EuroWarGames anthology Kickstarter on now!

EuroWarGames_Cover

… and runs until 3 December.

Here is the link for the KS.

MSRP will be 32 Euros, but Kickstarter price is 20% off or 26 Euros.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nuts-publishing/eurowargames

I hope you’ll sign up! This one has been four years in the making.

Here is a look at the table of contents:

  • Jan Heinemann, Riccardo Masini, Frederic Serval: Coming full circle, or “there and back again”: an introduction to the EuroWarGames project
  • Riccardo Masini – Attack of the Hybrids! Wargames and Eurogames-derived mechanics
  • Daniela Kuschel – Conceptions of War in three different Board Games: Risk, Cruzada y Revolución and This War of Mine
  • Xavier Rubio Campillo – A digital humanities approach to European presence in historical wargames
  • Alfio Ferrara – The game of data. A data science approach to wargaming
  • Salvatore Santangelo – Theater of Operations. Wargame and Image: Notes on Psychogeography
  • Maurice Suckling – Innovation and Inspiration in Contemporary Board Wargames: Discussions with Designers
  • Brian Train – Analog Newsgames
  • Stephane Goria – Board design for business and other non-military wargames
  • Andrea Angiolino – Detail vs Playability in board wargaming – My personal experience
  • Giaime Alonge and Riccardo Fassone – Corteo, a very countercultural game. Political struggle and ludic culture in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Paul Hodson – What makes a wargame “historical” – a case study of the Peloponnesian War
  • Zoltan Harangi-Toth – Professional Wargaming in Hungary. A short history of 150 years of wargaming
  • Lorenzo Nannetti – Strike or not? Communication between players inside a team as a way to highlight their faction’s internal dynamics
  • Ranald Shepherd – Commercial Off the Shelf Wargames and Professional Development
  • Volko Ruhnke – Bellotas. The Rise of Spanish Wargaming
  • Giuseppe Tamba – The new Risorgimento of the Italian Wargame

Also, on Friday, 9pm CET / 3pm EST, the inestimable Liz Davidson of “Beyond Solitaire” will be interviewing Fred, Riccardo and Jan Heinemann about the book.

Tune in!

https://lnkd.in/dy-__Pg9

Monetisation

Every so often someone suggests to me that I should make a serious effort to “monetise” what I’m doing.

I found this today:

Monetisation

The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond;

by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.

Some people have called my designs “impressionistic” so I suppose that is sort of what I am doing, anyway.

Another Week Abroad

 

 

Last trip of the year, I promised my wife.

I left last Monday (the 4th) and took the red-eye to Toronto, arriving in Washington in the mid morning after no sleep on the plane, sitting next to the guy on the plane with the meatiest persistent cough and of course he wore no mask… however, I seem to have evaded bodily invasion by the Phlegmish Army. A quick nap and then I walked down the street to a Peruvian restaurant for some excellent arroz con pollo, and then got some snacks and gargles at the Safeway. Poll workers still out asking people if they had voted. Despite the nap I was so tired I was falling asleep in the middle of rehearsing my talk. The next morning I got up, saw the headline… in the hotel breakfast room someone got up and muted the TV. That’s all I’m going to say about that for now. 

Georgetown University runs a shuttle bus for its students and staff from the Rosslyn Metro Station to its main campus, which is nice because no form of public transportation runs close. Hotel shuttle to the metro station meant a quicker trip, and less sweat as it was 26 or 27 degrees the whole time I was in Washington. 

 

Madsci presentation

(photo: Brant Guillory, who drove a long way to attend)

My presentation went all right, for some reason it was longer than when I had practiced so not as much time left for questions as I had thought. I’m still not very happy with my skills as a public speaker, not much improvement after over 40 years. But I was privileged to hear some very good ones at this conference, in between spasms of Imposter Syndrome. And, I was awarded the title of “Official United States Army Mad Scientist” for my efforts, and I’m very proud to hang the proclamation of same on my wall!

 

madsci proclaim

Game Night was fun, lots of things running simultaneously including some guys playing We Are Coming, Nineveh. I brought several things but in the end taught someone Guerrilla Checkers, who liked it. 

gcheck madsci

(photo: Brant Guillory)

Anyway, it was a very good conference, pretty much exactly as promised and it was great to see not just people I hadn’t seen in years, but also to meet some new folks and possibly make some contributions to some other things that are going on. I had to leave a little bit early the next day in order to get out to Dulles Airport for my flight. I think Reagan Airport next time, if there is a next time… a lot faster to get to, though I am grateful the metro runs out to Dulles now (the first time I left from there, there was no metro, just an occasional bus). 

I got to Vancouver via Denver, and got into the hotel where Bottoscon was being held a bit after midnight. The con was great too, the largest one yet at over 140 attendees… I taught Guerrilla Checkers to another new person, and got in plays of O Canada with Roger Leroux and Ian Weir. I discussed component production for this with Kerry Anderson and I think I will be putting it up for print-and-play as well as physical production early in 2025; the game is pretty well cooked and just needs to look a bit better. 

OC Bottos24

Presentation: Gaming Neglected Aspects of the Operational Environment

As previously advertised I’ll be at the “Game On! Wargaming and the Operational Environment” conference at Georgetown University in Washington DC, 6-7 November.

I’ll be speaking on “Gaming Neglected Aspects of the Operational Environment”. There will also be panels on: “gaming unconventional aspects of the Operational Environment”; using wargaming for professional military education, readiness and decision support; wargaming a total national response; and advances in wargaming technology and digital wargaming.

There’s a Game Night too! I’ll be bringing QUICK and Exurb (game for the phases of the urban battle that shape the battle) and Powers of Persuasion, an interesting game on influence operations that Project Wire of the UK MoD debuted at last year’s Connections.

The event is sold out. There will be no synchronous online content as far as I know.

Meanwhile, here are my slides and script:

Brian Train MadSci slides 30 oct 24

Pink Flamingos draft 4 Nov 24

It will be a quick trip for me, I will be leaving right afterwards to get back to Vancouver, for BottosCon 2024 where I will be showing and playing QUICK Junior, O Canada and Strongman.

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