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I'm just back from a very productive and enjoyable time at the Connections UK 2016 professional wargaming conference at King's College London. You'll find my trip report here: …See More
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Rex Brynen posted a blog postWomen and wargaming
A recent readers poll at PAXsims found that 99% of our readers were male, which led to this discussion (primarily about expanding the pool of women able to contribute to professional wargaming in the national security community):https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/gender-and-national-security-gaming/Which in turn led to this post on women and hobby wargaming:…See More
Rex Brynen posted a blog postMore ISIS Crisis
I've played "ISIS Crisis" a few times in the last couple of months--with folks at the Military Operations Research Society, the Royal Military College of Canada, and most recently at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. You'll find a write up of the latter game at PAXsims: …See More
Rex Brynen commented on Rex Brynen's blog post AFTERSHOCK published"The quality of the components (in our case, maps, mats, stickers, and printed rules/briefings) was outstanding--as good most regular commercial game publishers, and even better than some.
Of course, you're paying more than you would for…"
Mark H. Walker commented on Rex Brynen's blog post AFTERSHOCK published"Looks really good. Congrats! What dd you think of the Game Crafter?"
Rex Brynen posted a blog postAFTERSHOCK published
It's not so much a conflict simulation as one of military operations other than war—specifically, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief—but I'm very pleased to announce that AFTERSHOCK has now been published via The Game Crafter.AFTERSHOCK has its origins in the 2012 Connections…See More
Rex Brynen commented on Rex Brynen's blog post Revisiting the “ISIS Crisis”"Several of the players in various games have been involved in intelligence support to the current fight, and the game has also been run with current military (although not necessarily those involved in counter-ISIS ops). Anecdotally I would say that…"
Michael "Sudsy" Sutherland commented on Rex Brynen's blog post Revisiting the “ISIS Crisis”"Did you have any former or current war fighters involved? Sometimes that perspective, from first hand experience, can be enlightening to any process of conflict analysis."
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- Your introduction to consim gaming:
- Wargaming since the 1970s: 1:285/300 microarmor, 15mm ancients, various 25/28mm skirmish, Warhammer/Warhammer 40k, and boardgames of all sorts.
- Your favorite game(s):
- Depends entirely on my mood.
- What game(s) are you currently playing (solitaire, FTF, PBEM, etc.) or wish to play next?
- D&D, Warhammer 40k, others
- What game(s) have you played recently?
- various
- How big is your game collection?
- Haven't counted.
- About Me
- Professor of Political Science, McGill University—specializing in Middle East politics and security. I've previously worked for the Political and Security Policy Staff of the (Canadian) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, as an intel analyst, and as a consultant to various governments and development agencies on conflict-sensitive development.
I also do work on conflict and peacebuilding simulation, largely as it relates to education and training. I coedit the Paxsims blog (http://paxsims.wordpress.com).
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Connections UK 2016
I'm just back from a very productive and enjoyable time at the Connections UK 2016 professional wargaming conference at King's College London. You'll find my trip report here: …
ContinuePosted on September 11, 2016 at 3:44pm
Women and wargaming
A recent readers poll at PAXsims found that 99% of our readers were male, which led to this discussion (primarily about expanding the pool of women able to contribute to professional wargaming in the national security community):
https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/gender-and-national-security-gaming/
Which in turn led to this post on women and hobby…
ContinuePosted on March 10, 2016 at 11:18am
More ISIS Crisis
I've played "ISIS Crisis" a few times in the last couple of months--with folks at the Military Operations Research Society, the Royal Military College of Canada, and most recently at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. You'll find a write up of the latter game at PAXsims: …
ContinuePosted on October 28, 2015 at 4:42pm
AFTERSHOCK published
It's not so much a conflict simulation as one of military operations other than war—specifically, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief—but I'm very pleased to announce that AFTERSHOCK has now been published via The Game Crafter.
AFTERSHOCK has its origins…
ContinuePosted on July 20, 2015 at 12:30am — 2 Comments
AFTERSHOCKing the Canadian Disaster and Humanitarian Response Training Program
Posted on April 2, 2015 at 9:01pm — 1 Comment
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 12:09pm on August 16, 2011,
Kim Kanger said… Hi Rex,
Welcome to the Tonkin group
- At 4:27pm on June 23, 2010, Kim Kanger said…
- Hi,
So you are at Consim too :-)
- At 9:37pm on February 2, 2009,
Smitty said… - Rex:
Welcome to a great site with friendly folks!
Smitty
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