This piece is from SD HistCon founder Harold Buchanan. This is the second piece in a six-part series looking at the history of San Diego in World War II. (The first part can be read here. If you’re interested in Read More …
This piece is from SD HistCon founder Harold Buchanan. This is the first piece in a six-part series looking at the history of San Diego in World War II. Expect a new post in this series each Monday for the Read More …
This post on SDHistCon East 2023 comes from Mark S. Miklos, designer of GMT’s award-winning Battles of the American Revolutions (BoAR) series. That series, now in its 25th year, currently has 10 published volumes featuring 12 battles and 28 scenarios. Read More …
This post is from Geoff Engelstein, a game designer and educator. Some of his designs include The Expanse, the Super Skill Pinball series, Versailles 1919 (with Mark Herman) and the upcoming Zheng He (with David Thompson). A full bio is at the end of this post. Geoff Read More …
This Conflicts of Interest Online post, the latest in our My Favorite Card series, is from Ananda Gupta. Gupta is co-designer of GMT’s best-selling Twilight Struggle (2005) and Imperial Struggle (2020), and is design director of Riot Games’ Teamfight Tactics, Read More …
This Conflicts of Interest Online post, the latest in our My Favorite Card series, is from GMT Games director of marketing Rachel Billingsley. Below, Rachel offers some thoughts on two favorite cards from GMT’s Mr. President, designed by her father Read More …
This post is from Matthew Kirschenbaum, a gamer based in the Washington DC area, where he teaches at the nearby University of Maryland. With Pat Harrigan, he is the co-editor of the book Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming from Read More …
This article is by Maurice Suckling, about the design of his currently-on-Kickstarter Crisis: 1914. Maurice is an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, where he teaches and researches storytelling in games and historical simulations. He has been writing for Read More …
This post is from Clio, who runs the Clio’s Board Games blog and Twitter account dedicated to musings on history, board games, and history in board games. He holds an M.A. in history (obtained with a thesis on the Cold Read More …
This Conflicts of Interest Online post is from SDHistCon COI Online editor Andrew Bucholtz. This is the first in an intended series of post-convention recaps from historical gamers, with this one focusing on Origins 2023, which was held in Columbus, Read More …