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

Monday, May 31, 2010

Israel biting off more than it can shew?

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From a dairy entry on Daily Kos : While the Israeli Defense forces clearly outclass their immediate neighbors in miltary strength by an orde...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Goose Green, May 28, 1982

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This travel blog photo's source is TravelPod page: Island Tour - Stanley, Falkland Islands Travel Blog The memorial for fallen Lt. Col....
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

End of the Bismarck

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Interestingly there appears to be no accepted name for the last engagement of the Bismarck on May 27, 1941 when it was sunk in a battle with...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

They can do that?

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I saw this odd notice at a miniatures online retailer's web site: "Games Workshop does not allow re-sellers to show pictures or add...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Argentina's Independence Day

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Today Argentina is celebrating its bicentennial with parades and fireworks, but back in 1982 they marked that occasion with bombs and braver...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Flukes at sea

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Bismarck as depicted in Axis & Allies War at Sea A fluke can be a fish, the fin on a whale or a part of an anchor in a nautical conte...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Condition Zebra countdown

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We're starting to get previews of the next expansion set for the Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures game, Condition Zebra, although ther...
Friday, May 21, 2010

San Carlos waters, 1982

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HMS Ardent burns after being bombed The Falklands War is definitely fading away it seems. I haven't seen anything in the general media a...

Got my fingers slammed in the door at Sedan

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Game Shop Tony continued schooling me in the Power of Beginner's Luck by taking me to school in the scenario Driving to Sedan from the C...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Interesting development in Korea

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The New York Times is reporting that the South Koreans are going to blame a North Korean torpedo for sinking a South Korean corvette on Mar...

Grant surrounds Vicksburg

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On this date in 1863 Union Major Gen. Ulysses Grant surrounded Vicksburg in the culmination of his brilliant campaign to capture that key ci...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Worthington Games Napoleonic title reportedly nears shipping

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It's looking like a banner year for mass-market low complexity Napoleonic games, with titles planned by GMT, FFG and Worthington Games, ...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Updating Stonne

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While schedule conflicts prevented me from playing on the precise anniversary, I did get in a near anniversary game of the Axis & Allies...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Pebble Island Raid 1982

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In the evening of May 14, 1982 an SAS raiding party landed on Pebble Island in the Falklands. There target was an grass airfield on the nor...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

In 1940 things went down hill fast

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A French Somua tank at the museum at Aberdeen By following along on the anniversary events of major episode such as the 1940 campaign, I t...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Games Workshop is at it again

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The world's worst game company provides more evidence of its total stink-hole status with yet another lawsuit against a major fan site t...

Germans salvage their military reputation at Valkenburg Airfield

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The week's commemorative refights of 1940 campaign battles from Memoir '44 finally saw a turn in favor of the Germans in the Valken...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Brought low by the Low Countries

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Circumstances allowed me to head back to the store for some more Memoir '44 action and suffice it to say, if the Belgians and Dutch had ...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Bodange it!

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70 years ago today the Germans opened their campaign against France and the Low Countries that shocked the world. It was a violent campaign ...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mothers Day and a Star of Gold

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Today is Mothers Day, a day celebrating motherhood and the sacrifices women who are mothers make every day. Many mothers spent today working...
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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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