"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons

27 March 2026 ~

Brant, Rocky, Aaron, Austin, and Keith all team up to talk about sci-fi wargaming and barely scratch the surface. Hear what the designers are thinking as they’re developing their games, and we leave plenty of space for future episodes, too.

Of course there are links!

Marine: 2002 – A Game of the First Lunar War (1979)

Robotech: Reconstruction (2023)

Raider Drop Zone (2024)

Hammer’s Slammers (1984)

Littoral Commander: Space Force (2026?)

Previous episodes on sci-fi wargaming (but not 4X games)

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 10 Ep 3 ~ Sci-Fi Wargaming

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 9 Ep 6 ~ Scifi Gaming & Space Navies

Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 8 – Science Fiction Warfare & Gaming



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20 March 2026 ~

Brant is joined by Dr James Sterrett and Jan Heinemann to revisit & update our earlier discussion way back in season 2 on The Essential Wargaming Library. In the past 5-6 years1 there’s been a veritable explosion of full-length, serious books about wargaming and those interested in these titles are now filling up a second shelf with them, instead of having room for fancy bookends and tchotchkes around the limited selection of wargaming tomes.

Linkdump

Forging Wargamers by Sebastian Bae

Wargames According to Mark by Mark Herman

Eurowargames anthology from Nuts Publishing

Wargaming Experiences: Soldiers, Scientists and Civilians and Wargaming Experiences II: Discussions by Natalia Wojtowicz

UK MoD Wargaming Handbook (PDF)

Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games by Maurice Suckling

Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems by Amabel Holland (and the Mechanisms as Metaphors video)

Historical Simulation and Wargames: The Hexagon and the Sword by Ricardo Masini

Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military by Aggie Hirst

The Matrix Games Handbook: Professional Applications from Education to Analysis and Wargaming by John Curry

Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Peruvian Naval War College Journal issue on wargaming

Journal of Advanced Military Studies wargaming issue

Wargaming Handbooks panel from Connections Online



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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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