"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons

9 September 2022 ~ Aaaaaaaand we’re back! Let’s get this season started …

29 April 2022 ~ We made it!  Season 8 has wrapped up, …

22 April 2022 ~ Crowdfunding and pre-orders have become the “norm” among …

15 April 2022 ~ In case you missed our copious coverage on …

8 April 2022 ~ David Ensteness and The Wargaming Company have just …

1 April 2022 ~ Distant Worlds 2 has finally released, and our …

25 March 2022 ~ Bryan’s back, and he’s taking over!  We let …

18 March 2022 ~ As Spring rolls back around, it’s time for …

11 March 2022 ~ Another Mentioned in Dispatches debut, as Justin (of …

4 March 2022 ~ The danger of trying to record a podcast …

25 February 2022 ~ The two most recent Grognards-of-the-Year – Ardwulf & …

18 February 2022 ~ We take another dip into the professional wargaming …

11 February 2022 ~ Brant, Mike, and Chris talk about their shared …

4 February 2022 ~ (reloaded on 7 February to fix a feed …

17 December 2021 ~ Seems like so long ago that we were …

10 December 2021 ~ Our good buddy Bison migrates back through with …

3 December 2021 ~ The Mikes are back!  Brant and the guys …

26 November 2021 ~ Brant, Ian, and Sam have a chat about …

19 November 2021 ~ The two-headed design team known collectively as “Dr …

12 November 2021 ~ “Guys yell at CSR-shaped clouds”, wherein three cranky …

5 November 2021 ~ Hey y’all!  It’s Amabel from Hollandspiele joining us! …

29 October 2021 ~ Jim, Mike, Brant, and the other Mike continue …

22 October 2021 ~ Bestselling author Matt Forbeck joins us to talk …

15 October 2021 ~ No, we are not channeling our inner Charles …

8 October 2021 ~ Why don’t we ever record an Origins podcast? …

1 October 2021 ~ Just because we’re away at Origins doesn’t mean …

24 September 2021 ~ One Mike wasn’t enough, so for episode 2, …

(reloaded to try to fix the RSS feed) 17 September 2021 ~ …

23 April 2021 ~ We’ve come to the end of the tracks …

16 April 2021 ~ He’s been around the community for over 15 …

9 April 2021 ~ Dr James Sterrett has joined us before to …

2 April 2021 ~ Gamer, sportswriter, and music fan Andrew Bucholtz joins …

26 March 2021 ~ Brant is joined by Chris Weuve and Merle …

19 March 2021 ~ He’s baaaaa-aack!  Our annual Bison appearance is here …

12 March 2021 ~ Our panel this week includes 2 returning guests …

5 March 2021 ~ Blame Ardwulf!  Seriously, this one started out as …

26 February 2021 ~ We’ve now got 2 online conventions under our …

19 February 2021 ~ Yes, we woke Bawb up and ruined his …

12 February 2021 ~ So yeah, dice.  Dice.  DICE!  Yes, we spend …

5 February 2021 ~ What started life as a discussion about online …

29 January 2021 ~ We’re back!  Let’s get season 6 started with …

11 December 2020 ~ We wrap up season 5 (five!) with a look back the grand 1809 Kriegsspiel, The Death Ride of Jean Lannes, as played out in our forums and through 2-1/2 years of email traffic.  Overseen by our own incomparable Cyrano, this campaign played out across central Bavaria, from Munich to Regensburg, and everywhere...

4 December 2020 ~ Special guests!  Always-contentious topic!  Recent awards controversy!  Definitional pedantry!  Fred’s dog gets a long walk!  That’s right – it’s the penultimate episode of season 5 of Mentioned in Dispatches. Ian (RockyMountainNavy) is back, and Moe (Moe’s Game Table) pops in for the first time this season, as we try to figure out...

27 November 2020 ~ Semi-permanent-occasional-as-needed co-host Ed McMahon BBMike is back to shepherd a pair of MiD rookies through our discussion of the space 4X genre.  Sam and Pascale dial into our discussion for a far-ranging conversation about what’s good & bad in the space 4X world(s).  It’s the penultimate episode of Season 5, and...

20 November 2020 ~ As season 5 starts to wind down, we assemble a few Dragoons who enjoy a good role-playing game and have a wide-ranging discussion that touches on some our favorite settings, what we’ve always wanted to play, and resisting the urge to buy more dice on Amazon.  Shout-Outs to Shannon Applecline, the...

13 November 2020 ~ Friday the 13th has arrived. And it’s gonna get bloody. It’s entertaining enough when we have Angry Ardwulf on the podcast, but to reinforce him with Angry Cyrano? What madness is this!? Well, it’s the madness that was this year’s Charles S Roberts Awards. Or at least something that’s possessed the...

6 November 2020 ~ Yeah, yeah…. this again! Inspired by a couple of videos that the guys over a Little Wars TV put together on YouTube, Brant, Jim, and Gary are joined by David Ensteness (The Wargaming Company) to talk about the state of wargaming, and the endless gloom-and-doom of the “wargaming is dying” refrains...

30 October ~ Author Henry Vogel and BuNine Member/DoD wargame practitioner Chris Weuve join Brant and BBMike to talk about all sorts of issues related to sci-fi gaming, theoretical space combat, role-playing individual level personalities, and what goes on your tombstone.  Henry gives is a peek into his books and what’s up next, as well...

23 October 2020 ~ Doug is back to discuss the continuing development of the Horse & Musket series of games with Hollandspiele, including an overview of the series for those that don’t know what it’s all about. Tom & Doug cover the current state of the series, what’s coming soon, what Doug is threatening to...

16 October 2020 ~ It is HERE! The glorious, gianticus, magnificus thing we call THE COMPASS GAMES HOLIDAY CATALOG (PDF here) and we dig through it with all its coolness, its warts, its tantalizing temptations, and its headscratching bewilderments. It’s not just the games, of course, as we dig into the branding, the general feel for...

October 9, 2020 ~ OJsDad and RockyMountainNavy pop in to chat all things First World War, from the trenches of France to the Anglo-Japanese-Canadian naval fight with the Germans in San Francisco Bay (yes, really). We discuss the Germans in East Africa, the myths of WWI, the early development of airpower, and Russian incompetence. Don’t...