Interesting photo and a little description of some wargaming going on in the Taiwanese military: www.ydn.com.tw/tw/News/ugC_...

Another run of Jaws of the Dragon for MA students this weekend. Quick Chinese back down after a failed attempt to enforce an AEZ, but then quick escalation to all out war after the US stopped by force a VBSS of a ship carrying aid and the Chinese responded by attacking the SAG.

Class 2 Playing “No Compromise.” A student designed logistics #wargame we are playing during the sustainment module in class. Applying lessons not just power point slides at US Army Command & General Staff College

One of the fun things about wargaming is getting to look for and then sort through a bunch of data to build models to figure out that the answer is 3 dice and 20 supply. I still have to try to find some more modern numbers, then to size the direct fire units.

ISM University's wargaming in 2025 ended with four sessions on Lithuania's development over 25 coming years. Each involved 12 players from business, legal, academia, culture, other sectors. They played as national and municipal government, business, labour, culture and education, and hostile forces.

My paper on Building an Urban Wargames Database is finally out in Vol 2 of the MORS Journal of Wargaming on open access - online.fliphtml5.com/dguvc/xicb/#... #wargaming

Playtest standee updates for First, Seek the Help of the Gods. I'm hoping that this will be finished up and put out soon (only a few more books left to read)!

📆 Save the date! CONNECTIONS ONLINE 2026 20-25 April armchairdragoons.com...

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a Littoral Commander session with some junior medical officers during a weekend meetup. When someone asked if I wanted to organize a short wargaming workshop, I agreed right away. It felt like a good chance to try something new together with a new crowd.

"Using a microethnographic approach, we analyze a set of video-recorded post-wargaming debriefing sessions. In the examination of the practical reasoning present in the discussions, we find that participants engage with the concept of tactics in three main ways"

I got to play this at Connections this year, and I second this assessment. It's a good game for an introduction to modern air combat having the right level of abstraction to be both representative enough, playable, and to leave enough room for a good discussion.

Samurai skirmishing today. The most bloody run of these rules I've ever seen, with an almost complete inability of our opponents to roll poorly (and my inability roll above a 5) made this a brutal slog. Our clan is badly short of key members and retainers after this.

good pod episode even though evan lists all the controls for that one run of jaws except for me… evan hates cyber confirmed

I was on the 20 Sided Gamified Podcast discussing a pile of topics: how I got into wargaming, the mystique and practice of professional wargaming, what it's like running a megagame, and my research on what dice represent in combat resolution, plus more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

The Avalon Hill International Kriegspiel Society was founded to provide a forum within which an internationally useable play by mail system could be utilized, encourage the spread of wargaming outside the USA, and provide members with mature opponents who would complete games promptly & fairly.

Frühkindliche Militarisierung aka Kekse backen mit den kleinen Geschwistern, wir gehen rein.

TODAY. Watch this space for updates.

We are delighted to announce the 2026 Annual King's College London Wargaming Conference will take place 12-14 May 2026 at our Strand Campus, London. Full details, such as schedule and sign up, to follow in the near future.

"I do think the way wargaming is practiced is fundamentally in the right direction. So this is a story about how we can create more precision, more defensible work, and have a better sense of what wargames are actually doing best..." youtu.be/qKHvLWksBBc?...

NATO WIN was interesting this year. Got to get Brigade Commander out, see some really cool games (Black Sky makes me want to get back to finalize my own space wargame), hear some new stuff about wargaming in different nations (interesting to compare), and see a bit of Italy for the first time.

At 0300 our patrol made hard contact with the historians

There’s this one postdoc open to “political science or allied disciplines“, implying the existence of “enemy disciplines“.

About to try "The Shadow Lines" designed by Viltė Radzytė (for her Bachelor's thesis) 🎲 A 2-player wargame about the tense relationship between the U.S. & Iran, and how Iran adapts to U.S. sanctions 🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 🔗 Download here (please sign & send the consent form first): drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I'll be presenting at 8:00 am (UK Time) at Connections Oz tomorrow on modular approaches to wargaming Taiwan using Jaws of the Dragon as an example. If 8 is too early in the morning, they usually record them and post them later...

Working on mapping a (mostly real) Suwalki gap. Last thing to add is rail lines and national boundaries and then to play with colors/textures/shadows/glow/outlines to provide a bit more separation between terrain types.

Interesting attempt to attempt to examine how adaptable/representative a game systems is by comparing it to ongoing combat in Ukraine.

Very good session today, had a few great chats with people and hopefully a few interesting games coming in the future!

I'll be helping @sophiedebolle.bsky.social run this Microgame session for the Women's Wargaming Network tomorrow. You can still sign up if you are interested!

wow. cables truly mainstream. @evandalessandro.bsky.social pop the champagne

I'll also be there and presenting on the PhD research panel!

Quick shot from the Intro to Wargaming Event I ran again for the KCL Crisis Sim. The game works and I should finish the megagame when I have time. With 50+ people showing up though the Crisis Sim is beginning to suffer from success though and I had to make up 7 roles on the spot.

After god knows how many attempts at a modern brigade game, I think I may have finally hit upon a model I like enough to make it work and keep the game fast. This is a full brigade in card form, plus the (tbd) capability cards. Hopefully I'll be able to start playtesting soon to see if it works!

I've been having a very similar broad thought that a lot of newer Sci-Fi/fantasy is a baudrillardian(ish) simulacra of other Sci-Fi/fantasy, and this is compounded in wargames were some games are editions and editions deep, and the players (and thus designers) more siloed in what wargames they play.

Last year, I made a #wargame for @sebastianbae.bsky.social Indopacific microgames kit, Ambush from the Depths. I have now made a digital version of that game with @godotengine.org. I discovered unanticipated difficulties in turning board games into computer games, but learned from the experience.1/3

Last semester we had a Churchill day in the class, and here's the write up of why it works in the educational context.

35mm was an absolute A E S T H E T I C.

I've met @icurtiss.bsky.social at Connections UK last year, where we talked about wargaming as a modelling method, risk gaming and his scenarios for Lux Capital. A couple of weeks ago, we sat down online to talk about these topics, students' games, and other war/riskgaming matters. Enjoy!

Re: AFWI Europe expansion, here's where you can purchase it Also if you work for the DAF shoot me a message and we can connect at your .mil as there's some other options to get a copy

University wargaming in the new academic started! La Coruña scenario from Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars by @mropla.bsky.social The French struggles for most of the time, but managed to deal fatal blows just before the night descended.

Working on some more cards for Jaws of the Dragon. Did some tweaks, and added two new ones: Intel agency deep-strike operations against enemy high value aircraft, and cards to represent the effect of the Chinese gaining the ability to have loitering UAV's over Taiwan.

Nudge nudge, just 48 hours remain to pre-order Battlegroup Clash: Baltics at a discount of 30% on the MSRP. Experience modern warfare as a NATO or Russian commander in this game for professional & hobby wargamers. Delivery planned for later this year. Pre-order here: www.sapperstudio.com/battlegr

Red FIACs close with Blues main air and space defence asset and engage with ATGMs. They wreck the ASAT capabilities but by sheer luck the AAW systems survive, which becomes critical later. A scene from the wargame @nickbradbeer.bsky.social conducted with our MSc students this week.

Playing around with various different studies quantifications of tanks combat power, which is generating some amusing results when one attempts to normalize the various datasets against each other.

Connections Online 2026 Wargaming Soft Factors will be held 20-25 April, 2026 armchairdragoons.com...

When we started Wargaming Lab at ISM last September, one of the aims was to build and foster international collaboration with our Allies. I'm extremely happy that last week we saw the first German-Lithuanian wargaming summer school organized together with The German Wargaming Center.

“i know what i’m about, and it’s… games” - @evandalessandro.bsky.social

Day 2 of DSET. Full Spectrum Commander on the table and looking like it should work (mostly). I did realize while setting it up what the pesky extra random numbers I had deleted from the command sheet were for and why I really shouldn't have deleted them though.

DSET day 1 completed. I forgot to take a picture of Strike from Space set up for demoing, but I'll try to remember to take a photo tomorrow.

Units finalized (Red and Blue brigade with some extras for fun). Time to print, laminate, and sticker the blocks, and then convert an old map to use for this.

Slowly doing some more stuff, these are divisional support cards that the Brigade commander can request. Divided between doing abstract stuff like this or picking specific capabilities for capability cards.