After a combined total of 40 years working with fantasy and science fiction miniatures at Games Workshop, John Stallard and Paul Sawyer followed their hearts and started Warlord Games to produce plastic historical miniatures.
Read MoreBrief analysis of the German air assault on Crete in 1941, exploring options and summarizing critical points to consider in any airborne operation.
Read MoreA brief analysis of the actions of General Sir John Moore, commander of a British field force that faced the armies of Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. Failure there would have meant disaster.
Read MoreA review of all three games in the Wings of War series - Famous Aces, Watch Your Back, and Burning Drachens. These fast-playing, easy-to-learn games use cards, have board-game-like mechanics, and play like miniatures games.
Read MoreA look at the Eastern Front set for the Axis & Allies Miniatures game says this expansion adds some useful new weapons and covers a diverse group of nationalities but also includes new variants of existing models and doesn't improve Soviet airpower.
Read MoreThis review of the board wargame Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! Russia 1941-42 finds the game to be easy to learn and play, with sturdy, quality components.
Read MoreThis review of The Battle of Monmouth from Clash of Arms Games finds it to be an advanced-level board wargame that plays like a good set of miniatures rules, and it says players who look for depth and historical accuracy won't find a better game.
Read MoreThe historic outcome and an analysis, with map, of the Australian attack under Lieutenant Colonel C.J. “Clem†Cummings against the Japanese on Buna.
Read MoreFifty battles that changed history and a list of computer and board games bases on them.
Read MoreA review of the pirate-themed Winds of Plunder Euro-style board game reports that it is entertaining and fast-moving, with little downtime for players, but that success comes from visiting ports rather than raiding treasure ships at sea.
Read MoreThis review of The Drive On Metz wargame finds it excellent for introducing new players to the hobby, with high solitaire suitability. Designed by James F. Dunnigan as a primer on strategic wargames, it originally appeared in his Wargames Handbook.
Read MoreArmchair General game reviewer Robert Delwood looks at GMT's grand strategy Pacific War game, "Asia Engulfed, The Second World War in Asia 1941 - 1945," and finds it to be an elegant, deep game that rewards good planning.
Read MoreWhat is the status of historical miniatures games at GenCon today? Are they waxing or waning? Paul Glasser provides a report to Armchair General.
Read MoreA review of the boardgame "Jena 20," based on the battles of Jena and Auerstadt during the Napoleonic Wars.
Read MoreThe Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design's Origins award-winners for historical categories and nonfiction writing.
Read MoreArmy of Ireland is a boardgame based on the 1866 invasion of Canada by Irish veterans of the American Civil War. Suitable for one to four players, it is a quick-playing simulation based on an often-overlooked historical action.
Read MorePacific Typhoon is a low-complexity, trick-taking card game based on battles of the Pacific Theater in World War II. Period photographs and historical information on the cards add historical value.
Read MoreThe new Task Force supplement for Axis and Allies Miniatures: War at Sea game offers 60 new units and new special abilities, but some of the unit stats are a bit bewildering.
Read More"Blackbeard: The Golden Age of Piracy" is a boardgame that puts players into the role of historical pirate captains competing for treasure and a coveted Letter of Marque. This is a GMT Games reissue of an earlier Avalon Hill game.
Read MoreThis review of Silent War, a solitaire wargame from Compass Games that depicts U.S. submarine war against Imperial Japan in World War II, rates the game as an excellent though complex simulation.
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