Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
How To Connect NPC ‘Public Reaction’ To Legitimate Player Choices I noticed that there was a session at the conference concerning ‘influence’ in a game environment? Whilst this is a – potentially – giant subject, I thought I would mention an ‘extension’ to my Balkan Wars non-megagame family of systems which has a direct bearing […]
CLWG Session for the Annual Design Conference 2020 Onside report by Deborah Southwell White middle-class women have come a long way. We still have a long way to go. In the last year, I have been at workshops where ‘ordinary’ young married white women have expressed their dislike of their body to the point of […]
CLWG Session for the Annual Design Conference 2020 Onside report by Jim Wallman For this session I offered the following question as a starting point “Obviously shooting at someone is a direct means of influencing their behaviour, but in the modern world much is made of ‘influence’ as a means of changing your adversary’s mind […]
I thought I’d jot down these notes as they’re probably too long to describe in the session at the games weekend. I think a starting point for this is how it occurs in reality. I’ve largely looked at a modern context as it’s the most diverse. I think the theme emerges that it’s basically about […]
This might be of interest to people. Discovered there is an historical currency converter on the National Archives site:https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/ So when reading those historical texts about a knights wealth or soldiers pay, you can see how much it would be today and how much it could purchase back then. It covers 1270-2017 So if you […]
Peter Merritt asked what wargaming we’re doing. Mine could probably be best described as a return to my roots of toy soldier games albeit in a campaign / mini-campaign context and mostly 19th century. I think I’ve tired of what I’d describe as the common format of ‘stab-each other in the back’ games, thus my […]
Just wondered what everyone was working on? For myself, with all my books and kit (still) in a container somewhere in Kent (20 months and counting), I’ve only been working in my mind and a notepad on: Toy soldier games/rules/ideas (various; 6mm ancients, 1496 Italy, steampunk; 15mm ACW grand ops (have some wonderful maps; always […]
This long overdue post records the final resolution of the plans for the French invasion of the British Isles in 1759. See earlier posts for the details of the French and British planning games. Essentially the French were seeking to sail up the Thames with the support of their new Dutch allies, land a vast […]
It’s not a stretch to say that the 1940 campaign is what got me interested in military history – I think possibly the first history book I read was a Dutch translation of “Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years” by Jack Le Vien and John Lord – an utterly forgettable work of historiography, but it did […]
This in two parts, first the introduction I wrote for the game, then the onside report. This was the first rough and ready attempt at a game about running the British Empire. I’ve long been interested in 19th century colonialism and the varied interactions between the colonising powers and the rest of the world. Given […]