"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons

6 March 2026 ~

Brant is joined by a pair of professional wargaming educators (Ed McGrady and David Banks) to talk about the professional development options for those in the applied / practitioner / professional world as well as a bit about how hobbyists can cross over

Mandatory linkdump!

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27 February 2026 ~

Ardwulf joins the podcast for a discussion about when the bifurcation of wargames and TTRPGs happened, and how & why.  Anecdotes aplenty and also assorted assholery abounds.

Links to some of what we discussed

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20 February 2026 ~

Brant, Mike, and Bill are joined by Mark Miklos to talk about his BoAR series and the upcoming special event this Fall in Camden, SC, as well as RevCon in Charlottesville3, and more.  Mark gives players some insight into the history of the series, what’s coming next, and even some advice on gameplay.

Some of the key links for this episode

Battles of the American Revolution Series

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13 February 2026 ~

Brant, Chris, and Merle4 gather ’round the virtual campfire to talk about why & how Connections Online came into being, a couple of standout panels & stories from the past 5 years of events, and the inevitable struggle to stay on topic whenever another shiny digression goes prancing across their view.

Some key links and references—

The Connections Online homepage at Armchair Dragoons

Also, pay no attention to the SETI intercepts in the background of Merle’s audio whenever he’s talking.

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6 February 2026 ~

Brant, Mike, and Gary look ahead to 2026 BGF and talk about The War Room, the other games & events there, and things they’d like to see.

There’s plenty of ground we cover in this episode, so here are some of the relevant links

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30 January 2026 ~

Kicking off the new season, our erstwhile co-hosts take a deep dive into the wide world of wargaming and discuss what they think the wargaming hobby is missing.

So you can hear what our couple of wargaming yammerers think, but what do you—the educated & erudite audience—think we’re missing from the overall wargaming hobby?  Sound off below or in our forums or on any of the different service feeds where you hear our podcasts.

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5 December 2025 ~

Well, we asked for it . . .

ASK US ANYTHING!For our Season 15 finale of our podcast, you've got until Monday to get your questions in Jim, Mike & Brant will take their best swing at answering whatever you're wanting to know about wargaming, or the Dragoonsuse #AskMID15 & we'll collect them for the show

— Armchair Dragoons (@armchairdragoons.bsky.social) 2025-11-22T19:44:22.000Z

y’all did not disappoint…  we had around 40 or so questions overall, and got to as many as we realistically could and not end up with a 3-1/2 hour podcast.  As it is, you get the longest one of this season (and probably last, too).

So Mike, Jim, and Brant tackle a bunch of questions that are all over the map – from questions about disease, genres in wargaming, social media channels, recommendations for middle-schoolers, and even hockey.  We wrap up with some long-term forward-looking thoughts about the Dragoons, too.

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28 November 2025 ~

There are no shortage of game conventions held in the Fall each year, so we brought together some folks attended 3 of them to talk about the fun they had.  Christina Kahrl gives us the low-down on SDHist 2025; Grant Linneberg of Pushing Cardboard attended his first BottosCon; Aaron Danis dropped into Compass Expo, since FoxCon was cancelled.

What did they play?  What were their favorites? Were there any big games on hand?  What’s the vibe at each convention?  What were the highlights and what would they like to see in the future?  And now, which one are you wanting to attend next time?

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21 November 2025 ~

With yesterday’s launch of the latest Flashpoint Campaigns game, Cold War, we wanted a visit with our buddies from On Target Sims to talk about the changes in this game, the challenges of developing games on Cold War-era combat, how far you could stretch the system, and what lessons they learned along the way.

Brant’s joined this week by James Sterrett, as they interrogate Jim Snyder and Rob Crandall, and really, it’s mostly a reunion for the gang since they used to all work together running events at the Origins War College and still collaborate quite at bit on the Wargame HQ, too.  And speaking of War College events, here’s the AAR moment referenced around the 43:30 mark.  And if you think Rob should audition to be a play-by-play announcer for televised golf tournaments, let’s just say you wouldn’t be the first one to think that

Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War

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14 November 2025 ~

Brant & Jim are joined by (only a few of) the Riches of Wargame Design Studio to talk about their latest series of games – The Sword & Siege series – that covers medieval warfare

As always when Jim is present, or pretty much any time we record a podcast, things do get off-topic a bit, but always focused on Wargame Design Studio.  We get a preview of what’s coming later this month, along with some behind-the-scenes looks at the research process.  3D graphics?  Solo vs AI gaming?  Updates to the WW1 games?  We make an attempt to pester Mr’s Hamilton and Walker with these and more.

Mandatory Linkiness

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