Pawnderings on Games

I'll be honest. My interest in military history tends to be of the old-school variety -- battles, weapons and such. I know that Von C...

There's been a lot of attention recently about the strength of the Navy, most recently in the third presidential debate as the Republ...

On this date 70 years ago the American forces taking part in the invasion of North Africa, called Operation Torch, left their various anchor...

Destroyer USS JOSEPH P KENNEDY JR sends a boarding party over to freighter Marucla during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. NHHC p...

My wall calendar informs me that the Revolutionary War ended 231 years ago today. My wall calendar is, of course, wrong technically. The war...

An interesting, if general, article in Strategy Page describes some recent interest in naval wargaming by the Mexican Navy, inspired by exp...

The Kirishima goes down from a  vital hit at close range by the USS West Virginia Here's the second part of the Cape Esperance co...

The USS West Virginia advances under the steady hand of Admiral Owen in War at Sea Andy R. and I played a doubleheader of War at Sea T...

The gunboat Philadelphia from Arnold's fleet A year before Benedict Arnold saved his country by winning the Battle of Saratoga he ...

Today marks the 235th anniversary of the Battle of Bemis Heights, the second of the two battles of Saratoga that led directly to the captur...

Position at the end of the game Game Store Tony and I got in a game of Memoir '44 after a long break. This was an Eastern Front gam...

The victorious German East Asia Squadron in Chile after the battle of Coronel As the Battle of Coronel was being fought in the early...

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/