Below you will find an excellent article cross-posted from Francis K. Lalumiere at Reports from the Front Lines. This article features his love letter to the Combat Commander series. For those interested, you can read his original post here. -Rachel The existence of the most recent edition of Combat Commander made me wake up to two startling […]
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Last semester we started playing Churchill in our wargaming class at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. This article looks at how the game can contribute to the broader learning objectives in social sciences’ studies. One of the challenges in teaching wargame design in a civilian context is finding games on topics
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Hobby General InterestSeveral months back, when preparing for the Spring semester course on wargaming, I wrote a blog post about the plans to use Stephen Rangazas’ The British Way in the classroom. The game has now made its debut at the university, and it is interesting to look back and see what worked and how. Whenever introducing
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Hobby General InterestI was 15 and in the middle of junior high when the titular People Power EDSA revolution took place. As such, the events surrounding People Power stand out as a watershed historical moment during my youth. Interestingly enough, much of the same factions are still involved in Philippine politics, 37 years hence, and the son
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Hobby General InterestMark Miklos, designer of GMT’s 10-volume Battles of the American Revolution series, recently attended the Camden Burials honoring fallen soldiers from the 1780 Battle of Camden, South Carolina and shares his experience in the following article. Enjoy! -Rachel It has been suggested by author David Smith in his book, Camden, 1780 (Osprey Campaign Series, #292)
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Designer Blogs, Hobby General InterestTwilight Struggle (TS) and Imperial Struggle (IS) are two great creations of the Ananda Gupta & Jason Matthews duet. We waited a long 15 years between the publication of the first (2005) and latter one (2020). Both titles prove to be deep, immersing, and very replayable designs thus no wonder that they have pretty broad pool of fans.
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Hobby General InterestHi folks, David Alexander and Peter Evans here with an announcement for a new podcast series that may be interesting to followers of GMT Games, covering the first ever “ConSim Game Jam” sponsored by GMT that took place last October. If you’re unfamiliar with the Consim Game Jam, this 72-hour event challenged teams to create
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Hobby General Interest, InterviewsNote: If you would like to view any of the above or below images in a larger size, you can click on the image and it will point you to the full image file. Badajoz is a small and quiet city in the southwest of Spain with 150,000 inhabitants. It is replete with history relevant
Author’s Note: this article has Combat Commander: Europe as its focus, but is more or less applicable to the series in general. Speaking in the broadest of terms, if you are thinking of playing your first-ever game of Combat Commander, you fall somewhere along a spectrum that starts with people who have never played a
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Hobby General InterestThis is a guest post from a friend of a friend. It speaks to the relationship the world at large might have to our hobby as wargamers. We thought you might enjoy it… — Mitch by Jerad Alexander Davin has a problem. His advance on Poland is being gutted by the collective will of democratic
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