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Mike
@whickerman.bsky.social
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He -Briish- Boring Nerd - Hobby Artist - Confused Board gamer - History Lover - Grognard... not in that order. My formal account. Art, Cartoons and weird stuff here - @lazybluehorse.bsky.social
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'British food is gross', then proceeds to eat US produced food with it's added chemicals
Normally this time of year it's Pumpkin... but Starbucks do have some crazy flavours now and again.
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I love the idea of wargame design centered on China's perspective and decision space in a Taiwan contingency. So it's disappointing that they didn't discuss the design or execution more. Personally, I want to do a #wargame centered on TWN will to fight.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/a-wa...
A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective
In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,
warontherocks.com
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Do you want to test our next game on tabletop simulator? We are looking for play testers for our upcoming solo game Crown & Courage.

Reach out to us and we will get you started!

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Crown & Courage
Escape the Germans and inspire hope for your country as the King of Norway.
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Pre GT1 progress on Red Strike - Bavarian Option scenario
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"Empire of Grass". Solitaire Mongolian Empire game. Finally in my hands!
Arrived on Saturday and played it today - enjoyed it very much
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I had the opportunity to playtest Petter Schanke Olsen's new game and I am having a blast. Strongly urge all solo players to keep an eye out on this one!
Noah Hawley has done an excellent script and this series is a modern classic.
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Hey let's play with cannons, what could go wrong.
Well just to be sure, let's use a really tiny one...
Depressing that we are entering a new era which allows historical negationism on an industrial scale. The Fabolous Era.
I did a minor playtest on this and the subject and mechanics are one that I found enjoyable. Do you want to capitalise the expressway or help those with no say in the matter? Great game!
It's under Pre-Order. Oh, my ignorance assumed that if you created the game then you would get a copy included as well.
looking forward to playing this!
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My game is in the wild! This must be one of the first copies delivered.
80% pre-ordering from SCG but is there a link to see a video of it being played?
Awesome! Can wait that long :)
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I've just started picking up Dave Kershaw games. Looks like I need to add this one to the list.
Cheers 🍻
I am delighted to announce that my solitaire world-building game, "Empire of Grass", is now available.

This game puts you in the shoes (stirrups?) of the Great Khan expanding the Mongol Empire however you want it to go.

Can you do better than Genghis?
www.whitedoggames.com/empire-of-gr...
Apologies for the @lucyworsley.bsky.social but after seeing the posts on the Jane Austen event you attended I thought this may be of some interest. endearment.duxsomnium.com?campaign_id=...
Leeds Royal Armouries and it's East India Company collection
Desperately seeking out those JoCo coins @wehrlegig.games will there be another batch for retail at any point? :)
Just discovered that James I owned Samurai armour - imagine the King of England in an Anime series on his crusade against the dark arts and Catholics. The villain being Pope Clement VIII and his henchman - Guido