With a career 1 G 14 A, Pekka Rinne is in the Hall of Fame! www.nhl.com/predators/ne...

Giant Magnetic Twilight Struggle Lives! @gmtgames.bsky.social #Origins2026

Torch and Tunisia from a CGSC student. The Axis has to make a fighting retreat to Tunis to stall the eventual invasions of Sicily and beyond. So much Allied firepower late game that I can't help but ask "why isn't some of this going to England to prep Normandy?"

Fort Sumter by @markherman54.bsky.social and @gmtgames.bsky.social with my daughter. She won with the Unionists by a point after grabbing the arsenals early and then fighting me tooth and nail in the border states. She covered the Cuban Missile Crisis this year; I'll have to find 13 Days next.

Come play Rebel Fury with the @armchairdragoons.bsky.social at @originsgamefair.bsky.social, Thurs PM and Fri AM. Tickets are sold but no-shows and team play can make space for more! The battles of Chickamauga and the Wilderness, by @markherman54.bsky.social and @gmtgames.bsky.social .

Counterpoint: No I will not

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Proposal for a PROUN street celebration, by El Lissitzky, 1923

In honor of Alabama's historical holiday today:

The boardgame space is endlessly inventive, but I - speaking as someone who taught a four-year-old to count in binary yesterday, just for fun and to perplex his parents - do not want to gamify .zip file compression.

The worst people you know having to hear that "just war" doesn't mean "I just wanna start a war"

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

A bunch of loser dork billionaires built a machine that tells them everything they do is cool

"No," the swordmaster said. "One does not refuse the king," the herald said. "I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war." "You will regret this!" "No," the swordmaster said.

This deal was announced 3 months ago in case you’re wondering how generative AI, “the inevitable technology we must all adjust to,” is going.

2G 3A in the tournament championship game is a pretty good way to close out a hockey season

For those interested, here's a great video from Mark Herman showing the map evolution for the future 3rd volume of the Civil War Heritage Series that covers the Antietam (1862), Gettysburg (1863), and Monacacy River (1864) campaigns. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJzI...

Are you Grant or McClellan? @markherman54.bsky.social explains that you really ought to approach American Civil War gaming like Ted Williams insidegmt.com/rebel-fury-a...

Reposting with ALT because this kind of phenomenal disdain and disrespect from within the industry literally against two of their own titles and the designer who made them is important to recognize.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Origins is 17-21 June & it's time for #wargamers to get in gear to come join us We've had a dedicated #wargaming program in the main game hall since 2014 & it's continuing to expand But don't take it from us! Read what our players said in the feedback survey originsgamefair.com

Approaching the Campaign in Barbarossa: Army Group North, 1941 The game sets absolute boundaries between Army Groups North & Center but does provide a few VP obj's off the direct Leningrad route that speak to wider coordination w/ AGC & the drive towards Moscow wp.me/pae4WL-dMp

Churchill by @markherman54.bsky.social - we spent way too much time bickering over political games to defeat the Axis (also, I rolled a 1 with a +8 mod to move two spaces into Germany - turns out a better Market-Garden still fails)

Next up, Inflection Point, Kalach, from @calvinboy24.bsky.social and @multimanpublishing.bsky.social

The best part of this game Notre Dame sitting home furious about how terrible it is while they lost to BOTH of these teams

Between youth hockey games and under a winter storm, I'm playing around with how to crack open the line in Frank Chadwick's "Battle for Moscow"

Woman: The baby is mine Woman #2: No it's mine King Solomon: Both of you say this baby is yours. Hang on a sec *types* ChatGPT: Cutting the baby in half is your best move Solomon: Someone get me a sword ChatGPT: Also pre-heat the oven so it's nice and hot when you cook the juicier half of the baby

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Initial setup for @gmtgames.bsky.social Army Group North, kicking off Barbarossa toward the Baltic States and eventually Leningrad. #furloughgaming #boardwargames

Inflection Point by @calvinboy24.bsky.social @multimanpublishing.bsky.social finishes with a narrow German win when 5th Mech can't advance one last empty hex and all the other SNAFU rolls come up bust #furloughgaming #wargames

Thanks for suggesting @allplay.bsky.social Ruins, @maudineormsby.bsky.social - you should have heard my son's yell when I dropped six 25s to win the game.

@gmtgames.bsky.social proposal for 2025 counter errata sheet for Space Empires. These are actually from way back at the Close Encounters expansion but they've never been fixed. Labels didn't get left-right reversed on the sheet and so front/back doesn't match

EMERGENCY GAMETEK POST open.substack.com/pub/gametek/...

@markherman54.bsky.social Mark. Mark. *10 maps??!?* (just listened to your conversation with @playersaidblog.bsky.social )

6 player Multiverse with @meeplelady.bsky.social!! @gmtgames.bsky.social

you're welcome

Operation Watchtower studies learning @markherman54.bsky.social South Pacific at the hockey rink - CA screen of Rabaul plus CV standoff doesn't carry enough power to force the landing.

First stab at an EotS offensive, executed badly. Savo Is. counterattack should commit naval even if the carriers hold offshore. Best way to learn is playing badly and then asking why history didn't work like that. #boardwargames #hockeyrinkgaming

Checking the road network for opening moves at Chancellorsville in Rebel Fury by @markherman54.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social . 19 moves to get Hill and Colston to the far edge of command range. Gotta fill time at youth hockey practice somehow #boardwargames

As an East TN native, @djackthompson.bsky.social's Rebels Against Rebellion with @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social was the highlight of my @sdhistcon.bsky.social online - great asymmetric push-pull on a corner of the ACW. #boardwargames

4P Shikoku 1889 today. I went and made a space to drop a station token to open a productive route and then forgot to place the station - next player blocked it. 4th place 🫠 #boardgames

Longstreet takes Missionary Ridge at the Battle of Chickamauga in @markherman54.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social Rebel Fury. CSA VP win #boardwargames

Study time for a teaching game this weekend. Gotta make sure I'm conversant with how it works in *this* one. #boardgames

Playing introductory scenarios of @leebwood.bsky.social Wing Leader from @gmtgames.bsky.social tonight #boardwargames

I was NOT prepared.

Played Chris Handy's FAR, which has 137% of the meanness of Carcassonne in the tiniest package. #boardgames