Wargames To Go

Mar 23 2025 46 ep. 85 mins 763
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Mark Johnson's irregular podcast about small wargames.

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Wargames To Go 26.2 - First Contact Games (Conclusion)

Mar 23 2025 104 mins  
As has happened before, my subject for this podcast episode sort of grew to be larger & more challenging than I was prepared for. As a result, I'm bringing this subject to a "close" before I'm actually finished with the topic. Of course we never really finish a topic in history, but some are more digestible than others. The entire scope of "first contact" between different peoples

Wargames To Go 26.1 - First Contact Wargames (Introduction)

Oct 14 2024 63 mins  
Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx Once multiple games about conquistadors in the new world had landed in my collection, I had a dilemma. On the one hand, the 15th-16th century contact between the two halves of our world was one of its most pivotal events. That cannot be denied. On the other hand, the depiction of

Wargames To Go 25.4 Wars of Scotland (Conclusion, part 2 plus GMT Weekend at the Warehouse)

May 25 2024 80 mins  
Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx [If you aren’t particularly interested in the Wars of Scotland, you may be interested in the wargame open house/convention event known as GMT’s Weekend at the Warehouse. I went last month and spend the first part of the podcast talking about that time & games played. THEN it�

Wargames To Go 25.3 Wars of Scotland (Conclusion, part 1)

Apr 14 2024 74 mins  
Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx As always happens, a subject that attracts me for wargaming and this podcast proves to be deeper and richer than expected. Once I knew I would get a chance to visit Scotland on vacation last summer/fall, it was my opportunity to dive into "wars of Scotland" in a general sense. Wha

Wargames To Go 25.2 - SDHistCon 2023

Nov 13 2023 83 mins  
Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx One week ago I was at my first SDHistCon. I had a good time, would like to share that experience via this audio convention report...and still there manages to be a slender but worthwhile connection to my Wars of Scotland subject. For anyone who only found me for the co

Wargames To Go 25.1 - Wars of Scotland (Intro)

Oct 31 2023 51 mins  
Episode geeklist Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx Guess what? This little podcast is now ten years old. I'd been doing my other one about euro boardgames even longer, and in 2013 I decided to branch off this other show about wargaming. I'd started in this hobby as a kid wargamer in 1979. I never completely

Wargames To Go 24 - Operation Market Garden

Aug 30 2023 143 mins  
Episode geeklist Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.gg/vxEG9bMPdx Times are approximate Introduction (0:30) Operation Market Garden overview (12:00) Nils Johansson transcribed/read interview (16:30) David Thompson & Michael Tiller interview (37:00) Mark's travels, movies, books, games about Market Garden (1:29:00) I'd been s

Wargames To Go 23.2 - Spanish-American War (part 2, with Jason Perez)

Nov 06 2022 122 mins  
Come join the new Wargames To Go (and Boardgames To Go) discord server https://discord.io/BoardgamesToGo For a couple reasons, this episode has been my white whale, almost taking me down. I would certainly understand if any of my listeners gave up on me along the way, thinking the podcast had faded away entirely, or that I wasn't interested in wargaming any more. Not true! Listen

Wargames To Go 23.1 - Spanish American War (part 1, with Joe Schmidt)

Mar 18 2022 76 mins  
Episode geeklist Joe Schmidt (corsairjoe) Now I've gone back to my usual format where I explore a single topic in games, books, films, and whatever else I can find. The Spanish-American War is similar to a lot of topics I've dived into--it's something I felt like I knew something about, but not too much. Also matching the pattern, it's been a subject I thought

Wargames To Go 22.2 - Summer 2021 Magazine Games (C3i and Panzerschreck)

Nov 27 2021 62 mins  
Episode geeklist Isn't it tiresome when a podcaster starts by apologizing it's been so long since their last episode? So I won't do that. Here's the next one. My plans to spend the summer (now months past!) playing contemporary magazine wargames sort of worked, just more slowly and less completely than I'd originally planned. Whatever--I'm doing this for fun! The trut