Favorite Tabletop Games Kickstarters of the Month (June 2013)
I’ve spent a month tracking my favorite projects and looking for new fun stuff on Kickstarter’s Tabletop Games section. Of the five projects I wrote about in May, four have been succesfully-funded to...
View ArticleOn The Workbench: Perry Miniatures American Civil War in 28mm
About a year ago I got back into gaming the American Civil War. My first miniatures wargaming experience back in the 1980s was with 15mm ACW played with the Fire & Fury rules. I wound up stepping...
View ArticleRetro Gaming The 70s & 80s: Dungeon Dwellers
I was already a fairly experienced D&D gamer by the time I encountered the Heritage Dungeon Dwellers series of miniatures and game sets in the early 1980s. Aside from playing creative games...
View ArticleFlames of War: Fielding the Grenadierkompanie
I got the Flames of War Open Fire! set this past Christmas and I’m finally getting around to painting-up all the stuff that comes packed in the box. At under $70 online, this big package is a real...
View ArticleFlames of War: Fielding Easy Company
I’m not unique in being a World War II gamer and a big fan of HBO’s Band of Brothers miniseries from 2001. I also finally got around to reading Stephen Ambrose’s same-titled book on which the series...
View ArticleFlames of War: Fielding the P-47 Thunderbolt
The P-47 Thunderbolt was a big, heavy, expensive and deadly plane with .50-cal machine guns and a bomb payload of 2500 pounds. Rushed into development and production near the dawn of World War II,...
View ArticleFlames of War: Fielding the Sd. Kfz. 7/1 Anti-Aircraft Gun
Wars are filled with big, heavy equipment, and the 8-ton German Sd.Kfz. 7 served as the longtime workhorse throughout World War II. Short for the Sonderkraftfahrzeug (German for “special purpose...
View ArticleFlames of War: Foy 1945 Scenario
With a big full day of Flames of War gaming coming up at Metropolitan Wargamers on July 20th a few of us got together for a practice game this past weekend. There’s a renewed interest in FOW at the...
View ArticleFavorite Kickstarters of the Month (July 2013)
Kickstarter can be a weird, volatile environment. Some projects come and go with little fanfare while others soar into the stratosphere with backer support. There can be all manner of highs, lows and...
View ArticleMilitary Terrain Making in World War II
In the opening pages of the recently-released and well-reviewed final book of his World War II “Liberation Trilogy,” The Guns At Last Light: The War In Western Europe, 1944-1945, author Rick Atkinson...
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