Pawnderings on Games

Commentary, reviews and news about games played by adults looking for a challenge.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Playing surfaces for collectible and expandable miniatures games -- a review: paper

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One of the things I don't care for about collectible and expandable miniatures games is that you have all these really nice-looking mini...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Being careful what you wish for -- Lost Worlds Session

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There's one danger in teaching a young grasshopper the 'martial' arts -- he may kick the teacher's butt ... . Gildersleve ...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Fire & Movement ceases publication with Issue 150

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I saw the news over on Boardgame Geek. I'm actually surprised it lasted this long. I do think that the appearance and growth of sites s...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Princeton revisited -- with Rebels & Redcoats

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As I've been doing lately, I did a solitaire refight of a historical battle that Young General and I played using the simpler and more ...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

Battle of Princeton -- A Hold the Line session report

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Young General and Old Warrior continued our occasional series of anniversary games with a refight of the Battle of Princeton, Jan. 3, 177...

A cold, hard defeat for Wintersword -- a Lost Worlds session

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Amara Wintersword wasn't too concerned when she spotted the female gargoyle barring her way through the passage. Amara figured her usu...
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Saturday, January 2, 2010

No bones about it -- a Lost Worlds Session Report

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Young General and Old Warrior begin a series of duels ... . Young general has Sir Percival, the mounted knight, while Old warrior has the ba...

Unusual session of Small World

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Started the New Year off just the same as the Old Year ended, with a game of Small World, but with considerably more success. It was also an...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Heh. I'm a loser

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Finished off the year with a quick 2-player game of Small World against the Young General -- and he schooled the Old Warrior. He played a v...

Pawndering 2009

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The general feeling seems to be "good riddance to 2009." It was a difficult year for most people and the society at large, between...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Planning another Game Day -- Heroscape this time

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Pawnderings will be sponsoring another game day on Saturday, Jan. 9 th at The Arkham Asylum comic and game store at 276 West Main St. in ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Quick and Dirty Check Your 6 using A and A Miniatures and some D6

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P-40 in a scoring position on a Zero I've been wanting to try out Check Your 6 for months but other things kept getting in the way, but ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Another look at Trenton, this time using Rebels & Redcoats

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The Trenton Battlefield After my session of Hold the Line I became curious how authentic a more traditional hex-and-counter wargame like Re...

Trenton, Dec. 26 session of Hold the Line

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The Day after Christmas provided an opportunity to play an anniversary game commemorating 233 years since Washington led his bedraggled army...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!!

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U.S. Army troops celebrate Christmas in 1943 in the South Pacific. Santa placed a copy of the new Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 under the...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hopes dashed at Boulder Dash -- An Axis & Allies minis session

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I've been wanting to get to this little scrap since last weekend, which would have been the 70 th anniversary of the battle, but holida...

Boardgame News post that quotes Pawnderings

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Natanz strike a scenario in latest Naval Sitrep

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A Satellite view of the Natanz facility There's a lot of media speculation about a potential Israeli strike on the Iranian nuclear sit...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Blast from the past -- Bounty Hunter

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Picked up a copy of Bounty Hunter: Shootout at the Saloon today for $5. This is another in the series of groundbreaking picture combat books...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Tankettes and the limits of theory

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One of the problems facing military force planners and doctrine writers is that they have to do most of their planning in peacetime when the...
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Seth Owen
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I've been a gamer since 1969, a military officer since 1979 and a journalist since 1988.
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