Simon Miller on the 20 sided Gamified Podcast

A brief intermission while I work on the next post about the 1813 in Spain Campaign in a Day...

Recoded late this Spring, I shot the breeze with Simon Miller (author of To the Strongest!, For King and Parliament, and the upcoming early18th century rules, Lust for Glory.  and my friend and 20 sided gamified podcast host, Jared Fishman. The episode was just released today. You can follow the link to the pod on Apple play, or search for the podcast on almost any site hosting same. I had a lot of fun doing the episode.  From the episode introduction:

Episode #111: Simon Miller- Innovator, Designer, and Wargamer!

Podcast Listeners- this episode was definitely a bucket list interview! For the next 90 minutes, enjoy our conversation with wargames author Simon Miller. Most well known for "To the Strongest", Simon is an experienced gamer and rules designer who, in my humble opinion, has done a lot for the world of ancient, medieval, and renaissance miniature wargaming. While TTS can be played in a competitive environment, it's one of those systems that lends itself to narrative games, and feels more like an ancient battle compared with the more geometric games of the 80s and 90s. Simon is a prolific collector and has massive armies, and is a consistent presenter and game master at wargaming conventions across the UK. Also- you'll get to relive my trauma of playing DBA (which don't get me wrong, I do like!) as a child in the early 90s! Enjoy the episode!!! Huge thanks to Peter Anderson, who co-hosted the episode, and introduced me to TTS roughly 10 years ago.

The rules that started it all...

30 free lists, can be downloaded directly

200+ lists in electronic format; buy once and all updates thereafter are free. 

The same for Medieval era

The rules that got my ECW armies on the table

Scotland, Ireland, and the like

Reports of many battles fought from this scenario e-book have been chronicled here on the blog; this book resulted in my Scots Covenanter Army!

I have this one, too; need to get ECW back on the tabletop!

and this one, too!

and this one as well!

Simon sells all of these in electronic and most in print format on his e-store:

https://bigredbatshop.co.uk/

Other products include many gridded and non gridded gaming mats, chits for his rules systems, various coins for use as victory medals, chits to replace cards in the game for those who prefer them, and a lot more. 

I regularly listen to the 20 sided gamified podcast while painting. Some other episodes that might be of particular interest to readers of this blog ( alittle shameless self promtion) include:

Episode 97: My Favorite Napoleonic Campaign System: Russ Lockwood, Peter Anderson, and the Joy of the Game

Listeners- if you like Napoleonic wargaming, or continue to search for that campaign system that actually WORKS- you're in luck! Check out our latest episode with author Russ Lockwood, who designed the wonderful set of wargames rules, Snappy Nappy! He's been featured all over the place, including on the incomparable Little Wars TV, and his games are played all over the place both domestically and internationally. More than anything- Snappy Nappy, which I've both played and run myself, gives a feel for a Napoleonic campaign better than any other game I know of. Played across numerous tables, armies literally march across the room quickly, and players need to use a map to keep track of where they are which objectives they're heading towards! Also featured on this episode is my dear friend and wargaming confidant Peter Anderson, who is a multi-time award winning GM at HMGS cons, and simply put, one of the best GMs I know. He is warm, kind, and a living encyclopedia for anything related to the Napoleonic age. Each year, Peter runs or helps run a Snappy Nappy campaign in a day at the Portal, an awesome gaming store in Manchester CT, about 45mins from 20SG HQ. Peter is also an author himself, having wrote several rulesets/supplements for Piquet and Piquet related systems.

Episode #2: The Antidote to IGO-UGO- Brent Oman and the Field of Battle Series

On today's pod, Brent Oman, author of the tremendous Field of Battle series of miniature wargames, and most recently, Battle Command, comes on to discuss his theories on gaming, game design, and the rewards of rules' authoring. It was a fun conversation and covered everything from Brent's earliest forays into gaming, as well as the plans he has for future publications. If you've never played Piquet or any of Brent's Field of Battle games, this podcast will give you great insight into why you should head immediately to https://www.piquetwargames.com/ and poke around! Please enjoy the show!