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Not scheduled, just bringing it, and hoping to get it on the table

Battlegroup Clash arrived today! We'll get the preorders out on Monday! Going to bring it to BGF next week!

Proof of my participation in GAMA Expo (just in case any events require me to provide said evidence) (not that anything happened) (...but if they did...)

En route to GAMA EXPO for the first time. Task: Troop the convention. Purpose: 1)Find distributor to buy games for the store, 2) Talk to potential printers 3) Find potential distributors

@gamingthepast.bsky.social For our next discussion (if either of us can remember it): How would the game potentially model a false retreat?

Wasn't really feigning, got some bad rolls, so need space to hold him at bay.

Another playtest @gamingthepast.bsky.social for True Command Ancients. Much discussion over how to properly disengage while in contact.

Coffee Break – 1st of 2026 Full three days of games, seminars, chats and untied to any publishers and even goes beyond gaming, with academic presentations and panels.

@hethwill.bsky.social made an interesting writeup of The Armchair Dragoons ACDC last month, and covered True Command in it. Check it out: wargamercoffeebreak.com/2026/01/20/c...

The Empire is stretching its tendrils across the galaxy, looking for the hidden Rebel base. We need to prepare to flee, as they are 1 system away from Dantooine... SW Rebellion solo.

So young, like our age now.

Going old school tonight. Jumped into a quiet DZ, long movements in the woods, only contact was at the OBJ. Mission complete, but sadly lost SGT Wolfenden due to a GSW. Hung out at the PB until extraction. 10 enemy KIA. Gotta write up the AAR and letter to Wolfenden's family. Hellcat 6 out.

Vendee revolt.

That was actually what was on the floor above!

Rising Waters, a Pandemic-like historical game about flooding in Mississippi by Central Michigan Univ.

Got a playtest for War of Giants yesterday. Extremely close game all the way thru, with both sides making gambits to take a big lead, but dice and good game play returned the score to the center

Work on the game shop above is proceeding well, but it means no power where I run fulfilment. So I'm working on orders using a flashlight (or torch if you prefer). Feels like I'm in a bunker in Kyiv worried about the next Shaheed raid

However, safe COAs are EXACTLY what the enemy/OPFOR expects, and have planned for, and the result was almost always a BLUFOR defeat. 2/2

I'm going to go out on a limb (not too far out I don't think) and state it was pretty clear during MDMP who had played wargames before and who didn't. The easy, "safe" COAs came from folks w/o wargaming experience. 1/2

Hopefully the result of COA Dev wasn't "heh diddle-diddle, let's go up the middle" which seemed to be a popular answer for too many S3s.

Also weird to see officers at CGSC w/o right shoulder patches, but I guess that's a good thing too.

I'll be on Pushing Cardboard tonight, should be interesting!

First time I played TS was on a short exercise in Germany, using a bunk as a table, and somebody put their coffee cup on the board, leaving a permanent reminder of the trip.

Sure! (but I'm not the obstacle in this... for the first time ever!)

I've gotten destroyed many times as the coalition at this stage of the game, so I'll take it!

Yes, most of the mechanics seem to be working pretty good. But the designer is working on a solo system, our primary effort now

Its totally COIN, just not GMT's version. A Conflict of Wills game, which started with Judean Hammer.

Just finished Afghanistan: Decade of Strife. I played the Coalition, and had a clear advantage having played the game before, and allowed the Coalition to hold Kabul in the end! Thanks @sdhistcon.bsky.social for running this con!

Just finished a really tense first prototype of the First Battle of Kharkiv. Well done Germans for squeaking out the win! New map for True Command (I made it, which is why it looks goofy, @ilyakudr.bsky.social will make it look lovely eventually).

I'll be running Afghanistan: Decade of Strife and True Command tomorrow! If I get my act together tonight, True Command will feature a first play of a Kharkiv scenario.

I always enjoy visiting your "murder ravaged hellscape"! Can't wait to go back. Keep up the good work!

Just wanted our friends in Europe to know that Second Chance Games as our current Kickstarter - Kriegsspiel Battle Decisions on preorder. Oh, and thank you for being good allies to the US for the entire modern period! Most of us in the US still appreciate that. secondchancegames.com/index.php?op...