3.19 Historians Gone Wild

In the dark days before everyone had a microprocessor, some people just didn't care. They simulated current events, politics, and fantasy epics with paper.

Chapters

• 0:00 Opening into James Dunnigan
• 3:29 What is space?
• 4:48 These tables bring results
• 7:35 Apply chrome
• 9:23 The 3-1 ratio
• 11:14 Strategic, tactical, operational
• 15:01 Go play with yourself…
• 16:37 …or play by mail?
• 19:34 Before SPI
• 21:32 Origins of World War I
• 23:25 Chicago, Chicago!
• 24:13 PanzerBlitz
• 25:13 The Redmond Simonsen school of board games
• 27:27 So, PanzerBlitz
• 31:45 Through the ages in Strategy I
• 36:13 Grunt: trauma gamified
• 39:29 Vote Lincoln in The New President
• 41:15 An Outdoor Survival haunting
• 41:44 Year of the Rat in the year of the Rat
• 47:16 Blocked by Quebec 1759
• 53:04 Time to Drang Nach Osten
• 56:48 Foxbat & Phantom & imagination
• 57:58 Sniper! the birth of a legend
• 1:05:55 We Escape from Colditz
• 1:12:45 Never a quiet day on the Sinai
• 1:15:23 Scrimmage, football as war
• 1:15:41 It's the D&D year
• 1:16:16 Rise and Decline of the Third Reich
• 1:22:46 A scale is not for 1776
• 1:28:26 Kingmaker, a British party game
• 1:34:56 StarForce. SPI, in SPACE!
• 1:39:38 A Wolfpack for loners
• 1:42:32 The tech of Stellar Conquest
• 1:45:51 A sneaky SSN
• 1:46:46 Crimea at a mile per hex
• 1:48:55 Some things start with White Bear & Red Moon
• 1:52:46 Games Workshop exists
• 1:53:53 The eye-searing Sorcerer
• 1:57:05 Search & Destroy the grognard
• 1:58:36 Battle for Germany is silly fun
• 2:01:19 A torrent of Quads
• 2:04:16 Women in wargaming
• 2:08:20 Wargame jounalism
• 2:11:16 Wrap-up