Pawnderings on Games

Today is the anniversary of Operation Torch, Nov. 8 1942. I put together a short Geeklist on Boardgame Geek in honor of the event.

On the 101st anniversary of the gun battle in Bolivia that ended the outlaw careers of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, my step son and...

The new War at Sea Starter appears to have at least three ships that fought at Empress Augusta Bay included. Speculation from ForuMINI , bas...

We had a good turn-out the first time, so we will be gathering again for a Family Game Night at the Greeneville Church, Prospect Street in ...

Having drawn up the outlines of a history-based scenario for War at Sea, I thought it would be interesting to play it out and see if it was ...

Looking over Steve Jackson's Ogre today, I wondered if it's central premise makes sense anymore, given the way technology has evolve...

Japanese heavy cruiser Myoko It's possible to closely match the order of battle for this evenly matched battle of Nov. 2, 1943, using Wa...

Drawing up lists of so-called "Principles of War" have been a past time for strategists for a long time -- since Sun Tzu a couple...

The Black Cat from Spooks! Have a Happy Halloween

After playing a few times solitaire and against live opponents, I think a review of Martin Wallace's unusual Waterloo game is in order. ...

In an interesting development, Looney Labs, best known for its loopy card game Fluxx and the various Pyramid games has started a whole new...

Been engaged in a knock-down, drag-out fight with the flu bug for the past four days, but finally emerged victorious. Nasty little bugger. I...

Drive on Metz is an introductory wargame first published in 1980 inside the pages of prolific game designer James Dunnigan's book, The C...

Today's project was a Geeklist on Boardgame Geek about Gameplay magazine, which appeared from 1983-84.

Continuing my ruminations on Munchkin Impossible. In Munchkin-series games treasure cards are important, but it's Door cards that you i...

In another one of my running projects on questions that suit my fancy, I'm going to look at the cards of various Munchkin series games a...

After a long hiatus playing other things, Young general and Old Warrior returned to BattleLore . The nice thing about being young is that yo...

I had another rare Friday night off from work so I took advantage of that good fortune to head over to Windsor for the biweekly game session...

My church actually anticipated this Hasbro ad campaign -- we had a Family Game Night months ago, but I'm glad to see Hasbro pushing this...

I'll be posting, on an occasional basis, musings about particular pieces in the Axis & Allies series of miniatures. The Inspiring Li...