Pawnderings on Games

There's been some grousing about the counters included in the Memoir '44 Overlord expansion but I think even owners of two M'44 ...

The issue game in Command No. 26 in 1994 was When Tigers Fight covering the 1944 campaign in the rarely-simulated China-Burma-India theater....

BoardGame Geek has a couple more announcements of local game stores closing, and given that everyone is expecting a very weak holiday retai...

Topps announces it's closing up shop on HeroClix : http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=41914 So where does that leave the He...

Topps is discontinuing WizKids immediately! http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=41914 Among the things this will likely mean is a...

When Eagles Fight is a detailed hex-and-counter wargame . It covers the Eastern Front campaign of World War I, from August 1914 to early 191...

The American Revolution Battle King's Mountain seems at first consideration to be an excellent topic for a wargame . You have two armies...

Czechoslovakia '38 is an interesting treatment of a fascinating what-if from World War II from Command Magazine No. 24 in 1993. It depic...

Shogun Triumphant, a Command Magazine issue game, is an odd duck of a wargame, mostly because the battle itself is so bizarre. The game itse...

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...