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[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 5

Nuts & Bolts of Online Conventions

Howdy and welcome to the six-month late listener's guide to episode 5. This one is not that extensive, mainly because, although there were games mentioned, I am not going to list the ones brought up in the course of the conversation. The focus was on online conventions and that will be my focus. I'm not going to provide links to Discord, or TTS or Zoom because I'm confident you all know them and if you don't, you know how to find them.

Some of the online tools mentioned for online conventions

Roll20

Fantasy Ground

Tabletop (dot) Events

Warhorn

The article Brant mentioned

Why Virtual Tabletop Conventions Fail, and How Organizers Can Fix It

And that’s it for this listener’s guide. Which is good, because I need to rest up for the 90 minute podcast which is episode 6.

[mcguire]

  

[Tolstoi]

 

Thank you! 

[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 6

Role-Playing in Wargames

And here is the listener’s guide for episode 6. I’m not sure if Birthright is correct, so let me know if I didn’t find the right game. There were A LOT of games listed and I’m didn’t catch or find them all. If you know of one I missed, you know the drill, let me know.
Opening Banter

Barbarosa Crimea

Third Winter

The Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe

Old School Tactical: Volume 3 – Pacific 1942/45

Commands & Colors Tricorne: The American Revolution

RockyMountainNavy's rebuttal to Harold Buchanan's His Historical Simulation Engagement Profile

I’m Not the Wargamer You Want Me to Be

And now... the Games!

En Garde!

Legion of Honor

Realms of the Unknown

DL11: Dragons of Glory

X10: Red Arrow, Black Shield

Greyhawk Adventures: Wars

Chainmail

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem

Birthright

BattleLust: Mediaeval Battle System

Star Fleet Battles

Traveller

Fifth Frontier War 

Mayday

Azhanti High Lightning

Snapshot
 
Invasion: Earth

Imperium: Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance

Dark Nebula

Twilight: 2000

Recon

Behind Enemy Lines

Gunslinger

Gladiator

Circus Maximus

Sniper!

Sniper! Special Forces

Sergeants Miniatures Games

Battle Hymn

The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43

The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-45

Silent Victory: U.S. Submarines in the Pacific, 1941-45

DVG Leader Series

B-17: Queen of the Skies

BattleTech

MechWarrior

Combots

Pendragon

Ars Magica

Forbidden Lands

Mutant: Year Zero

Lock 'n Load Tactical System

Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

Blitz! A World in Conflict

National Security Desicion Making Game (NSDM)

Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm used for Command Post Exercise at Origins

Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator

Brant called the game Aftermath and because he described it as a post earthquake game, I think he meant Aftershock.

Hearts of Iron III

Small General -  From the VR Design's website: This game has been retired for the moment due to incompatibility with higher Android OS versions.

Decisive Campaigns : Barbarossa - The game mentions that has the rpg elements in it, such as managing different commanders.
 
No Greater Glory: The American Civil War - Make sure to read to the end of the list, there is a bonus entry related to No Greater Glory.

Mass Effect Trilogy

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

GURPS

Gear Krieg

Weird Wars

Twilight: 2000

Phoenix Command

Fantasy Wargaming 

Bands of Blades

Blades in the Dark

I think the game that is like the film Red Dawn is either Invasion U.S.! or Freedom Fighters. I'm not sure.

Last Battle: Twilight – 2000

Team Yankee

Battlefield: Europe

Test of Arms

The bonus info related to No Greater Glory is...



you can play it online for free at the Internet Archive! Okay, I couldn't find a manual. I did find a list of answers to the questions they have at the beginning of the game to make sure you paid for it way back in 1991. Yes, 30 years ago!!

Answers to the questions
p4 = press
p6 = peace
p11 = administer
p13 = capital
p21 = strategic
p30 = move
p39 = economy
p46 = means
p49 = cabinet
p50 = Richmond

Finally, according to the Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) catalog from 1974, their address was:
44 East 23rd Street (9th flr.)
New York, N.Y. 10010

I have two address for Victory Games. From a business reply envelope:
43 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001

and from my registration card for 2nd Fleet:

4517 Harford Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21214

[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 7

Teaching Game Design

This listener's guide is short. I'm not providing duplicate links to all the info Brant provided on the episode webpage. For example, if you want to learn more about the White Box project or the Aftershock game, you can find the link on the podcast webpage.

Let's start with links to the two presentations mentioned at the beginning of the discussion.

The presentation about the 3 Kingdoms game

The presentation about the Russian Roulette game

Books mentioned

Characteristics of Games

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

A game of Birds and Wolves : The Secret Game that Won the War

Games mentioned

Game of Thrones, Risk

Friedrich

Assassin's Mace

Podcasts mentioned and a helpful website

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Monopoly

Link PAXsims blog using the search tag: WATU with special attention to this post from Dec. 20th, 2017 which has a link to to an article by Paul Strong about WATU.

[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 8

The Annual Bison Migration

For this episode, there are many games I'm not going to list. For example: D&D, Panzer Blitz, Panzer Leader, Settlers of Catan, Gloomhaven, Don't Tread on Me, White Tribe, Sekigahara, Memoir 44, any of the Command & Colors games, ASL Starter Kits, Magic the Gathering or the BECMI series. These are items that have been linked to in past MiD episodes.

Some of the games listed below have also been discussed in the past and I'm including them because they played a larger role in the discussion, or they were games I wanted to learn more about. Here's the list:

Wing Span

Mystara Gazetteers

Calidar by Bruce Heard

Cityfight

Phase Line Smash

The original Air & Armor and the new updated Air & Armor

The original NATO: The Next War in Europe and the new updated NATO: The Cold War Goes Hot

McPherson's Ridge: The First Hours of Gettysburg

Battlewagon

Gettysburg

The U.S. Civil War

Pub Battles (Command Post Games)

Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

Hold the Line

Index Card Role Playing Game -  There seem to be a couple different Index Card RPG systems and I'm not sure which one was first. I think it was the rule set published by Runehammer Games; however, I'm not positive.

Firefly Role-Playing Game

Dungeonesque

Battle Hymn Vol. 1: Gettysburg and Pea Ridge

Dominion

God's Fire

Stellar Conquest

[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 9

Connections Online!

A lot of interesting discussion and not many specifically named games, books or articles this time. Like episode 8, I found links for the items I found the most interesting and not the items that have been discussed in past MiDs. This list appears approximately in the same order as they are discussed in this week's episode.

Starfleet Tactical - YouTube Play list

The main webpage for the Connections Wargaming Conference: Advancing and Preserving the Art, Science, and Application of Wargaming

Brant's Analysis of Aftershock: A Humanitarian Crisis Game

Guerrilla Checkers - scroll down. It is number four on the list.

Col. Matthew B. Caffrey's book On Wargaming

Brant's article about Fog of War(gaming)

Western Approaches Tactical Unit (WATU) - There are more links about WATU in Episode 8 of this season, so if you haven't looked at those yet, they are well worth the effort.

Link to Connections Online YouTube Playlist

[bayonetbrant]

tough to bag on these guys for not doing even a cursory search of the title to see if there's already a wargaming show by our name, since there's also a WW1 history podcast with the same name that predates our by several years

But learn from our mistakes - do a basic google search for the proposed title

[mcguire]

I double-dog-dare you to do a guest exchange with both of the others.

[Barthheart]

Great! Now we can change the name to what it should have been all along…. No Pants Required. 

[mcguire]

Great! Now we can change the name to what it should have been all along…. No Pants Required. 

    

[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 10

Andrew Bucholtz

Here's episode 10. Great interview with Andrew Bucholtz. Let's start off with the book Mr. Bucholtz talks about reading as a wee lad:

Heroes in Blue and Gray by Robert Edmond Alter and illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh

and then move onto the games and other items discussed:

Great Battles of the American Civil War (Series)

Great Campaigns of the American Civil War (Series)

Soldiers in Postmen's Uniforms

Silverton

Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection

For the People

By Stealth and Sea

Castle Itter

Christina Kahrl interview - This is the past interview Brant brings up while talking to Andrew about sports writers who play wargames.

Catan (formerly The Settlers of Catan)

7 Wonders

Warrior Knights

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition - There are older editions too.

The Shores of Tripoli

Stellar Horizons

Root

Sergeants Miniatures Games

The von Reisswitz Kriegsspiel (1826)

Iron and Oak

Blockade Runner

Rebel Raiders on the High Seas

Lie, Cheat & Steal

Acquire

1830: Railways & Robber Barons

Civilization

King of the Tabletop found in Dragon #77. Good news, you don't have to track down issue #77 to get the game, (though you can find that issue online if you search for it), you can find it here.

Kings and Things
 
Tank on Tank

18xx Series

A Few Acres of Snow

Hands in the Sea

Tank Duel: Enemy in the Crosshairs

Space Empires: 4X

SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD

Finally, for all you aspiring drummers out there, here are the Screaming Jets with their song Better, which Brant talks about during their discussion of music.

[Tolstoi]

Mentioned in Dispatches Season 6 Episode 11

Wargame Design Curriculum at CGSC

I find the discussions with Dr. Sterrett and his students about the Wargame Design program at the Command and General Staff College fascinating. They also make for short listener's guides, as usually not many games are mentioned. If you have the time and interest, I recommend looking at the thesis by Maj. Ebbets: Death Can Wait from 2018. 

Holdfast: Korea 1950-51

Battle for Moscow - This is the Victory Point Games version, which Dr. Sterret describes. Brant asks if it was the free print and play version or the online version.

Holdfast: Russia 1941-42

Holdfast: Tunisia 1942-43

Star Wars: Trading Card Game

Twilight Struggle

Death can wait by Maj. C. J. Ebbets - this is the thesis/game about deploying a field hospital that Brant discusses when highlighting other projects by past students.

[bayonetbrant]

Season 7 launches!

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/mentioned-in-dispatches-season-7-ep-1-the-fall-premiere/

[Adam]

Huzzah!  Looking forward to catching up with you and the rest of the armchair crew.