Pawnderings on Games

Played a game of Commands & Colors: Ancients the other day at a local game shop. Naturally it was good game, as the game system is great...

Young General made an atypical choice in this latest episode of BattleLore , choosing to take the Goblin side in the Goblin Riders scenario ...

For a nation that managed to hold out virtually alone for years against Japan, China never has gotten much respect in any Axis & Allies ...

One of the neat things about Larry Bond's Admiralty series of games is the exhaustive research that goes into them, to the point that wa...

We are in the midst of a new round of remembrances as the 70 th anniversaries of various World War II events have started occurring since...

The redoubtable Mark K. and I celebrated Patriot's Day with a couple of appropriately themed American Revolution games, the new Washingt...

My wife and I attended a game Meetup right here in Norwich last night which was a lot of fun. It's easy for gamers, especially wargame...

The Associated Press contributed a much superior article today on the "controversy" over the upcoming MMP wargame on King Phil...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on this day in 1865, one of the most profound tragedies of the entire tragic episode of the ...

British Audacity was on display again for the Second Battle of Narvik 70 years ago today when they sent a battleship deep inside of a Norwe...

After a couple of plays I've drawn some tentative impressions of the new units contained in the Dwarven Battalion expansion pack for Ba...

Old Warrior's Human/Goblin Pennant army on top, Young General's Dwarven/Human Standard army below Young General and Old Warrior con...

The First Battle of Narvik was fought 70 year s ago today, although it's somewhat of a misnomer to call it the First Battle of Narvik...

70 years ago today (April 9) the Phoney War period of World War II started to come to an end. In the early morning there was the first capit...

The new master set for Heroscape that merges the Dungeons & Dragons universe with Heroscape seems to be revitalizing the Heroscape fra...

I'm a big fan of Ulysses Grant. I think he was truly the outstanding general of the U.S. Civil War and a good case could be made that ...

The Battle of Shiloh, which began on this day in 1862, is a fascinating battle, not only for what did happen, but for what did not happen. W...

I witnessed the initial wave of excitement over The Settlers of Catan back in 1995, but dismissed it as a passing fad. It seemed to me that...

Young General and Old Warrior turned their attentions to the Dwarven Battalion expansion, where Young Warrior started off with the Dwarven-d...

It was 28 years ago today that Argentinian troops landed on and captured the Falkland Islands, launching the 74-day Falklands War. The Falkl...