Some recent wargaming podcasts

The Wargame is a major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.   

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The Army Mad Scientist podcast The Convergence podcast features Mike Barnett and Joe Chretien from the Sustainment Exercise and Simulation Directorate, Combined Arms Support Command discussing their Sinews of War: Theater Sustainment Operations wargame.

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Jared Fishman discusses Kriegspiel (and other topics) with Jan Heinemann at the 20 Sided Gamified Podcast.

AFTERMATH: A Venezuela matrix game

From the ever-productive Tim Price comes a matrix game about Venezuela in the aftermath of the removal of Nicolás Maduro.

Briefings are provided for six actors: the Venezuelan regime, the Venezuelan military and security services, the opposition, the United States, other external and regional actors, organized crime, and “society, the streets, and informal power”—together with assets, a map, and a basic overview of how to play a matrix game.

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If you are interested in developing your own matrix games, you might find the Matrix Game Construction Kit of interest.