Pawnderings on Games

I've now got a few more plays under my belt and adjusted my thoughts on Allied strategy accordingly. I still think the French side is ea...

George B. McClellan was possibly the most frustrating man to ever command an American Army. He was brilliant and incompetent at the same tim...

Most wargamers , even those with pretty eclectic tastes, will have certain types of games that appeal to them more than others. I've alw...

We didn't have a very big turnout , I'm afraid, but the three of us who did make it had an enjoyable time of it. I decided to try t...

Mark the weekend that the world didn't end 46 years ago by taking part in a tournament of the Nuclear War card game at The Citadel Game ...

I tried a solitaire run-through of the first scenario in the French and Indian War expansion set for Hold the Line. Depicting the Battle on...

I wasn't able to attend any of the scheduled events, but i did the next best thing by playing a couple of games with C.K. at his house. ...

Charles Roberts may be the founder of modern board wargaming , but no one individual did more to expand the reach of the hobby than James F...

Blood and Iron is the issue game in Command Magazine No. 21 in 1993.It's a straightforward wargame in the classic style. Two evenly matc...

Cortes: Conquest of the Aztecs is the kind of wargame that only could appear in a magazine. As important as the event was, there are no panz...

Highly scripted, even by wargame standards, the Command Magazine game Port Arthur, when played correctly by the rules, will follow the hist...

A passing comment by Axis & Allies designer Larry Harris on some forum helped put his classic Axis & Allies design into a different ...

The issue game in Command Magazine No. 18, Tet 68 is the most S&T-like wargame to appear in the pages of Ty Bomba's competing peri...

When there have been a dozen or so games on the exact same topic you need to have something new to say about it if you expect to get any att...

Wargame Designer Ted Raicer, best known now for the popular Paths of Glory, has pretty much single-handedly resurrected interest in World Wa...

Many moons ago, when I was able to wear belts several inches shorter than today, there were some reasonably popular stock trading games out...

As I write this the government is engaged in negotiations over unprecedented measures t stave off a feared economic collapse. Should they s...

Carl and I also played a game of Tide of Iron, the first for both of us. I decided we'd try the Crusader scenario from Days of the Fox. ...

So my old and good friend Carl came by after a long hiatus and we played something old and something new. The old was Down in Flames, which ...

I've nearly collected the whole set. Overall, I'm pleased with the selection and quality, although a few of the sculpts are kind of ...