Pawnderings on Games

Napoleon's Last Battles is one of the true classics of the SPI era, going through numerous printings and being resurrected in a Decisio...

The Hexwar .com online game playing service provides a very user-friendly way to play some classic SPI / Decicion Games titles. Every game...

Most of Decision Games' Blue & Gray series games are reprints of SPI classics, but there are two original scenarios in the box, dea...

Shiloh is a popular battle to wargame , so it's no surprise it's included in the Blue & Gray quad by SPI and the second edition...

One of the smallest games in the Blue & Gray series, First Bull Run appears in the Decision Games edition. It shares the same map as the...

The Battle of Nations ( SPI , 1975) is an old-fashioned straightforward hex-and-counter wargame using the Napoleon at War game system. It w...

Nuclear War Card-by-card Created in the middle of the Cold War in the same tradition of black humor that inspired Dr’ Strangelove, the card ...

I have posted an essay on the Nuclear War card game on Boardgame Geek at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/2020447#2020447

I followed the 1972 Fischer- Spassky match closely, although I was far too weak a chess player to fully appreciate what was going on. Still...

By 1973 Jim Dunnigan's wargame -producing system was cranking up into full gear. One technique that made this possible was creating gam...

One game I've always liked and admired but never had much success in getting friends to play is Redmond Simonsen's 1974 game Starfo...

It's been reported that reading for pleasure is in steep decline, with some even wondering if it's terminal . http://www.press-citiz...