Pawnderings on Games

So I was checking my bank statement this week and I spotted a pre-authorized withdrawal from Columbia Games for about $18 and I was, like, h...

Europe in 1941 with initial Barbarossa gain s Note also that significant neutral powers such as Sweden and Spain were economically within t...

David Low , Someone is taking someone for a walk (1939) On June 22, 1941 the entire nature of World War II changed with the Gemran invasion...

Boxes are historically the weakest component for game durability -- even considering that they get the most abuse. Until fairly recently, ga...

IJN cruiser Kumano from the Avalon Hill game Midway . 1969 counter on the right, a somewhat newer one (ca. 1980) on the left Comments on mou...

Played this campy Martian invasion game with the kids over the last two nights. I can't give it a full session report, as I discovered h...

I'll admit to a game prejudice. I prefer mounted boards. This may be because my formative years were spent with Avalon Hill games. I cam...

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...