Harold on Games

John Butterfield and I talk about flipping counters and some of the games he has been working on, his continued work on Chad Jensen's game Downfall and his new game ON Hells Highway an update of a classic. He also talks about what he looks for is a publisher. https://www.gmtgames.com/p-944-downfall-conquest-of-the-third-reich-1942-1945.aspx https://sdhist.com/ https://sdhist.com/sdhist-con-2022/ https://sdhist.com/conflicts-of-interest-zine/ https://sdhist.com/summit-award/

Zenobia Award Winners Announced! Over 11 months, 150 applicants to 46 proposals led to these 8 finalists then voted on for the 3 winners. Watch here for the announcement https://youtu.be/IvK6QpPi2D8 Congratulations to all the winners, finalists, participants, volunteers & sponsors!

The Zenobia Award announces the 8 Finalists for 2021. Also included are 2 Honorable Mentions for Game Play and History. For the complete video and more detailed discussion see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhv6mU7ghQ https://zenobiaaward.org/

We recorded the SD Hist Con COINFEST KICKOFF meeting with GMT President Gene Billingsley, The COIN father Volko Ruhnke and other COIN designers. We discuss COIN history and why the universe of COIN has grown so fast and continues to explode! We check out toward the end to go to our various gaming assignments. Recorded August 7, 2021. The boardgame convention was Virtual on Discord.

Ananda Gupta Interview From May 2021 SD Hist Con On Line where we discuss innovation in boardgames and his work at Riot Games.

Join our steering committee for a meeting to discuss what's coming up at the May 2021 SD Hist Con on line. We talk about who will be there and what we learned from the 2020 on line con. I also have a brief discussion with Mark Miklos regarding his latest work - BAR #10 White Plains and his attendance at the convention! SDHIST.com

We visit with John Butterfield and Mark Herman at the San Diego Historical Games Convention in November of 2020 to discuss their days at SPI and since!

A reunion of COIN game designers including Volko Ruhnke, Mark Herman, Brian Train, Morgane Gouyon-Rety, Bruce Mansfield Mike Bertucelli and me discuss the series and a few great stories about the history and development. Recorded live at the San Diego Historical Games Convention in November of 2020.

PART 2 of 2 Harold and Volko Ruhnke have been playing The Burning Blue designed by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood and published by GMT Games. They interview Lee on his history in Wargaming, what he thinks about The Burning Blue and the other designs. This was also captured on Video and you can see that on Harold's channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8k3d4emMK0&t=17s

PART 1 of 2 Harold and Volko Ruhnke have been playing The Burning Blue designed by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood and published by GMT Games. They interview Lee on his history in Wargaming, what he thinks about The Burning Blue and the other designs. This was also captured on Video and you can see that on Harold's channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4D4xZ0jsQM

Dana Lombardy spends some time with Harold discussing his career and his latest project: MacGowan & Lombardy's THE GREAT WAR fast-playing card game. Available on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/680099836/macgowan-and-lombardys-the-great-war-fast-playing-card-game

Podcast #33 Podcast #33 An interview with the great Rodger B MacGowan Part 1 Rodger Mac Gowan has worked on over 500 wargames and designed various game magazines in his career. He is the holder of numerous games industry and hobby awards. Rodger started playing wargames in high school in Oceanside California. His first amateur magazine was titled Arquebus in 1974 and in 1976 Rodger founded Fire and Movement magazine, an independent and professional magazine devoted to reviewing games. Fire and Movement Magazine has won 6 Charles S Roberts Awards for best professional magazine and was included in the Origins/GAMA Hall of Fame in 1999. In 1976 The Avalon Hill Game Company approached Rodger to designed their wargame packaging. Rodger’s first package design for Avalon Hill was “The Russian Campaign in 1976, followed by Squad Leader in 1977, Cross of Iron in 1978, and Flat Top in 1979. Rodger would design the packaging for most of Avalon Hill’s Wargames over the next ten years resulting in over 24 designs along with cover art and interior art for the General Magazine. Along with Avalon Hill, Rodger also created packaging designs for Game Designers’ Workshop, Simulations Canada, Operational Studies Group, Peoples Wargames, Yaquinto Games, Quarterdeck Games, Hobby Japan, 3W Game Company, Australian Design Group and others. In 1990, as Art Director and Senior Vice President, Rodger helped to launch GMT Games. Over the last 30 years Rodger has been in charge of the visual I.D. of GMT Games by designing the game packaging, company and game logos, physical systems for the games, and the marketing image of the company. In 1992 he designed and co-founded C3i Magazine with a focus on GMT Games products and the History of the Board Wargame Hobby. I met with Rodger in Los Angeles and we spent several hours discussing his life, career and the state of the wargaming hobby. This will be the first part of our discussion with the intent of giving you a unique view of the history of the hobby; through Rodger MacGowan’s eyes.

Podcast #32 Jerry White discusses Skies Above the Reich, Enemy Coast Ahead and why he answers to both Jerry and Jeremy.

Podcast #31 Ananda Gupta discusses pre production Imperial Struggle, winning, and player engagement profiles.

Interview with Grant and Alexander from Players Aid blog and YouTube channel!

Interview with Italian second generation wargamer and writer on wargames.

interview with dominant Card Driven games player James Pei

Interview with Designer of Red Flag Over Paris Designer Fred Serval - available at GMT Games on P500

An interview with Podcaster, editorialist and organizer Brent Guillory

An interview with Designer Volko Ruhnke. See additional podcasts with Volko Ruhnke at: Harold-buchanan – Harold-on-games-podcast-1-with-volko-ruhnke Harold-buchanan – Special-podcast-1-2018-san-diego-historical-games-convention See additional podcasts with Morgane Gouyon-Rety at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-17-morgane-gouyon-rety https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/five-pack-13-morgane-gouyon-rety

Am interview with Designer Mark Miklos

An interview with Designer Tom Russel. See additional podcast with Tom Russel at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/harold-on-games-podcast-11-with-mary-and-tom-of-hollandspiele

An interview with gamer Bobby Factor

An interview with Designer Joel Toppen

An interview from Canada with Designer Brian Train. See additional podcasts with Brian Train at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-21-gen-con-insurgency-and-an-interview-with-designer-brian-train-1-of-2 https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-22-an-interview-with-designer-brian-train-and-his-top-5-list-part-2-of-2

An interview from Germany with Designer Vesa Arponen

An interview with Designer Morgane Gouyon-Rety. See additional podcasts with Morgane Gouyon-Rety at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-17-morgane-gouyon-rety

An interview from the Philippines with John Sy

An interview with Designer Volko Ruhnke. See additional podcasts with Volko Ruhnke at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/harold-on-games-podcast-1-with-volko-ruhnke https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/special-podcast-1-2018-san-diego-historical-games-convention

An interview with Designer David Thompson

An interview with YouTuber Ancients Historian Liz Davidson of Beyond Solitaire https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbSYmhAlOW1RorV_jXmo2w

An interview with Designer John Butterfield

An interview with armature historian Kimber VanRy

An interview with Academy Games Boss Uwe Eickert See additional podcast with Uwe Eickert at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/uwe-eickert-final

An interview with Designer Jason Matthews

An interview with the Wild Weasel, Bruce Geryk You can listen to his podcast below: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/at9pi-3d612/Wild-Weasel

An interview with GMT staff Developer, Jason Carr

An interview with gamer Trevor Just

An interview with Designer Mark Herman. See additional podcasts with Mark Herman at: https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-14-mark-herman https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-18-more-mark-herman

I have been known to visit the glamorous world of RPGs. With time at a premium I appreciate a good predesigned adventure that reduces planning and optimizes for play time. THIS podcast is singular composed with Doug Sun, a talented writer who uses his skills to produce D&D and Pathfinder modules that are fantastic. He has one on kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/660432492/the-paladin-queens-forest-for-dandd-5e-and-pathfinder NOTES AT: http://conflictsimulations.com/2020/03/11/podcast-30-douglas-sun-discusses-his-dd5e-pathfinder-modules-places-by-the-way-notes

We are blessed in San Diego with three large game stores and some smaller card stores. The largest of which is Pair a Dice Games in Vista, California. This interview is with the owner and my friend, Rob North.THIS podcast is composed of three parts:1. A discussion of our Wargamers Insurgency plans for 2020 at GenCon and a request for interested parties.2. Some thoughts on podcast frequency and the production process.3. An interview with the owner of Pair a Dice Games , Rob North. We will discuss his 16 years in the industry, what makes the game store business tick, and challenges to its role in the boardgame economy. NOTES at https://wordpress.com/post/conflictsimulations.com/662

An interview with prolific game reviewer, analyzer and video creator, Stuka Joe. We will discuss his YouTube channel, his interest in games, and his work as a federal prosecutor in Puerto Rico. NOTES: http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/12/22/podcast-28-stuka-joe-discusses-his-youtube-channel-notes

An interview with designer Bruno Sinigaglio. We met at Consimworld Expo this Summer. We will discuss his work updating Avalon Hills Battle of the Bulge 1965 to Battle of the Bulge 1981, his development work on Bitter Woods and his work on the current Time for Trumpets, a Battalion level Bulge game currently on the GMT P500 system at a sweet discount. NOTES: http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/12/06/podcast-27-bruno-sinigaglio-on-bulge-1965-1981-bitter-woods-and-a-time-for-trumpets-notes

An interview with fellow gamer Dan Mansfield. We will discuss his YouTube channel Hands on Board Games providing game reviews in American Sign Language, his work in the games industry, and his guidance on gaming with the deaf and hard of hearing. NOTES at http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/12/06/podcast-26-dan-mansfield-on-his-youtube-channel-and-playing-with-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-gamers

This is the first RBM Studios C3i Magazine Podcast. In this podcast, Rodger MacGowan interviews Harold Buchanan. They discuss Harold's background in the hobby, his game designs Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection, Campaigns of 177 and the upcoming Flashpoint: South china Sea. They also discuss the Harold on Games Podcast and some of what is coming.

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with the owner of Grand Trunk Games Joshua Starr. We Discuss his upcoming Kickstarter double header 1861 Russia / 1867 Canada , starting a company to advance accessibility and affordability of 18XX Games and how he can provide two 18xx games in one box for $60.

THIS podcast is singularly composed of an interview with game designer Chris Fasulo. We Discuss His company Grognard Simulations, and his work on the largest historical simulations available. NOTES: http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/10/12/podcast-24-chris-fasulo-on-his-company-grognard-simulations-and-the-largest-simulations-available-notes Grognard Sims http://www.grognardsims.com/

An interview with game designer Trevor Bender. His recent trip to WBC, how he managed to get Labyrinth the Awakening on the list of tournaments, and his work on Labyrinth: Forever War. Trevor also listed the top 4 games that influenced his expansion work on Labyrinth. http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/09/16/podcast-23-trevor-bender-on-wbc-and-labyrinth-forever-war-notes

An interview with insurgency expert, game designer and pantzuka inventor, Brian Train. This will be part 2 of that interview. Brian talks about his time at Burning Man and his top ten most influential games on Insurgency. twitter.com/HBuchanan2 boardgamegeek.com/guild/3303 DETAILED NOTES: conflictsimulations.com/2019/08/14/po…rain-2-parts/

Part 1 is a discussion of my experience at Gen Con and the Insurgency IN INdianapolis. Part 2 is an interview with insurgency expert, game designer and pantzuka inventor, Brian Train. This will be part 1 of that interview. twitter.com/HBuchanan2 boardgamegeek.com/guild/3303 DETAILED NOTES: https://conflictsimulations.com/2019/08/14/podcast-21-gen-con-insurgency-and-an-interview-with-designer-brian-train-2-parts/

A discussion of my experience at ConSimWorld Expo in Tempe Arizona - Monster Game Con An interview with John Kranz the founder of ConSimWorld.com and ConSimWorld Expo. https://twitter.com/HBuchanan2 https://twitter.com/consimworld https://boardgamegeek.com/guild/3303 http://consimworld.com https://www.destinationhotels.com/tempe-mission-palms DETAILED NOTES: http://conflictsimulations.com/2019/07/13/podcast-20-consimworld-expo-and-an-interview-with-john-kranz-the-founder