Pawnderings on Games

Columbia Games' Napoleon has been around in some form for almost four decades. While originally published around 1974 by Gamma Two games...

Seth In Iraq, April 2003 From early childhood I was always fascinated with the military, the history of war and soldiering. I cannot r...

Co. B, 5th Marines, upper right, and Co. L, 5th Marines, lower left, prepare to advance  As has been my practice, when I recently revisi...

Fantasy Flight Games and a new outfit called 1A Games jointly announced that FFG has licensed the Tide of Irons game system to 1A. Details...

"Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal and the other games in the Axis & Allies series are what could be called an artistic interpretation...

BoardgameGeek thread reports that some additional legal issues (not related to Up Front, itself) have cropped up that are putting the projec...

Gamescience box Word is seeping through the Internet gaming community that Allan B. Calhamer, the inventor and designer of the boa...

OK, the Napoleon Kickstarter showed up a few minutes ago -- I may have been Backer No. 1!

Oh, My, yet another Kickstarter project that I feel compelled to take part in! Yep, Columbia Games is joining the fun and has announced ...

Came across some interesting research done on 6-side dice. http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/That%27s_How_I_Roll_-_A_Scientific_Analysis_o...

Just a administrative note. A lot of spam comments seem to be showing up. All comments are moderated and anyone posting as "anonymous...

Over the past few months I've backed three wargame projects on Kickstarter, the crowd funding site that's become pretty popular for ...

Very odd situation. GMT reports it was the target of a denial of service attack.

This is exciting. Kickstarter for Guns of Gettysburg starts Friday! Apparently the plan is to have the games shipped in time for the 150th ...

The cover of Columbia Games' Richard III wargame So it appears Richard III has been found . I'm not a big fan of wargaming ...

I don't actually have an awful lot to add to Harvey's analysis of the campaign. I'm not even sure I have any quibbles. What I ...

Fighting breaks out along the main front and continues around Jena By the time Napoleon rode back to Soult's headquarters he was a...

Dawn breaks with Hohenlohe's troops nowhere to be seen, but Brunswick and Ney well engaged. This day saw action occurring in three d...

The battle line takes shape as the French corps arrive Day Six was shaping up pretty satisfactorily as far as Nappy was concerned. Soul...