Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
Just some brief thoughts on Nick Luft’s run of “Rain of Drones”, this time at version 2; bouncing off Nick’s report from running the game. I liked the use of Conceptboard, especially that in the double-blind game it would allow Control to quickly copy and paste unit positions between board. As always I’m pleased […]
This was my second try at a game about the military use of drones. I moved my scenario to the current Ukrainian Russian conflict from the Mexican / USA Drug Smuggling conflict. I did this because the use of drones in the “drug wars” had an additional layer of complexity in the civil use of […]
J’avais promis (menacé?) sur Discord d’écrire un article en français sur la dernière session en ligne, celle du 21 mai; je vais essayer de faire suite à cette promesse, même si je dois d’emblée avertir les lecteur.rices que la dernière fois que j’ai dû écrire un texte relativement consistent en français (le résumé de ma […]
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 […]