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vintage print ad for Avalon Hill's D-Day wargame

HOW I BECAME A WARGAME PUBLISHER

At the age of 13, I started studying the "Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation" published in the back of magazines, usually in the D...

IN 1972

In the course of editing over 100 games I came to know something no one else at SPI knew—where all the best ideas were.

OPEN UP THE TIRED EYES

I confess I was surprised when GDW's Avalanche won 'Best Graphics' at Origins '77. Perhaps one contributing factor is that the three SPI games nomi...

WHY ARE UPDATES

ALWAYS NECESSARY? Is there a wargame out there without errata?

COUNTERSTRIKE DISPATCHES

At Wartenburg the combat loss was estimated as equal to the after-battle attrition... The full story isn’t recorded for Bertrand’s IV Corps but the...

DRESDEN AAR: START TIME AUGUST 26, 1813

Greetings Kevin, thought I’d write you a game report of our first run-through of the Dresden scenario. We had a great day!

LINDA MOSCA

"I would like to remind women wargamers that while they are fewer in numbers, they make equally effective generals."

BUT IT'S NOT YET HELL

Every game has rules. Some of the most important rules are implicit. You accept them merely deciding to play the game…

THE CRISIS OF CONFORMITY

Most people are just trying to be okay. They desire nothing more than to dissolve into the herd and become indistinguishable from the mass—

DRESDEN DEFENSES

The Dresden walls had been partially demolished beginning in 1809. George Nafziger says the walls were in "rather poor condition," not compatible w...

detail of the boxcover art on OSG's Napoleon at Bay

Kevin Zucker Interview 1997

I had just designed Napoleon's Last Battles and wanted a larger scale, to show how battles got set-up. I chose 1814 as the campaign "next to" Water...

Coming to Rabaul

A graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1922, Lt. Toshikazu Ohmae stepped onto the pier at Dublon Island, at Truk Atoll. He looked aro...