Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
These are just a few notes on how I got on using LLM’s during Jaap’s game of “Warfare by Committee”, played in the middle of May 2025, as an exploration of politics in the French General Staff pre-1940. This was set in the late 1930s, after a French wargame had demonstrated that the French military […]
On the day of CLWG I was just too far behind on too many things to join in. A reason for me cancelling the game I was going to put on in the first place, but I decided to just keep a vague eye online, rather than playing, as the games seemed well attended. But […]
1849: Feel The Rush Onside Report Mukul Patel For motivation and the starting introduction to the game see the last issue of MilMud (MM March 1999 p8-10). The actual moment I knew I wanted to do a game was when the TV program described the fate of those Gold Rushers who a […]
“The basis of air power is its exploitation of height, speed, and reach within the air environment, which facilitates the four core roles of air power: control of the air; attack; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); and air mobility. Control of the air underpins all air operations because it secures freedom of action in the […]
This starts with setting yourself up for a game in two months, having to start it from scratch. I had a list of 5 books I needed to get through to base the game on. So it was all a bit rushed and I could only decide pretty late into the reading stage what game […]
This was a thought experiment of a sort – given a loose an invented Sci-Fi based scenario, we were asked to come up with the kind of tactics that an outnumbered and outgunned militia would come up with, facing a technologically advanced opponent. Just a few brief thoughts on this: It was great to have […]
Natan’s simple yet effective game on the EU Council responding to an external crisis provided a very interesting experience. Nick L, Thomas D. and I played EU council members. It didn’t really matter much which, because our hidden roles, respectively ‘Dove’, ‘Rat’ and ‘Hawk’ were to determine our stance. Sophie on the other hand would […]
These are a few thoughts on one of Evan’s sessions at the January meeting. I’ll link to more details about the game if they’re made public. In the meantime, as a very brief summary, this was a committee game set if a very soviet-like state, with the players acting as members of a Politburo – […]
Two Brush Strokes ( ) Two Brush Strokes was my Megagame of the Nanking decade in China. I started the game at the end of 1928 and ran 1 hour turns representing a year of real time, so we got to 1934 in the game. The title derives from a speech by J F Kennedy: […]
See the other on- and offside reports by Jaap and Nick Drage for background. I think the briefings were enough to work with for a 1.5 hour session, of which part was used to get up to speed. As the member of government responsible for Finance, I set my short term aims to maintain law […]