Pawnderings on Games

The first block wargame was Quebec 1759 way back in 1972, so the type isn't much younger than the hex-and-counter style of wargame . Bu...

Two ill-equipped, poorly-supplied, barely trained Third-World armies scrapping over a wasteland few have ever heard of using World War I tac...

Few game announcements excited me more than when I heard Hasbro (in the guise of Avalon Hill) was actually going to produce a line of histor...

One of the hardest mental challenges there can be is to abandon our pre -conceived notions about something and look at a topic from the grou...

Flying Colors is GMT's attempt to make a workable two-player fleet action game for the age of sail. There can be little doubt that the ...

I have a bit of a split personality when it comes to wargames . While my main interest is and has always been historical wargames , I have a...

Friedrich is a historical wargame . Friedrich is a historically themed euro game. Can both statements be true? Histogames ' Friedrich, d...

Twilight's Last Gleaming 2 is the issue game from Strategy & Tactics No. 225, designed by Ty Bomba based on an earlier game by othe...

Pretty big news for BattleLore fans: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/334768

Crusader Rex is in the family of Columbia Games titles related to its very popular Hammer of the Scots. There are enough significant differe...

For Honor and Glory is the War of 1812 edition of Worthington Games' Wars for America series. These games have more than a passing rese...

Target: Arnhem is an interesting little game, although some who have played it more than I have suggest it has some balance issues. The larg...

I have a weakness for parody games, having several in my collection. Most of my parody games are based on pretty grim subjects, if you think...

I've toyed with picking up a couple of Lost Worlds books for years, literally. I was a big fan of Aces of Aces and eventually got the w...

Well, first off, I didn't win any trophies -- not that I expected I would. I really hoped to get a chance to play some stuff that I'...

I'm heading to the World Boardgame Championships convention in Lancaster, PA tomorrow, so posts will be sparse for a few days.

Memoir' 44 is a great game, and generally speaking I've like what Days of Wonder have done with it. It's not a rigorous simulati...

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...