"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons

13 March 2026 ~

Byron and Rocky join Brant to talk about all sorts of fights-in-the-skies, as we look up for this week’s podcast.

The mandatory list of references

Like an (Air) Boss – A veritable Typhoon of Angels, Bears, Phantoms, Intruders and Mustangs all Fly(ing) to Fight and Win in a minis wargaming Danger Zone – Rocky’s article on Cold War jet-age aircraft combat

Lee Brimmicombe-Wood on BGG

JD Webster on BGG

(and probably a few we forgot)

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6 March 2026 ~

Brant is joined by a pair of professional wargaming educators (Ed McGrady and David Banks) to talk about the professional development options for those in the applied / practitioner / professional world as well as a bit about how hobbyists can cross over

Mandatory linkdump!

Kings College War Studies Department

MORS Certificates, including their wargaming courses

Dragoons playlists, where you’ll find the Connections Online playlists

Wargaming and Resilience Planning MA at Brunel University in Uxbridge/London

Georgetown University Wargaming Society

Fundamentals of Wargaming Analysis at JHU

John Curry at Bath Spa University

Degree programs as the US Army Command & General Staff College

Got other links to wargaming curricula we should be linking here?  Drop them in the comments below!



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27 February 2026 ~

Ardwulf joins the podcast for a discussion about when the bifurcation of wargames and TTRPGs happened, and how & why.  Anecdotes aplenty and also assorted assholery abounds.

Links to some of what we discussed

Old parlour games / proto-RPGs

Flintlock’s shifty thread on Bluesky

The Dicing With Dragons book

The Defense Language Institute in Monterey / The Customs House Plaza

Talking about megagames back in 2020



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20 February 2026 ~

Brant, Mike, and Bill are joined by Mark Miklos to talk about his BoAR series and the upcoming special event this Fall in Camden, SC, as well as RevCon in Charlottesville1, and more.  Mark gives players some insight into the history of the series, what’s coming next, and even some advice on gameplay.

Some of the key links for this episode

Our last BoAR podcast episode, with Bill’s article series linked at the bottom

Registration info for GMT’s Camden event

RevCon at PrezCon 2026

The start of Mike’s series on Battles of the American Revolution – Eutaw Springs

Battles of the American Revolution Series
Mentioned in Dispatches Episode ~ Series Intro ~ Saratoga ~ Brandywine ~ Guilford Courthouse ~ Eutaw Springs ~ Savannah ~ Camden Event Podcast Episode
Saratoga Digital ~ First Impressions ~ Gaming vs The AI

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13 February 2026 ~

Brant, Chris, and Merle2 gather ’round the virtual campfire to talk about why & how Connections Online came into being, a couple of standout panels & stories from the past 5 years of events, and the inevitable struggle to stay on topic whenever another shiny digression goes prancing across their view.

Some key links and references—

Connections Online Youtube Playlists

2021 – Distributed Wargaming

2022 – Developing Wargame Practitioners

2023 – The Enemy Gets A Vote

2024 – Distributed Wargaming — Recent Lessons Learned

2025 – Wargaming Future Technologies

The Connections Online homepage at Armchair Dragoons
Some specific sessions that were also called out

Connections Online 2021 Day 2, Session 4: Western Approaches Tactical Unit and CO22 D2S4: Western Approaches Tactical Unit, Revisited

Connections Online 2021 Day 3, Session 2: Distributed Campaigns Over the Long Haul

CO23 D1S2: What Exactly is “Red-Teaming” Anyway?

CO25 D3S4: Concluding Remarks, & Reviving Dune — How the AH classic game came to be reborn

CO24 D2S2: Urban Warfare Wargaming: Past, Present, Future

Also, pay no attention to the SETI intercepts in the background of Merle’s audio whenever he’s talking.

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