#wargames

Can Claude Code play Italy ‘43?

There’s an interesting thread over on BoardGameGeek where folks are discussing use of AI in wargaming, with some focus on spatial state.

Great Campaigns of the American Civil War

I’ve been playing a new-to-me American Civil War game system: Great Campaigns of the American Civil War (GCACW). The Warwick Line scenario from On to Richm...

Advanced Squad Leader in Madrid

Strange words to see together in a title, huh? I sent out a few emails to Madrid folks I found on the ASL players map, and got some nice hits!

Holland 44 with the BIG Map

I’m spending the day in Albany playing Holland ‘44 - Operation Market Garden with my wargaming buddies, 2v2. Surveying the battle

Diving Deep into Undaunted Normandy

I’ve owned Undaunted: Normandy for over a year but had a groundhog day experience with it: playing and teaching the first scenario, over and over, to new rec...

Combat Commander with John

A wargaming buddy recently moved to Green Valley AZ, into the same community as my uncle John. I swung by this week for a quick game of Combat Commander: Eur...

We Didn’t Finish Kernstown

But it sure was fun. Kernstown map Wargames are an interesting game hobby niche: my guess is that most games never actually play to completion. There’s of...

Gaming Fun in Sunriver Oregon

After a 36 hour travel adventure from New York to Oregon, I’ve arrived in Sunriver OR. Walking along the river in Sunriver I’m hanging out with good frien...

Kernstown

Yesterday I played a brief solo game of Kernstown. Kernstown first scenario under way I’ve been enjoying the Blind Swords System quite a lot this year, pr...

Table Battles

Played the new-to-me Table Battles from Hollandspiele today with Matthew.

Recent Gaming, July 2021 Edition

We started our hosting duties for summer 2021 at the start of July, hosting gaming-running-drinking friends from Oregon and Indiana. There’s so much to do ...

Cool ASL post Permalink

This is one of several posts you’ll see from me as I experiment with posting workflows from various devices. I figured I might as well share some good cont...

Summer Gaming

It is high time I shared at least some sort of update on my summer goings-on, so how about gaming? We’ve had a range of short- and long-term visitors that en...

I ❤️ Labyrinth

Allen and I both had the same idea coming away from GMT West - seeing Labyrinth played made us both long to get it back on the table. This game opened the d...

GMT Weekend in the West - Spring 2019

Julie and I worked out our return from our long hiking and backpacking trip to pass through central California so that I could (again) attend the GMT Games ...

February and March Mega Gaming Update!

This will be a linear wander through my gaming from early February through early March. Julie was in Florida for the duration so I was anxious to fill my fr...

Bottoscon

I’m settled near Vancouver BC for a wargaming convention. Hosted by Rob Bottos, hence the name.

Hanging Out at GMT West

GMT Games hosts a long weekend gaming event at their warehouse in Hanford CA each spring and fall. This is my first visit and I’ve had a blast. Right now I’...

The Metagame of Advanced Squad Leader

I’m finally organizing my collection of ASL, which is vast but nowhere near complete. Of course I changed strategies mid course but I love where I’ve landed...

Defiant Russia

I played the light wargame Defiant Russia over the weekend, solo, and have some commentary to share. I landed this copy about a year ago off a prize table ...

Recap of Some Games I Played in December

I've had a very active month of gaming so far! Here's a recap of the highlights: Nations – played this with Jacob and Matthew and got destroye...

My Final Salishan Gaming Event

I haven't written about my Salishan gaming retreats in a while (since 2011 I think) but having just held my final one I think I should wrap things up with a...

Supreme Commander, Take 2

This is a follow-up to my Supreme Commander post from last week. Ken and I played through about 6 turns of the campaign game for The Supreme Commander last ...

Learning to be The Supreme Commander

I'm hosting a week-long war and board gaming blowout event at our beach house in just over a week. We are selling the house and this is our swan song event. ...

Operation Market Garden

I hosted part 2 of my 60th anniversary of 1944 WWII major operations in Europe last weekend. This time it was Operation Market-Garden, the largest failed mi...

The Triumph of Napoleon’s Triumph

Ken and I continued our play-through of the Bowen Simmons collection of elegantly designed block wargames focused on 19th century battles. We started with h...

Two Player Gaming

I've enjoyed a flurry and wide range of two player gaming since the start of the year. Here is a brief rundown. Mage Wars I first played a demo of this at ...

A Victory Lost

I made a plea for help a couple of weeks ago - there are two wargames in my collection that have languished unplayed and I needed to make the stay or go cal...

Washington’s War with Jacob

It wasn't planned, but we played it anyway. Jacob and I had a mostly free Sunday afternoon and opted to play Washington's War, giving me a trifecta of card...

Napoleonic Wars - with 5 this time

I hosted a five player Napoleonic Wars game today - my first time playing with a full complement of players. I drew the Russians which was also a first. M...

Command and Colors: Napoleonics Scenario 2

Ken and I are trying to reserve Wednesday nights for two player wargaming (lighter stuff) and last night was our second try of Command and Colors:Napoleonics...

WWII: Barbarossa to Berlin, Starting

I doubt we'll get too far this weekend, but Jacob and I started a game of WWII: Barbarossa to Berlin this afternoon. I traded away Paths of Glory (a WWI game...

Combat Commander: Stalingrad, Scenario 37

Ken and I resumed what will hopefully be weekly Wednesday wargaming sessions. We’ve been playing through the Stalingrad scenarios for Combat Commander and lo...

Fields of Fire

I’m obsessed with Fields of Fire, and I’ve only played 1/5 of a full scenario. When I say obsessed, I mean I keep thinking about how much I want to play this...

Video Journal from WBC-West

Dave is producing a video journal of our gaming group wargame retreat in Sunriver. I’ll arrive late Thursday afternoon.

Session Report: Napoleonic Wars

Next weekend I’ll be spending about 3.5 days in Sunriver with Doug and crowd at his “WBC West” event. This will involve mostly wargaming with a little bit of...

Europe 2008 - Bulge Tour, Day 2

Day 2 of our Bulge tour was geared more to accommodating our tourists stops, so there was not much rhyme or reason to the sites we visited.

Europe 2008 - Bulge Tour, Day 1

Apologies for turning these Europe posts into a drawn out series of publications not unlike a pulp serial series.

GMT In-Stock and P500 Order

It sure is hard to resist GMT Games’ annual in-stock discount. After chatting with Mike Deans yesterday afternoon I placed my in-stock order, plus added a f...

Twilight Struggle vs Ken

Ken and I got together about 2 weeks ago to play Twilight Struggle. This currently ranks as my favorite-game-that-I-rarely-get-to-play. Ken was concerned a...

Combat Commander: Europe, Scenario 5

With Jacob snowshoeing / backpacking up on Mt Hood, and Julie/Matthew driving halfway to the coast to transport a friend, I rang up Ken to see if he was up f...

Two Player Wargames with Jacob

Jacob and I have been on a roll lately, playing Combat Commander: Europe twice and Command & Colors: Ancients three times over the past 2 weeks.  I’m mos...

ASL Starter Kit #1 - Retaking Vierville

I made significant progress on the burndown list over the past week – a combination of Goodwill donations, eBay sales, and focused gameplay has created a net...

Axis & Allies Miniatures

I first saw Axis & Allies Miniatures at GenCon 2005 and after hearing so-so playtest reports from Jacob and Matthew I decided to skip it.  Besides, it wa...

Memoir ‘44 Eastern Front -Breakout at Klin

Matthew and I sat down to for a first playing of the Eastern Front expansion to Memoir ‘44.  I’ve read elsewhere that people have been able to pack all of th...

Eastfront with Mike

(or, how I could have saved a lot of lives had I been commanding the Germans on the east front). I had planned to do a session report on my game of Eastfront...

The Escapist on Wargames

I really enjoy reading The Escapist – very relevant an insightful information on video gaming, often with ties into tabletop gaming.  This month they have a ...

Europe Engulfed

I purchased Europe Engulfed (GMT Games) about a year ago

Memoir ‘44 Overlord

Jacob and I went over to Ken & Brandon’s house this weekend to try out a two-board game of Memoir ‘44 Overlord.  Days of Wonder was kind enough to give m...

What Are Wargames?

Check out this interesting article in the recent issue of the GiocAreaA online magazine. The translation is a bit stilted at times, but the content is very n...

Memoir ‘44

I finally received my copy of Memoir ‘44 this week, the new game from Days of Wonder.  DoW is on a roll, with the Alan Moon designed game Ticket to Ride winn...

Axis & Allies - D-Day

Friday evening Jacob and I started our first game of Axis & Allies: D-Day, a game that we managed to finish tonight after his baseball game.  Jacob playe...

Axis & Allies: D-Day Released

Axis & Alies: D-Day (publisher site, preview) was released this week.  I was fortunate enough to be a playtester for this (thanks for the invite Doug!) -...

Memoir 44 vs. Axis & Allies D-Day

George asked this question: _So how does this coincide with Hasbro's Axis&Allies D-Day release? _ I believe they will both be released about the same t...

Preparing for Europe Engulfed

A strange title for a post, but I’ve spent the last week reading (and re-reading) the rules for Europe Engulfed in anticipating of a trial short scenario pla...

Great ASL Article

Check out Chris Farrell's article on ASL pros and cons. My favorite quote: ...I think an unhealthy percentage of the skill involved in playing ASL is in ...