Pawnderings on Games

When I was a child, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a fresh memory for the adults in my life, so it hardly needed special reminders ...

Certainly Bananagrams is the closest thing to a popular fad "board" game to come out in a few years. There's an interesting B...

I'm in my last few minutes as BoardGame Geek's Geek of the Week , but just as they say, "The King is dead, long live the King!...

Martian Fluxx contents Copyright Looney Labs I'm a serious fan of wargames and simulations, but I also have a definite weakness for...

We will be having an Axis & Allies game day and Meetup at the Arkham Asylum's new store location here in Norwich at 276 West Main St...

This blogger reports on a trip in China that brought him to a warehouse full of high-quality copies of "German" games, which is i...

Speculative wargames have been a staple since SPI published Red Star/White Star, and in particular speculation about how a possible confro...

Scenario set-up from Napoleon's Battles Module Two copyright 1994, The Avalon Hill Game Co . Despite the fact that a half-dozen or so of...

I think there are three different, but related, aspects of this whole brouhaha on Boardgame Geek that everybody can take away as lessons lea...

Some special tokens: Dragon, Hero, Halfling Holes-in-the-Ground. Small World is the wildly popular fantasy conquest game designed by Philip...

On Nov. 30, 1939, Soviet troops crossed the border into Finland, beginning an unusual war that pitted small Finland against huge Russia. I t...

Lost Worlds has been around for a very, very long time. The first books, designed by Alfred Leonardi , were published by Nova Games Designs ...

Yours truly is deeply humbled to be Geek of the Week over at Boardgame Geek. The thread is here , for anyone interested. To anyone coming ...

I count myself fortunate that I've never been a fan of Games Workshop's products, because it appears to have saved me from a lot of ...

Young General and the Old Warrior reached the end of their march through the basic BattleLore scenario book during the Friday After Thanksg...

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

I've been pointing out for months how ornery Games Workshop has been in their quest to zealously protect their Intellectual Property -- ...

Evidently Games Workshop is insisting that any user-generated play aids on Boardgame Geek be removed. This Geeklist documents it. They are ...

Cemetery Hill, the Blue & Gray quad game treatment of the Battle of Gettysburg, originally published in 1975 by SPI and republished 20 ...

Panoramic view of the battlefield looking east past Lookout Mountain Today is the 146 th anniversary of the Battle of Lookout Mountain, th...