The Wargame Library Speaker Series continues with Steven Thomas, author of the incredible Balagan blog and independent game designer of countless titles. To learn more about his games, check his blog. When you started developing a fast-play WSS game back in 2001, what was missing from available game systems at the time? I actually wrote it about 1996 before I had a website. Sadly, that file no longer opened and I deleted it! Truth to tell, I knew nothing about the War of Spanish Succession...

There's never been a better time to be a miniature wargamer...and yet, finding great games has never been more difficult. In the age of self publishing and internet distribution, thousands of game systems jockey for our limited attention and hobby time. Hundreds of those games are shared freely by generous authors and publishers. Some have become household names, while most quietly fade into obscurity thanks to dead blogs, broken links, or the constant churn of new games being released every...

The Wargame Library Speaker Series continues with Etienne Michot, author of Unterseeboot, as well as Ducks in the Pond, D-Day Solitaire, and more. To learn more about his games, check his profile at Board Game Geek. What inspired you to enter the BGG solo design contest? We are talking 2016. A fellow designer by the name of Pete Belli was putting out his "One-Minute" wargame series at the time — One-Minute Bulge, One-Minute Waterloo, One-Minute Little Bighorn, etc. These were my inspiration....