2025 Fall Tour: Connections-UK, Turin, Connections-CH!

In two weeks I am off to Europe for a short (two-week) professional wargaming round, after some work on my hand gestures. 

Connections-UK 2025, 8-11 September

I will be demonstrating some urban games:

• QUICK Junior (same game as played on the Urban Operations Planner Course, only taken down two echelons so it’s a Canadian battlegroup in Latvia The QUICK Page; Pijus Kruminas made an adaptation to defend his beloved Lithuania A QUICK Defence of Marijampole)
• Scaleable Urban Simulation System, in two modules: brigade level in Latvia (American troops this time, but fighting the same Russian Separate Motor Rifle Brigade) and division level in northern Taiwan (maneuver units are battalions).
• 91 DSSB (three-player co-operative game about running staff sections in a mythical Army sustainment battalion, organizing supply convoys to the BCTs up front) Free Games!

I’ve done something simple but different with the maps for the first two that could be interesting. At length I will make the SUSS available free once I am pleased with it.

Turin, 15-18 September

After a couple of days seeing stepfamily and friends in London I’m off to Turin to work on two games about post-Risorgimento brigandage. What’s interesting is that both of these are not wargames as such, but games about enforcing a difficult peace.

• One is a short simple card game that will have some historical background added by an Italian historian and will be sold in the gift shop of the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin. It might also be used in school history classes, perhaps on a slow day.
• Another is an adaptation of my modern counterinsurgency system District Commander for the time period, it’s much the same stuff going on so not hard to adapt.

Also, giving a lecture to a class at the University of Turin about counterinsurgency games and how they model history, or something.
And checking over two games I did a while back on Resistance warfare in the area of Turin Free games: Mastering Resistance and Operation CANUCK (solo games on resistance warfare) that will be sold in a box with a third game by an Italian designer through the local museum devoted to the history of the Resistance (these are all over northern Italy, not so many south of Rome though).

Lausanne, 19-22 September

Then to Lausanne for Connections Suisse: a very short conference on urban warfare to demonstrate the above urban games again, and also talking about card games EXURB and Dislocated.

Going to be really busy, but very excited to see old and new friends!