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 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 14.2 - French & Indian War (Volko Ruhnke 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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