Pijus Krūminas
@pijusk.bsky.social
Associate professor at ISM, Lithuania. Wargaming, game theory, comparative politics, economics), blogs about wargaming at: https://pijus.substack.com/
And here's a personal After Action Report for Connections UK at Armchair Dragoons. It was a great event, and my only regret is that my flight was early afternoon on the last day. Available here: armchairdragoons.com/cnxuk25-aar/
October 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
And here's a personal After Action Report for Connections UK at Armchair Dragoons. It was a great event, and my only regret is that my flight was early afternoon on the last day. Available here: armchairdragoons.com/cnxuk25-aar/
Last semester we had a Churchill day in the class, and here's the write up of why it works in the educational context.
Check out our latest InsideGMT article from Pijus Kruminas: "Churchill in the Classroom" @pijusk.bsky.social insidegmt.com/churchill-in...
Churchill in the Classroom
Last semester we started playing Churchill in our wargaming class at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. This article looks at how the game can contribute to the broad…
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September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Last semester we had a Churchill day in the class, and here's the write up of why it works in the educational context.
We visited the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, and now I think we had a vampire infestation in Vilnius sometime before late 17th century...
September 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We visited the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, and now I think we had a vampire infestation in Vilnius sometime before late 17th century...
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Please please please everyone (pls reskeet) who is involved with a uni/college academic program (broadly speaking) conected to games Could you write a quick comment + links if any apply to what you and your institution are doing in that sphere? I need to show what's out there. 1/
#AncientBluesky 🗃️
#AncientBluesky 🗃️
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Please please please everyone (pls reskeet) who is involved with a uni/college academic program (broadly speaking) conected to games Could you write a quick comment + links if any apply to what you and your institution are doing in that sphere? I need to show what's out there. 1/
#AncientBluesky 🗃️
#AncientBluesky 🗃️
I've met @icurtiss.bsky.social at Connections UK last year, where we talked about wargaming as a modelling method, risk gaming and his scenarios for Lux Capital. A couple of weeks ago, we sat down online to talk about these topics, students' games, and other war/riskgaming matters. Enjoy!
The global future of wargaming in Lithuania
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September 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I've met @icurtiss.bsky.social at Connections UK last year, where we talked about wargaming as a modelling method, risk gaming and his scenarios for Lux Capital. A couple of weeks ago, we sat down online to talk about these topics, students' games, and other war/riskgaming matters. Enjoy!
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“the story of the #crossbronxexpressway is a lens through which we can better understand our modern world.”
pre-orders charging means the game ships soon. i recorded a podcast called endnotes to hold folk over while they wait for it to arrive.
@gmtgames.bsky.social
[ link below]
pre-orders charging means the game ships soon. i recorded a podcast called endnotes to hold folk over while they wait for it to arrive.
@gmtgames.bsky.social
[ link below]
September 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“the story of the #crossbronxexpressway is a lens through which we can better understand our modern world.”
pre-orders charging means the game ships soon. i recorded a podcast called endnotes to hold folk over while they wait for it to arrive.
@gmtgames.bsky.social
[ link below]
pre-orders charging means the game ships soon. i recorded a podcast called endnotes to hold folk over while they wait for it to arrive.
@gmtgames.bsky.social
[ link below]
Previous week was spent at Connections UK, representing the Wargaming Lab of ISM. Some takeaways. First, it's always great to meet old friends and find new ones! Wargaming community is very welcoming, and I'm glad that Connections UK continue to hold sessions specifically dedicated to newcomers.
September 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Previous week was spent at Connections UK, representing the Wargaming Lab of ISM. Some takeaways. First, it's always great to meet old friends and find new ones! Wargaming community is very welcoming, and I'm glad that Connections UK continue to hold sessions specifically dedicated to newcomers.
When you want to quickly search for something about the rules, and Google LLM decides to help.
September 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
When you want to quickly search for something about the rules, and Google LLM decides to help.
University wargaming in the new academic started! La Coruña scenario from Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars by @mropla.bsky.social The French struggles for most of the time, but managed to deal fatal blows just before the night descended.
September 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
University wargaming in the new academic started! La Coruña scenario from Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars by @mropla.bsky.social The French struggles for most of the time, but managed to deal fatal blows just before the night descended.
String puppet X-rays are best X-rays. Pre-WW2 marionettes by Stasis Ušinskas, a Lithuanian artist who worked with animation, string puppets, stained glass, theatre productions, paintings, and other forms of art.
August 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
String puppet X-rays are best X-rays. Pre-WW2 marionettes by Stasis Ušinskas, a Lithuanian artist who worked with animation, string puppets, stained glass, theatre productions, paintings, and other forms of art.
Yesterday, participants of the Students to Government project ran by the Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania got a chance to play a tabletop game on interest management, agenda setting, and coalition building. How do interest groups form coalitions when considering potential laws?
August 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yesterday, participants of the Students to Government project ran by the Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania got a chance to play a tabletop game on interest management, agenda setting, and coalition building. How do interest groups form coalitions when considering potential laws?
I'm very much looking forward to this game. It has a platoon level system with drone and EW. It accounts for planning using Sync Matrices. It has huge educational value. Finally, it's set in the Baltics, making the game very relevant for our context. So, yes, I'm definitely pre-ordering.
Pre-orders now open for Battlegroup Clash: Baltics www.sapperstudio.com/battlegr
This tactical land combat game covers a Russian invasion of Estonia in the present day. It is unique: a game for professionals, but also designed to be accessible to, and played by, hobby gamers.
Order now for 30% off!
This tactical land combat game covers a Russian invasion of Estonia in the present day. It is unique: a game for professionals, but also designed to be accessible to, and played by, hobby gamers.
Order now for 30% off!
August 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm very much looking forward to this game. It has a platoon level system with drone and EW. It accounts for planning using Sync Matrices. It has huge educational value. Finally, it's set in the Baltics, making the game very relevant for our context. So, yes, I'm definitely pre-ordering.
Latin. I had free credits at the end of my undergrad studies and spent them on two semesters of Latin, one full hour everyday. It was amazing and now helps at pub quizzes.
What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
July 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Latin. I had free credits at the end of my undergrad studies and spent them on two semesters of Latin, one full hour everyday. It was amazing and now helps at pub quizzes.
I fully agree with @letsplayhistory.bsky.social The support in the wargaming community is amazing and we can do still more to get people into wargaming and connect them. Without Jan bringing the people together this project wouldn't have happened, people like Jan make this community so welcoming.
It's awesome to see that this project materialized after all the planning. Sad I couldn't join, but great to see the next generation of wargamers.
The #wargaming community is such a welcoming and supportive network and we need to grow it further, reach more audiences and establish the method.
The #wargaming community is such a welcoming and supportive network and we need to grow it further, reach more audiences and establish the method.
When we started Wargaming Lab at ISM last September, one of the aims was to build and foster international collaboration with our Allies. I'm extremely happy that last week we saw the first German-Lithuanian wargaming summer school organized together with The German Wargaming Center.
July 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I fully agree with @letsplayhistory.bsky.social The support in the wargaming community is amazing and we can do still more to get people into wargaming and connect them. Without Jan bringing the people together this project wouldn't have happened, people like Jan make this community so welcoming.
When we started Wargaming Lab at ISM last September, one of the aims was to build and foster international collaboration with our Allies. I'm extremely happy that last week we saw the first German-Lithuanian wargaming summer school organized together with The German Wargaming Center.
July 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
When we started Wargaming Lab at ISM last September, one of the aims was to build and foster international collaboration with our Allies. I'm extremely happy that last week we saw the first German-Lithuanian wargaming summer school organized together with The German Wargaming Center.
This story of language colonialism is an important one, and I'm glad that @fluxogames.bsky.social chose to explore it in a video game format. Looking forward to the release.
The HGN team recently chatted with Rytis Jadzevicius of @fluxogames.bsky.social about their upcoming game, Book Smugglers. A decision-driven, point-and-click adventure set in 19thC Lithuania, the game blends resource management with historical storytelling:
www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...
www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...
Interview with Fluxo Games on "Book Smugglers" | Historical Games Network
The HGN team recently spoke with Rytis Jadzevicius of Fluxo Games, based in Vilnius, Lithuania, about the studio’s forthcoming historical game, Book Smugglers. Set in 19th Century Lithuania, the game...
www.historicalgames.net
July 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This story of language colonialism is an important one, and I'm glad that @fluxogames.bsky.social chose to explore it in a video game format. Looking forward to the release.
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If you are interested, you can order my book now at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Castillon-Ha...
It should be available from other online shops soon and in the US in September.
It should be available from other online shops soon and in the US in September.
Castillon
The Battle of Castillon, fought outside the French city of the same name on 17 July 1453, was the final battle in the Hundred Years…
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July 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
If you are interested, you can order my book now at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Castillon-Ha...
It should be available from other online shops soon and in the US in September.
It should be available from other online shops soon and in the US in September.
Wargaming helps to meet the most interesting people,wherever you go. In Osaka, I had a pleasure to meet wargame designer, publisher and Banzai magazine editor Yasushi Nakaguro and learn so much about topics as broad as wargaming and board gaming in Japan to language and economics.
July 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Wargaming helps to meet the most interesting people,wherever you go. In Osaka, I had a pleasure to meet wargame designer, publisher and Banzai magazine editor Yasushi Nakaguro and learn so much about topics as broad as wargaming and board gaming in Japan to language and economics.
Hunt for Blackbeard by @volko.bsky.social was the first game I playtested ever, both on a homemade physical copy and Vassal. Before the physical release, kindly thanks to @fortcircle.bsky.social and @ccxvii.bsky.social, this gem of a game is now available on Rally the Troops!
June 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hunt for Blackbeard by @volko.bsky.social was the first game I playtested ever, both on a homemade physical copy and Vassal. Before the physical release, kindly thanks to @fortcircle.bsky.social and @ccxvii.bsky.social, this gem of a game is now available on Rally the Troops!
Second play of Winter Rabbit by @willmthompson.bsky.social The Wolf and the Deer tried to prepare the village for winter, but the Rabbit outsmarted everyone. Now it's getting personal, Mr. Rabbit.
June 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Second play of Winter Rabbit by @willmthompson.bsky.social The Wolf and the Deer tried to prepare the village for winter, but the Rabbit outsmarted everyone. Now it's getting personal, Mr. Rabbit.
This year I taught my ISM University of Management and Economics masters' students well at the very least two things: dominant strategies in game theory and the importance of attending lectures. I managed to sneak in a Frank Herbert's Dune quote to my graduation speech, quite a good day, I'd say.
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This year I taught my ISM University of Management and Economics masters' students well at the very least two things: dominant strategies in game theory and the importance of attending lectures. I managed to sneak in a Frank Herbert's Dune quote to my graduation speech, quite a good day, I'd say.
First thing I learned when starting to learn @sebastianbae.bsky.social Littoral Commander: The Baltic is that I need a larger table for work purposes 😅 And yes, you can count on that Baltic resistance.
June 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
First thing I learned when starting to learn @sebastianbae.bsky.social Littoral Commander: The Baltic is that I need a larger table for work purposes 😅 And yes, you can count on that Baltic resistance.
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A very special « Arrivage du jour » today, with my advance copy of my very own Hubris - Twilight of the Hellenistic World by @gmtgames.bsky.social !
And if I may say so myself, it is simply stunning! 🤩
And if I may say so myself, it is simply stunning! 🤩
June 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A very special « Arrivage du jour » today, with my advance copy of my very own Hubris - Twilight of the Hellenistic World by @gmtgames.bsky.social !
And if I may say so myself, it is simply stunning! 🤩
And if I may say so myself, it is simply stunning! 🤩
Cross Bronx Expressway is getting closer. So looking forward to it.
June 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Cross Bronx Expressway is getting closer. So looking forward to it.
We had a final student game prototype day yesterday at ISM University of Management and Economics. Some guests from the game development industry and the faculty joined, which was a great opportunity for students to show what they did. What was that more specifically?
June 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We had a final student game prototype day yesterday at ISM University of Management and Economics. Some guests from the game development industry and the faculty joined, which was a great opportunity for students to show what they did. What was that more specifically?