One of the cooler solo games that I experienced in 2023 was The Mog: Mogadishu 1993 from White Dog Games. This game is literally Black Hawk Down in a board game. And it is really very fun to play and I love how the system works to spawn your enemies. Historically, on October 3, 1993, US Special Forces under the auspices of the UN were tasked with capturing top lieutenants of the hostile warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in Mogadishu, Somalia. The game begins with US forces preparing to raid a building near the Olympic Hotel to capture these high-level members of Aidid’s Somali National Alliance (SNA). The player’s goal is to get US forces out of Mogadishu with their captives and return safely to a UN base. But the game has other scenarios of differing lengths and play times as well but this is the one that I played the most.

In this video, I playthrough the Radio Mogadishu scenario.

-Grant