Pawnderings on Games

Even as I typed the words in my pervious post grousing about having to wait for my pre -orders there was a Priority Mail box sitting on my ...

I think one of the reasons why I'll still buy stuff at retail from a brick store is because when I decide I'm going to spend money o...

Using points as currency to buy units in wargames has been popular since at least the 1970s, when a point-based design-your-own system for ...

While it was under the control of Days of Wonder BattleLore seemed to be more of an army-level battle game with a very mild fantasy element...

I had the chance to visit two different game clubs today and they were very different experiences, although each positive. My first stop was...

Most tactical wargames focus on the usual and the typical while selecting the machines represented. Tank games are filled with T-34s, Sherm...

One interesting thing is that the Anniversary Edition is really just a scaled up version of the 1942 game -- or the 1942 edition as s caled ...

I was never a big Axis & Allies player back when it first came out, being much more into hard-core hex-and-counter games at the time. B...

Gale Force 9 specializes in producing licensed play aids for popular games. I have to say that my experience is that their products are a l...

A demo copy had been languishing at The Citadel for a few weeks, so I offered to go ahead and take the demo kit and run a game. It's har...

Well, actually, more than one, but only one came out OK. It's a shot of the large room where most of the wargame tournaments are held. I...

Like most tactical wargames Axis & Allies miniatures requires the use of various status tokens to keep track of the game state of units...

Wargames should provide entertainment and can be educational, but only a select few are so detailed that they can be used as analytical too...

A very long, but interesting design diary for Bowen Simmons' Gettysburg game was posted on Aug. 4. He goes through an extended attack e...

I'm starting to feel better and I hope to start keeping the blog up regularly again. I was hoping, of course, to have a lot of WBC relat...

Oh, I had a good plan. But any wargamer knows that a good plan doesn't stand a chance against really bad luck. Tuesday I had a really s...

So the next couple of days may be post-less, but there willbe a lot of new material afterward.

I got a chance to play the hot new game Dominion today in a four-sided contest at The Citadel in beautiful Groton , Conn. In consideration t...

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.