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Wargames To Go

Wargames To Go

著者： Mark Johnson
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Mark Johnson's irregular podcast about small wargames.(c) 2013 by Mark Johnson
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  • Wargames To Go 30 - Charlemagne and the Carolingians

    Wargames To Go 30 - Charlemagne and the Carolingians
    2026/09/06

    nother smaller episode. Hmm, I should get used to this. Now I'm wrapping up my exploration of Charlemagne the Carolingians: their empire, their renaissance, their script, and their fighting. The Treaty of Verdun. A building block of modern European history, especially for the nation-states of France and Germany. There's just so much here. That is, there's a lot of history here--not that many games, and even fewer films. I don't think there's even that much to still see if you travel to Europe, though it was a bucket-list item to visit Aachen and Charlemagne's capital & cathedral there.

    I put several games in my geeklist, and some others added more. Although there were only a few, they did enhance my enjoyment and understanding of this topic.



    Films
    Nothing!


    Other
    • The Rest is History podcast's series about Charlemagne


    Books
    • Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of AD 800 (Sypeck)
    • Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe (Gabriele/Perry)
    • Strategy & Tactics Quarterly 33: Armies of the Dark Ages (Miranda)


    Travel
    While on a recent trip to Germany we saw two particular sites that made a strong impression on me, and I discussed in the podcast episode.
    • Charlemagne's Palace complex at Aachen (only the Palatine Chapel still remains)

    -Mark

    My next topic is going to Ireland, again tying in with a trip I get to take. Now I'll have some great films to include, and I've already been appreciating my dive into that island's complicated 20th century history, not to mention all the other centuries. Here's a geeklist with my preliminary ideas about it.
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  • Wargames To Go 29 - Postwar Germany

    Wargames To Go 29 - Postwar Germany
    2026/05/21
    This is a smaller, almost impromptu episode before I get to my next intended topic. During my last trip, the historic connection I was trying to make was to Charlemagne and his imperial capital at Aachen. That's still coming, both some games and a podcast episode. With that in mind, I'd specifically been trying not to get into more WW2 history while visiting Frankfurt, Cologne, and some places in-between. However, it still came up in the form of social history, the recent decades since 1945. I saw some sites about that, I read a book, saw a film, and wanted to share some thoughts on the podcast. But what about a game? This time I wasn't thinking of traditional military history--I was learning more about socio-political history. Fortunately, since 2014 our hobby has had a perfect game for this topic, Wir sind das Volk. It's a game I appreciated and played a few times when it was new, but its latest incarnation on Rally The Troops has given me many more opportunities to play it. What a rewarding tie-in to my reading and travels. Besides the game and its specific history, this general topic has me thinking about a political problem that has no easy, let alone perfect solution: how does a defeated opponent, perhaps a guilty nation in a tragic war, ever work its way back into good terms with other nations--its recent foes? To do so quickly & easily ignores the death & suffering that occurred. To extract a painful price over excessive time only contributes to danger of recurrence. Now I know a little of what happened after the World Wars, but what about the American Civil War and other conflicts. If & when I manage to visit Ireland, I believe this is a relevant issue there, too. Is it too challenging of a topic for "games" to handle? Perhaps. But it wasn't so long ago that no one had ideas about how to make a game about Postwar Germany, or the Suffragist Movement in America. Now look where we are! Designers can be more brilliant than we can imagine. Films • Judgment at Nuremberg • Nuremberg • Malta Story Books • Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany (Taylor) • Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Judt) • Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 (Jähner) Travel While on a recent trip to Germany we saw two particular sites that made a strong impression on me, and I discussed in the podcast episode. • Haus de Geschischte Bonn • NS-Documentation Center (the EL-DE Haus), in Cologne/Köln -Mark Charlemagne will be still my next topic. I'm not sure how many games there are about him and this period, but it ties in to my trip to Aachen, I'd like to learn more, and want to take a break from WW2. Here's a geeklist with my preliminary ideas about it.
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  • Wargames To Go 28 - Operation Torch

    Wargames To Go 28 - Operation Torch
    2026/02/06
    Join the Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx I'm taking the win. For a while now I've been wishing I could do these episodes more often, study more topics, play more wargames, read more books, see more movies… This time, it worked. I didn't play that many games, but I played a few while digging into a new topic: the American entry into WW2's ETO through Operation Torch. The combined American-British amphibious invasion of the western half of North Africa was something I knew a little about, but—as always happens with me—I learn a lot more through this experience. I learn some more details about what happened, and a lot more context. That's the part of history that I find most fascinating. In this case, the wider context had a lot to do with Vichy France and its colonies. The formation of this new, odd government, who was responsible, how it operated, and America's complicated, troublesome relationship to it. One book really brought that home, but it showed up in everything, including podcasts, movies, and the games themselves (at least somewhat). Films • Patton • The Big Red One • Casablanca Books • When France Fell (Neiberg) • Patton: A Biography (Axelrod) • An Army at Dawn (Atkinson) • No Ordinary Time (Goodwin) Travel No, I didn't make it to Morocco, Algeria, or Tunisia to see this places in-person. That would be amazing. I'd love to see the Atlas Mountains and sunset from there that Churchill insisted that FDR see during their famous conference. The closest I've come is getting to see the US Army Desert Training Center that Patton himself picked out from his knowledge of the American Southwest, and trained troops that would later be part of Operation Torch. To be honest, it's now a pretty run-down place. Clearly the modern army trains elsewhere. Yet it's still an interesting part of history, and what wargamer doesn't enjoy seeing some tired, old tanks? -Mark Charlemagne will be my next topic. I'm not sure how many games there are about him and this period, but it ties in to my trip to Aachen, I'd like to learn more, and want to take a break from WW2. Here's a geeklist with my preliminary ideas about it.
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