Pawnderings on Games

DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley President Barack Obama called it a privilege to commemorate Memorial Day wi...

Prompted by this blog at BoardGame Geek, I thought I'd share my thoughts on review copies. I have. on occasion, gotten review copies. B...

Captain Yid counter sheet So there's a new, eighth edition of the classic Tom Wham game The Awful Green Things From Outer Space , first...

The Bismarck is seen sinking from the HMS Dorsetshire after being torpedoed. At 10:15 a.m. the order to abandon ship was given on the Bismar...

HMS Rodney (right) blasts the Bismarck (shrouded in smoke at left) At 9:02 a.m. the forward turrets on the Bismarck are knocked out and over...

At 8:45 a.m. on May 27, 1941 the Bismarck was sighted from the HMS Rodney and the HMS King George V . The KGV was a sister ship to the P...

At 10:30 p.m. on May 26, 1941 a destroyer flotilla led by the already legendary Capt. Philip Vian appraoched the Bismarck . Comprised of fou...

Fairy Swordfish are shown flying over the Ark Royal At 8:47 p.m. the British Swordfish flight catches up to the Bismarck . While the flight ...

At 3 p.m. The HMS Ark Royal, from Force H out of Gibraltar, launched a strike of 15 Swordfish torpedo bombers armed with torpedoes equipped ...

The RAF-manned Catalina that spotted the Bismarck on May 26, 1941 More than 24 hours had passed since the British last had a fix on the Bism...

The 25th of May was probably the most nerve-wracking period of the entire Bismarck escapade for the British. After the Bismarck eluded its p...

So a few days after the first game the same opponent and I sat down for a refight of the Herkalion scenario from the Axis & Allies E...

The HMS Victorious was still in the process of working up its air group when it was deployed along with the Home Fleet to counter the Bismar...

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was one of the most dramatic episodes in World War II, which had no shortage of drama. As such it's on...

sat 6:15 p.m. the Bismarck confronts its pursuers, the battleship Prince of Wales and the cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk and shots are exchang...

Bismarck firing during the Battle of the Denmark Strait At 5:37 a.m. the German task force detects the approaching British battleships at a...

At 7:22 p.m. the British heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk spots the Bismarck as the German task forcve tries to run the Denmarck Strait between ...

Vice Adm. Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, leaves Scapa Flow at 11 p.m. in his flagship the King George V with the aircraft carr...

Around 8 p.m. the Bismarck task force left the Korsfjord and headed out to sea. Controversially, Admiral Guenther Luetjens decided to leave ...

Maleme Airfield map detail from Hunters From the Sky It's expedient for the purposes of narrative coherence in historical accounts to c...