There’s lots of cool stuff this week here…!

Brian Train will be giving a talk at the RAND Center for Gaming next week on “How can civilian wargames contribute to the development of professional wargames?”

At Inside GMT, Bob Seifert has pictures of an actual copy of Jim Krohn’s Talon— that’s the standalone tactical combat game for Space Empires 4x. (See here and here for more on the strategic game.)

While Napoleon is fighting the Prussians this week, Wargame Wednesday contributor Warren Abox is crossing the streams by combining Cirsova’s points on miniatures in D&D with my own stripped down approach to getting a GURPS session off the ground. (The great thing about having a game master is that you don’t even need all of the rules hammered out in order to dive in!)

Last but not least… PaxSims reports that the latest issue of Simulation & Gaming is out. Also, they have a video there by Professor Philip Sabin on the continuing role of manual wargaming. (Castalia House’s own Martin Van Creveld gets a shoutout at 8:58 for having written one of the very few books about wargames by a non-wargamer!)

Watch the whole thing!

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PaxSims (Simulations)

• PAXsims reader survey (2/16/16)
• Simulation and gaming miscellany, 16 February 2016 (2/16/16)
• Simulation & Gaming, February 2016 (2/15/16)
• Sabin: The continuing role of manual conflict simulation (2/12/16)

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Inside GMT (GMT Games)

• Talon Tuesday Issue #23: Talon Puzzle 2 (2/16/16)
• Falling Sky: The Gallic Ways of War (2/11/16)

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Castalia House (Wargames)

• Avalon Hill’s War and Peace: Jena and Friedland (2/17/16)

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Ludic Futurism (Brian Train)

• Talking with the Soldiers of Reason (2/16/16)

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VASSAL (News)

• New Module – Combat Leader: East Front ’41 (Minden Games) (2/11/16)

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War in a Box (Warren Abox)

• Table for Four, Take Two (2/17/16)
• D&D As Wargame (2/15/16)
• Table For Four, Take One (2/13/16)
• Warren is In the House (2/11/16)