About this podcast
Join us as we explore historical wargames, interview game designers, and occasionally sip a dram of fine Scotch! Little Wars FM is a premium podcast supported by the patrons of Little Wars TV, the largest historical wargaming channel on YouTube. To listen to every episode of the show, join us on Patreon!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 37 episodes
- The Gallic Wars with Lindsay Powell · 1 h 23 min · Episode 64Our Little Wars FM podcast returns with historian, author, and magazine editor Lindsay Powell. We sit down for an extended discussion of Julius Caesar's seminal history of the…
- 15 Questions with Midgard's James Morris · 1 h 11 min · Episode 63Our classic "15 Questions" interview format returns with game designer James Morris, the author of Midgard Heroic Battles (2024). You saw us play this game in the recent Battle…
- A Knife's Edge at Stalingrad with Prit Buttar · 1 h 54 min · Episode 62Today on Little Wars FM, Greg interviews Dr. Prit Buttar to learn about the critical period of late November through December 1942. Dr. Buttar is a prolific historian with many…
- The Thomas Hill Wargamers · 36 min · Episode 61Little Wars FM returns with two new guests--Adam and Dave of the Thomas Hill Wargame Club. If the name sounds familiar, it may be because you've seen their award-winning games at…
- Northern Exile Talks Games Workshop · 60 min · Episode 56If you listened to our podcast conversation with legendary game designer Rick Priestley, you heard him suggest the reason Warmaster failed to take off may have been because the…
- Rick Priestley Talks Warmaster · 1 h 14 min · Episode 52Games Workshop released Warmaster in 2000 as its first epic scale, mass battle game set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. But did you know Warmaster was supposed to be released…
- How to Film Board Games · 1 h 3 min · Episode 53Today on Little Wars FM we're joined by Gary Blevins of Board Game Nation. Last year Gary produced a viral YouTube sensation with his multi-part video series recapping the 2023…
- 15 Questions with Eric Farrington · 1 h 4 min · Episode 52For our club-versus-club Thermopylae wargame against Mark's Game Room, we used Men of Bronze as the rules for our land battle. Today, the author joins Little Wars FM for an…
- Hail Agrippa! (feat. Mark Backhouse) · 49 min · Episode 51Greg talks to author and game designer Mark Backhouse about a 2013 article written in WSS Magazine called "Hail Agrippa." That article is freely available here, from WSS. A…
- The International Kriegsspiel Society · 50 min · Episode 50Little Wars FM officially turns 50! Our Patreon fans voted on the topic for our 50th podcast, and here it is. Miles and Ed chat with the International Kriegsspiel Society about…
- Is Miniature Air Combat Boring? · 1 h 0 min · Episode 49Plenty of miniature games for air combat exist--Check Your Six and Wings of Glory are played in our club--but they do have their limitations. Something both of those rule sets…
- 15 Questions with Frank Chadwick · 1 h 5 min · Episode 47Today on Little Wars FM, we interview a legendary American game designer, Frank Chadwick. Frank's wargaming roots go back decades and include major titles like Volley & Bayonet…
- 1813 Campaign Consequences...Who Won? · 1 h 20 min · Episode 46With the Little Wars TV 1813 campaign concluded, we check in with two expert Napoleonic historians for their reaction. Who won our campaign? Would Napoleon's tactical and…
- 1813 Campaign Summer Negotiation · 1 h 22 min · Episode 45In the aftermath of our Spring 1813 Napoleonic campaign, Napoleon and Tsar Alexander meet for a heated negotiation. Many issues are on the table as both sides jockey for…
- Starting a Channel in 2023: Mark’s Game Room · 45 min · Episode 43Little Wars FM is the companion podcast to our YouTube channel, Little Wars TV, which we started over 5 years ago! A lot has changed on YouTube since then. What's it like to…
- How to Design a Great Campaign (Part 2) · 1 h 25 min · Episode 42This week on Little Wars FM, we return to the topic of wargaming campaigns. In Part 1 we talked about linear, or "ladder style" campaign systems. Today we tackle map-based…
- Wargaming Campaigns with Henry Hyde · 1 h 3 min · Episode 39In Part 1 of our series "How to Design Wargaming Campaigns," we talked to Henry Hyde. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more knowledgeable historian of our miniature tabletop hobby…
- How to Design a Great Campaign · 1 h 21 min · Episode 37This week on Little Wars FM, we dive into a juicy topic--miniature wargaming campaigns. Our Pyrrhic War campaign this summer was a huge success, both within the club and on…
- ”Fistful of Lead Reloaded” Rule Review · 27 min · Episode 35This week on Little Wars FM, Josh and Dieter review "Fistful of Lead: Reloaded" from Wiley Games. The first edition of this Wild West skirmish game debuted almost 20 years ago…
- Gunfighter’s Ball Rule Review · 36 min · Episode 34This week on Little Wars FM, Josh and Dieter review Gunfighter's Ball from Knuckleduster Miniatures. This is a Wild West skirmish game written by Forrest Harris and Brian Martin…
