Pawnderings on Games

Hougoumont is an innovative hex-and-counter wargame depicting the famous fight for the Chateau of Hougoumont at the Battle of Waterloo. T...

Successors is the second major variant for Command Magazine's issue 10 Alexandros game. Like Xenophon, Successors appeared in Command No...

Xenophon is a major variant for the Command Magazine game Alexandros, depicting the epic events of a generation earlier that inspired Alexan...

Back in the early 60s Milton Bradley published a line of American Heritage games that were the gateway for a lot of young Boomers to the ide...

There's probably not a richer, more fully realized fictional world from a single pen than Tolkien's Middle Earth. It's a world ...

One of the great joys of wargaming is learning neat new stuff . It's an added bonus over the general fun of any game, where you can exe...

Alexandros is an area movement-and-counter wargame depicting the Alexander the Great's campaign of conquest against the Persian Empire f...

Fangorn Forest A LOTR : TMG scenario based on the Fellowship of the Ring movie/book Order of Battle: Evil: Match the build of the Good si...

Metamorphosis is a fascinating chess-like abstract strategy game. Players earn points by moving pawns forward, capturing opposing pieces a...

Inchon: MacArthur's Gambit is a hex-and-counter wargame depicting the bold invasion behind North Korean lines that changed the course of...

... and I haven't even played it yet. I've got Carcassonne the City. It looks interesting and I love the presentation, being a suck...

The War of 1812 is a venerable senior citizen in the wargame world, having been more or less continuously in print since 1973. Unlike it...

On BoardGame Geek it's not uncommon to have some euro-background gamer express disappointment over the component quality of their first...

Piecepack at Waterloo An historical battle game using the Piecepack game system. Pieces needed: One piecepack set Four small coins Set up Us...

HeroClix Alpha strips the Heroclix system down to its essentials, for an overall mixed result. It gets rid of the concept of "pushing...

Axis & Allies: D-Day is, in many ways, a throwback to an earlier age in wargaming , when simulation definitely took a back seat to rip-r...

Lightning: D-Day was the second of the initial offerings in the Lightning series of wargame -like card games published by Decision Games. L...

Lightning: Midway is published by a wargame company and is about one of history's most famous, dramatic and consequential battles -- bu...

Back in April I looked at how someone could use a wargame (Gettysburg '88) to evaluate an author's theory (Tom Carhart in "Lo...

The "Old West" of American history is one of the more remarkable episodes of cultural myth-making in human history. The height of...