In this inaugural episode of the Canadian Wargamer Podcast, hosts and BFFs Mike (@MarshalLuigi) and James (@JamesManto4) introduce one another and address the crucial question: does the world need another miniature wargames podcast in which two (youngish) granddads natter on? Spoiler alert - yes, it does.
We explain our Concept of Operations for the podcast:
1. Tell stories about the Canadian wargaming scene, a small scene in a BIG country.
2. Introduce Canadian hobby leaders - figure sculptors and producers, bloggers, local linchpins - and hear they stories;
and
3. Explore connections between Canadian military history and wargaming. Of course, we may talk about our goblin wolf riders and Prussian grenadiers, but we are particularly interested in representing Canadian battles and soldiers on the tabletop.
We talk about what's keeping us busy for the next month:
James - lots of decidedly non-Canadian Napoleonics.
Mike - might get to those 15mm Canadians in Sicily this month.
We also shamelessly steal Sean Clarke's virtual library schtick from his God's Own Scale podcast. We intend to ask each guest to "donate" one or two books with a Canadian military connection. In this issue, we each put two books on the digital shelves.
James' choices:
Mark Zuehlke, Brave Battalion: the Remarkable Story of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War (2008). https://www.amazon.ca/Brave-Battalion-Remarkable-Canadian-Scottish/dp/0470154160
Chris Wattie, Contact Charlie: the Canadian Army, the Taliban, and the Battle that Saved Afghanistan (2008).
https://www.amazon.ca/Contact-Charlie-Canadian-Taliban-Afghanistan/dp/1554700841
Mike's choices:
Frederick George Scott, The Great War as I Saw It (1922).
https://www.amazon.ca/Great-War-Frederick-George-Scott/dp/0978465253
https://archive.org/details/greatwarasi00scotuoft
Farley Mowat, The Regiment (1974).
https://www.amazon.ca/Regiment-Farley-Mowat/dp/1551251221
Let us know what you thought of the podcast and tell your friends! Also, check out our blogs:
James: http://rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com
Mike: http://madpadrewargames.blogspot.com
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 26: Is This Thing Still A Thing?
Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 25: Just Mike and James Nattering
Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 24: Talking Kriegspiels With Our Guest Wendy de Wolfe
Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 23: HotLead 2023 Postgame
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast, Episode 22, With Our Guest, Marc Rodrigue, Designer of GMT’s Bayonets and Tomahawks
Episode 21 With Our Guests, Roger Chrysler on Gaming the War of 1812, and Kevin Jacobi of Six Squared Studios
It’s the Second Annual Canadian Wargamer Podcast Christmas Party!
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 20 With Our Guest, Glenn Pearce
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 19:No Guest, Just a Natter
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 18 with Our Guests, Dr. Robert Engen, and Morgan Drawson of TundraWorks
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 17 With Our Guest, Thomas Moore.
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast, Episode 16 with our Special Guest Panel and Topic: Why Another Set of Napoleonics Rules?
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 15, With Our Guest, Pierre-Yves Troel, Canadian Lard Ambassador
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 14, with our guest, Shawn Taylor of Great War Spearhead
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 13: The Hotlead 2022 Blue Ribbon Panel Wrap-up
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 12 With Our Guest, Cynthia Jing of the Laurentian Tabletop Gaming Organization
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 11 With Our Guest Joe Saunders of Miniature Landscape Hobbies
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 10 With Our Guest Jason Weiser of Military Miniature Magazine
Episode Nine: The Christmas Special
The Canadian Wargamer Podcast Episode 8 With Guest Brad St. Croix of On This Day in Canadian Military History
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
That Don‘t Sound Right
Adeptus Ridiculous
Gun Talk
Love to Sew Podcast
来都来了 | 听了再走