New Features in Under the Southern Cross, Part I
Designing a game that is part of an established and well-liked series such as Mike Nagel’s Flying Colors (FC) requires a delicate balancing act. On …
Session: Thunderbolt Apache Leader:: Rapid Deployment – Iran 2014 – Day 1
by Luftwaffe FlakThe war in Afghanistan was supposed to be winding down. Iran had different thoughts in the Summer of 2014. Their secretly funding …
WARFIGHTER
<i>2ND EDITION</i><p>When <b>Warfighter 2nd Edition</b>, plus all the expansions and the Footlocker arrived in an awesome package, it was like Christmas, my birthday …
‘Rome, Sweet Rome’: Could a Single Marine Unit Destroy the Roman Empire?
It was a hypothetical question that became a long online discussion and now a movie in development: Could a small group of heavily armed modern-day Marines take down the Roman Empire at its height?<p>James Erwin was browsing Reddit on his lunch break when a thread piqued his interest. A user called …
Session: 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis:: At the Edge of Disaster
by SBGradWhat follows is an annotated Log File from a game of 13 Days that I played in using the Chantry Games online implementation. I was sort of …
Rules to Greet the Nuclear Dawn By (Wargaming Rules suitable for Twilight 2000, Part 1 – Skirmish Rules)
Welcome to our first post for this blog. Today we’re going to talk about the various rules sets we can use (and abuse) for a suitable Twilight 2000 …
Ships of the Line:Trafalgar 1805
A Review of Trafalgar Editions’ Game of Nelson’s Epic Battle<p>by Paul Comben, Designer:Crisanto Lorente Gonzalez, Publisher: Trafalgar Editions<p><i>Part</i> …
Really Old School Wargaming – a Rules Review of a Classic
Research is an integral part of tabletop wargaming, not only for rules authors like myself, but for players as well. There are scenarios to design, …
Review: The Horus Heresy: Battle of Tallarn
HexWar are one of the most prolific publishers of turn-based strategy around. A visit to their website reveals home-grown games spanning ancients, …
Review: Hitler’s Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge:: Bulging out all over…once again.
by No ExpectationsI’ve always believed that for many wargamers the amount of complexity they desire in their games is in direct proportion to their …