Pawnderings on Games

The Front series launched by EastFront and culminating in the most recent EuroFront II is one of the more involved block games, which are ...

Sunrise of Victory is a detailed hex-and-counter wargame covering the crucial middle period of the Eastern Front campaign of World War II th...

Most of the campaign cards in Hornet Leader represent what-ifs, and there's nothing wrong with that, as part of the game;s interest is ...

One of the pleasures of a real in-depth military simulation such as Phase Line Smash is the insight it can provide into actual historical ev...

One might be excused if one thought women were nearly as fully involved in the violence of war as men if one went by science fiction and fan...

Abalone's one of the better modern abstracts. The rules are straightforward, it introduces a new conflict-resolution technique (pushing)...

One of absolute favorite game designers is Bowen Simmons with his fantastic Bonaparte at Marengo and Napoleon's Triumph. Now he's st...

Victory at Midway is a low-complexity hex-and-counter wargame covering the pivotal 1942 naval battle. It was the issue game in Command Magaz...

Author's note: This article orginally appeared in Strategy & Tactics No. 136 in July 1990 THE HISTORY OF WARGAMING 1975-1990 (Jim Du...

Quarto! leaves me in a bit of a quandary because I think I like the game better than I should. I ought not to like it much because it's...

This article was first published in Strategy & Tactics magazine No. 135, summer 1990 Only minor typos have been corrected. Since the art...

There are a lot of reasons to play wargames , but one of them is to get some insight into real-world events. When I think of a game that...

Just a quick rundown of the vessels included in the game with some comments. SUBMARINES: Argentina Salta and San Luis (German Type 209 cla...