Mentioned in Dispatches Season 15

5 December 2025 ~ Well, we asked for it . . . ASK US ANYTHING!For our Season 15 finale of our podcast, you've got until Monday to get your questions in Jim, Mike & Brant will take their best swing at answering whatever you're wanting to know about wargaming, or the Dragoonsuse #AskMID15 & we'll collect them for the show — Armchair Dragoons (@armchairdragoons.bsky.social)...

28 November 2025 ~ There are no shortage of game conventions held in the Fall each year, so we brought together some folks attended 3 of them to talk about the fun they had.  Christina Kahrl gives us the low-down on SDHist 2025; Grant Linneberg of Pushing Cardboard attended his first BottosCon; Aaron Danis dropped into Compass Expo, since FoxCon was cancelled. What did they play?  What were their...

21 November 2025 ~ With yesterday’s launch of the latest  Flashpoint Campaigns game,  Cold War , we wanted a visit with our buddies from On Target Sims to talk about the changes in this game, the challenges of developing games on Cold War-era combat, how far you could stretch the system, and what lessons they learned along the way. Brant’s joined this week by James Sterrett, as they in...

14 November 2025 ~ Brant & Jim are joined by (only a few of) the Riches of Wargame Design Studio to talk about their latest series of games – The Sword & Siege series – that covers medieval warfare As always when Jim is present, or pretty much any time we record a podcast, things  do get off-topic a bit, but always focused on Wargame Design Studio.  We get a preview of what’s coming...

7 November 2025 ~ OK, so we’re getting wacky 1 this week as we bring in a pair of game designers/professional musicians on board to talk about the parallels between the wargaming business (and hobby gaming as a whole) and the music business – creating your own music, finding a publisher, going on tour, market segmentation, storytelling, and more Let’s welcome aboard Wes Crawford of Wha...

31 October 2025 ~ For the first time on Mentioned in Dispatches, we’re joined by designer James M. Day, who partnered with Fernando Sola Ramos in designing this year’s multiple-CSR-award-winning Panzer: North Africa . So Brant & Mike barrage Mr Day with a variety of questions about his history of designing tank-heavy games, the local newspaper covering his win, some history in the...

17 October 2025 ~ The Game Manufacturers Association, which has now been renamed GAMA: The Tabletop Games Association, has been a bit of a flashpoint for wargamers over the past dozen years or more. With some real questions about why wargamers should care about GAMA, it’s often been tough to make the case that they should.  But with all the changes at GAMA since the pandemic 2 there’s...

10 October 2025 ~ After 3 years, Brian’s back to join us to talk about his latest releases, both Brief Border Wars 2 , and China’s War , which have been in extended development and both just happen to hit your porch at about the same time. Brant, Mike, and Brian talk about quad games overall, d66 dice mechanics, development & history of the Brief Border Wars oeuvre, other ‘qu...

3 October 2025 ~ For our third consecutive Summer, we teamed up with Beyond Solitaire for a big survey about people’s solo/solitaire war & historical gaming.  We were interested in both purpose-designed solitaire games as well as games people played solo regardless of how they were designed.  We had a Google form open for a month towards the end of the Summer for people to vote.  We tallied th...

26 September 2025 ~ The 2024 Charles S Roberts Awards were presented over the Summer at Origins 4 but we didn’t get a chance to weigh in with our opinions until now.  Look, you already know who won, because you read our site religiously and saw the list we published back in June, right?  Right?! But what you haven’t heard is Jim chime in with his outrageous French accent, or Mike compl...

19 September 2025 ~ Annnnnnnnnnd, we’re back!  Brant is joined by fellow Dragoon Jim/Cyrano , and regular guests Gary/Ardwulf & Liz from Beyond Solitaire , for a discussion inspired by Liz’s comments last year about “what’s in the Wargaming Canon of those games that you expect people to have played if they’re claiming to be a wargamer” So we brought some sma...