First Look: Kevin Zucker Releases the Motherload on Napoleonic wargames, game design, and SPI
by 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 …
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Game design discussion
Counter Deep Diving with Joint All Domain Operation
by RockyMountainNavy, 27 January 2025 Joint All Domain Operation (JADO) from War Drum Games (2024) is a wargame series that is quickly growing on me. At …
A Grognard’s view of Wargames According to Mark: An Historian’s View of Wargame Design
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) …
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 …
Made in China Wargaming?
RockyMountainNavy, 20 October 2021 Learning in a wargame laboratory – a report from the Institute for the Study of War Thanks to a lead from …
Combat for the masses or an unfathomable #wargame? The Hunt for Red October (TSR, Inc., 1988)
RockyMountainNavy, 22 September 2021 Thanks to the generosity of fellow Twitter wargamer Nicola (@6xW_a), I now possess a good copy of the boardgame The Hunt for …
Design x Dragoons: The Golden BB, Or Critical Hits At A Large Scale
by Each week, our #DesignXDragoons panel will offer their thoughts on a talk about game design, game development, or gameplay. You’ll see what they have to …
Design x Dragoons: Key Facet of a Historical Era
(ed note: forgot to hit ‘publish’ on this!) This week’s question: Wargames have been published for just about every historical era one can think of. Pick …
Design x Dragoons: The White Cell, and Wargame Injects
Each week, our #DesignXDragoons panel will offer their thoughts on a talk about game design, game development, or gameplay. You’ll see what they have to …
Design x Dragoons: The One Important Thing™
Each week, our #DesignXDragoons panel will offer their thoughts on a talk about game design, game development, or gameplay. You’ll see what they have to …