Pawnderings on Games

I threw together a pickup game of War at Sea at the local game shop. We were a little short of time due to too much jibber jabber with Game...

Spanish player Edgar Gallego and I are going to attempt a PBeM playthrough of a game. I'll post updates as we move along.

Game Store Tony and I continued our series the other day. Recent sessions at Greenbrier, Va. and Belmont, Mo. were a split, with the boys i...

Deciding not to let a good blizzard go to waste, Young general and the Old Warrior hauled out BattleLore for a go. We reviewed the rules, a...

A decade ago Hasbro's publication of Battle Cry introduced gamer's to Richard Borg's hugely successful and eminently flexible Co...

For those interested a sample of the rules have been posted as a downloadable file at Boardgame Geek.

I've been spending a lot of time studying this game over the last week. It covers an intriguing and important topic and is probably the ...

For some reason 2010 turned out to give us a bumper crop of Napoleonic battle games, with Worthington Games' Napoleon's War, followe...

As part of Game Store "Stonewall" Tony's series of American Civil War 150 th anniversary refights against "Iron Brigade...

After reading the whole thing through, the bottom line appears to be that doing serious damage, if not destroying, Iran's nuclear progra...

Well, it was the first of the November rush of pre-orders to be charged but the last of the bunch to actually arrive. Unlike the other Novem...

Wellesley leads a dash for an objective flag. He'll get it, but won't stay long. In the end he emerged victorious without it. Photo...

At Game Store Tony's request we have started a series refighting the battles of the American Civil War in roughly chronological order us...

Now to move on to playing! First, though, let me provide a quick out-of-the-box review. This game is very comparable in presentation with th...

I'll give GMT credit, once they make the game available they don't make you wait for it. This is in contrast to Days of Wonder, whi...

Budding wargamer Game Store Tony was up for a double header of Battle Cry at the shop using both the classic original Battle Cry and the new...

Heard from GMT that my order is on the way and I picked up the new Battle Cry today. Initial out-of-the-box impression is happy. Overall acr...

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

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

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