Mentioned In Dispatches S15 E2 – The 2024 Charlies
"Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair DragoonsShow Notes
26 September 2025 ~ The 2024 Charles S Roberts Awards were presented over the Summer at Origins9 but we didn’t get a chance to weigh in with our opinions until now. Look, you already know who won, because you read our site religiously and saw the list we published back in June, right? Right?! But what you haven’t heard is Jim chime in with his outrageous French accent, or Mike complain about conflating solo and co-op games10, or Brant give a bit of behind-the-scenes insight, or how The Doors factor into all of this11. Some of the links & lists that we discussed during the show
The winners of the 2024 CSR’s Mentioned In Dispatches S14 E10 ~ Wargame Awards The CSR category descriptions 2022 episode about changes to the CSR Awards The record-setting marathon episode discussing the CSRs from 2021 (not the U-Boat year) Discussing the 2020 CSRs for games released in 2019 (the year they came back)
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