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John Kranz, the founder of the Consimworld wargame community site, joins me for a discussion of the past, present, and future of Consimworld. Our Game Off The Beaten Path is right in time for football season. We also have news about a new serious game, and I talk about Le Vol de l’Aigle, a multi-player, […]

Editorial standards are constantly evolving here at SVWAG, and they lately proceed largely from Walker's unilateral declarations. Things get to be pronounced however he wills them. Prior utterances by anyone are rendered immediately obsolete if and when he deigns to acknowledge something. Comparisons are now his exclusive purview. Walker has spoken.Games Played Last Week:01:52 -Hour of Need (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2020)04:21 -Inhuman Conditions (Tommy Maranges & Cory O'Brien, Web published, 2018)08:59 -Crazy Tower: Contruction/Sabotage (Alexis Harvey, Félix Leblanc, Manuel-Lucas Bergeron Duhamel, & Mathieu Auger, Synapses Games, 2020)12:15 -Fantastic Factories (Joseph Z Chen & Justin Faulkner, Metafactory Games, 2019)14:51 -Fuji Koro: Deluxe (Jerome Demeyere, Game Brewer, 2020)17:04 -Flick Wars (Shaun Austin & Andrew Tullsen, Breaking Games, 2019)20:59 -Big City: 20th Anniversary Jumbo Edition! (Franz-Benno Delonge, Mercury Games, 2019)News (and why it doesn't matter):24:52 Pipeline 2P? Curious Cargo 25:31 Pandemic: Hot Zone PnP26:28 Starfinder pre-painted minis27:09 Gloomhaven hits Target28:33 Sonora: "Flick and Write", again29:41 More Battleground: Fantasy Warfare31:13 Games are political: ConsimWorld's myopia[NB: An earlier version of this episode falsely claimed that Cool Mini or Not has been silent on Black Lives Matter. CMON issued a statement of support on June 5th, 2020. We apologize sincerely for the error.]35:29 Feature Game: Project: ELITE (Konstantinos Kokkinis, Marco Portugal, & Sotirios Tsantilas, CMON, 2020)

Editorial standards are constantly evolving here at SVWAG, and they lately proceed largely from Walker's unilateral declarations. Things get to be pronounced however he wills them. Prior utterances by anyone are rendered immediately obsolete if and when he deigns to acknowledge something. Comparisons are now his exclusive purview. Walker has spoken.Games Played Last Week:01:52 -Hour of Need (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2020)04:21 -Inhuman Conditions (Tommy Maranges & Cory O'Brien, Web published, 2018)08:59 -Crazy Tower: Contruction/Sabotage (Alexis Harvey, Félix Leblanc, Manuel-Lucas Bergeron Duhamel, & Mathieu Auger, Synapses Games, 2020)12:15 -Fantastic Factories (Joseph Z Chen & Justin Faulkner, Metafactory Games, 2019)14:51 -Fuji Koro: Deluxe (Jerome Demeyere, Game Brewer, 2020)17:04 -Flick Wars (Shaun Austin & Andrew Tullsen, Breaking Games, 2019)20:59 -Big City: 20th Anniversary Jumbo Edition! (Franz-Benno Delonge, Mercury Games, 2019)News (and why it doesn't matter):24:52 Pipeline 2P? Curious Cargo 25:31 Pandemic: Hot Zone PnP26:28 Starfinder pre-painted minis27:09 Gloomhaven hits Target28:33 Sonora: "Flick and Write", again29:41 More Battleground: Fantasy Warfare31:13 Games are political: ConsimWorld's myopia[NB: An earlier version of this episode falsely claimed that Cool Mini or Not has been silent on Black Lives Matter. CMON issued a statement of support on June 5th, 2020. We apologize sincerely for the error.]35:29 Feature Game: Project: ELITE (Konstantinos Kokkinis, Marco Portugal, & Sotirios Tsantilas, CMON, 2020)Games Played Last Week:01:52 -Hour of Need (Adam Sadler & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games, 2020)04:21 -Inhuman Conditions (Tommy Maranges & Cory O'Brien, Web published, 2018)08:59 -Crazy Tower: Contruction/Sabotage (Alexis Harvey, Félix Leblanc, Manuel-Lucas Bergeron Duhamel, & Mathieu Auger, Synapses Games, 2020)12:15 -Fantastic Factories (Joseph Z Chen & Justin Faulkner, Metafactory Games, 2019)14:51 -Fuji Koro: Deluxe (Jerome Demeyere, Game Brewer, 2020)17:04 -Flick Wars (Shaun Austin & Andrew Tullsen, Breaking Games, 2019)20:59 -Big City: 20th Anniversary Jumbo Edition! (Franz-Benno Delonge, Mercury Games, 2019)News (and why it doesn't matter):24:52 Pipeline 2P? Curious Cargo 25:31 Pandemic: Hot Zone PnP26:28 Starfinder pre-painted minis27:09 Gloomhaven hits Target28:33 Sonora: "Flick and Write", again29:41 More Battleground: Fantasy Warfare31:13 Games are political: ConsimWorld's myopia35:30 Feature Game: Project: ELITE (Konstantinos Kokkinis, Marco Portugal, & Sotirios Tsantilas, CMON, 2020)

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

Welcome to episode XXV of Guns, Dice, Butter: a series of conversations with members of the wargaming tribe. 0:00: Opening and episode preview 0:07: Fran Diaz, Game Designer, Polis 0:58: Esteemed historian, author and storyteller Adrian Goldsworthy and game designer extraordinaire Mark Herman discuss Rome and what not 2:08: Mark Herman and Pericles 2:49: Episode wrap up Episode references: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/151903/ancients-wargames-glory-was-greece-and-grandeur-wa  https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1545400/prancing-peloponnese-1st-mn-gives-polis-punt-some  New to wargaming? Consult this: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/206813/wargame-grasshopper-noob-rookie-padawan-list  Guns, Dice, Butter, with now over 80,000 downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgamegeek, Consimworld and many other places that gamers hang on the web. GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com   

Welcome to episode XXIV of Guns, Dice, Butter 0:00 Intro: Guns Returns! 0:04: Richard Berg and Mark Herman   1st segment: Point of SPI orgin, Tiny Tim, Herman’s career as a roadie for Lover, Berg’s singing career 2nd segment: Design and game components 3rd segment: What makes a good multiplayer wargame? Herman & Berg works in progress. 4th segment: Depth of historical knowledge drives designs: Ancients: battles, operational dynamics, logistics   1:07: GaGa Panel: Marty Sample, Wendell Albright, John Alsen   1st segment: Background on GaGa list (game lust & fanboys): Games discussed: Enemy Action Ardennes, Liberty/Victory Roads, Napoleon’s Triumph, Fire in the Lake, COIN (Falling Sky and Liberty or Death)  2nd segment: Roll playing wargames: Here I Stand/Virgin Queen, Sekigahara, Amateurs to Arms, Kingdom of Heaven, Genesis 3rd segment: Card Driven Wargames and others: No Retreat series, Command & Colors, Empire of the Sun, Pursuit of Glory, Unhappy King Charles, Triumph of Chaos, Carthage: 1st Punic War 4th segment: It’s been a FABULOUS ten year run for wargames   2:38: Wrap up   References:   Gaga List: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/198680/welcome-gaga-zone-wargames-high-fanboy-bases-and-l   My Session Reports: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/175938/1st-mnsawatdeeherr-dr-session-reports   Guns, Dice, Butter, now with over 70k downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgamegeek, Consimworld and many other places where gamers hang on the web.   GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/

John Kranz, the founder of the Consimworld wargame community site, joins me for a discussion of the past, present, and future of Consimworld. Our Game Off The Beaten Path is right in time for football season. We also have news about a new serious game, and I talk about Le Vol de l'Aigle, a multi-player, umpired Napoleonic operational game with a lot of friction and fog of war. Copyright (c) 2015

Welcome to Episode XXII of Guns, Dice, Butter; a series of conversations (238+ minutes in this case, given, our 238th Fourth of July) with members of the wargaming tribe. O:05 Joe Balkoski: intro to gaming, SPI stories, Minuteman, War in the Ice, City Fight & Wacht Am Rhein, Operation Typhoon 0:33 Joe: Cover art to Patton’s Third Army, Redmon Simonsen, SPI Peak, Transition to Avalon Hill Classic, end day at SPI, 0:54 Joe: AH days, Victory Games, The Korean War 1:09 Joe: Great Campaigns of the American Civil War, Computer Gaming, post gaming, 29th Division, returning to the tribe   1:40 Nick Karp, Discussion of Desert Fox, games in the pipeline for Shenandoah Studio   2: 00 Mark Herman, Enrico Viglino, Marty Sample: “Perspective” overview, the game the Bermuda Triangle (and a discussion about the ability to control weather in the true spirit of what Richard Berg calls “playing a game from the god perspective”), Sim City, Integrated Poly/Mil Leadership, WiF/DoD, Kevin Zucker’s Napoleonic series of games, Berg’s Carthage & Rise of Roman Republic, Karp’s Vietnam  2: 20 Mark, Enrico, Marty: Enrico’s Scale & Scope rant, D&D, La Grand Guerre, Mark’s great story about John Glenn (yes, THAT John Glenn), Churchill’s bunker and mind, Unconditional Surrender, Supreme Commander, Days of Dis 2:42 Mark’s Churchill design goes to the Peloponnesian War, Lace Wars/Red Sash, games that give you orders: Musket & Pike, Hastings 1066, Men of Iron, Flowers or the Forest, playing Angicourt at SPI 3:03: Items that distract from “perspective”, tactical WWII games, disturbing swimsuit attire, Mark’s Rommel story (yes, THAT Rommel), Patton, reprint of Pacific War, new WBC location discussion   3:25 Salvatore Vasta: Discussion of his new design Unconditional Surrender   4:00 Guns, Dice, Butter wrap: gaming plate, shout outs   4:07 Remembering some of our dear gaming mates that have passed   4:13 Applenista   Guns, Dice, Butter, now with approximately 50,000 downloads, is available on iTunes, Boardgame Geek, Consimworld, elsewhere and the GDB website: http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/   Items mentioned on the podcast: La Grande Guerre session report: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/16190004 The Korean War session report: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1191569  Liberty Roads session report: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1187618 Empires in Arms session report: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1170211 1st MN Historical Wargaming Society: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/875 Wargamers paying it forward: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/174505 Lace Wars http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28559

Welcome to episode XXI of Guns, Dice, Butter.   0:00 Episode Preview   0:06 Don Greenwood: Don provides a preview of WBC (World Boardgaming Championships) 2014   0:36 Ted Raicer: Ted discusses his point of origin in the hobby/game design, Paths of Glory, Dark Valley, his recent iPad game collaboration with Shenandoah Studio, Drive on Moscow and his game pipeline.   1:41 John Alsen: John gives us an after action report for Consimworld Expo 2014 and tells us about the upcoming wargames demo’d at Monstercon.   2:23 Episode Wrap-up: Shout-outs, what’s on our gaming plate and other odds & ends.

Welcome to Episode XV: June 14, 2013 of Guns, Dice, Butter: a series of conversations with members of the wargaming tribe O:00 Intro; overview of the episode  0:07 Al Nofi discusses SPI and S&T, researching games with Dunnigan & gang, wargaming connection to sci-fi, John Boardman, Issac Assinov, Sprague de Camp..Friday nite follies, bouncing checks to an Israeli general, West Point and a pretty face at SPI. 0:45 Al Nofi discusses his design Imperium Romanum and seven centuries of associated Roman history. 1:11 John Alsen reviews Consimworld Expo (Monster Con) 2013, It Never Snows, Racier’s new design Dark Valley, Herman’s Churchill, War of the Suns, new designs in the pipe from Decision Games (a 3rd world war beast, a BIG ACW game...and, hold on to your hats, an update of Campaign for North Africa), The War from Compass Games 1: 53 John Alsen taunts me and all with his brand new game, War of the Suns; discusses what’s in the  HUGE box. 2:17 Wrap up…a gift from Chris Bailey, playing Carthage, a new listener poll, Swampcon, upcoming WBC  

Second episode of Guns, Dice, Butter: a podcast of a series of conversations with members of the wargaming tribe. Herr Dr opens with a review of feedback from Episode 1 and preview of this show. Conversation with game designer and game co owner, Ed Wimble, regarding Ed's early days in the hobby, a few Clash of Arms titles, the Clash pipeline, the American Revolutionary War and what Ed currently has in the design plate. Final major segment is with Bob Heinzmann regarding those wargames on his table that you should get immediately. Herr Dr wraps up the show with news and a preview of the next episode of Guns, Dice, Butter. Feedback encouraged: discussion board on Consimworld.com and boardgamegeek.com related to Guns, Dice, Butter.

First episode of Guns, Dice, Butter: a podcast of a series of conversations with members of the wargaming tribe. In this first episode, Herr Dr discusses how he thinks the podcast may (or may not!) contribute to the dialogue in the hobby. Secondly, he has a long conversation with game designer Mark Herman regarding Mark's early days in the hobby at SPI, a few of his published wargames and what Mark currently has in the pipeline. Final major segment is with Jim Doughan regarding those games out recently, and those in the pipeline, that we must score a copy of...soon! Herr Dr wraps up the show with News, Analysis and What Not - and a preview of the next episode of Guns, Butter, Dice. Feedback encouraged: discussion board on Consimworld.com and boardgamegeek.com related to Guns, Dice, Butter. This is the same as the Episode 1; only in a MP3 format and low quality (60 megs vs 180 megs)

First episode of Guns, Dice, Butter: a podcast of a series of conversations with members of the wargaming tribe. In this first episode, Herr Dr discusses how he thinks the podcast may (or may not!) contribute to the dialogue in the hobby. Secondly, he has a long conversation with game designer Mark Herman regarding Mark's early days in the hobby at SPI, a few of his published wargames and what Mark currently has in the pipeline. Final major segment is with Jim Doughan regarding those games out recently, and those in the pipeline, that we must score a copy of...soon! Herr Dr wraps up the show with News, Analysis and What Not - and a preview of the next episode of Guns, Butter, Dice. Feedback encouraged: discussion board on Consimworld.com and boardgamegeek.com related to Guns, Dice, Butter.

Although this podcast will never be about wargames in a substantial way, I still play the occasional wargame and still consider myself a wargamer. Just an infrequent one. :-) Even though I don't play them so often, my interest in military history remains (all history, really). After hearing more about wargames on other podcasts, reading some Consimworld again, and generally experiencing my