Pawnderings on Games

My good friend, fellow wargamer and all-around fine fellow Mark Perry has died of a massive heart attack while on a business trip in Hawaii...

Just to demonstrate the advantages of knowing the enemy OB, I solitaired three iterations of the following 100-point British fleet against t...

So the Soviet fleet and the Scharnhorst / Scheer squadron had a rematch. This time I had the Soviets concentrate on trying to eliminate Ge...

A commenter over at the FuroMini site suggested a German fleet to defeat the 98-point Soviet Fleet. To recap, the Soviet Fleet comprises on...

The survivors of the British 1st Airborne Division were rescued on this day (Sept. 26, 1944) 65 years ago. This operation is generally cons...

So I tried a little solitaire matchup today to see how my 98-point Soviet Fleet (all I got) might match up against an Axis 100-point fleet....

According to Baker's blog he's reviewing the sculpts for Set IV (Condition Zebra) and now taking suggestions for a name for Set V! ...

Today I did something I haven't done in a bit, play a complete solitaire game of a new S&T magazine title. I figured I didn't ha...

I received my S&T Issue 258 game package today -- The Santiago Campaign of 1898. It appears to be standard S&T fare, with 11 pages ...

One of the more interesting aspects of the Second World War was the refusal of the defeated anti-Axis powers to stay defeated. This was evi...

I will be posting, on an occasional basis, musings about particular pieces in the Axis & Allies series of miniatures. As with most early...

Sept. 1 was the 70 th anniversary of the start of World War II AND it was the release date for the Flank Speed expansion for Axis & All...

Well, it took a long time, but apparentlythe Heroclix game will live on . Something called NECA is buying most of the Wizkids intellectual p...

Some have complained that females are a bit under represented in Small World, with just the Amazons so far. Well, there are five new races c...

This bugs me everytime I see it. I really don't understand why they take this position. I'm 100% certain that you're allowed to ...

When you think about it, there's not a lot of fresh ground to trod in wargaming . Just about every war anybody heard of -- and many that...

Just on a whim I picked up a Flank Speed booster at the local store. The best possible result would be to pull a second Intrepid. I wanted ...

It's not unusual for the cards associated with collectible miniatures games to undergo format changes. Dungeons and Dragons miniatures,...

I prepared a small 100-point game for use at The Citadel today in case I could persuade anyone to play. The one other gamer who showed up wa...

Here's what I got: From two cases: HMCS Sackville Common 4 Milan Common 5 Suffren Rare 2 HMNZS Leander Uncommon 3 HMS Belfast Uncommon 2...