Pawnderings on Games

Paste magazine is reporting that a remake of Clue is on the way: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/02/hasbro-gore-verbinski-to-rema...

Wargames usually feature much more intricate game procedures than typical games. Eurogamers often complain that wargames are "fiddl...

The Young General and the Old Warhorse continued their march through the scenarios of BattleLore recently, playing A Complex Web, shown bel...

Seega one of those traditional games that are popular in game compendium books. For example, it appears in R.C. Bell's Boardgame Book,...

Looks like there's someone trying to bring back the discontinued game. http://www.saveheroclix.com/

According the Reuters Marvel has extended it's licensing deal with Hasbro. http://uk.reuters.com/article/autoNews/idUKTRE51G3IW20090217 ...

Chattanooga is a detailed wargame of the namesake battle on the regimental level. It was the issue game in Command Magazine No. 43 in 1997,...

It seems to be running OK, although at least one opponent reports some unusual behavior.

They now have a message on their site to that effect.

It was associated with a gadget for a online game I had added to the site, now removed.

Been a bad week for online game sites. I may go ahead and join wargameroom and gametableonline so I have more options. :-)

Every so often a wargame design heads down the wrong road from the start, resulting in a game that doesn ’t quite work. Perfidious Albion i...

The 9-year-old Young General and the Old Warhorse finally made it to our first Lore adventure, entitled Wizards & Lore. It's a pret...

Axis & Allies D-Day represents the point where Axis & Allies became a brand, not just a the name of a game. While Axis & Allies...

Hell Before Night is a detailed wargame of the Battle of Shiloh on the regimental level. It was one of two issue games in Command Magazin...

Blitzkrieg 1940 is a hard-core hex-and-counter wargame of the campaign that doomed France in 1940, with a second scenario considering what ...

The issue game in Command Magazine No. 41 was Wave of Terror: The Battle of the Bulge, another of the “mini-monsters” that XTR published in...

Introducing the dwarves was a popular move, but changed surprisingly little in our continuing series of games between the Old Warhorse and ...

Well, our first exposure to the Goblinoids wasn't very impressive, but the game was notable because Young General earned his first vict...

His story is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Beck I was never a big purchaser of the line, but I always thought they were very cleve...