Game Review

We Are Coming, Nineveh!

I have read that the Battle of Mosul in 2016-17 saw some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. When you see the pictures of the tight…

Game Review

Tarawa 1943

Small dollops of land scattered within vast amounts of ocean became key strategic points in moving the US forces closer and closer to Japan during the summer of 1943. The…

Game Review

Votes for Women

I’ll come right out of the gate and tell you that while I’m no expert on the history of the women’s suffrage movement, I’m intensely excited about the idea of…

Editorial

The Scales of Wargaming

When you first approach wargaming you’ll hear a lot about the “scale” of games. It’s a tactical game, or a strategic game. It might seem obvious that games played on…

Book Review

Crécy: Battle Of Five Kings (by Michael Livingston)

Over the past year I’ve been exploring various parts of The Hundred Years’ War, from Poitiers to Agincourt, from Verneuil to the exploits of Joan of Arc… but I wanted…

Game Review

Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno

On Ne Passe Pas! Few battles can evoke such a visceral reaction from me as the Battle of Verdun. Even the name itself kind of churns my stomach and makes…

Game Review

This War Without An Enemy

As Stubble To Our Sword Oliver Cromwell’s letter to Colonel Valentine Walton, 1644 The English Civil Wars were not a topic taught in Canadian high schools when I was a…

Game Review

Sherwood

Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions. Maitreya The Friend of All Souls I’ve always had a bit of a love affair with the story of Robin Hood, especially…

Game Review

Nevsky: Teutons and Rus in Collision 1240-1242

It was 2018 when I first learned about Alexander Nevsky, the Prince of Novgorod. They don’t teach this sort of history in Canadian high school, and while I had heard…

Book Review

1415 Agincourt: A New History (by Anne Curry)

From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remember’dWe few, we happy few, we band of brothersFor he today that sheds his blood with…

Editorial, Event

A weekend at SDHistCon Online

I’ve been playing boardgames my whole life, but I’ve never been to a boardgame convention. Most of them are too far away, requiring me to take time off work and…

Editorial

Measuring The Ways To Win

Whenever we teach a game, there comes that inevitable moment where we’re explaining how to win, and 9 times out of 10 it ends with “and the player with the…