Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group

Offside report – Rain of Drones: v2 – Ivanika

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 […]

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Onside report – Rain of Drones: v2 – Ivanivka

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 […]

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I mean, it’s the official language since 1066, isn’t it?

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 […]

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Warfare by Committee, a kind of offside report on using LLMs to support wargame participation

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 […]

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FAAA – onside report by Jur

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 […]

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Virtual CLWG: Tip 1 Joining Virtual CLWG by Deborah Southwell

For many of us, participating in a virtual CLWG is a new experience. These general tips are offered as points to assist all of us to participate in the sessions smoothly. Your CLWG time and space at home Try to find a quiet space. Let others you live with know you are in an online […]

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