Connections Online 2024 – including panel on urban wargaming!

Most of next week will be taken up with the Connections-Online virtual conference.

The theme is:

Distributed Wargaming — Recent Lessons Learned
With the onset of COVID, distributed wargaming — always of peripheral interest to the professional wargaming community, but rarely its focus — suddenly took center stage. Thrown into the proverbial deep end of the pool, wargaming institutions adapted. Let’s discuss how it happened, what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned from the experience.

And what we do next time.

There will be three days of “core events” Tuesday to Thursday, and ancillary events on Monday and Friday. Core events include, among others:

• a tribute to Peter Perla, to whom the conference is dedicated
• panel presentation on this year’s Zenobia Awards
• a presentation on the new Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory Wargaming Division by Mitch Reed
• a report on gaming used at the CNN Academy, by Rex Brynen
• seminar on analytical gaming using the SWIFT-G software
• panel on “Your Successful Professional Wargaming Career” (too late for me, I’m afraid)

There will also be a playthrough of First Contact!, a megagame, and a Kriegsspiel hosted by Jan Heinemann.

Details

Event site: https://tabletop.events/conventions/connections-online-2024

Get your badge to attend here – it’s $3.00 for 15 lucky early birds, $5.00 for everyone else. All the events are free once you have your badge. https://tabletop.events/conventions/connections-online-2024/badgetypes

Events schedule is here: https://tabletop.events/conventions/connections-online-2024/schedule#?query=

Oh, and…

I’m going to be on a panel on urban wargaming that starts at 1100 EST Wednesday 17 April.

Urban Warfare Wargaming: Past, Present, Future
This experienced panel will look at the timely topic of urban board wargaming from the perspective of a graphic designer, a game designer, an academic researcher specifically studying this topic, and a military practitioner. It will survey from the earliest urban board wargames in the 1970s up through today. This promises to be a don’t-miss panel!

graphic designer = Mike Markowitz

game designer = me

academic researcher = David Burden

military practitioner = it’s a surprise!

Hope to see you there.