"What are you asking of your troops?" - how frontline experience shaped new indie wargame Foxhounds

"In most wargames, an individual soldier is exactly the same at the end of a fight as he is at the beginning of it, unless he's been hit", muses Nick Denning, but "Even on a day where we didn't take a scratch, I wasn't the same guy at the end of it as I was at the beginning". The former infantry commander served two tours in Afghanistan with the British army, and that experience is a massive factor in the design of his upcoming game Foxhounds, an indie miniature wargame for fast-playing modern and near-future battles. Wargamer caught up with Denning to learn more about his life, and how Foxhounds flips many orthodoxies of miniature wargaming on their head. Read the rest of the story...

Mar 19, 2026 - 23:18

"What are you asking of your troops?" - how frontline experience shaped new indie wargame Foxhounds

"In most wargames, an individual soldier is exactly the same at the end of a fight as he is at the beginning of it, unless he's been hit", muses Nick Denning, but "Even on a day where we didn't take a scratch, I wasn't the same guy at the end of it as I was at the beginning". The former infantry commander served two tours in Afghanistan with the British army, and that experience is a massive factor in the design of his upcoming game Foxhounds, an indie miniature wargame for fast-playing modern and near-future battles. Wargamer caught up with Denning to learn more about his life, and how Foxhounds flips many orthodoxies of miniature wargaming on their head.

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