Grammarly’s pitch: “use our program to cheat, learn absolutely nothing, and we’ll help you lie about it.” University admins: “wow we must immediately adopt this innovative technology at every level!” AI isn’t going away but this shows again, the answer is to learn AROUND it, not WITH it.

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Tabletop testing night. Full house with 40 participants, half new folks! 🙌😊

Vassal 3.7.20 is released: forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-3-7...

Mentioned In Dispatches S16 E2 – Buckeye Game Fest 2026 Brant, Mike, and Gary look ahead to 2026 BGF and talk about The War Room, the other games & events there, and things they’d like to see. armchairdragoons.com...

I would highly recommend this short but very insightful book. @thewavellroom.bsky.social rommelsriposte.com/2021/09/16/b...

Missed this from @ww2tv.bsky.social until now

Yes, that's an 2000 year old Roman axe with it's original handle found in a water well!

We're looking for proposals for this year's Connections Online http://tinyurl.com/c...

Cool! Someone has made a movie about the 'Fray Bentos', aka tank F41, which got stranded in the mud with its crew during Passchendaele.

Oh, found a new DuckDuckGo setting I quite like duckduckgo.com/duckd...

Now this is awesome !

Spotted this incredible customer paintjob on socials. The Warehouse 'D' painted up comic style #3Dprinting #wargaming #terrain #marvelcrisisprotocol #MCP #marvel #thewalkingdead #tabletopgaming #TTRPG corvusgamesterrain.com/collections/...

Drawing 28Feb for giveaway of Levy & Campaign SELJUK on Byzantine History podcast - thehistoryofbyzantium.com/2026/02/03/e...

We're looking for proposals for Connections Online 2026 www.tinyurl.com/cnxo...

The Australian Defense Force is designing some of the best educational boxed #wargaming -- producing their own custom games for different echelons. Read more below. cove.army.gov.au/article/warg...

The Wehrmacht continues its drive to relieve the beleaguered in Stalingrad as we continue our campaign for "A Fistful of TOWS 3". @armchairdragoons.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbbi...

#wargaming Certainly a must have, to tie up with the Revolutionary Wars games.

Around 1650, Sweden’s ships sailed beyond the Baltic for the first time. Dutch captains and lieutenants in the Swedish navy guided this expansion. Join our online lecture on Monday, 1pm CET, in the Ships & Seafaring series: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #maritimehistory #history

Sea power is not just a tally of ships but an alignment of elements. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2026/february/pentagon-sea-power

Mood.

#TuesdayNewsday in 2026 brings you the key wargaming headlines of the week 📰 Plus the best blogs, vids, and upcoming events 👩🏻‍💻 It's essential reading for strategy gamers everywhere 👀 https://armchairdragoons.com/category/news/

Hybrid warfare and NATO cohesion Source: WSJ. In December, Die Welt newspaper and the German Wargaming Center of the Helmut-Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces held a wargame examining the hypothetical Russian seizure of the Lithuanian city of Marijampole. The exercise involved 16 former…

(feels like a good time to re-up this . . . ) Battle Lab ~ Gatekeeping vs Inclusivity in Wargaming How open is your gaming table, really?  And how active are you about bringing players to your table? wp.me/pae4WL-doz

Journey Plotter 2.7 has been released today. ⚓🌍 Some bug fixes to the period selection in the Ship Selection pane. Also, some small visual changes. JP is available from the download page, which also lists all changes in detail. www.journeyplotter.nl/jp/download.... #NavalHistory #CitizenScience

Radar plotters Able Seamen William Ewasiuk and Harry Henderson of the destroyer HMCS Iroquois, at sea, August 21, 1944. (LAC a206245-v6.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History

Quick Announcement: PENITENT will be available for preorder on FEBRUARY 20. We will notify our mailing list of the exact time. This print run will be limited to 200 copies (signed & numbered). Learn more about Penitent and upcoming releases by signing up for our mailing list on lockhornsgames.com

The Curtiss F8C was the navalized version of the Curtiss Falcon. A twin seat reconnaissance and fighter aircraft, it was used as a dive-bomber by the US Marines which gave it the name "Helldiver." In service 1925-1937, it was also responsible for killing King Kong in the 1933 movie. #NavalHistory

A Hasty Defence at the club tonight, Frenchies pushing back the Germans - well that was the plan. The unfortunate use of a German flamethrower saw the death of a squad, its JL and accompanying SL and the French break. Good random game. #spreadthelard #wargaming

📚 Etudes sur le combat, d’Ardant du Picq Souvent cité, jamais lu. desetageresetdeslivres.over-blog.com/2026/02/etud...

Avui al #WorldinFlames inexplicablement, França rebutja l'acord de pau d'Alemanya A l'altra banda del món, Japó avança per territori xinès ...i al mediterrani, Itàlia declara la guerra a Grècia i gairebé entra a Atenes Russia encara no ha reclamat Finlandia Temps al temps😈 #M'agradenelsWargames

Remarkable performance.

One lousy heavy howitzer barrage can ruin your whole day. The German attack in our "Advance to Smolensk" mission for "O Group" was badly broken up and they're trying to sort matters out before the clock runs out. @armchairdragoons.bsky.social @toofatlardies.bsky.social

🚨 BONUS EPISODE 🚨 Recorded LIVE at the Katherine of Aragon Festival 🎪 @alfredrjhawkins.bsky.social explains why real historians must always be ready to rethink the past. 📚 If you refuse to change your mind, you’re doing it wrong. 🔥 🎧 Listen now 👉 pod.fo/e/3883be #TowerOfLondon #PublicHistory

It's time for a midweek mood check! Use a gif or pic or video to illustrate that mood today...

SAS Rogue Regiment. Superspannende Stealth Action, die immer wieder an die PC Spielreihe Commandos erinnert. Keine Kriegssimulation, eher ein Stealthactionfilm zum Spielen. Stets in der Unterzahl müssen wir die Routen der Gegner zu unserem Vorteil nutzen. Planung und Timing! #Brettspiele #wargames

The Report of the Terrorism Experts & Defence Against Terrorism Executive Level Seminar has been published by #NATO #COEDAT. It also includes the summary of my talk about #Wargaming #Counterterrorism in the #MDO Environment. Thanks again for a great conference! www.coedat.nato.int/publication/...

New article (in Finnish) from the The Russo-Swedish War (2008). Game describes the Finnish War 1808–1809, which was one of many small campaigns fought during the Napoleonic Wars. We are aware of only two games from this conflict, and this is the only #wargame. huoltoreitti.fi/pelattuna-th...

The Grumman FF-1 first flew in 1931. It was the first carrier- based fighter plane equipped with retractable landing gear. Manufactured under license in Canada as the Goblin, where they served in the RCAF as late as 1942. #NavalHistory

Wargaming Habits that Drive us Nuts

Mentioned In Dispatches S16 E1 – What is Wargaming Missing? Kicking off the new season, our erstwhile co-hosts take a deep dive into the wide world of wargaming and discuss what they think the wargaming hobby is missing. armchairdragoons.com...

Hey #Wargamers it's time c'mon back to Origins! In 2026, we had — 170+ wargaming events in the main game hall — 450+ total player sessions — games running from 8am–midnight across 20 total tables — at least 7 tables in use at all times btw 10am–10pm (not incl the War College!) originsgamefair.com

And of course @battlingboy.bsky.social put the whole thing on Tabletop simulator with tokens too if that's of more interest than the print and play. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Unboxed.

Scholars used to call the Ottoman Empire “a near-perfect military society,” but really it all depended on 1,000 scribes in Istanbul who did spreadsheets by day and wrote Persian poetry by night

It's that time of year again. We've finished my Rhetoric and Revolution in 10th grade modern world. Wrapped up the French Rev Monday and now we play Liberte for two days before they write a pretty intense essay comparing and contrasting the two as models of Revolution. #gamingthepast

Dutch & Spanish ships fighting it out on the Haarlemmermeer, w/ besieged city in distance. Painted by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom. It’s his day today.

4 February 1925 | A French Jewish woman, Ginette Kolinka (née Cherkasky), was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and then to #Theresienstadt. She survived. Today she turns 101.

Resuming our naval battle with War Galley @gmtgames.bsky.social Salamis 306 BEC