Pawnderings on Games

One of the interesting phenomenon seen in wargaming is the creation of directly competing designs -- games that depict the same topic, at ...

I'll be posting on an occasional basis reviews of the figures in the Axis & Allies miniatures game. M3 Lee from the Base Set The ...

Well, Old Warrior got his head handed to him tonight by the Young General and frankly, he's not even sure how it happened. The scenario ...

Lou Zocchi is one of the most legendary figures in the wargame hobby, one of its founding members, in fact. He was active enough in the ea...

There's precious little that words can add to that iconic photo. Here's a 1945 postage stamp honoring the Marines:

This interview on FFG's site clarifies a lot about the company's plans for Battlelore and what the Battle of Westeros game means...

Hold the Line, along with its French and Indian War expansion and the very similar predecessor Clash for a Continent uses a relatively small...

I'll be posting, on an occasional basis, musing about the pieces of Axis & Allies miniatures. It seemed like every set of Axis &...

I enjoy Axis & Allies War at Sea naval miniatures as a game in its own right, as well as a good source for painted ships suitable for ot...

Back in 1971, while combat operations still raged in Vietnam, Strategy & tactics magazine published a groundbreaking design called Gru...

Young General and Old Warrior have now started moving on to the Battlelore expansions, with the Goblin Skirmisher pack up first. This expan...

The Bismarck is probably the best-known German warship of World War II, but I think a case can be made that the most storied career was expe...

Today and tomorrow mark the 67 th anniversary of the Battle of Krasni Bor , immortalized in wargaming by the Tactical Combat Series Ga...

I'll be posting on an occasional basis musings about pieces in the Axis & Allies miniatures game. As with the other basic infantryme...

What prompts this question is today's anniversary of the famous surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in 1904, which famo...

Arcanthus regretted taking the coast road. Not only had its twisty path not saved him any time over the King Pass route, but now he was bei...

The ol' mailman dropped a package on the doorstep yesterday -- the new Heroes expansion for Battlelore. Naturally it's too early to ...

Serpents of the Seas is charging and should be shipping in a month or so. I'm looking forward to this one. It also means I need to get c...

Well, the inimitable Mark K. and I got in a full day of gaming, and as Mark's suggested Blog Post title hints, it wasn't a good day ...