Midweek Odds & Ends

Odd #1 I was looking around on BoardgameGeek.com earlier today and browsing game titles of more temporary World War III hypotheticals. I was specifically searching for air and naval centered games in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. To my disappointment I’ve only found a limited number of these games so far. Judging from reviews …

Let’s Try This Again: WWIII 1987 Scenario Build For Early Summer 2023

Evening, everyone. I wanted to take a moment to talk about a renewed wargame project I’m considering at present. First off, I know my earlier attempt to draw up a few scenarios based on WWIII 1987 ended in frustration and failure. However, the appearance of NATO Air Commander and recent posts related to the air …

WWIII Summer Wargaming Update: I Caved

I caved. It took me less than two weeks to go back on my promise not to play any wargames this summer based on a NATO-Warsaw Pact war in the 1980s. Temptation reared its head and my willpower and resolve melted like butter in a microwave. The kicker is, it’s all my fault. 😊 Last …

Wargaming Plans For Summer 2023

Today is 26 April. In a month I’ll be heading to the Jersey Shore for what has become my annual summer sojourn. As has been the case for the past two summers, this season will center on a great deal of writing. But unlike 2021 and 2022, I plan to devote a good deal of …

Superbowl Sunday Wargame Topics Update

Happy Superbowl Sunday! 😊 Here in the US we are getting ready for the game, cooking food and apparently watching as airspace over the Great Lakes is restricted. More balloon fun apparently. So, while I’m in the midst of pre-game preparation I thought I’d talk a bit about the wargame scenario situation and a couple …

Gaming WWIII: Lessons Learned While Modeling A Global War

Over the years here I’ve talked about the benefits and trials of simulating and modeling a global conflict from scratch. As is the case with most long-term projects, modeling World War III in large part through commercial PC and tabletop wargames was a journey made up of numerous peaks and valleys. The final product was …

Holiday Wargaming Patchwork 2022

The Christmas season always provides me the opportunity to catch up with wargaming odds and ends. Whether it be a forlorn examination of all the tabletop titles I’ve purchased in the previous year and haven’t taken out of the box yet, or selecting a PC game and making an empty promise to dedicate 12 straight …

WWIII 1987 East Med Shootout Scenario Now Available

Morning, everyone. The WWIII scenario Eastern Mediterranean Shootout has been posted on the Matrix Games forum in the CMO/Mods and Scenarios section. I'll include a link below. If anyone has trouble accessing the site or scenario file please let me know and I'll try to work it out while underway if possible. Otherwise it will …

WWIII 1987 Wargame Scenario Update: First One Drops In Early December

Yesterday I blocked out some time to look over some of the World War III 1987 scenarios I created to help wargame the conflict in many theaters. Originally the scenarios were designed and built using CMANO (Command Modern Air and Naval Operations). Once its successor CMO (Command Modern Operations) was released I was grateful to …

Gaming WWIII: Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf Theater Modeling Tools Part II

Mark Herman’s Gulf Strike is a classic. Not only did it present a contemporary (at the time) conflict in a theater outside Europe, it did so with a high degree of detail. In fact, given the geopolitical complexities in the Persian Gulf region in the 1980s, a number of conflagrations could be explored, from the …