Pawnderings on Games

The War of 1812 was pretty much a wash for the United States, two years of fighting settling nothing really, but it was a successful and ...

It's an anniversary season surprisingly little remarked upon in the mass media, but this summer 10 years ago the Pentagon was drawing up...

ARA 25 de Mayo This week the Falklands War came to an official end as the British announced they had achieved their aims. Within days t...

HMS Argyll. Note the low-to-the-water midships gun and the lower gun on the aft quarter. One of the limitations of wargames is the anno...

Professional fool Ted Nugent is in the news this week for remarking that things would have been better if the South had won the American Civ...

Game end Back in the day (old guy speak for a loooong time ago) I played SPI's Invasion America, the precursor and inspiration for ...

1:1250 scale SMS Scharnhorst by Navis In Eric Dorn Brose's "novelistic history" Death at Sea, he engages in an extensive...

I need to publish this code QUKS58Q99AXJ to activate a SMM device.

Death at Sea is  a privately published "novelistic history" of the saga of the German East Asiatic Naval Squadron of World War ...

HMS Achilles from Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing, which publishes Victory at Sea, says it will be releasing the first set of...

Well, based on this thread , it appears that WOTC has unofficially cancelled Axis n& Allies War at Sea and we won't be seeing a Set ...

Rebel brigades make a final rush for the Copse of Trees Reviewing a solitaire wargame has special pitfalls. Oh, it's easier ...

Very sad new s comes via Boardgamegeek that game designer S. Craig Taylor has passed away. While I never met Mr. Taylor, I was a big fan of ...

Check it out:

Monday, June 18th, marked the bicentennial of one of the country's most ill-advised adventures, the War of 1812. Now, there's cert...

The HMAS Perth (left) and the USS Houston land an early hit on the light cruiser Natori Another excellent session report from Andy Ruc...

Sir Tristam loaded on a heavy lift vessel for transport back to Britain in 1983 after the war. While heavy losses had forced the Argenti...

This summer, August apparently, Days of Wonder is going to have a new expansion for Memoir '44 -- and a doozy it is shaping up to b...

Fortress America by Fantasy Flight Games Those old enough will remember the pulp fiction Red Scare 1984 movie Red dawn, which implausib...

USS Yorktown under attack during the Battle of Midway Today is the 70th anniversary of the first and most critical day of the Battle of...