Pawnderings on Games

OK, Fatal Choices is out With this project almost completed I should be able to start posting here much more regularly.

When I was in elementary school back in the 1960s I had several of the How and Why Wonder books. One in particular that I still remembe...

So the Fatal Choices Kickstarter was successful. I have been spending most of my time working on finishing up the book and the Rewards.  ...

Kickstarter for Fatal Choices launched! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1867183808/fatal-choices https://www.kickstarter.com/pro...

I've had a recent binge of Napoleon at Waterloo on Hexwar with my usual 60-40 split. For face-to-face gaming I finally got he chance t...

Marred by some poor spelling, but I suspect the creator may not be a native English speaker. Anyway, that is easily fixed.

Wargamers want fair contests. There's little sense of triumph in willing a foregone conclusion and it's disheartening to feel that n...

Sorry for the hiatus in posts and it's likely to continue a bit longer as I have been very busy with a big project. More will follow, ...

Up until now most of the reviews posted online have concentrated on the massive physical size of the Designer Edition OGRE package. There...

So the Boxes arrived! Dominion box for scale The long-awaited Kickstarter Edition of OGRE: It's enormous! Inside were 40 sh...

I rather like Test of Fire better than most, it seems. I rated it a “9” on BoardGame Geek while the game’s average rating doesn’t break a “s...

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Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge...

Our Katarina wasn't quite so cute, but we had a good time as Katarina the Outlaw (Nate), The Scarlet Shadow (Kenn) and Brother Marcus...

I plan to take a closer look at the differences in the orders of battle between all the editions, but first let's look at the changes be...

The long-anticipated 4th Edition of Napoleon arrived at my door just before the weekend. More elaborate judgement will have to await a chan...

I got to try out The Guns of Gettysburg in my first opposed play through (in contrast to solitaire playings). I'm pretty sure we made ...

I haven't had the chance to play Bowen Simmons' new The Guns of Gettysburg against anyone yet, but I did go through a solitaire pl...

Martin Wallace's Gettysburg is a special limited edition (1,500 copies) euro-style wargame about America's most famous Civil War ...