In response to our summer special, Cyrano and Barthheart had some thoughts they wanted to ask as counterpoints to our earlier discussion.  So here is what we expect to be our last discussion of the wargaming world, post-Scramble-for-Africa.  Don’t worry, we also discuss Root, Custer’s Revenge, Postal, Thurn & Taxis, and plenty of others, along with historical battlefields, camouflage pants, conscientious objectors, and greeting cards.  Seriously.  We’re like a veritable bingo card of tangential topics.

Repeated from this summer, for background reading if you need it.

GMT’s original cancellation announcement

Robert Zacny’s column on Vice about the German Army

The New York Times column

BoardGameGeek blog post wherein the author compares treatments of slavery in different games

Our own column about the original GMT controversy

Discussion about the Battles Magazine #5 “Nazi Love” column

BGG poll about which sides/conflicts people most enjoy playing

WargameHQ covering the original hootenanny

Examining the social media firestorm after the hootenanny

How colonialism haunts board gaming

Diversity in the professional wargaming ranks

Daily Kos weighs in

Facebook thread about a student reported to school authorities for playing wargames

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