Pawnderings on Games

The game's designer, a local journalist and a professor who is an expert on the subject engage in an informative and civil discussion ab...

Too much to do in not enough time, so I had to skip the bookends of Havoc on Friday evening and Sunday anyway, and as it turns out I couldn...

Some specialization is probably unavoidable for wargamers , given the huge number of games published and the vast extent of potential topics...

Some recent discussions on Boardgame Geek got me to thinking again about the problem of Hindsight Bias in historical wargames . Simply sta...

An exciting new design entry at Simmons Games on Guns of Gettysburg. While interesting on a number of points, the best news is that it looks...

Each Battlelore specialist pack and expansion includes two or more scenarios featuring the new units included in that pack. A mere handful...

After a bit of a hiatus, Young General and Old Warrior returned tot he Battlelore lists with a replay of the scenario Rising Down the Spe...

A post over on Boardgame Geek asks if wargamers these days NEED "eye candy" to play a wargame , comparing these unfavorably to ...

FFG's announcement of a new Goblinoid Battlelore expansion should put to rest rumors that they were about to abandon the game system in ...

One of the things I've enjoyed about the whole Axis & Allies miniatures approach is the potential educational aspects of the game. I...

The new War at Sea Starter set arrived at local game shop Arkham Asylum today and a member of the store staff was kind enough to play a gam...

So the Providence Journal provides a forum for more ignorance about wargames as some Native American leaders are quoted criticizing the upc...

It must be a very complicated site to keep running. Still, I'm beginning to hate seeing this guy. :( UPDATE: Finally back around 1 a.m.

As I alluded to in the previous post, Mark K. and I played a couple of games of the Quebec battle scenario from the Clash for a Continent sc...

The redoubtable Mark K. came by on Saturday for a day of gaming which ended up being full of unexpected outcomes. We started off the day wit...

Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, Oct. 11, 1776 I wondered a day or so ago if Lake Champlain held some sort of record for the lar...

Serpents of the Seas arrived today. My box was rather battered by the Postal Service, which is unusual. I think that GMT may have packed the...

So I'm poking around the Internet on the Dreamblade official site , and Boardgame Geek and such and I happened to be looking at who el...

Continuing my series of River Plate refights using different rules sets, today I tried out Victory at Sea by Mongoose Publishing (not to be...

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