Games As Art Forms
by Guest Column by Brooks Barber, 30 October 2025 Toward the end of August, an old argument popped up again on Bluesky about the limitations of …
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Short Rounds! Panzer Corps 2: Frontlines – Westwall
Lloyd “Gus” Sabin, 19 October 2025 I must have played the original Panzer General (on the original PlayStation, no less) for hundreds if not thousands …
Politics In Wargames
Guest Column by Sam Flintlock, 16 October 2025 “Everything is Politics”. I’m sure you’ve heard this one, generally from people who believe they are in …
Short Rounds! Terminator – Dark Fate – Defiance – Uprising
Lloyd “Gus” Sabin, 22 September 2025 Remember back in January when I checked out Terminator – Dark Fate – Defiance – We Are Legion? Yeah …
Battle Lab ~ Hobby & Practitioner Wargaming Overlaps & Divergences
by Brant Guillory, 25 July 2025 Here at the Armchair Dragoons, we make it a point to address middle of the wargaming Venn Diagram where hobbyists …
Short Rounds! Conscript
Lloyd “Gus” Sabin, 3 July 2025 I am very seasonally attuned, and play games that somehow match with the season I am currently living in. …
Dispatches from Cyrano’s War Room, Adepticon
by Jim Owczarski, 10 April 2025 Forgive this interruption in the record of my quest to bring the world of Star Wars to the wargame table. …
Dispatches from Cyrano’s War Room, Part 4
Jim Owczarski, 17 March 2025 So, how did it go? If you have come this far, you know I had been working to bring the …
Dispatches from Cyrano’s War Room, Part 3
Jim Owczarski, 6 February 2025 Having selected a scale and a rule set for a mad run into the world of Star Wars wargaming, the …
Dispatches from Cyrano’s War Room, Part 2
Jim Owczarski, 30 January 2025 When setting out to choose a rule set, I assume a lot of things. I assume they will be well-written. …