Pawnderings on Games

One aspect of this new "golden age" for wargaming is the plethora of reprints and reissues that have been appearing. In some case...

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There are three main ways of depicting military units is wargames these days: Figures, blocks and counters. Figures have the advantage of b...

Columbia Website lists the following optional rules for Liberty (which are in addition to some optional rules in the actual rulebook: LIBERT...

Spooks is a fun little game, but I was curious why the designer decided on five suits for the cards. It occurred to me that Spooks, like som...

Back to Iraq (3rd Ed.) Historical Scenario S&T No. 208 By Seth Owen Back to Iraq was published in 2002 prior to the actu...

Kadesh: Mobile Warfare in the Ancient Middle East is a hex-and-counter wargame depicting the first battle in history we have any kind of sub...

A popular past time on BoardGame Geek is questioning the " wargame " credentials of games like Memoir '44, but I think there...

Yeah, it's true. I almost didn't buy the game that turned out to be Columbia's single biggest hit. When I first heard about Hamm...

Whether he becomes president or not, Barack Obama has already secured a consequential place in U.S. history, but I won't be the first ...

It occurred to me recently that Fluxx and Munchkin have quite a few similarities, but one notable difference. The similarities is that bot...

The Good, the Bad and the Munchkin proves that no genre is immune to Munchkiness . While the Old West has been popular in literature and vis...

It's interesting to see a game "rebooted" and head off into new directions. It's a risky move for a game company, because ...

When Dragons Fight has the sad distinction of being the issue game in the final issue of Command Magazine, No. 54, dated November 2000. Comm...

Steve Jackson must have a soft spot for chess variants. Although Steve Jackson Games doesn't really have a very extensive line, and what...

Nice bits are always desirable in agame , of course, but I think they have an extra dimension of importance for designers of abstract strate...

Beyond a doubt, one of the coolest games in my collection is the Leyte Gulf edition of the Second World War at Sea series. It contains two ...

Pacific Victory is Columbia Games' block game about the Pacific War in World War II. It's a development of the system used in Victor...

For more than 40 years the premier adult gaming company was Avalon Hill. While most famous for its wargames , the Baltimore-based AH was alw...

Chancellorsville is unique among the published scenarios in Battle Cry in that neither army has a presence in all three sections of the batt...