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Professional in that war fighting is your job, aka military. Rather than "playing" for fun, you game to become better at your job. These professional war games really confused me ~30 years ago as a college freshman looking up war games in Univ of Kansas libraries. It's a different world . Yet the commercial war gaming hobby (and RPG hobby ) owes it's existence to military war gaming. I've since found it interesting to peak over the fence from time to time. This recent article on Teaching Professional Wargaming  provided the inspiration for this post. Invicta Youtube channel recently had a series on the US Naval War College. Specifically it's history of war gaming. Extremely informative on how professional war gaming works. Tangential to war gaming but in line with educating professionals, The Army University Press Youtube channel has several excellently produced analyses of famous battles with the objective of highlighting and teaching modern US Ar...

Three day wargame convention in Texas. Party Time, Excellent! I'm super stoked to have paper and cardboard convention within a few hours of home.  ConsimWorld in Arizona is a slog both to get there and spend 8 days gaming. An extremely fun and amazing experience, but still high on the intensity scale. I did finally attend for first time last year. The local  Millennium Con is fine. Only everyone there thinks "war game" means miniatures. After all it's tag line is  "Historical Miniatures Wargame Convention" .  CSW Expo Dallas' is "WargameClassics.CON"  (you know I'm all about the classics ) and the special guest is no less a luminary than  Mark Herman . Who may have miniatures? but is famous for his board games. Of which I have several . CSW Expo Dallas March 6-8, 2020 • Delta Hotels Dallas Allen door prizes • flea market tables • open-gaming • playtesting designer-hosted events • evening seminar • special events and more! ...