Templeton Blair
@templetonblair.bsky.social
Civil Affairs and Wargames for defence.
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Hey @gmtgames.bsky.social. I just discovered this amazing set of playlists for your games by @templetonblair.bsky.social. There's a playlist for each British Way game & even every decade covered in Cross Bronx Expressway. Worth a mention in the newsletter maybe?
open.spotify.com/user/1167648...
open.spotify.com/user/1167648...
December 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Hey @gmtgames.bsky.social. I just discovered this amazing set of playlists for your games by @templetonblair.bsky.social. There's a playlist for each British Way game & even every decade covered in Cross Bronx Expressway. Worth a mention in the newsletter maybe?
open.spotify.com/user/1167648...
open.spotify.com/user/1167648...
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These both arrived today! Sinking Yamato is a lite little solo magazine game designed by Gregory M. Smith and Aces High is a new aerial combat game set during WWI from Aleph Game Studio.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
These both arrived today! Sinking Yamato is a lite little solo magazine game designed by Gregory M. Smith and Aces High is a new aerial combat game set during WWI from Aleph Game Studio.
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ICYMI The June Wargame Watch sponsored by Catastrophe Games is up on the blog with 38 games from great publishers! theplayersaid.com/2025/06/02/w...
Wargame Watch – What’s New & Upcoming – June 2025
Summer is here and the games just keep coming! I found so many great games this month and just had to stop adding them as I ran out of time. This month for the Wargame Watch I was able to find 38 g…
theplayersaid.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
ICYMI The June Wargame Watch sponsored by Catastrophe Games is up on the blog with 38 games from great publishers! theplayersaid.com/2025/06/02/w...
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"Down Range" is an excellent educational #wargaming tool for modern #Marines. The game is accessible and impactful -- highlighting tactical decisions at the squad level. Capt Royer, the designer, is equipping Marines to be better tactical leaders. 🎲
youtu.be/SnwFYVyrISE?...
youtu.be/SnwFYVyrISE?...
Introducing 'Down Range' - The U.S. Marine Corps Table-Top Wargame
YouTube video by Media Magik Entertainment
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Down Range" is an excellent educational #wargaming tool for modern #Marines. The game is accessible and impactful -- highlighting tactical decisions at the squad level. Capt Royer, the designer, is equipping Marines to be better tactical leaders. 🎲
youtu.be/SnwFYVyrISE?...
youtu.be/SnwFYVyrISE?...
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The latest designer diary for Battlegroup Clash: Baltics is up. It covers a recent 6-player playtest, a production timeline update, and how the game models electronic warfare & drones. If you have any interest in tactical EW and drones, have a read.
www.sapperstudio.com/post/battleg...
www.sapperstudio.com/post/battleg...
May 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The latest designer diary for Battlegroup Clash: Baltics is up. It covers a recent 6-player playtest, a production timeline update, and how the game models electronic warfare & drones. If you have any interest in tactical EW and drones, have a read.
www.sapperstudio.com/post/battleg...
www.sapperstudio.com/post/battleg...
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Yesterday I played a mega game on Operation Market Garden. Played with c100 others over 3 venues & online. Umpires managed the game as a double blind with each team having their own map. I led 43rd Div to Eindhoven. It was a great experience. I'm planning to run a smaller mega game at PunchedCON.26
March 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yesterday I played a mega game on Operation Market Garden. Played with c100 others over 3 venues & online. Umpires managed the game as a double blind with each team having their own map. I led 43rd Div to Eindhoven. It was a great experience. I'm planning to run a smaller mega game at PunchedCON.26
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The February Wargame Watch sponsored by Form Square Games is super sized with 38 games from publishers like Columbia Games, Trafalgar Editions, Worthington Publishing, Neva Wargames, GMT Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Flying Pig Games, Hollandspiele +more! theplayersaid.com/2025/02/03/w...
Wargame Watch – What’s New & Upcoming – February 2025
We are now getting into the “long cold” as January, February and March is normally referred to. But, as the temperatures outside have plummeted and the days have gotten shorter the warg…
theplayersaid.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The February Wargame Watch sponsored by Form Square Games is super sized with 38 games from publishers like Columbia Games, Trafalgar Editions, Worthington Publishing, Neva Wargames, GMT Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Flying Pig Games, Hollandspiele +more! theplayersaid.com/2025/02/03/w...
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Very excited - my demo of Battlegroup Clash: Baltics at @sdhistcon.bsky.social Online this Saturday will see @sebastianbae.bsky.social playing the Reds against @letsplayhistory.bsky.social as the Blues. USMC vs Bundeswehr (kinda!). Sign up to watch the fireworks!
tabletop.events/conventions/...
tabletop.events/conventions/...
February 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Very excited - my demo of Battlegroup Clash: Baltics at @sdhistcon.bsky.social Online this Saturday will see @sebastianbae.bsky.social playing the Reds against @letsplayhistory.bsky.social as the Blues. USMC vs Bundeswehr (kinda!). Sign up to watch the fireworks!
tabletop.events/conventions/...
tabletop.events/conventions/...
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📢 Osprey Games, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, is looking for a Senior Marketing Executive to work across our well-established range of tabletop games, including board and card games, wargames and roleplaying games.
📌 Apply by 12 February 2025: bit.ly/40msOqI
📌 Apply by 12 February 2025: bit.ly/40msOqI
February 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Osprey Games, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, is looking for a Senior Marketing Executive to work across our well-established range of tabletop games, including board and card games, wargames and roleplaying games.
📌 Apply by 12 February 2025: bit.ly/40msOqI
📌 Apply by 12 February 2025: bit.ly/40msOqI
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Playing Undaunted 2200: Callisto solo?
Join @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social over on YouTube for walkthroughs of everything you need to know!
👉 Set-up: bit.ly/3Q4yvFb
👉 Round structure: bit.ly/3PInsB5
👉 Sample turns: bit.ly/42lj0jc
Join @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social over on YouTube for walkthroughs of everything you need to know!
👉 Set-up: bit.ly/3Q4yvFb
👉 Round structure: bit.ly/3PInsB5
👉 Sample turns: bit.ly/42lj0jc
January 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Playing Undaunted 2200: Callisto solo?
Join @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social over on YouTube for walkthroughs of everything you need to know!
👉 Set-up: bit.ly/3Q4yvFb
👉 Round structure: bit.ly/3PInsB5
👉 Sample turns: bit.ly/42lj0jc
Join @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social over on YouTube for walkthroughs of everything you need to know!
👉 Set-up: bit.ly/3Q4yvFb
👉 Round structure: bit.ly/3PInsB5
👉 Sample turns: bit.ly/42lj0jc
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Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown @downtowntbrown.bsky.social (designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time). the1a.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown @downtowntbrown.bsky.social (designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time). the1a.org
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GMT Talk Episode 13 is live now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts! In this episode, Rachel and Luke chat with designer Joe Chacon and developer Evan Yoak about Decisive Action. We hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdks...
GMT Talk Episode 13: Joe Chacon & Evan Yoak
YouTube video by GMTGames
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
GMT Talk Episode 13 is live now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts! In this episode, Rachel and Luke chat with designer Joe Chacon and developer Evan Yoak about Decisive Action. We hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdks...
A Sunday well spent. Not as satisfying as the Saturn V rocket. The tower got repetitive at points, but the detail is great once it is finished. Wish there was a gantry kit for the Saturn V kit.
January 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A Sunday well spent. Not as satisfying as the Saturn V rocket. The tower got repetitive at points, but the detail is great once it is finished. Wish there was a gantry kit for the Saturn V kit.
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There's now a product page for my forthcoming game Battlegroup Clash: Baltics. It's intended as a professional-commercial hybrid game a la Littoral Commander by @sebastianbae.bsky.social, focused on modern day platoon-level combat. You can sign-up for updates via the link.
www.sapperstudio.com/games
www.sapperstudio.com/games
January 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
There's now a product page for my forthcoming game Battlegroup Clash: Baltics. It's intended as a professional-commercial hybrid game a la Littoral Commander by @sebastianbae.bsky.social, focused on modern day platoon-level combat. You can sign-up for updates via the link.
www.sapperstudio.com/games
www.sapperstudio.com/games
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A new year begins, so it's time for me to mentally switch gear and start preparing to run Wing and a Prayer again in four months.
I'm really proud of WaaP - it's a female-centred LARP about the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in the Battle of Britain which we ran twice in 2018 and 2019. /1
I'm really proud of WaaP - it's a female-centred LARP about the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in the Battle of Britain which we ran twice in 2018 and 2019. /1
January 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A new year begins, so it's time for me to mentally switch gear and start preparing to run Wing and a Prayer again in four months.
I'm really proud of WaaP - it's a female-centred LARP about the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in the Battle of Britain which we ran twice in 2018 and 2019. /1
I'm really proud of WaaP - it's a female-centred LARP about the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in the Battle of Britain which we ran twice in 2018 and 2019. /1
Don't Get Got... fantastic party game! Most delightfully paranoid Christmas as everyone had 6 secret missions to complete!
December 31, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Don't Get Got... fantastic party game! Most delightfully paranoid Christmas as everyone had 6 secret missions to complete!
As someone who makes a living out of analogue games, there is much to praise about those who choose to study arts and creative topics at university.
Not everything needs to be digital or an app...
There is space for both.
Not everything needs to be digital or an app...
There is space for both.
Triumph of the orcs: why Britain needs more Games Workshops
Those who despair at the UK’s inability to spawn a Facebook should look to the country’s creative industries
www.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:36 PM
As someone who makes a living out of analogue games, there is much to praise about those who choose to study arts and creative topics at university.
Not everything needs to be digital or an app...
There is space for both.
Not everything needs to be digital or an app...
There is space for both.
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PunchedCON 2025 tickets go on sale next week. All the details here. Every year we get more international attendees. Could 2025 be the year you see the delights of Coventry?
The big question - will @fortcircle.bsky.social be able to make it over to attend?🤞
mailchi.mp/b0644667080f...
The big question - will @fortcircle.bsky.social be able to make it over to attend?🤞
mailchi.mp/b0644667080f...
Issue 1 - We are Back PunchedCon25 Dec News, Ticket Sales and more!
mailchi.mp
December 2, 2024 at 9:13 PM
PunchedCON 2025 tickets go on sale next week. All the details here. Every year we get more international attendees. Could 2025 be the year you see the delights of Coventry?
The big question - will @fortcircle.bsky.social be able to make it over to attend?🤞
mailchi.mp/b0644667080f...
The big question - will @fortcircle.bsky.social be able to make it over to attend?🤞
mailchi.mp/b0644667080f...
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2 December 1805 – Battle of Austerlitz
Richard H. Berg’s “Austerlitz: Triumph & Glory Series” – Rodger MacGowan Series Art Director, Cover Art, Counter Art, Logo Design ©2000, 2024
Richard H. Berg’s “Austerlitz: Triumph & Glory Series” – Rodger MacGowan Series Art Director, Cover Art, Counter Art, Logo Design ©2000, 2024
December 2, 2024 at 5:34 PM
2 December 1805 – Battle of Austerlitz
Richard H. Berg’s “Austerlitz: Triumph & Glory Series” – Rodger MacGowan Series Art Director, Cover Art, Counter Art, Logo Design ©2000, 2024
Richard H. Berg’s “Austerlitz: Triumph & Glory Series” – Rodger MacGowan Series Art Director, Cover Art, Counter Art, Logo Design ©2000, 2024
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The Emerging Emphasis on Enlisted Wargaming - War on the Rocks
warontherocks.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:16 PM
@playersaidblog.bsky.social eagerly awaiting the December wargame watch!!!
How about a nice game of chess?
How about a nice game of chess?
December 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM
@playersaidblog.bsky.social eagerly awaiting the December wargame watch!!!
How about a nice game of chess?
How about a nice game of chess?
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Things are a bit dicey right now as we have reached our objective and encountered a hornet’s nest of VC. A well timed airstrike takes out 4 enemies and we finish them with a grenade launcher. Purple Haze from @phalanxgames.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Things are a bit dicey right now as we have reached our objective and encountered a hornet’s nest of VC. A well timed airstrike takes out 4 enemies and we finish them with a grenade launcher. Purple Haze from @phalanxgames.bsky.social
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Mission 2 is a major success as we gain 11XP, complete the main and alternate objective, find a VC POW camp and rescue a Marine and eliminate the local VC hub. Purple Haze from @phalanxgames.bsky.social What a fantastic game! Had a blast.
November 28, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Mission 2 is a major success as we gain 11XP, complete the main and alternate objective, find a VC POW camp and rescue a Marine and eliminate the local VC hub. Purple Haze from @phalanxgames.bsky.social What a fantastic game! Had a blast.
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This is an excellent podcast episode discussing the "systems destruction and confrontation" approach by the #PLA. It features an incredibly knowledgeable Warrant Officer, CWO3 Chisowski.
open.spotify.com/episode/2UmU...
open.spotify.com/episode/2UmU...
Systems Confrontation - Maneuver Warfare with Chinese Characteristics
Tactics and Operations · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:14 PM
This is an excellent podcast episode discussing the "systems destruction and confrontation" approach by the #PLA. It features an incredibly knowledgeable Warrant Officer, CWO3 Chisowski.
open.spotify.com/episode/2UmU...
open.spotify.com/episode/2UmU...
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Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...