"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons
138 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsRiding to battle in style! The Armchair Dragoons discuss all manner of strategy games and wargames - both tabletop & digital - as played by hobbyists, professionals, and academics.
Also on the agenda are regular discussions of history & battles as they tie into strategy gaming and wargaming, and musings on the game industry as a whole.
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Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 8 – Science Fiction Warfare & Gaming
October 30, 2020 16:53 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB30 October ~ Author Henry Vogel and BuNine Member/DoD wargame practitioner Chris …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 7 – Horse & Musket & Hollandspiele
October 23, 2020 14:29 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB23 October 2020 ~ Doug is back to discuss the continuing development …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 6 – The Compass Games Holiday Catalog
October 16, 2020 14:10 - 1 hour - 67 MB16 October 2020 ~ It is HERE! The glorious, gianticus, magnificus thing …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 5 – World War I
October 09, 2020 18:21 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBOctober 9, 2020 ~ OJsDad and RockyMountainNavy pop in to chat all …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 4 – Georgetown University Wargaming Society
October 02, 2020 20:54 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB2 October 2020 ~ A full house this week! A full house …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 3 – WW2 PTO
September 25, 2020 19:34 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB25 September 2020 ~ BBMike & RockyMountainNavy (aka, “Mike” and “Ian”) hold …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 2 – Distributed Gaming & Tabletop Simulator
September 18, 2020 16:11 - 1 hour - 54 MB18 September 2020 ~ Jim/Cyrano and Mike/OJsDad hop on to talk about …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Season 5 Episode 1 – The Cold War!
September 11, 2020 11:03 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB11 September 2020 ~ Kicking off the new season, we bring in …
Mentioned in Dispatches, Special Summer 2020 Edition
August 05, 2020 10:54 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBThere’s been many facets of public life that have been touched lately …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E11 – WargameHQ Joins The Show!
May 08, 2020 15:45 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBAnother special guest joins us for the season 4 finale of Mentioned …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E10 – Bawb & The Musketeers
May 01, 2020 12:20 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBBawb’s back! He joins Jim, Doug, and Brant to talk about all …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E9 – Return of the Moe!
April 24, 2020 09:27 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBMoe is back! He’s taking a break from “Moe’s Game Table” to …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E8 – Game Ripoffs!
April 17, 2020 11:02 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBInsurgent Catan? 7 Wonders meets Game of Thrones? Aftershocks aplenty? And how …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E7 – Hollandspiele
April 10, 2020 10:47 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBTom Russell stops by for a chat about all things Hollandspiele. We …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E6 – Megagaming a Pandemic?!
April 03, 2020 11:42 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBRex Brynen takes some time out of his academic pandemic survival preparations …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E5 – US Army Wargame Design at the Command & General Staff College
March 27, 2020 12:05 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBGraciously taking time out of their military and academic schedules, we have …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E4 – Alt-History & Other Nonsense
March 20, 2020 13:19 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBJim is back as he & Brant talk about alt-history and the …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E3 – Adventures in Conventions
March 13, 2020 12:53 - 57 minutes - 33.1 MBGary of Ardwulf’s Lair joins us for a discussion of several recent …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E2 – The Horse & Musket Series, with a side of Irrational Nostalgia
March 06, 2020 11:22 - 1 hour - 46 MBDoug & Jim join us to talk about Hollandspiele’s Horse & Musket series, …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E1 – The World At War ’85 Kickstarter has landed!
February 28, 2020 11:56 - 57 minutes - 32.8 MBLet’s launch season 4 with the (loooooong-awaited) arrival of LNLP’s new World …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E12 – Retro Games & Holiday Shopping
December 06, 2019 21:30 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBWe wrap up season 3 with a look a 80s retro games, …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E11 – Outlandish Hats & Military Museums
November 22, 2019 10:57 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBOur first-ever four-time-zones-at-once episode! Bawb joins us from Merry Olde England, and …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E10 – The Cold War. No, the original one.
November 15, 2019 11:20 - 1 hour - 55 MBCap’n Darwin and Dr Sterrett are here to save the day! They …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E9 – We’re Here to Help You Spend Your Money
November 08, 2019 11:40 - 1 hour - 46 MBHide your wallets! The Compass catalog is here…. and it’s GLORIOUS…. So of …
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E8 – “On Wargaming” with Matt Caffrey
November 01, 2019 11:57 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBCOL(R) Matt Caffrey, USAF and AFRL, as well as the Godfather of the Connections conferences, joins us to talk about his historical opus “On Wargaming” and the research he did on the book. Also joining us is Chris Weave, a BuNine member, and part of the professional wargaming team at AFRL. There were a bunch...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E7 – The Laugh Track
October 26, 2019 23:54 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBWe started out with Mirth, Vance, and Mike, talking about nothing in particular. It was going to be the Armchair Dragoons “Seinfeld” episode. Along the way, we managed to cover Cold War Naval Battles, Root, Napoleonics on Tabletop Simulator, Codenames, a dozen variations on Risk, Star Fleet Battles, Naval War, Twilight Struggle, Knight Hawks, BattleTech...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E6 – On Target Simulations & Flashpoint Campaigns
October 18, 2019 16:42 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBThe guys from On Target Simulations join us to talk about when the new Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm gets released, their collaborations with the UK Ministry of Defence, the balance of realism and enjoyability in their games, and the OODA loop and how it affects what you can accomplish. And we poke fun at the...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E5 – Moe’s Game Table
October 11, 2019 17:08 - 1 hour - 48.3 MBThis week we’re joined by Moe of the sneakily-named “Moe’s Game Table” for a chat about how he got started and some of the things you can find on his site. We also discuss properly scaling minis wargames, taping bayonets to gun tubes, and load-bearing walls made of unopened wargames, among plenty of other gaming...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E4 – Tabletoply Simulatin’
October 04, 2019 11:52 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBFor over half the year now, we’ve been running our Saturday Night Fights on (get this….) Saturday nights. A few hours of gaming and camaraderie, and you can watch it online if you’re not able to play. Our man Cyrano is the ringmaster of the Saturday night wargaming circus, and we’re joined this week by...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E3 – The Conventioneers
September 27, 2019 19:26 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBAnother podcast rookie! David from The Wargaming Company joins Brant & Gary/Ardwulf to discuss their recent convention-going, and their upcoming adventures. Obviously, we talk about Origins, given how much time Brant & Gary spend there, but we also cover Winterfest, Historicon, Adepticon, MACE, Cold Wars, CompassCon, and more. We also chat about the OCS and...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E2 – I Know What You Played Last Summer
September 20, 2019 14:03 - 1 hour - 36.9 MBOur next season charges ever onward, with a look back at the games we played over the summer, and some travels over the past few months. We talk about the minis rules for Rommel / Blücher, what Napoleonic games get wrong about terrain, and Thirty Years War games on Tabletop Simulator, among plenty of others....
Mentioned in Dispatches, S3E1 – The Last Word on Africa
September 13, 2019 20:58 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBIn response to our summer special, Cyrano and Barthheart had some thoughts they wanted to ask as counterpoints to our earlier discussion. So here is what we expect to be our last discussion of the wargaming world, post-Scramble-for-Africa. Don’t worry, we also discuss Root, Custer’s Revenge, Postal, Thurn & Taxis, and plenty of others, along...
Mentioned in Dispatches, Special Summer 2019 Edition
August 09, 2019 19:58 - 1 hour - 69 MBAfter the hootenanny around GMT’s cancellation of their Scramble for Africa game, there was some introspection, soul-searching, and, well, let’s face it, a bunch of flame wars over (pick any two): political correctness run amok, GMT selling out, just another leftist censorship campaign, the slippery slide into no wargames ever for the rest of our...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S2E9 – The Essential Wargaming Library
May 10, 2019 20:34 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBWith the recent release of Matt Caffrey’s book On Wargaming, Brant enlists Brian Train (Game Theorist Designer) and Dr James Sterrett (the Director of Simulation Education at the US Army’s Command & General Staff College) to talk about some of the seminal books about wargaming, including Perla’s The Art of Wargaming, Dunnigan’s Complete Wargames Handbook, Sabin’s Simulating War, Koster’s A...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S2E8 – SWEATing to the Wargames
May 03, 2019 15:25 - 1 hour - 27.1 MBFollowing up on an earlier episode of Mentioned in Dispatches, Doug & Jim are back to join guest Rex Brynen in talking about all those non-military considerations during armed conflict, as we cover games ranging from A Distant Plain to The Creature That Ate Sheboygan. So if you’re curious about how block-by-block fighting in Mosul affected the...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S2E7 – Live from The Gamer’s Armory!
April 26, 2019 20:34 - 1 hour - 26 MBThis episode of Mentioned in Dispatches was recorded at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary, NC, as noted game designer & writer Jim Werbaneth joins the show. Favorite games of the American Civil War, a preview of seminars at this summer’s Origins, and GMT’s COIN games are part of what we cover, along with some favorite battlefields, the...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S2E6 – Just Some Gamers Talking Games
April 19, 2019 21:12 - 1 hour - 25.4 MBA special guest this week on Mentioned in Dispatches as Friend-of-the-Regiment Anthony Gallela joins Brant & Mirth to talk all manner of games. We kick around what was played at PAX, what’s coming up at Huzzah! and KublaCon, and things we’ve seen at Origins, Manifest, and Historicon. But mostly, we riff on game collections, pre-painted minis, old-fashioned...
Mentioned in Dispatches, S2E5 – Complexity, Learning, and History in Wargaming
April 13, 2019 14:47 - 1 hour - 24.9 MBThe second season of Mentioned in Dispatches is the gift that keeps on giving! Need proof? THE RETURN OF THE BISON! That’s right, our good buddy Craig is back with some thoughtful ideas about learning wargames, learning from wargames, and learning about wargames. Oh, and Mirth’s a little tipsy again. Yeah, we know. Enjoy the...