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Peter Schweighofer
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Writer, Game Designer, Gamer, Husband, Dad.
Writing and playing roleplaying games for 40+ years, along with board and wargames, and a few designs for kids and newcomers to the hobby. Often exploring the confluence of games, history, and learning.
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Peter Schweighofer @schweigbskysocial.bsky.social · Nov 13
Schweig Introduction...Welcome

I’m Peter Schweighofer, writer, editor, game designer and player (#TTRPG, #Wargames, various #BoardGames). Father, husband, cook. Advocate of #GamesForLearning. Like anyone I have a bit more depth and diverse interests, but these are a solid start. 1/5
Old white bearded guy with glasses and a hat, wearing a doofy smile, holds a bottle of mead in one hand and a drinking horn filled with mead in the other, toasting the viewer while armed and armored buhurt warriors bash each other in the medieval list in the background.
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Got the Fighters of Europe #wargame to the table tonight. My Luftwaffe Me109s wiped out the RAF Spitfires with only one loss, but it was a good learning game with my son. He’s now interested in playing more scenarios. Of course Hera the cat wanted to play...with all the pieces.

#GamesForLearning
Hex-covered game board showing the British countryside with several Me109 and Spitfire airplane tokens arrayed upon it, facing each other and closing fast. A white and gray mottled longhair cat peers out upon a gameboard with small pieces from its vantage point near the napkins and salt-and-pepper shakers on a dining room table.
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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#HobbyGamesRecce
Inspired by an old Osprey Illustrated Military Diary, I consider the possibility of running a historical #wargame each week, coinciding with a notable event one could explore through simulation...including event and game suggestions.

#GamesForLearning #GamingThePast #HistoryGames
Wargame Calendar Challenge
“ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” — H.G. Wells One of the perks of my time working at West ...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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If you’re near north-central VA Dec. 6, 12-4 p.m...

Fully armored knights battling it out in full contact sparring!
Holiday-themed duels and team melees!
Wine, Cider, Mead & Beer and hot spiced non-alcoholic cider!
Photos with knights in armor!
Family-friendly fun (kids highly encouraged!)
"Flyer" for a holiday event called "Deck teh Halls" with a picture of two armored knights (one wearing a Santa hat) bashing each otehr with falchions and shield, with onlookers behind a steel pipe barrier and tents in the background. "A Holiday Amorred Combat Event, December 6th 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Mountain Run Winery."
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I’m considering volunteering as a judge for my son’s high school #DebateTeam for the local league tournaments. Anyone have any experience of this in the US they’re willing to share? I’ve looked at the NSDA website, but still waiting for info/guidance from my son’s coach.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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How appropriate that today, Polish Independence Day, @badsquiddogames.bsky.social notifies me my #AgentZo figure is on its way to me in America. Can’t wait for her and a few other Women of #WW2 Resistance to arrive!
Bad Squiddo Games
Sensibly dressed female wargames miniatures and so much more!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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#HobbyGamesRecce

It seems every #TTRPG gamer has a sourcebook in them, yet we often feel the need to get the latest “official” books for our favorite games. Expand your #TTRPG with your own “imagination sourcebook” to make that setting your own...or set off and create something wholly original.
Imagination Sourcebooks
“ Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein Early efforts at creating my own roleplaying ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Sheer brilliance. Because nothing sums up our current political/economic situation than the monstrously indifferent entities of the Cthulhu Mythos.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Just got back from our favorite local #winery, buying some #wine jellies for holiday gifts. Wonderful folks, comped my wife’s beer (first glass for furloughed Feds is on the house during the shutdown), host fantastic events, and support the community. They also ship wine to 37 states and DC....
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November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Struggling with this week’s #HobbyGamesRecce post. Having one of those days where overwhelming anxiety and feelings of helplessness on multiple fronts makes anything I write seem like worthless garbage (well, moreso than usual).
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Splurged on a cut of beef this week, because (aside from being the cheapest cut I could find) it is the season for a bowl of hearty German beef and beer stew, served here in a bowl on a bed of spaetzle with a generous side of my sauerkraut. Much-needed comfort food in this season of darkness.
Patterned bowl filled with a brownish stew with chunks of beef and smaller bits of diced ham sitting on a bed of stringy German egg noodles (spaetzle) with a dollop of brown sauerkraut on the side, the bowl sitting on a grayish counter top next to a paper napkin and fork.
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Always love to hear about this radio broadcast and Americans’ reactions. Alas, the only Martians to invade around here were those on my wargaming table from the now-OOP minis game, All Quiet on the Martian Front, which I photographed years ago....

#OTD #ScienceFiction #wargames #HGWells
Shot of a wargaming table set-up featuring tall, menacing, and otherworldly Martian tripods advancing toward some trees and rough terrain as American rhomboidal tanks bristling with turrets and guns rumble into range to try stopping their advance. Shot of a wargaming table set-up featuring tall, menacing, and otherworldly Martian tripods advancing toward some trees and rough terrain as American rhomboidal tanks bristling with turrets and guns rumble into range to try stopping their advance. Shot of a wargaming table set-up featuring tall, menacing, and otherworldly Martian tripods advancing toward some trees and rough terrain as American rhomboidal tanks bristling with turrets and guns rumble into range to try stopping their advance.
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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#HobbyGamesRecce
Spent Saturday running my Battle of Great Bridge #wargame demo on the site where the Culpeper Minutemen mustered 250 years ago. Despite using my very basic game system for this event, I still considered numerous other rules one might use to replay the battle.

#GamesForLearning
Gaming Great Bridge V: Alternate Rules
“ For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.” — Angela Merkel My Battle of Great Bridge s...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Wife’s friend has long flight for vacation, needs book suggestions.

Wife: What was that book about the #WW2 woman you liked so much?

Me: #AgentZo?

Wife: Yeah. Didn’t you hear the author speak in DC at the Spy Museum?

Me: Yes, @claremulley.bsky.social (spells name).

Wife: Yes, that one. Thanks.
Book on a reddish table with a printed e-ticket for an event sticking out of it. The book is a a non-fiction biography of a WW2 Polish courier and resistance fighter, Agent Zo, by Clare Mulley (the title and author spashed in type across the top and bottom of the cover). The middle illustration, in black and white, shows the back of a woman in a coat and satchel slung over one shoulder walking down a European street, flanked by the words “The untold Story of A Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter.”
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Finished Great Bridge #wargame board deployed...at the location where, 250 years ago, the Culpeper Minutemen mustered before setting off for Williamsburg and ultimately their crucial role at the Battle of Great Bridge. Spent the day talking about and gaming the battle.

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Shot of a folding table with a miniature wargaming diorama set up. Sting along brads in the wooden frame create a grid of squares for playing a game. Stands of paper soldiers occupy key locations, crossing a bridge and assembled behind barricades. Table draped with blue cloth, with two folding stands with signs about the battle and game. Close-up of the wargame table, showing string grid squares and paper ranks of British soldiers, grenadiers in front, marching down a road and across a wooden bridge. Flocked foam terrain rises out of a glistening model swamp.
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Forgot to mention this piece features @gamingthepast.bsky.social (all the way at the end) and his “Cycle of Gameplay and Analysis” chart that reminds us of the relationship of learning, gameplay, and reflection.
schweigbskysocial.bsky.social Peter Schweighofer @schweigbskysocial.bsky.social · Oct 21
#HobbyGamesRecce
I review the repertoire of #miniature #wargames I’ve run at conventions and other public events over the years — suitable for entertaining and educating kids and newcomers — and offer a general invitation for institutions to play and learn.

#GamingThePast #GamesForLearning
Event Game Repertoire
“ Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” — Aeschylus German troops await a charge from U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood. We h...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Priorities.
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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WIP on my Battle of Great Bridge #wargame board. A few touch-ups and spray matte on the flocking and I’m ready to string up the grid. Photos of breastworks and bridge in place with Peter’s Paperboys British and Patriot militia.

#GamesForLearning
Top-down view into a miniature wargaming diorama in progress. Wooden bridge and breastworks in place over river and at end of causeway respectively. Patriot militia lurk behind the breastworks; British troops march across the bridge and narrow causeway. View across an earthen causeway — with British troops in the foreground — which ends at some log breastworks behind which lurk Virginia patriot militia paper soldiers. View of a wargame diorama showing paper soldier British troops marching over a bridge over a river, with a cannon waiting to cross in the foreground. Different view of a wargame diorama showing paper soldier British troops marching over a bridge over a river, with a cannon waiting to cross in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#HobbyGamesRecce
I review the repertoire of #miniature #wargames I’ve run at conventions and other public events over the years — suitable for entertaining and educating kids and newcomers — and offer a general invitation for institutions to play and learn.

#GamingThePast #GamesForLearning
Event Game Repertoire
“ Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” — Aeschylus German troops await a charge from U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood. We h...
hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Flock this! WIP on my Battle of Great Bridge #wargame board. River/marsh glossed. Grass and sand flock on land drying. Big mess, but hoping it all works well with breastworks and (adequate) bridge.

#GamesForLearning
Top-down view into a miniature wargaming diorama in progress. The marshy surfaces have a gloss to indicate water. with clumps of doormat reeds, while the land surfaces have a layer of greenish flock and some sand on them, with a brownish road running through it all, along a causeway, and across the place where the bridge belongs.
October 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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WIP on my Battle of Great Bridge #wargame board. Surfaces base painted, spot foliage in place, road set down, painted, washed (awaiting drybrushing). Bridge base in place (more to come). Peter’s Paperboys redcoat unit on board for size. Next step: flocking land, glossing river/swamp.
Top-down view into a miniature wargaming diorama in progress. A thin wooden frame encloses painted islands of polystyrene foam amid a straight, blue river and marshland dotted with model bushes and rushes. A stained wood bridge base spans the river. A stand of Peter’s Paperboys redcoats marches down the road for size reference. A gridded map in the center shows the historical painting on which the map is based, the 1775 Battle of Great Bridge.
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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WIP on my Battle of Great Bridge #wargame board. Wood frame with poster board on foam core, lots of polystyrene foam, plaster filler. Lord Rawdon’s period map included for reference, with a grid for the game and imposition on the board. Still lots of work to do before next weekend’s event.
Top-down view into a miniature wargaming diorama in progress. A thin wooden frame encloses islands of polystyrene foam on blue poster board, with smears of plaster forming a low riverbank and covering some seams. A gridded map in the center shows the historical painting on which the map is based, the 1775 Battle of Great Bridge.
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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My son made his HS debate team (new this year). It’s the first activity in which he’s shown any interest. They’re raising funds to cover various team fees.

Times are tough for everyone, but any bit you can donate would help a worthy cause for smart kids. Many thanks.

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October 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Gotta love the #ColonialWilliamsburg Art Museums. As you enter, right near the main restrooms, you’ll find a display of period chamber pots.
What looks like a white and blue porcelain gravy boat in a museum display with a legend on the base below: “Chamber Pot...Elongated chamber pots were often called ‘coach pans,’ referencing their use during travel. Their elongated shape was a more ergonomical design for women.”
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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While in #Williamsburg we ran some games at the #CallToArms #tabletop game convention, including a Skirmish Kids event, “A Slice of Belleau Wood,” with 54mm figures...like this German machine gun position (photographed by my son).
Picture of 54mm soldiers in a miniature wargame based on Belleau Wood in WWI. Several gray-clad German soldiers in coal-scuttle helmets (the Stahlhelm rather than the pointy topped Pickelhaube) linger around a raised grassy earthworks sheltering a machine gun team, with various model woods behind them.
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Spent the weekend in #Williamsburg VA. Visited the Governor’s Palace gardens at #ColonialWilliamsburg as part of our father-son weekend.
Older overweight white guy with a white beard, glasses, and tan rimmed hat standing in front of some European style gardens in late season, flowers of varied colors in a bed running back intot he gardens, with a wall of greenery on the right and a white fence with brick post in the back.
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM