Pawnderings on Games

There have been dozens of games about the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of Gettysburg and the African Campaign -- but there's only bee...

Dixie : Shiloh is the biggest set of cards in the Columbia Games stable of collectible card games. For the larger battles of Gettysburg and ...

Columbia Games was actually one of the first companies to jump on the Collectible Game bandwagon, publishing Dixie" Shiloh in 1994. On ...

One of the surprising things to me about the current state of the wargame hobby is the lack of attention to current contingencies. Back in ...

Gathered the family unit for the "Official Last Game of the Year." We were going to nominate and dice for the result until Mom ann...

Mason-Dixon is an unusual what-if hex-and-counter wargame that assumes the Confederacy won the Civil War in 1863. The game background postu...

Hence the sparse posts of late. With luck it will back to full steam ahead shortly

Illuminati: New World Order is an odd fish in many ways, starting with the theme, of course. The basic premise is that all those tinfoil -we...

Due to my job I rarely have a weekday evening off, and when I do have one off it's usually for some non-gaming reason, so I don't no...

Redemption is a case of a collectible game that has some of the trappings of a military conflict game, but is really of limited interest to ...

This is the issue game in Command Magazine No. 34 (which also included the Death & Destruction expansion for Proud Monster). Dwarfed by ...

Like it's sister game, Echelons of Fire, the 1995 collectible game Echelons of Fury was an obvious imitator of Magic: The Gathering, wit...

The dollar lost significant ground against the euro and yuan today: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4460aa54-cc6f-11dd-acbd-000077b07658.html This...

I've reviewed Echelons of Fire in greater detail elsewhere , http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/315273 , but to recap, Echelons of Fire...

Magic: The Gathering is one of the seminal games of the gaming hobby, right up there with Tactics, Diplomacy, Panzerblitz , Dungeons & D...

Over the next few weeks I plan to review some of the collectible games I'm familiar with from a wargaming hobby point of view. By defin...

Death & Destruction is not a standalone wargame but an expansion module for Proud Monster, Ty Bomba's magnus opus divisional leve...

A lot of ideas that appear in Ted Raicer's popular Paths of Glory make an appearance here, with the game's chit random event system...

Mark K and I wrapped up a full day of gaming with a match of the Jim Dunnigan Drive on Metz game, using the Victory Point Games edition. Whi...

Mark K. and I continued our full day of gaming with Hold the Line, which uses the same system as Clash for a Continent with some changes in ...