Getting ready to pack my games for @sdhistcon.bsky.social! Can't wait to see everyone! 😎

If you are heading to SDHistCon this weekend and are looking for a game Friday afternoon 12-3, I've turned in a last-minute Teach & Play event for Gettysburg: A Time for Heroes. Join me! Newbies welcome: tabletop.events/conventions/... @sdhistcon.bsky.social

Some more cards and the PACs arrived today for demoing #levyandcampaign #Chevauchée at @sdhistcon.bsky.social 🎉

We have a new Conflicts of Interest Online post, where designer @alexknight.bsky.social writes about what receiving the 2024 Summit Award has meant to him. Check it out here: sdhist.com/alex-knight-...

Laser cut counters…so my office will smell like a campfire for a few days! But prototype board and counters are here so I am all set to head to @sdhistcon.bsky.social in November!!! #Chevauchée #levyandcampaign

We're proud to announce the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award finalists, recognizing exceptional pieces of gaming media from 2024 by @amabel.bsky.social, @fredserval.bsky.social, @charlietheel.bsky.social, and @danthurot.bsky.social. More on their nominated works here: sdhist.com/2025-bobby-n...

Thanks to @boardgamegeek.com (and @candidrum.bsky.social in particular!) for adding the Summit Award to their awards database and linking it to game pages. You can view past winners and nominees here: boardgamegeek.com/award/113190.... We love to see it!

We're proud to announce the 2025 Summit Award finalists: Operation Bøllebank, GHQ, War Story: Occupied France, and Vijayanagara: The Deccan Empires of Medieval India, 1290-1398. More details, and honorable mentions, here: sdhist.com/2025-summit-...

Tickets are on sale now for SDHistCon Summit 2025, to be held from Nov. 7-10 in San Diego: tabletop.events/conventions/.... More information on the event: sdhist.com/sdhist-summi.... Hope you can join us for it!

Thanks for the signal boost!

Nominations are now open for our 2025 Summit Award and 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award! More information, and how to vote, can be found here: sdhist.com/nominations-...

We have a new post at Conflicts of Interest Online recapping our SDHistCon Second Front event, with full, free videos of seven panels and demos for those who missed them. Check it out here! sdhist.com/highlights-f...

Had a lot of fun last night chatting with @djackthompson.bsky.social about the American Civil War, terminology, and southern opposition to secession (among other things, like board games I guess) for @sdhistcon.bsky.social. If you missed it live you can still watch it www.youtube.com/live/p5Cf01b...

For those who missed it or so in love with it that want to watch it again, here is the panel about @snafustore.bsky.social I hosted last night with Oscar Olivier and @zweigefuhle.bsky.social as part of @sdhistcon.bsky.social Second Front 2025. Please 👍🏻 the video! m.youtube.com/watch?v=FXbf...

Fun conversation today with SD Hist Con, Second Front. I personally learned a lot, and appreciated the insights provided by this panel of superb designers. Watch it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQ3... @sdhistcon.bsky.social

At SDHistCon Second Front, we have @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social hosting a fascinating panel on The Spanish School of Conflict Design. Check it out on YouTube here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQ3...

We have lots of great content coming up at SDHistCon Second Front. In a few minutes, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. ET, Aaron Danis, Ty Bomba, Joe Miranda, and Trevor Bender will discuss counterfactual history and wargaming. Watch on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxP...

Thanks to Steve Jones from Blue Panther LLC for a great SDHistCon Second Front 2025 presentation on where his company's at 19 years in!

New Boardgame Tutorial channel just dropped, HopOnBoard, with a first video on Molly House by @miasmacorp.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social - Amazing work, looking forward to the next ones. SUBSCRIBED! youtu.be/7BgSaZa2Qkg?...

At SDHistCon Second Front, we have @drcrossbows.bsky.social interviewing @djackthompson.bsky.social about the history behind "Rebels Against Rebellion." Check it out here! www.youtube.com/live/p5Cf01b...

SDHistCon Second Front 2025 is off and rolling! Thanks to @playersaidblog.bsky.social and @playersaidalex.bsky.social for kicking us off with a virtual morning coffee chat! Full events schedule here: tabletop.events/conventions/...

Join me tomorrow (Saturday, 7 June) for three different Rebels Against Rebellion sessions during the @sdhistcon.bsky.social online con. I'll do a gameplay overview, run a demo, and chat with @drcrossbows.bsky.social on the history behind the game. tabletop.events/conventions/...

TOMORROW! @sdhistcon.bsky.social is holding their one-day online event all day on 6/7 (that's replacing SDHISTCON East) tabletop.events/conv...

Tomorrow it's @sdhistcon.bsky.social online! We'll be having a busy schedule. First thing, is at 4pm French time, @drcrossbows.bsky.social will chat with @djackthompson.bsky.social about the American Civil War. Should be fun, I'm sure no one will be upset... 😅 youtube.com/live/p5Cf01b...

Next Saturday for @sdhistcon.bsky.social Second Front 2025, I will be hosting a panel about @snafustore.bsky.social with Oscar Olivier (head honcho) and artist extraordinaire @zweigefuhle.bsky.social. A 6-handed interview and we will showcase a few of SNAFU games. tabletop.events/conventions/...

For @sdhistcon.bsky.social I am hosting a panel of innovative consim designers from Spain. Spain has become a huge force in historical gaming, and I am excited to discuss perspectives with some of the leaders in this emerging pillar of our hobby. Check out tabletop.events/conventions/...

We're just one week from SDHistCon Second Front 2025! Next Saturday, June 7, join us online for a full day of gaming. Badges and event tickets are available now here: tabletop.events/conventions/.... Some of the many great events we'll have are here: sdhist.com/one-week-to-...

Next Saturday, June 7th at 2100 EDT / 1800 PDT, Kai Jensen and I will be reviewing the #CombatCommander Random Scenario Generator at the @sdhistcon.bsky.social Second Front. Create your own war stories! Tickets open up this Saturday, 5/31. tabletop.events/conventions/... @gmtgames.bsky.social

Just over two weeks until SDHistCon Second Front, online on June 7! We have tons of great events planned, including three from @djackthompson.bsky.social on his "Rebels Against Rebellion": a gameplay overview, a historical overview, and a full game demo! tabletop.events/conventions/...

We have a new Conflicts of Interest Online post from Trevor Bender, who put together a great video on counterfactual history, and what is and isn't included there: sdhist.com/trevor-bende...

Woot! Just signed up for SDHist Online 2025 Second Front Summer Con: tabletop.events/conventions/... All day, June 7, 2025, badges are available now. ($10) #boardwargames #boardgames @sdhistcon.bsky.social

SDHistCon East 2025 unfortunately won't happen this year due to uncertainties about the USNWC Museum's federal funding. We look forward to returning there in 2026. We are still hosting SDHistCon Second Front online on June 7. Those badges are on sale now. sdhist.com/updates-on-s...

Several of the many great panels and presentations we had at SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2025 are now viewable on YouTube. Here's a list: sdhist.com/panel-presen...

Legendary war game artist Rodger MacGowan has passed away. He created some of the most iconic covers the industry has ever seen. He will be greatly missed. boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedes...

Saddened by the news that Rodger MacGowan has passed! He and his talents have affected us all greatly in the wargaming hobby and he will be missed! Such a first rate human being. RIP

It is with deep sadness that we confirm the passing of wargaming legend and CSRA Chairman Rodger B. MacGowan, mere weeks after he and his family lost everything in the Palisades fires. Our most profound condolences go out to Steven and Mae. Rodger was, as Steven has said, a river to his people.

Thanks to all who attended our live panel discussion about professional wargaming today at SDHistCon. Fascinating insights shared with an average of 50 live viewers. If you'd like to watch it, it's here: youtube.com/live/8Dp4vJq... #boardwargames @sdhistcon.bsky.social @sebastianbae.bsky.social

I had the pleasure of getting tutored in #FightingFormations by Kai Jensen at last week's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Winter Quarters! As a novice to Chad's other WW2 tactical combat series (with vehicles), I look forward to many games of this in my future! @gmtgames.bsky.social youtu.be/zlzIM16M2kg

That was great fun and some atrocious dice rolling during tonight's demo game of @jsbuckley.bsky.social's Battlegroup Clash: Baltics #wargame against @sebastianbae.bsky.social as part of @sdhistcon.bsky.social Winter 2025 online #wargaming convention. #PME #boardgames #COTS youtu.be/_Z_5Ra4bEEk

I knew nothing about Fighting Formations, so I'm grateful to be sitting in on @patrickstactics.bsky.social and Kai Jensen's demo of the game at SDHistCon. So much learning today, my brain is getting full. Thanks! #boardwargames #boardgames @gmtgames.bsky.social @sdhistcon.bsky.social

A packed house for @gmtgames.bsky.social' state of the union at SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2025!

This turned out to be such an engaging talk with this group of inspiring Latin American consim designers. Well worth an hour of your time. @sdhistcon.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/live/bRtToNkJBAY?si=sP7gVWkQMyKk9eZo

John Butterfield presenting a prototype of the upcoming Away Team, the solo space exploration game from GMT Games with a 70- to 80-hour campaign game. Much excitement. (at SDHistCon's Winter Quarters Virtual Convention) #boardwargames #boardgames @sdhistcon.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social

Fascinating presentation about New Cold War, the upcoming geopolitical game from Vuca Sims. SDHistCon rolls on! #boardwargames #boardgames @vucasimulations.bsky.social @sdhistcon.bsky.social

One of the best things about the board game hobby (aside from the games!) is the thoughtful discourse as evidenced by the sessions over at @sdhistcon.bsky.social online convention. Listening now to @danthurot.bsky.social , @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social & @danbullock.bsky.social #boardgames

And we end SD Histcon with my own game - Battlegroup Clash Baltics, where some awful rolling on behalf of the Reds meant that Blue was in the driving seat. Thanks everyone at @sdhistcon.bsky.social for a great event!

Great turn out for the @sdhistcon.bsky.social session for EuroWarGames. We are so happy with tall the positive feedback the book has received. Hats off to the editors @letsplayhistory.bsky.social @fredserval.bsky.social and Riccardo Masini. Order it here: www.nutspublishing.com/eshop/eurowa...

🎲 Another weekend of #wargaming: It's @sdhistcon.bsky.social Winter 2025 online convention today. #SDHist 🎧 Listening to @sebastianbae.bsky.social on #LittoralCommander, with some honorable mention of #MultiDomainBrigadeOperations, an off-spring co-designed by a team including some #FCDE members.

If you are curious about professional wargaming, we're hosting a live panel discussion on the YouTube Channel today at 2pm EST. The event is part of today's SDHistCon's Winter Quarters Virtual Conference. Discussion Link: youtube.com/live/8Dp4vJq... @sdhistcon.bsky.social @sebastianbae.bsky.social

Reminder: SD HistCon Winter Quarters begins in the wee hours of Saturday, Feb. 8. There will be tons of great seminars and demos from the likes of @volko.bsky.social @mildamatildagames.bsky.social @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social @djackthompson.bsky.social & more tabletop.events/conventions/...