Pawnderings on Games

Finished my first Grand Campaign from the Campaign book against Game Store Tony. It was a very near run thing, but Tony's Germans manag...

I think it's worth pointing out that Invasion, while a skirmish-level "wargame," doesn't get into any nitty gritty det...

Invasion From Outer Space: The Martian Game, is a very campy cinematic-style 2010 wargame from Flying Frog Productions, using the same...

Among the travails of volunteer blogging is that sometimes life crowds you out.

One of the pitfalls of a public gaming day is the risk of mishaps, and so it was on a fine July afternoon that my Werner Voss Albatros D.III...

Yep, I'm beginning to lose faith that the official published "historical" scenarios got play tested at all. Our latest challen...

After a long dry spell, Game Store Tony and I were able to resume our Civil War series of Battle Cry (150th anniversary edition) games. As u...

The redoubtable Mark K. and I had a great game day -- as is so often the case we pretty much traded wins all day long -- split matches of Co...

Played a game f Battle Cry at the local store today against one of the game store denizens I've played before. He's generally a Magi...

Played a double of Axis & Allies Miniatures today at the local game shop and got schooled a bit. We were playing the "Ridge Too Fa...

Today was game day, but not board games. I spent the day on a trip to Fenway Park. Our Red Sox fell short against the Toronto Blue Jays, but...

When I saw the promotional materials for the new Wizards of the Coast game Conquest of Nerath my first thought was "looks like Dungeons...

Well, a quick first impression is that Slapshot isn't really a silly card game at all -- at least not in the same way as Munchkin or or ...

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...