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Design Files: Scenario Design

A large and vocal minority think our games should run according to history, and are willing to put up with special rules that force the game into a...

Casus Belli Award

I am very happy to announce that your Napoleon’s Wheel game has won Vexillum 2020 for the period XVI° Century-XIX° Century. If you wish you can f...

U.S. Armaments Captured by Taliban, August 2021: Total Value $85 Billion

600,000 weapons, 75,989 vehicles and 208 aircraft, including: 2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP's 75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35...

Perspectives on Japanese Naval Intelligence

The Japanese Navy had initiated a crash course in attempting to create a world-class fleet, starting from scratch in the late 19th c., even copyi...

Rick Barber Update

Our original tribute to Rick can be found here I was catching up on posts and came across this memory from, I think, Bennighof. 5823 I knew Rick f...

Rick Barber, Cartographer (1954–2021)

Way before Clash of Arms Games, in the early ‘80’s, Ed Wimble ran the Compleat Strategist in King of Prussia, PA. This little store was a conduit ...

Division Generals in TLNB

by Vincent HOLUB In TLNB there are three types of leaders:The commanders, officers, and a blend, officer-commanders. Through their historical comma...

Napoleonic Tour - Waterloo

Napoleonic Tour, 2012 - Waterloo Itinerary THE TRAIL OF THE EAGLE Napoleon departed Paris to join the army at 3:30 AM on June 12, 1815. After the b...

The Thorn in the Eye: History of the Mantua Siege

Excerpt from “The 1799 Campaign in Italy, Vol. 4The battle of Novi and the End of the Italian CampaignBy Enrico Acerbi View of the large entrench...

Haslach: Dupont’s Baggage

Tim Carne, Vince Hughes, and Kevin Zucker It is rarely intended that any troops should have to enter the fight without supply. If so, it is usually...

A Spanish perspective on Espinosa de los Monteros November 10th-11th, 1808

Written by: Gabriel Gonzalez Pavón A beautiful land of mountains and high rocky cliffs, cold rivers, forbidding forests and snowy winters. No...

Review of Highway to the Kremlin I

Review by Adam Starkweather Appearing in Paper Wars #49 Kevin Zucker, one of the patriarchs of our hobby, has been quietly designing games that rep...