Category: Editorial

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…

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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…

Editorial

The Fall of Avalon Hill

I came across this interesting article about the history of Avalon Hill, published on a small Earthlink site called the Academic Gaming Review, by Peter L. de Rosa. This was…

Editorial

Solo the COINs

I have a bit of wargaming problem. Some of you reading this might understand. I’m falling in love with all these wargames, and I have nobody to play them with!…