My career in wargaming began by chance, not by design. Initially hired for my writing on national security and my Marine Corps background, I learned to be a wargamer on the job. With no prior ...

October 12, 2025: Nine years ago, the U.S. Department of Defense called for increased use of wargames to better examine an increasingly uncertain future. There was a sense of déjà vu in all this ...

Geek & Sundry’s Painters Guild is our show where host Will Friedle goes on a journey to learn how to paint miniatures. Last season, he learned basic techniques, and in season 2, he’ll be improving his ...

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The U.S. defense community has developed a healthy obsession with innovation. AI, modeling and simulation, machine learning — these are the buzzwords driving conversations about the future of warfare.

September 27, 2020: In early 2020, the British Army established the Fight Club Association to organize use of a commercial wargame, Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 (CMSF2), for all army wargamers to ...

Slitherine Software revealed a number of games during the Home Of Wargamers event last week, giving a glimpse of their future plans. Some of the big takeaway titles from the presentation were Stargate ...

Two well-known creators in the miniatures gaming space are suddenly getting way into nail art — you know, the other painting hobby enjoyed by millions of people around the world. Brent Amberger of ...

And now you, alone, Kankakee-kept, are staring dismally at your setup of Europa. It’s, not to use the word lightly, awe-inspiring. It is the monster of monster games, the mega-monster that drove ...

ONE OF MANY: Masterton Marauders Wargaming Club member Ceilidh Evemy studies a painted figurine of a WWI Anzac soldier as he might have appeared at Gallipoli. The club is painting 80 soldiers, part of ...

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