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A few years ago, we became acquainted with Andrew Rourke through his Coalitions design from PHALANX that went on to a successful crowdfunding campaign. He has since been a busy guy with starting hi ...

Beware the Ideas of March: The Liberator's Civil War is promoted as an operational sandbox game that allows players the freedom to explore possible different outcomes than the historical resul ...

We have an ongoing video series on our YouTube Channel called From Cover to Cover where we read a book on a subject and then pair that with a discussion of the book while covering a few games also ...

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 ...

With this new 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 ...

Bursting on the scene over the past couple of years, Clint Warren-Davey is a new designer who has jumped in with both feet. His first design is called Werwolf: Insurgency in Occupied Germany,

As you now, last month there was a bit of a bomb shell dropped on all of us as we found out the true struggles that GMT Games has been anticipating with the current tariff and trade war situation.

I have really enjoyed my plays of several solitaire games designed by R. Ben Madison. He has a knack for including elements of the history into the gameplay while placing the events into the framew ...

A few years ago, Mark Herman designed a small scale low counter density simple system game for a magazine wargame called Gettysburg found in C3i Magazine #32. We played the game at the Wo ...

The April 2025 Monthly Debrief Video, which is the 4th episode in Season 5 of this series, saw us discussing Wargames for Non-Wargamers. This is not an effort to trick people into playing wargames ...