By Mitch Reed
Recently I had to spend some time recuperating at home from “cave cough” which is prevalent in our West Virginia mountain bunker. This gave me the chance to check out the new release from Micro Prose called Second Front. I had the game on my wish list since the first news of the game came out well over a year ago. I was able to spend a good amount of time on the game and discovered how much fun it was.
By Mitch Reed
I have been a fan of the COIN (Counter Insurgency) games for some time now and I was excited to be able to meet Steve Rangazas and play one of the games from his upcoming 4-pack, The British Way from GMT and should be shipping sometime later this year.
The game harkens back to the days of the old SPI Quad-Games series where you get four games in a single box. The British Way covers the insurgencies as the sunset of the British Empire and covers the conflicts in Malaya, Cyprus, Kenya, and Palestine.
by Mitch Reed
We recently got a draft of the NUTS! 4th Edition which is currently wrapping up its Kickstarter Campaign. NUTS! Has been around since 2006 and this new edition represents the latest work of its developers to get a good WW2 miniatures skirmish game into the hands of our community.
Having played many WW2 skirmish games over the years, I can admit that many games share some of the same feel as others in the market and the experience often gets stale. NUTS! does not fall into that paradigm. While it shares many mechanics with other games (hard to avoid), it does have a lot of different rules that piqued my interest.
By Mitch Reed
My first Flames of War army, which I swore would only be the only one I would ever use, was my late war British (painted as Canadians). While I did collect other nations, I always built and created British or Commonwealth lists as my collection grew. As the game went into V4, I had a lot of later war kit that did not have a new list, now with the British Bulge book, I can now get my Challengers and Comets back on the table.
Today we are live at Labyrinth Games in Washington DC with their first Wargame Wednesday event. We speak with the event director and then with Stephen Rangazas about his COIN game “The British Way”, that looks at end of the British colonial empire We wrap with Kevin Bertram from Fort Circle Games.
Big treat for you in this episode. We talk to some of the staff at the US Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies and talk about how they use wargaming in professional military education.
Lucky me, I get to sit down with Nick and Sophia from Georgetown University Wargame Society (GUWS) and hear all about who they they are and what they do!
by Mitch Reed
Last month wargamers of every ilk converged at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) facility in Alexandria, for the annual Connections Wargaming Conference. This was the first live event since 2019 due to COVID19 and many people, including myself, were excited to have an in-person event.
By Mitch Reed
Years ago, for those who remember my days with WWPD, I did a story on the Giants of the Sky Kickstarter from Ares Games which turned out to be the last release from the company for their Great War flying game called Wings of Glory”. I really liked the game and went “full afterburner” on collecting the many aircraft in the series. Since that 2016 release, the company has been quiet and while I thought they abandoned the series they turned around and released a digital port of their popular tabletop game.
Huge episode! We are live at HMGS Historicon 22. The guys speak to Steve from Lead Pursuit, Lauren from Casemate Publishing, Jason from Military Miniature Magazine, Lee Gaddis from Gaddis Gaming and the duo behind Blood & Steel, Damien and Edgar!
