War Room XVII: Battle of Poltava, 1709 is out for Patrons! (Patreon)

So obviously neither Weserubung nor Praying Mantis... here's a battle that you probably you don't know about. It's the Swedish Empire vs the Russian Tsardom, which was a little bit sticky. Anything involving Russians on YT is naturally going to attract certain points of view, so I've tackled this mostly from the Swedish point of view. There's plenty about this that I don't like: not least the maps and the way that I had a really good book on the battle that I can't find, but... I think it gets the point across.

That said, perhaps I should start aiming at some more common battles on the basis that it's easier to get material for them.

In other news, we've had the first day of Fight Club's JL28 STAFFEX play out. There's been a lot of missiles flying around the South China Sea so now we need to take stock, adapt and get the next day's plans in to White Cell. It's awesome.

Meanwhile on Youtube, the first of the three videos I'm doing for Slitherine/Matrix Games has gone live, injecting a little chaos into my schedule (though I wonder how many people will figure out what "Lattichdorf" means...).

On the one hand, the video probably deserves a little room to breathe... on the other, the editor type videos generally don't do very well and I really want to get Semper Fi Syria 4 out to gets some explosions back into the mix. Not sure right now wheher I want to stick to the schedule or delay SFS4 a little.

Of course, I could delay SFS4 by a week and feed you guys the final Baltic Shield Mission (and cook something up for the Youtube members) and scrounge up a solid week of breathing space to tackle the next Matrix Games video before bearing down on SFS5.

Decisions, decisions...