Blue vs. Red Americans
by RockyMountainNavy, 17 May 2024 A recent article in the May 2024 issue of Proceedings discusses how the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has embraced wargaming …
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Digging under the hood
From dictator to…wargamer? A glimpse of KJU’s wargame tables
RockyMountainNavy, 9 May 2024 In my quest for wargaming news I often times search on wargaming-adjacent terms like “operations research.” Recently, that search returned an …
Shall we play a game? How about THE DRIVE ON METZ…
RockyMountainNavy, 17 April 2024 The feature wargame in RBM Studio’s C3i Magazine Nr. 37 from 2024 is Baetis Campaign 211 BC: Rome’s Scipio Brothers Strike …
Revolutionary Risk with The Fast Carriers: Air-Sea Operations, 1941-77
RockyMountainNavy, 10 April 2024 From our perch in 2024, looking back at the naval wargame The Fast Carriers: Air-Sea Operations, 1941-77 by Jim Dunnigan for …
Old-New Wargamer Perspectives in The Wargame Developments Handbook, Third Edition
RockyMountainNavy, 22 February 2024 To the more “progressive” members of our wargaming hobby, The Wargame Developments Handbook is likely dismissed as just another wargaming book …
Draft history in The Battle of Kyiv: The Fight for Ukraine’s Capital by Christopher A. Lawrence
RockyMountainNavy, 5 February 2024 Bottom Line Up Front: A “first-draft of history” written by a historian and analyst with a solid foundation in historical military …
The CSR Awards – Not For Wargames – Should Modernize
RockyMountainNavy, 1 February 2024 The 2023 Charles S. Roberts Awards nominating committee and award categories were announced in mid-January 2024. I do not understand why …
Battle Lab ~ Professional Cheerleading Gone Wrong, or “Why Did CIMSEC Even Publish This?”
by Brant Guillory, 22 January 2023 Some weeks ago, CIMSEC published Wargaming The Future: Educating The Fleet In Multi-Dimensional Warfare. We called it out in #TuesdayNewsday …
Gunner, load AP! Target…errata and narrative rules complexity in War Stories: A World War 2 RPG
RockyMountainNavy, 8 January 2024 In memory of David Drake, I was reviewing the vehicle combat rules in Mongoose Traveller 1st Edition (Mongoose Publishing, 2008) and …
From Pearl Harbor to Midway with Mark Stille from Osprey and Vuca Sims’ Task Force
RockyMountainNavy, 4 December 2023 As a naval wargamer, I am always on the lookout for wargames and books to further my understanding of naval warfare. …