First Half of February, 2023

Happy Groundhog Day, everybody. Apparently, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning which means six more weeks of winter. If the coming weeks will be anything like the previous six, I think I can put away the rock salt and snowblower for the rest of the season. Winter has been a major bust so far …

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 Christmas Gift Ideas: Game and Miniatures

Hard to believe, but Christmas is only ten days away. The days between Thanksgiving and 25 December go by rapidly and before you know it, it’s the day before Christmas and you’re out there frantically trying to finish up the holiday shopping. We’ve all been there and I’m certain that some of us will be …

Early December 2022 Outlook For The Blog

Good afternoon! 😊 Time constraints will force me to keep this short, but I wanted to jump on here and discuss the plan for the blog between now and 13-14 December, 2022. To make a long story short, I will be pulling convoy duty in the North Atlantic between tomorrow and next Saturday aboard a …

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 …

Gaming WWIII: Requesting Some Reader Input On WWIII 1987 Wargame Scenarios.

Before we jump back into the mixture for a few more detailed D+24 entries, I wanted to reach out to the readers and get some opinions on a project I’ve been considering for a couple of weeks. As most of you are aware, the conflict model for World War III: 1987 includes several sets of …

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

The Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf (APPG) was probably the most entertaining theater conflict to outline and then subsequently to model. Ongoing conflicts, regional rivalries and the influence and designs of the Superpowers had combined to make their mark in the region by early July, 1987. The first challenge came in determining which of those factors would …

A Look Ahead Through Mid-September

I hope everyone on this side of the Atlantic had an enjoyable Labor Day weekend. And to our friends elsewhere, I hope your weekend and Monday were adequate. 😊 The summer is over and it is back to the grind for everyone, work or school in most cases. I thought it would be useful to …

The Future Beyond World War III 1987

All good things must come to an end. While I see this blog going on for some time discussing World War III related subject matter, the alternative 1987 we’ve created and nurtured will wrap up at some point around Labor Day when all is said and done. So, what will come next? Good question. In …