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Early last year, I caught wind that The Dietz Foundation was working with a new designer named Yoni Goldstein on his first game called Chicago '68 and I was immediately interested. C ...

With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and fra ...

Over the past few years, while attending the World Boardgaming Championships, we have met with Gregory M. Smith and discussed many of his ongoing designs. One that we have chatted about a couple ti ...

Gettysburg 1863 is Volume IV in the Old School Wargames Civil War Brigade Battle Series. The game allows gamers to refight the historic and pivotal battle of Gettysburg in 1863 during the American ...

Louisbourg 1758 is a two-player game on the campaign to take the fortress. One side commands the British while the other commands the French. The object of the game for the British player is to occ ...

We have not played a ton of Napoleonic Era wargames. Really just a handful focused on the Nappy 100 Series from Victory Point Games, several of the games from Shakos (Napoléon 1806 and Napoléon 180 ...

In late 2019, we hosted a 3-part series on an upcoming game called The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland 1964-1998. Through that process I came to appreciate the designer Hugh O'Donnell ...

Continuing along in this series devoted to the best looking boards found in the wargaming world where I will highlight the art and layout of a different board in a wargame that we have played to sh ...

With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series (I used to call this "new" but now after doing it for well over a year and now coming to the 49th post in the series, I have removed the new), I hope to t ...

As you may know, I love a good game about the American Revolution and over the past month I noticed a new game coming to Gamefound on the Battle of Brandywine Creek on September 11, 1777. The game ...