Amateur Catches Fire – Emergency Operations Center: Wildfire Mayhem
by RockyMountainNavy, 30 July 2025 “Immerse yourself in the high-stakes world of emergency management with Emergency Operations Center. Step into the shoes of critical roles like …
Category: Practitioners
For those using wargames for NatSec, business, NGOs, and/or education
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 …
Connections Online 2025 After Action Report
by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 25 April 2025 Connections Online 2025 was held from 7-11 April, co-hosted by the Armchair Dragoons. As with all of our online/distributed …
Connections Online 2025 Registration is Open
Armchair Dragoons PAO, 24 March 2025 Registration is now open for Connections Online, the professional wargaming conference that the Armchair Dragoons co-sponsor.
Connections Online 2025, Coming 7-12 April
Armchair Dragoons PAO, 17 February 2025 Connections Online, the professional wargaming conference, co-sponsored by The Armchair Dragoons, will be held from 7-12 April 2025. Core …
A Riper of a Challenge – GMT’s Next War: Iran
RockyMountainNavy, 30 October 2024 Making a wargame about modern warfare is fraught with danger. Many time players want to “play” the game to discover “lessons …
‘Non-Wargame Historical Games’ with Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games
RockyMountainNavy, 16 October 2024 When writing these comments, the first thought that jumped out at me was, “Wow, Maurice really wrote a time machine. How …
Keeping Xi and the Boom Out in Crisis in Korea
RockyMountainNavy, 14 August 2024 The two micro-wargames in Crisis in Korea offer commercial hobby wargames a unique insight into the world of analytic wargames. Unlike …
PLAN Blue vs. Red Americans
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 …
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 …