Pawnderings on Games

I will be posting, on an occasional basis, musings about particular pieces in the Axis & Allies series of miniatures. There's an old...

Very annoying when they go down. I think this is an unscheduled outage.

It's hard to believe 40 years have gone by. It's sort of a Biblical-sounding length of time. Does that make me a Methuselah? In Marc...

Bowen Simmons' latest design entry demonstrates that his Gettysburg game will definitely not be rehashing the same ground as his Napol...

I'm planning to be at the WBC for about three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, in case anyone wants to get together for some FTF g...

Bowen Simmons has a series of "design entries" at his Web site on his new Gettysburg game, and it's looking intriguing. Here...

I'll be posting, on an occasional basis, musings about particular pieces in the Axis & Allies series of miniatures. Base set 6 pdr...

Check out Bowen Simmons' new design entry

All-in-all, I think Hasbro has done a decent job with the Axis & Axis collectible miniatures, especially considering that it doesn't...

Looks like the Sept. 1 release date is firm now for the next set. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/aam/WaratSeaFS

Actually, it even seems odd to use the word traditional when discussing a hobby that's a little over a half-century old, but most people...

This intrigued me from the moment I heard about it. Like Bowen Simmons' designs of Napoleon's Triumph and Bonaparte at Marengo , Ma...

World War II is full of amazing stories, but one that gets relatively little attention in the U.S. is Finland's odyssey between 1939 a...

There's an intersting thread over on BGG called "I Want to be a Wargamer" about how new wargamers can get over the hump of le...

There are a lot of characteristics differentiating wargames from other game types, but one common one is the scenario-style wargame . Usu...

I'm not sure if it's the recession or what, but newspaper features on local board game nights keep popping up. Here's one from T...

Took a ride down to New Jersey today to visit friends. I happened to stop at a urban Dunkin Donuts in Plainfield , N.J. for an ice coffee a...

One of the early sales pitches for Avalon Hill wargames is that YOU are in command, as shown by the box art for Tactics II, above. Generall...

From a comment on my BGG posting on the Big 3 of Naval Wargaming . Regarding Midway's importance. I'd like to suggest that Midway m...

More than most genres of gaming, naval wargaming's development has been dominated by a small number of designers. Three individuals, in...