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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 15h

Fall Assembly on Final Approach; Lots of New Games! & More ~ #TuesdayNewsday Fresh links and noteworthy headlines 🔗—all gathered in one place ➡️ wp.me/pae4WL-f0z

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you to the @armchairdragoons.bsky.social for featuring my review of @jsbuckley.bsky.social's educational wargame that models drones & EW "Battlegroup Clash: Baltics" 🎲 Read my full review: wargamingweekly.substack.com/p/battlegrou... ✍🏾 Read #TuesdayNewsday: armchairdragoons.com/tn-092926/ 📜

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you to Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson at "The Tactical Notebook" for featuring my review of @jsbuckley.bsky.social's educational wargame "Battlegroup Clash: Baltics" 🎲 Read my full review: open.substack.com/pub/wargamin... ✍🏾 Read the full Milstack Saturday here: open.substack.com/pub/tactical... 🪖

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fight-club-intl.bsky.social @fight-club-intl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We've started a new YouTube playlist focused on interviewing the designers behind our analogue games. The host is none other than the author of Wargaming Weekly in a mutual collaboration. The first episode is now up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGc...

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FCI Design Series - Supply and Steel with Ed Farren

In the first episode of the Fight Club Designer Series, Rwizi (author of Wargaming Weekly) sits down with Ed Farren, the designer of Supply and Steel, a World War II operational logistics wargame…

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Mark @smarkg52.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Second group for FDP to learn @sebastianbae.bsky.social Littoral Commander for next month’s #wargaming Battle Lab at #SAMS at #CGSC. Some instructors piled in for initial and refresher training of the best educational MDO #wargame out there!

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David Thompson @djackthompson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So excited. Steve Jones at Blue Panther just printed 40 copies of Throw Down That Flag for me and @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social. We created this game specifically for the @sdhistcon.bsky.social Night Market. I really love what we’ve made.

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NUTS! PUBLISHING @nutspublishing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks Sebastian - we love to see people getting it to the table too!

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Nicola S @6xwa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Something new and something old that is new again have arrived! Thanks the folks at KV Design for the outstanding service as usual! Yes, on the left is a new edition of the venerable NATO Division Commander by SPI! On the right is a new game by a Chinese designer on the Yom Kippur war.

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Nicola S @6xwa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And here are two siblings separated for and by 50 years. SPI “The Next War” and KV Design “NATO Division Commander”. The KV Design team has managed to replicate the soapbox size in width and in thickness. Height is just a tad bigger!

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Mark @smarkg52.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Second group for FDP to practice from yesterday using @sebastianbae.bsky.social Littoral Commander for next month’s #wargaming Battle Lab at #SAMS at #CGSC. Some instructors piled in for initial and refresher training of the best educational MDO #wargame out there!

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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hereby offer my entry for the official #wargaming platform of the Joint Warfighting Evaluation:

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s game: Coalitions (6 players), by Andy Rourke, published by Phalanx. I really enjoyed this. Some smart design choices here - especially with regards to the diplomacy system.

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wargaming Research: Solo War + Historical Gaming 2026 Data Deep Diving We've asked a variety of questions over the years... This year, we asked about how you prefer to play your solo games, and we finally asked about your actual age and not just how long you've been playing wp.me/pae4WL-fDL

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Evocatus @evocatus.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Behaviours are the four things a Learning and Development team can target. Most of the budget goes on the first. Tabletop exercises build the other three, in a simulation where consequences are contained.

A clipboard with a ticked box containing the letter K, beside a hex game map with plain counters. Off the board, cards lettered E and B lie on the table while a hand draws away an orange card lettered S.

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Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My review of Vektyr grab it now on the P500 www.gmtgames.com/p-1261-vekty... @gmtgames.bsky.social

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you've used my "Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific" or any version of the series for educational purposes, please leave a review on BGG! It helps a lot to distinguish it as an professional educational wargame. 🎲 Link: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35...

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Volko @volko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Setting up for extended session of the full Thirty Years War on my table: Cuius Regio by @fgradaille.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social ... 1618-1648, so 31 turns.

Boardgame set up: Cuius Regio - The Thirty Years War 1618-1648 by Francisco Gradaille, GMT Games

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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

4 years ago today, I made the first digital prototype to take #ManeuverWarfare from from hand-drawn stick-figure sketches to something more.1 year ago, I held the first production copies in my hands. My thanks to @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social for making the #wargaming dream come true!

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James Buckley @jsbuckley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just played this as OFJH. The play experience is like reading polemical long form journalism. The target is the drug companies. The twist is you play as the drug company. The activist is your enemy, the corrupt doctor your friend. It's very well done.

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mentioned In Dispatches S17 E3 — The 4th Annual Solo Wargaming Survey What have we learned? What do we want to change going forward? What are some of those burning questions that we just won't get answered in a survey like this? All this & more—tonight on BIIIIIIG-PODCAST! armchairdragoons.com...

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Craig6968 @craig6968.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glad to have this package of World Order along with World in Turmoil and the Concepts book arrive today. Heard a lot of great things about this game - so looking forward to learning and playing it soon.

World Order, and World in Turmoil, and the Concepts book from Hegemonic games.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026

Who is watching this nonsense?

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fight-club-intl.bsky.social @fight-club-intl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The company commander is dead. The UGVs are jammed. Your last FPV has just crashed, and enemy mortar rounds are walking onto your position and their infantry will be close behind. What is your next move? Finn out here www.fightclubinternational.org/takethatbrid...

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Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Busy weekend at the graphic design coalface polishing maps for prototype games I’ll be bringing to @sdhistcon.bsky.social

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mentioned In Dispatches S17 E2 — Convention Planning Cons don't just 'happen'! There's a lot that goes into them—picking the time on the calendar, dealing with venues, planning your events, & dealing with attendees, so we brought together a great panel to talk about them armchairdragoons.com...

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WARGAMING FICTION ALERT 🔔 In May 2026, the U.S. Air Force and Space Force ran MASH – an inaugural AI wargaming experiment in Las Vegas 🤖 "Mash of Machines" is a short story series based on this experiment 📝 EPISODE 02 "The Orchestrator" out now! 🚀 www.patreon.com/wargamingwee...

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syntheticgrey.bsky.social @syntheticgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I advocated for this approach in simulation, force on force exercises, and live fire CAX. As a leader at any level, when you go into a training exercise it should be like you have a gun pointed at your head…you fail you suffer…now suffer doesn’t always mean replacement maybe just retraining

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Their focus was on opportunities for expanded training, technology sharing, wargaming and exercises to continue building maritime logistics interoperability in the Indo-Pacific region." www.navy.mil/Press-Office...

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Wargamers were placed into four teams representing the traditional defense industrial base, the foreign industrial base, the organic industrial base, and organizations outside of the current defense industrial base with the potential to support the Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network."

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"For Southeast Asia, it was a hard hit... a surprise. I don't think governments in the region did a wargaming or preparation or strategic stockpile." - Dr. Huong Le Thu of the International Crisis Group (on "The Bridge: Europe's Indo-Pacific Podcast") podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Energy Shocks and Strategic Choices: How Southeast Asia Is Navigating Turbulence in the Middle East

Podcast Episode · The Bridge: Europe's Indo-Pacific Podcast · June 24 · 46m

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"...Army plans to assess roughly 900 eligible colonels through a remote written assessment, followed by a digital wargame. The Air Force intends to give a 2-hour online analysis followed by a 1-hour interactive simulation for roughly 1,330 colonels. The Space Force will follow a similar format..."

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Pentagon adds new ‘warfighter’ evaluation for officers seeking first star

Secretary Hegseth announced Tuesday that colonels and captains seeking promotions will undergo a new Joint Warfighter Evaluation.

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I understand that and I agree. But that's no different how students study to the exam. There are shortfalls for every method of assessment and we just have to manage them mindfully as much as we can

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Nate @nategm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The biggest danger, IMO, is that you develop a system where users who are better at understanding the rubric and the rules get artificially high marks for the traits ostensibly being evaluated. Especially so when folks are coming from a speciality background (signal, logistics, etc)

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Any evaluation game is simply a metric. The real value is in all the wargames, experiences, lessons learned, and decisions that lead up to it. We need to think beyond a simple evaluation game, but an ecosystem of games and experiences to prepare leaders through every stage of their military careers.

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The vital part is the process that leads to the evaluation game. The wargames that leaders got to practice, make mistakes, find new ideas, and hone their craft - BEFORE any evaluation game. Just like physical fitness, it is the daily, regular work that is put in that matters most.

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And yes, games for evaluation are littered with challenges and perils from biases to long-term sustainability for a wide, diverse pool of functional experts and professionals. But to me, the evaluation game is not the important part.

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Personally, I argue wargames serve leaders and planners best when they are regular, iterative, and challenging. Wargames are one of the few ways to practice decision-making against a thinking adversary. Wargaming is intellectual fitness, stressing the mind to be sharper and better. 🧠

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using #wargames to evaluate military leaders is not new - stemming from the desire to identify the best talent for the next crisis. But it can be perilous, and if done poorly, it can be generationally damaging. So services are thinking deeply on how best to proceed. 🧵

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Pentagon adds new ‘warfighter’ evaluation for officers seeking first star

Secretary Hegseth announced Tuesday that colonels and captains seeking promotions will undergo a new Joint Warfighter Evaluation.

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"So yes, let us use wargames to help assess future generals and admirals. Let us also respect the experience they bring to the table. And let us ask those who may one day send them into harm's way to sit at that table, play through a crisis and learn from the results."

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Who Tests the Testers?

A recent [Fox News report](https://www.foxnews.

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"In some versions, officers will be presented with a military problem and forced to make decisions as an AI-powered adversary reacts to their moves. Another will bring officers into a war college for an in-person wargame, where evaluators will watch how they respond as an enemy counters..."

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Pentagon unveils battlefield test to ensure new generals are warfighters – not Washington bureaucrats

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon overhaul introduces wargame-style assessments requiring senior officers to solve combat problems before earning a star.

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

WARGAMING JOB ALERT 🔔 🔗 Learn more here: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Wargaming Weekly @wargamingweekly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

WARGAMING JOB ALERT 🔔 🔗 Learn more here: lnkd.in/p/dGd6RvWW

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