"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons

18 September 2026 ~

Conventions don’t just ‘happen’!  There’s a lot that goes into the planning, whether picking the time on the calendar, or dealing with venues, or planning your events, and dealing with attendees, so we brought together a great panel to talk about them

Let’s welcome Rob Bottos (BottosCon) and Andrew Buchholz (SDHistCon) and Sean Nittner (formerly of Big Bad Con and now . . .  well, you gotta listen) to join Brant to talk about all this and more in their discussion of convention planning



Drop in on your podcast platform of choice  (iTunes | Spotify | Amazon | Castro | whatever we forgot to link) and throw our way to help other listeners find us

Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and saddling up with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web, including our all-new merchandise shop.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.

11 September 2026 ~

Our 200th episode1 is here as we launch our 17th season, with Moe of Moe’s Game Table rejoining us for some hockey talk extended discussion of wargaming magazines.

So join Moe & Mike & Brant as they talk about what’s out there now, classic favorites, where to find them online, and what they want in a wargaming magazine.

S&T Press, with World at War and Strategy & Tactics

Paper Wars

YAAH!

War Diary

VaeVictus

Against The Odds

C3i

MMP’s magazines

The Magazine Rack on Archive.org, filtered to wargame magazines



Drop in on your podcast platform of choice  (iTunes | Spotify | Amazon | Castro | whatever we forgot to link) and throw our way to help other listeners find us

Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and saddling up with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web, including our all-new merchandise shop.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.

17 April 2026 ~

For the season 16 finale, Brant’s joined by David Thompson, Tim Densham, and Byron Collins to talk about game conventions coming up, some of our favorites, some we can’t stand, and what makes for good & bad conventions.

Oh, and Tim needs some advice, too, toward the end.



Drop in on your podcast platform of choice  (iTunes | Spotify | Amazon | Castro | whatever we forgot to link) and throw our way to help other listeners find us

Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and saddling up with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web, including our all-new merchandise shop.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.

10 April 2026 ~

Brant is joined by Dr Aggie Hirst of Kings College London to discuss her research that resulted in the book “Politics of Play” and her other explorations of professional wargaming

Links & References

Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military

Mentioned In Dispatches S16 E8 – The Wargamer’s Bookshelf

Battle Lab ~ Another “Resurgence” of Military Wargaming and Battle Lab ~ Uses for (Professional) Wargaming

Stackup.org – Combating Veteran Suicide Through Gaming

“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans

What to Do When Mother Nature Plays for the Red Team

Civilians on Hexagonal Battlefields



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Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and saddling up with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web, including our all-new merchandise shop.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.

3 April 2026 ~

Brant is joined by industry veterans Chris Pramas and Ross Thompson to talk about pathways into working in the tabletop game industry.
Chris is one of the bigwigs at Green Ronin, and Ross just recently jumped on at Critical Role.

The Tabletop Game Jobs group is here (it’s public) and the Tabletop Game Job Talents group is here (it’s not).  They’re both on Facebook, so if you’re not on there, you might not be able to see much.

Also, as noted around the 53:00 minute mark, here’s the survey question about “how did you learn to play D&D”



Drop in on your podcast platform of choice  (iTunes | Spotify | Amazon | Castro | whatever we forgot to link) and throw our way to help other listeners find us

Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and saddling up with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web, including our all-new merchandise shop.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.