By Russ Lockwood Publisher Columbia Games Julius Caesar by Columbia Games is a game that I always thought deserves more attention than it has received. It has an intriguing , […]
JULIUS CAESAR – A Boardgaming Life Review and After Action Report
The Field Commander Series Summary- A BoardgamingLife Review
This highly regarded series of solitaire titles began in 2008 with the publication of the original version of Field Commander Rommel. Field Commander Alexander was released the following year, and then […]
Umpiring the Empire-TheBoardGamingLife Player Aid for Le Vol De L’Aigle
by Harvey Mossman Approximately one year ago I umpired a game of Flight of the Eagle over the Internet. It was a very interesting experience, both for me as the umpire […]
My Forty Years on the Eastern Front: A Boardgaming Life Game Survey
Paul Comben Well, here we are with the stock-in-trade of the hobby – whatever else has been designed, and wherever else it took us, you cannot think of the hobby […]
Legion of Honor – A first look by TheBoardgamingLife
Designer: Richard J. Kane Sr. and J. Michael Ruttle Publisher: Clash of Arms Games by Harvey Mossman I doubt there is a respectable wargamer who hasn’t thought what it would be like […]
Gettysburg’s Gettysburgs: A Boardgaming Life Review
By Paul Comben Let’s face it, some of us have had more than forty years of marching down the Chambersburg Pike, and we have all done it with great games, […]
All Around the Block: A Look at the Utterly Unique Designs of Rachel Simmons – A Boardgaming Life Review
By Paul Comben It is far from unusual within the broad church of board wargaming to find designs based upon the use of wooden blocks. Columbia has dedicated itself to this approach […]
The Maps of Collapse – Wargaming the End of the Reich
By Paul Comben Let me begin by telling you about this extension kit I came up with many years ago. I was just a lad, but a lad with ambitions […]
The Last Thousand Hours of the Thousand Years Reich
By Paul Comben Even as American troops were still fighting to maintain their foothold on the east bank of the Rhine at Remagen, several hundred miles to the east, Josef Goebbels was […]
The Battle of Setauket – A Boardgaming Life Session Replay
By Mitchell Freedman A personal reflection on the relationship between gaming rules, reality and the ties that bind them together. There I was, hiding inside a church on the Setauket green, my […]
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