17 July 2025

History, Medieval, Retrospective

Stuart Gorman

Today is the anniversary of the battle of Castillion. A year ago today I submitted the final draft of my manuscript for Castillon: The Final Battle of the Hundred Years War to my editor. Now, once again on the anniversary of the battle, my book is out and I thought it would be interesting to write something about the experience of writing it.

If I’m honest, though, I feel kind of disconnected from the book now. I finished it over a year ago, and while I’ve re-read it in that time as part of proofreading and making the final tweaks to the text, as a project it has felt finished for a long time. In the intervening time I moved to South Korea and started a new job, and I haven’t had much time to think about what that day in 1453 might mean to me still.

Les 3 Zuaves

Stuart Gorman

20 January 2026

American Civil War, American Revolution, COIN, Fort Circle Games, GMT Games, Korean War, Korea, Men of Iron, Napoleonics, Revolution Games, Wargame, Wars of the Roses, World War 1, Salt and Pepper Games, Sound of Drums, Les 3 Zuaves

Most Anticipated Games: 2026 Edition

Stuart Gorman

20 January 2026

I did a terrible job at predicting what games would come out in 2025. In my defense, I didn’t see the tariffs and trade war between the US and China coming, which caused massive disruption to the tabletop games industry and delayed lots of games. Of the 11 games on my list last year, only 4 actually came out in 2025. Of those four, I own two of them and have played zero (but I set up one of them on my table!). That’s pretty embarrassing, but the silver lining is that it should make it easy for me to do better next year.

Last year I recapped, in brief, the games from my list that I had played, but since this year I played literally none of them there’s no point in doing so!