Mentioned In Dispatches S16 E8 – The Wargamer’s Bookshelf

20 March 2026 ~

Brant is joined by Dr James Sterrett and Jan Heinemann to revisit & update our earlier discussion way back in season 2 on The Essential Wargaming Library. In the past 5-6 years1 there’s been a veritable explosion of full-length, serious books about wargaming and those interested in these titles are now filling up a second shelf with them, instead of having room for fancy bookends and tchotchkes around the limited selection of wargaming tomes.

Linkdump

• Forging Wargamers by Sebastian Bae
• Wargames According to Mark by Mark Herman
• Eurowargames anthology from Nuts Publishing
• Wargaming Experiences: Soldiers, Scientists and Civilians and Wargaming Experiences II: Discussions by Natalia Wojtowicz
• UK MoD Wargaming Handbook (PDF)
• Paper Time Machines: Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games by Maurice Suckling
• Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems by Amabel Holland (and the Mechanisms as Metaphors video)
• Historical Simulation and Wargames: The Hexagon and the Sword by Ricardo Masini
• Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military by Aggie Hirst
• The Matrix Games Handbook: Professional Applications from Education to Analysis and Wargaming by John Curry
• Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun for Game Design
• Peruvian Naval War College Journal issue on wargaming
• Journal of Advanced Military Studies wargaming issue
• Wargaming Handbooks panel from Connections Online

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