13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 – A Boardgaming Way Review
13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 • <b><br>Review By Mitch Freedman</b><b>13 Days</b> is a tight, fast two-player look at the events that brought the world closer …
Hexsides and Hand Grenades: Yaah! #8 (Race to the Sea -1914) Review
By Brad Smith:Yaah! 8 – A Look Inside“Late last year, I had the pleasure to fill in as a guest editor for <i>Yaah!</i> magazine, the No-Holds Barred badboy …
Review: Panzer Battles Normandy
I’ve recently been reading a book chronicling the six month tour of duty in Helmand, Afghanistan conducted by Royal Marines Commandos in 06’. A term …
Weekly Round-Up – Kriegs, Kursk & Kings (Ft.. Days & C&C)
Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly round-up, where we take some of the latest happenings in wargaming and put them in one place for you to …
Star Wars: Rebellion never gets tired of asking where is the Rebel base
I hate hidden movement games. Me and a friend stranded on a desert island with nothing but a copy of Scotland Yard? My worst nightmare. Plaid Hat’s …
13 Days packs brinksmanship in a box
I was having dinner with some people a few years ago when a friend of mine, who is actually a well-known role-playing game designer, started making …
John Butterfield’s Battle of the Bulge rejuvenates an old rogue
A very accomplished game designer once told me his best ideas were mostly borrowed, but that he made them his own in the way he arranged and adapted …
THE ROADS FROM SMOLENSK: SPI, DUNNIGAN, AND THE ‘PANZERGRUPPE GUDERIAN’ LEGACY
Back in 1976, Jim Dunnigan’s simple but wonderfully evocative simulation of the 1941 Battle of Smolensk, PANZERGRUPPE GUDERIAN, was one of several …
Why Cold War Warsaw Pact Tactics Work In Wargaming
Whether playing alternate or simultaneous moves, after the initial plan, it normally takes moments for the Russians to move all of forces compared to …
Review: Ironclads 2 War of the Pacific
I think people often overlook how much setting can have an impact on wargames. With the tried and true eras of WW2, the Napoleonic Era, Ancient Rome …