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Monday, November 29, 2010

"Golden Age" blog post is harsh on Memoir '44

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This interesting blog post maintains that today is the "Golden Age" of wargaming . I generally agree with the blog -- and I think...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Historical scenarios shared in Gunslinger and Cowboys

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Avalon Hill's super-detailed Gunslinger and Worthington's Cowboys: The Way of the Gun cover much the same ground, both being skirmis...
Friday, November 26, 2010

A sad little affair -- Session report for M'44 Gallabat-Metemma

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Celebrated the day after Thanksgiving and the 70tg anniversary of the East African campaign with a game of Memoir '44 at the local game ...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Wartime Thanksgivings

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While we enjoy Thanksgiving at home with friends and family it's appropriate to remember our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and othe...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Four-day Axis & Allies Global 1940 knock-down, drag-out marathon

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Wow. Well, the redoubtable Game Store Tony and I started a game of Axis & Allies Global 1940 (the combined A&A Europe 1940 and A...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Battle Cry release delayed a little bit -- hopefully

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According to Hasbro it will now be out Nov. 30.
Friday, November 19, 2010

King Philip's War review

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King Philip's War, an offering of Multi-man Publishing's International Games Series line is at once both a fairly ordinary cardboard...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

More stuff on the way -- this time Days of Wonder

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Wow, I wish these guys would spread it out a little more. Now Days of Wonder is charging for some of their newest stuff -- Winter Wars and D...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

More on the way -- CCN

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Commands & Colors: Napoleonics is also charging!
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Persian Incursion on the way?

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CoA Web page on the game It appears from my bank account that Clash of Arms has started charging for Persian Incursion, a Harpoon4-series g...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Ellis Con Axis & Allies Global 1940 session report

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Well, I spent all of Ellis Con playing one game, but what a game! I think the Global 1940 Axis & Allies is a terrific game experience. T...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Ellis Con worth the trip

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Ellis High School is a tech school located off I-395 in Northeastern Conn. which has slowly become the site of one of New England's best...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Commemorating

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Today is, of course, Veterans Day in the U.S. (and Remembrance Day in Canada). Now dedicated to the memory of all veterans, it has its ro...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

An oddly pointless little game -- Battle Grid

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Image of the game (here showing some 100 Years War figures) from the company Web sit at www.zenogames.com I received an odd duck of a game...
Friday, November 5, 2010

150th anniversary of the Civil War

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Well, it's not exactly the 150 th anniversary of the war itself, we're a few months away from the start of the bloodshed, but 150 ...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

New Battle Cry shows up on Hasbro site

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Well, not exactly a lot of hype , but the new edition of Battle Cry is on Hasbro's site now.

The drawbacks of victory points

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I picked up the new Decision Games Folio Games series title Arnhem: The Farthest Bridge, which is basically a re-implementation of the class...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Heroscape discontinued!

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Rather surprising news buzzing around the Scapesphere. Yes, it's true, Heroscape will be discontinued after the next expansion (due out...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Operation Catapult at sea

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HMS Hood While it's too involved a rules system to easily use with the Game Store Crowd, the Admiralty Trilogy's Atlantic Navies pr...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Wings of War 3-sided air battle session report

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I think Wings of War miniatures is just about the perfect Game Store Game. 1) It's visually appealing, especially if you use the game ma...
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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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