Back in July, I posted here on my first thoughts about Mark Herman's much discussed ACW game, Rebel Fury, published earlier this year by...

Hello friends: Not a lot of activity here due to time constraints but the gentler pace of summer beckons, I devoutly hope.   Some gaming and...

 I think anyone who remembers the heyday of paper, hex and counter wargames from the 1970s and 80s has a fondness for the monster games, mul...

I admit that I was a weird kid.  In senior high school I was poor, had no car, and was thus severely handicapped in the dating game.  What I...

I’ve finished my first solitaire play through of Mark Herman’s Burma: The Forgotten War from C3i Nr 35.  Here’s a quick look at how this gam...

Hello friends: Just a quick proof of life blog post to show that I’m here and still interested in wargames, just terribly short of time. ...

Wanting to finish the latest batch of minis has taken my eyes off the game lately, but the monster awaits, in the cat-proof gaming room, and...

Hello friends: It’s Thursday and time for the weekly Napoleonic update.    I took a chance on these new Osprey rules, hoping they’d be to ...

For my June project, I am revisiting a game I first played in high school, against a much older and patient opponent, who methodically disme...

 As in two versus three dimensions.   Currently set up in my cat-proof gaming room (well, unless I forget to close the door or accidentally ...

  The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl, by Alexander Watson, New York: Basic Books, 2020.   This is not as long a book review as my ...

Currently on the Mad Padre’s hex and counter table I have open On To Paris (OTP), an operational/strategic treatment of the Franco-Prussian ...

Back in 1976, in the heyday of disco, detente, high inflation, and my vain attempts to get Madeleine Bennett to notice me in Grade 6, Simula...

My old friend and gaming  adversary James (@JamesManto4)   recently observed on social media that he’s puzzled by my fascination with extrem...