Pawnderings on Games

Reading a  good book like Castles of Steel is a good way to get the intellectual juices flowing. It's shallow reading of history to fi...

Started a fascinating read -- Robert K. Massie's monumental work Castles of Steel , about World War I at sea as I bone up in advance of ...

Battle of Antietam, as depicted in Battle Cry -- 150th Anniversary Edition It's hard to believe, really, given the traumas of the 2...

Re-enactors take part in the annual observance of Borodino in 2012 This news item is rather disturbing. Apparently Russian corruption...

During the 50th anniversary years of World War II I made an attempt to play as many games of Advanced Squad Leader on or about the 50th anni...

Battle for the Great Redoubt at Borodino Two centuries ago today Napoleon's fortunes changed for good when he defeated the Russia...

This post looks at the possibility, via Larry Bond on FaceBook. From a wargamer's perspective, this sort of speculation has some inte...

I've started a topic-specific blog on Operation Torch http://operationtorch1942.blogspot.com/

Really!? Check out Andy's blog for the amazing story behind this picture.

This is worth checking out.

Valley Games says so . If so, this very interesting and exciting news and a good example of never say never

USS Constitution in action against HMS Guerriere One perk of a Massachusetts childhood is that it's a fertile ground for growing ...

B-25s attack two Japanese cruisers while P-40s engage Zeros Another nice session report at Andy's blog.

The Axis & Allies universe is getting pretty complicated. While the era of A&A  branded battle games and tactical miniatures gam...

This image is floating around the A&A boards. Looks legit. it's supposedly off an Amazon preorder site. Looks like this set will ...

When Blogger changed formats about a month ago I lost track of the comments and a whole bunch got held up in the "awaiting moderation...

The Telegraph is reporting that historian John Keegan has died. Keegan is known for a number of seminal works, although perhaps the most f...

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...