Urban wargaming panel 17 April

(It may look like just rubble to you…)

The Connections-Online panel on urban warfare wargaming went very well, except that none of the military “end users” who were invited were able to make it… so it was three designers yakking at each other, moderated by Aaron Danis, who is an academic end user of our products.

Mike Markowitz spoke about the nature of urban combat and how that has been reflected in wargames graphically, I spoke about the 7 or 8 urban designs I had been working on the last couple of years, and David Burden spoke on his concepts of urban warfare and how they were reflected in his designs. David is far more sophisticated and technological in his approach than I am: he was showing his work and experiments in gaming in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, meanwhile here I am figuratively playing in the mud with decks of ordinary playing cards and some wooden cubes!

The Youtube of the panel will be up in a few weeks and I will post a link to that in due course.

Oh, before that happens though, I want to alert you to three things of David’s:

• His database of urban warfare games, with well over 250 entries in it, sortable and searchable by many different indicators. https://airtable.com/appHv9yJCjX7nqL1W/shreVPHaoJBpxGzFj/tblusKhwNCNcXmShS
• A wiki about his PhD in urban wargaming: http://taunoyen.com/wiki/doku.php?id=phd
• And a Geeklist on BGG for his list of commercial urban wargames: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/296982/urban-wargames

Meanwhile, here are my slides (PDF) and script (ODT, open from within your word processing program if you need to):

urban ppf 17 apr 24

urban pastpresentfuture 17 april 24