Pawnderings on Games

The Young general and I moved on to the second scenario in the BattleLore book, First Chevauchee . This is a straight-up fight between two...

The Battle of Buena Vista was one of two wargames in Command No. 40 (The other was Moscow Burning). With only 8 pages of rules one might e...

Moscow Burning is one of two wargames in Command Magazine No. 40 of November, 1996 (The other was Buena Vista). A game of low-complexity ...

Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures is a skirmish-level combat game of man-to-man, man-to- monster and monster-to- monster combat. Thematical...

Command No. 39 may have been the best gaming value for a single issue of any wargame magazine with three (or four, depending how you count ...

My 9-year-old has been asking about playing some "real" wargames for a while. In addition to the usual family fare, we've bee...

I would have expected this story in The Onion: http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=75200901016 but it's pretty funny anyway.

Lord of the Rings: Tradeable Miniatures Game is a very wargamey skirmish level collectible miniatures game. Each miniature represents a si...

I finally had a chance to get Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition on the table and I wasn't disappointed. It's a big, grand and en...

Perhaps, if this report is correct: http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13924.html The gist of the report is that Catalyst and Pinata have joi...

According to AP Toy maker Mattel Inc. said Friday it bought Sekkoia SAS, which makes board game Blokus, for undisclosed financial terms. In ...

Hoorah ! Six Bridges: The Battle of Pittsburgh, 1 October, 1863 is a hex-and-counter wargame portraying a fictional battle for Pittsburgh d...

Dreamblade is an abstract strategy collectible miniatures game that may be on ground that's a little more familiar to wargamers becaus...

The issue game in Command Magazine No. 37, The Great War in the Near East, is an add-on module for The Great War in Europe, which appeared i...

The Moscow Option: Guderian's Gambit is one of two wargames in Command No. 37 (The other is Mukden ). It could be considered Proud Mon...

Mukden is one of two games in Command No. 37 (the other is The Moscow Option). The game is an operational level portrayal of the battle tha...

There's not much to see here, from a wargamer's perspective. Navia Dratp is an abstract conflict game similar too chess, or, even...

I already reviewed Eagles Waterloo a few months ago and don't have anything differeng to say about that particular game. The review is h...

Dixie Gettysburg ended up being the final entry in Columbia's Dixie series of collectible card wargames based on American Civil War bat...

SS Panzer: Bloodbath at Kursk is the issue game in Command Magazine No. 36. It's tactical in scope, with every unit representing a comp...