2023 Year-End Wargaming Survey
by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 14 December 2023 Starting this year, we’re cranking up a couple of research initiatives. You’ve already seen the joint one we launched …
Category: Research
Digging into the hobby
Data Diving Into the Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey
by Brant Guillory, 27 September 2023 Last week, we gave you the final results of our survey from over the Summer, where we asked wargamers to …
Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results 2023
Brant Guillory, 22 September 2023 Over the Summer, we partnered with Liz Davidson and Beyond Solitaire to explore the wargaming world’s intersection with solo & …
Random Research: Solo War & Historical Gaming 2023
Armchair Dragoons PAO, 24 July 2023 We’ve partnered with Beyond Solitaire to launch a short survey about your solo wargaming preferences. The plan is to run …
History of Wargaming – Charles Grant
Robert Mosher, 6 October 2022 Charles Grant’s “Battle” War Game Rules for World War Two Miniatures From 1968 to the end of 1970, the Meccano …
Wargame History – An anti-nuclear wargame in Fulda Gap: The First Battle of the Next War (SPI, 1977)
by RockyMountainNavy, 15 August 2022 Although I started wargaming in the 1980s at the arguable height of both the Cold War and tabletop wargaming, in my …
History of Wargaming – Donald Featherstone
Robert Mosher, 5 May 2022 Donald Featherstone (1918-2013) received many accolades in his life for his efforts over half a century on behalf of wargaming. …
History of Wargaming – Jack Scruby’s Basic (Musket Era) War Game Rules
Robert Mosher, 4 November 2021 When H. G. Wells published Little Wars just before World War I, he was presenting to the world a pastime …
History of Wargaming – H.G. Wells’ Little Wars as Kriegsspiel
Research article by Robert Mosher, 7 October 2021 H.G. Wells’ “Little Wars” first came to public notice via two articles in Windsor Magazine in December …
History of Wargaming – Unit Counters, The Pawns of Wargame Designers
Research article by Robert Mosher, 2 September 2021 18th Century designers of games about war were moving beyond the classic strategy games of Chess and …