Two months in and I'm really liking this new schedule of a quarter per topic. Those 90 days feel like enough time to dig into a subject, but also to keep moving so that I get to explore several throughout the year. I'll stick with this for the foreseeable future, and in this episode I share what some of my future topics will likely be.
The main feature of this episode is another interview with designer Volko Ruhnke. I say "another" because he was on my podcast a year ago to talk about Alesia, while this time he's on to talk about the French & Indian War. Though he's probably best known now as the originator of the COIN system, Volko's first published design was a CDG, Wilderness War. We get to talk about that, as well as an entirely new game system he's working on. I don't know if this is a "scoop" or what because I had not heard of this before, and cannot find anything else about it online. Enjoy! Volko tells about this new system in the context of describing the time he had playtesting games at San Diego's wargaming convention, SDHistCon. I missed going this year...maybe I should make it a priority in 2018?
One of the reasons I didn't make it was that I went to another gaming convention in November, Boardgamegeek's BGGcon. This was my fourth time, having been to the very first (2005), and then three of the past few years (just missed when I lived in France--2016). Although primarily a eurogame event, I'd say perhaps 10% of the gaming is wargaming. Since BGGcon is such a large event (2500+ people over 4+ days), even 10% is quite a bit of wargaming. I did some of that this time, too.
I've got one more designer interview planned for the final F&I War episode, next month in December. At that time I'll also recap the games & movies I've enjoyed. Then we'll put a bow on 2017 and look forward to the new year.
-Mark
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Wargames To Go 15.2 - The Korean War (Joe Balkoski interview)
Wargames To Go 15.1 - Korean War (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 14.3 - French & Indian War (Martin Wallace interview)
Wargames To Go 14.1 - French & Indian War (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 13.2 - Franco-Prussian War (Conclusion, with Charles Vasey)
Wargames To Go 13.1 - Franco-Prussian War (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 12 - Hundred Years War
Wargames To Go 11 - Spanish Civil War (with Javier Romero & David Gómez Relloso)
Wargames To Go 10 - Battle of the Bulge (John Butterfield interview)
Wargames To Go 9 - Alesia
Wargames To Go 8 - Dunkirk (with Hermann Luttmann)
Wargames To Go 7.3 - Battle of Britain (The Hardest Day, with Lee Brimmicombe Wood and James Crate)
Wargames To Go 7.2 - Battle of Britain (Ben Knight interview)
Wargames To Go 7.1 - Battle of Britain (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 6.4 - A Month of Infamy (Philippines, Wake, and Singapore)
Wargames To Go 6.3 - A Month of Infamy (Pearl Harbor)
Wargames To Go 6.2 - A Month of Infamy (Herman interview)
Wargames To Go 6.1 - A Month of Infamy (Intro)
Wargames To Go 5 - Waterloo
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