Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
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 – […]
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 […]
As I slowly Germanise myself (there are those who have argued that, since my naturalisation papers were issued by the government of Upper Bavaria, I am now a Bavarian, but that’s still a bridge too far in terms of self-identification as far as I’m concerned…) I’ve been getting to grips with German history, and this […]
A Very German Revolution ( AVGR ) is a committee game designed by Jaap Boender. There should be an onside report from the designer around here – but as a brief summary, the game covers the decisions of the MSPD and USPD on 10th November 1918, deciding how to manage the rapidly developing situation in […]
Future Space Wars Procurement Game (On-side Report) In the December 2024 hybrid meeting I was finally able to run my procurement negotiation game whcih I designed last year and have since been denied the opportunity to run ever since both by train strikes and the demands of the final year of writing a PhD! This […]
Offside Report on Evan D’Alessandro’s game by Jim Wallman. In this game, the bulk of the players represented major ship manufacturers in the Star Wars Universe. The hybrid players (and me) had a different role, in that we represented the Starwars equivalent of the Navy Board and were determining the future force structure of the […]
Offside report on James Halstead’s game by Jim Wallman James brought his slightly delayed game about a number of polities seeking to collaborate on purchasing key military equipment. The players represented five different polities in a science fiction setting. The science fiction background was to distance the gameplay from the complexities that might arise if […]
I thought an aerial game was quite a challenge for a hybrid game and was amazed that it worked pretty well. As both Deborah (Queen of the Skies) and others both managed to down the RAF clearly I found it more difficult than most; mine successful shot at the end was the only one I […]