Battle Lab ~ What’s In Your Collection?
by Rapid fire thoughts about your game acquisitions ~ Brant, 27 April 2020 Plenty of us have a stack of wargames that we haven’t played yet. …
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Battle Lab ~ Uses for (Professional) Wargaming
Seeing a new way to do things ~ Brant, 31 March 2020 The professionals talk about wargaming in very different terms than the casual hobbyists do. …
The Decade of Gaming in Review
Armchair Dragoons PAO, 30 December 2019 2019 was a ‘building’ year for us here at the Armchair Dragoons. With the regiment established the year before, we …
Classic Articles: Revisiting Mystara and the BECMI D&D Game
Brant Guillory, 14 November 2019 On #TBT, we bring you the occasional classic article – an older review or analysis piece we wanted to rescue …
Cyrano’s Pulpit: A Defense of My Formative Years Against the Imprecations of Professor Marco Arnaudo, et al.
by Jim Owczarski, 23 August 2019 I would like to get a few things out of the way before I become rant-y. Ooh, that’s a rant. …
Battle Lab ~ Do We Really Need Another ____ Game?!
Brant Guillory, 2 July 2019 There’s an interesting thread / discussion over at BoardGameGeek about an oft-tread topic of “how many ____ games do we …
Battle Lab ~ Wargaming the Soft Factors
What aren’t we training, and why not? ~ Brant, 23 May 2019 The US military has a wargaming problem. Well, honestly, they’ve got a bunch, but …
Battle Lab ~ Recon & Intel in Wargaming, Deep Dive on COA Development
Brant Guillory, 14 May 2019 Note that this is a companion piece to the original column on recon & intel in tabletop wargaming. In the …
Battle Lab ~ Command Post Exercises at Origins, The Interview
Brant Guillory, 7 May 2019 Brant Guillory: The “Sterrett Games” at the Origins War College seem to keep growing in popularity. Aside from the nomenclature, …
Conflicts Around the Table & GMT Gets To Publish Whatever They Want
Brant Guillory, 9 April 2019 Hooboy… I mean, 25 years ago, this wouldn’t have made any ripples in the gaming world, so thanks, social media. …