As you have certainly noticed, it has been a month without an update, and the last update came after one month without an update as well.
Quite simply, I was hit by a combination of a change of job and a change of house (well, apartment since I am a Parisian – but now I have a garden!). I am also learning to use coding AI for professional and personal reasons.
The next update should have been Kampfgruppe – the AAR is ready, but given the nature of the game, I wanted to deep-dive into the board game PanzerBlitz (Gary Grigsby’s main inspiration), which led me to deep-dive into early SPI & Avalon Hill. To talk about early Avalon Hill, I wanted a short introductory paragraph on the original Kriegsspiel (1824) – really just a few lines because it wasn’t my focus at all – and so I quickly checked the history of this seminal game often called the first wargame.
Then, it’s a blur. I don’t know what happened, but I am now collecting, OCR’ing, machine-translating and reading a good number of 18th-century/Napoleonic-era pre-Krieggspiel rulesets.
The situation should clear up somewhere in July, and I will probably restart with easy (read: Spectrum) wargames to get back on the rails – I am not sure yet whether anyone wants an article on proto-wargames whose rules were written in Fraktur.
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I absolutely want an article on proto-wargames where the rules were written in Fraktur. But I read the original edition of Jon Peterson’s “Playing at the World” cover to cover, so I’m probably a deep outlier.