Okay, this has been a tough week in wargaming for me. Alex has posted two installments on the classic space wargame Imperium– a game I’ve wanted to play for years. I’d heard that this was an excellent example of how to engineer a multi-war campaign, but he doesn’t think it’s worth playing a second time. Sigh. (Note that GDW may well have realized that the static map was an issue. For Dark Nebula– the Series 120 iteration of the system– the game included geomorphic map sections so that each game would be different.) You know, I may yet get Invasion Earth on the table, but this is still crushing news.

Elsewhere on the internet, things are looking pretty good in comparison. Brian Train’s Guerrilla Checkers went over well in Seattle, he has a few copies of Balkan Gamble worked up and for sale, and he has a new edition of War Plan Crimson on the way. Mark Herman’s Churchill was seen for sale in the exclusive Chartwell bookstore in Manhattan 55 E 52nd St. (And wow… that’s a lot of room in the display dedicated to a wargame.) Finally… check out this video to see how Volko Ruhnke’s Cuba Libre went over in a classroom setting. Nice!

This week’s link roundup is below the break. If you have a choice wargaming blog or would like to recommend one be included, please let us know in the comments!

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PaxSims (Simulations)

• Thoughts on the DoD wargaming workshop at the Army War College (4/04/16)
• “Power Broker” urban design game competition (4/03/16)
• SIMNOVATE 2016 conference (4/02/16)
• US Army War College Strategic Wargame Program (4/01/16)
• US NWC seeks Chair of Wargaming Department (3/30/16)
• PAXsims reaches 1,000 posts (3/27/16)
• Simulation and gaming miscellany, 26 March 2015 (3/27/16)

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Inside GMT (GMT Games)

• Into the Wild Blue Yonder (Part Two): Dogfight Rules and Action Decks (4/05/16)
• The Wisdom of the Crew Chief (4/03/16)
• MBT Initiative Example of Play (4/01/16)
• Silver Bayonet Update: What’s in the Box? (3/30/16)
• Talon Tuesday Issue #26: Vassal Module (3/29/16)
• Into the Wild Blue Yonder (3/24/16)

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Castalia House (Wargames)

• Conflict Games’s Imperium Part 2 (4/06/16)
• Conflict Games’s Imperium (3/30/16)

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Real and Simulated Wars (JC)

• Is this 3D Close Combat? (4/04/16)
• IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad – Video (4/04/16)
• Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg Demo (4/03/16)
• Graviteam Mius Front – Seizing a Hill with Combined Arms (3/27/16)
• CMANO – New Big Patch Coming – AIP Submarines Revamped (3/27/16)
• Combat Mission Battle for Normandy Battle Pack 1 – Low Visibility Scenario (3/24/16)

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Ludic Futurism (Brian Train)

• War Plan Crimson: new edition coming from TBP (4/05/16)
• Balkan Gamble – short second chance! (4/02/16)
• Back from Seattle (3/29/16)

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VASSAL (News)

• New Module – Drive on Kursk: July, 1943 (4/04/16)
• New Module – Napoleon Against Russia (4/04/16)
• VASSAL 3.2.16 Released (4/01/16)
• Update – Next War: Taiwan v2.0 (3/31/16)
• New Module – Talon (3/31/16)
• New Module – Yinsh (3/31/16)
• New Module – Knights of the Dinner Table: Orcs at the Gates (3/31/16)
• New Module – Jugger TTG:Dogskull Heroes (3/31/16)
• New Module – Wavell’s War (3/24/16)

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The Demo Gamers (David)

• Company of Dice Bolt Action Tournament a success (4/03/16)

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War in a Box (Warren Abox)

• Mirror Mirror In the Hole (4/05/16)
• Puzzle Room (4/03/16)
• The Iron Cage (4/01/16)
• Another War In A Box (3/30/16)
• Another Field Report (3/28/16)
• Spear Trap (3/26/16)
• Stonefall Trap (3/24/16)