Pawnderings on Games

A Russian photographer has created a site where he merges World War II images with modern photos taken at the precise same location. The eff...

2010 looks to be a big year for Ol ' Nappy, with no fewer than three battle-oriented figure based games planned for release. Each is pla...

One of the things I miss about Avalon Hill is the ability to maintain my favorite games. For example, I replaced the box for my Midway game...

A long time ago a much younger fellow read Bruce Catton's trilogy on the Army of the Potomac, probably best known for the third volume,...

You know, sometimes it's just hard to get a game on the table. And sometimes it's even hard to figure out why. Wings of War should h...

GMT's latest newsletter lists Commands & Colors: Napoleonics for a November release, so I suppose it will be on a few wargamer Chri...

According to the Wall Street Journal , Hasbro's profits showed an unexpected 11% gain in profits, in large part because of how well it...

No sooner do I notice the release date for the upcoming Axis & Allies Europe 1940 announcement than I see some bad news. It appears that...

Over at the Official A&A site there's an update announcing that the long-awaited Europe 1940 edition of Axis & Allies will be r...

Day Two of battles of Napoleon revealed two truths about the game. The first is that it's not ready to play out of the box. You'll n...

The physical size of the box is imposing as it hogs shelf space with suitable Napoleonic narcissism . Yeah, it's a hundred dollar game, ...

Young general was looking forward to smashing up my army with a real cool kind of creature like the Hydra, but the beast ended up being a d...

Napoleon is like the Lady Gaga of wargames --- eww! Let me take that back. He's the Will Smith of wargames, nobody's name is a bigge...

Wow! Only days after it became available, FFG's Battles of Napoleon appears to be out of stock! It's reportedly OOS at FFG's own...

The Young General definitely didn't need his giant in the Denizen of the Wood scenario. While the Young General has been anxious to star...

One thing I've noticed about Battle Cry, compared to Borg's later Commands & Colors series games, is that it has a greater tende...

I wanted to get this before this weekend's anniversary of the battle and. sure enough, it showed up today in the mail around the same ti...

Yep, after reading yet another glowing review, this time in Armchair General , I decided I needed to have a copy of this one in my collectio...

Atlantic editor and blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates just finished reading Grant's Memoir, which he has been "live" blogging about. It...

While unsurprising, considering the first run sold out instantly, Worthington Games ahs announced it's taking preorders for a reprint o...