Here's something I haven't done in a while: a one-off podcast. In other words, this isn't the start of a multi-episode, multi-month exploration of one battle/war. Instead, this is a single episode about (mostly) a single topic, WW2's Long Range Desert Group. I vaguely remembered hearing something about history, then earlier this year the French wargaming magazine Vae Victis featured the LRDG in their issue game. It was a small, solitaire design, and I tweeted about how I was intrigued. A friend recommended a book to read about it, and soon I discovered another solitaire game on it. That was enough for me--it sounded like the makings of a podcast episode.
This episode also features an interview with wargame designer David Thompson. He created Pavlov's House and has Castle Itter coming up next, both published by DVG. As you'll hear, he's got some other games on the way from other publishers, too. In fact, his interview is primarily about what it's like to get a wargame published, particularly the part about pitching a project to a publisher. He's researching the LRDG himself for a project, so the interview was perfect timing.
Movies & Video
• Sea of Sand
• Lost in Libya: In Search of the LRDG
• Battlestorm Lite - LRDG (3 parts including Moore's March)
Books
• Sand , Wind, and War, by Ralph Alger Bagnold
• Incident at Jebel Sherif, by Kuno Gross, Roberto Chiarvetto, Brendan O'Carroll
• Killing Rommel, by Steven Pressfield
Discussions
• Long Range Desert Group versus aircraft
Next I'm going to start playing some WW2 East Front games. It's an enormous topic, one of the centerpieces of our hobby. My knowledge about it is fairly limited, but I'm learning a bunch already. Also, I've naturally got quite a number of wargames on the topic already. With a subject this large, there are several smaller options out there, just like I prefer. I'm starting with Frank Chadwick's introductory classic, Battle for Moscow. I've started a geeklist about with these games, too.
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Wargames To Go 25.3 Wars of Scotland (Conclusion, part 1)
Wargames To Go 25.2 - SDHistCon 2023
Wargames To Go 25.1 - Wars of Scotland (Intro)
Wargames To Go 24 - Operation Market Garden
Wargames To Go 23.2 - Spanish-American War (part 2, with Jason Perez)
Wargames To Go 23.1 - Spanish American War (part 1, with Joe Schmidt)
Wargames To Go 22.2 - Summer 2021 Magazine Games (C3i and Panzerschreck)
Wargames To Go 22.1 - Summer 2021 Magazine Games (1914 Eastern Front)
Wargames To Go 21.2 - Vietnam Battle of Hue
Wargames To Go 21.1 - Vietnam War (part 1)
Wargames To Go 20 - Strategic Air Command
Wargames To Go 19.2 - Operation Barbarossa, part 2 (with Carl Paradis)
Wargames To Go 19.1 - Operation Barbarossa (part 1), with Bruce Geryk
Wargames To Go 18 - Doolittle, Pavlov, and Sledgehammer
Wargames To Go 16.3 - D-Day (Conclusion)
Wargames To Go 16.2 D-Day (Continued)
Wargames To Go 16.1 - D-Day (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 15.3 - Korean War (Conclusion)
Wargames To Go 15.2 - The Korean War (Joe Balkoski interview)
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