History of Wargaming – Donald Featherstone
by 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. …
Category: Research
Digging into the hobby
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 …
History of Wargaming – Charles Totten’s Strategos: The Advanced Game
Research article by Robert Mosher, 5 August 2021 This is the third article in our series examining 19th Century war games designed and published primarily …
History of Wargaming – William Livermore’s American Kriegsspiel
Research article by Robert Mosher, 1 July 2021 This series of articles examines several 19th Century war games designed primarily for the use of professional …
History of Wargaming – Lieutenant von Reisswitz’s Kriegsspiel
Research article by Robert Mosher, 6 May 2021 The First War Game A look at the history of wargaming. From the beginning. Yes, Kriegspiel. Mock …
Classic Articles ~ A Different Theory of Japan’s Surrender in WW2
by Did the Soviet Union’s actions influence Truman’s decision-making? ~ Brant Guillory, 8 August 2020 On #TBT, we bring you the occasional classic article – an …
Academic Analyses of Hobby Games Players
Brant Guillory, May 2006 This is a presentation that combined 2 different survey-based studies of hobby games players. The first focused on informal learning and …
Entrepreneurship in the Hobby Games Segment of the Publishing Industry
by Brant Guillory, originally written while a student at the University-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named, back in 2007 Note: This paper was written in 2007, and minimally-revised since then. …