Pawnderings on Games

Charles S. Roberts, founder of the modern wargame hobby, has dies at age 80, according to an obituary in the Baltimore Sun. Interestingly, ...

Photo courtesy Glen Cote Wow. Exhausting. Playing the global combined Axis & Allies 1940 is definitely the absolute ultimate Axis & ...

Picked up my copy of Axis & Allies Europe 1940 today in preparation for this weekend's grand Global 1940 game. No big surprises, com...

Looks like the Counter Offensive set is on track for release in October. This will concentrate on the middle part of the war. Among the 14 c...

Today is the anniverasry of the first day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the third in the series of carrier battles of 1942 between ...

Just mentioning for those who might be interested that we have a massive game of Axis & Allies Global 1940 (Pacific and Europe 1940 comb...

From Rich Baker's blog we learn: Time for a War at Sea update. I had a chance to talk War at Sea with several of our devoted fans at Gen...

Today is often considered VJ-Day because it was the day in 1945 that the Japanese surrender was announced, although Sept. 2 was the actual s...

Boy, talk about being late to the party. I first became aware of Settlers of Catan not long after it first came to American shores in the m...

Historians have to build readable narratives. It's their craft to tell a story about the past. But actual events and life are seldom so ...

As a warm-up for a planned global 1940 Axis & Allies game later in the month I organized a play session of the regular Axis & Allies...

While the traditional counter-based wargame hobby chugs along with a number of fascinating new titles appearing each year, not to mention a ...

I've had my doubts whether any board game could capture the feel of Napoleonic miniatures wargaming, but I think the impressive Battles ...

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...