ACW Flags

The American Civil War flags were varied and colorful. Yes, I know the featured image above has too many stars, but Aiesha, the Robo-Artist, is temperamental. I didn’t want her to turn off my car’s computer. I provide links to the miniature flag options I have found so far: Many sites have unique offerings to…

Game company management

What’s pizza got to do with this? Having been a wargame accessory publisher at Judges Guild in 1976-1978, I felt I could add commentary on this Boardgame Geek post. A guy named Chabuki Cheishvili asked: So, I answered (with few added bits since): A 1960 game, Management, is a 2 to 4 player game that…

CD TOB Order Cards

A friend is about to host a CD-TOB game after a long absence from having played the game. How can a play aid help rusty (and new) players get into it more easily? Command Decision is more fun because it does not use an IGOUGO turn sequence. Instead, most of the game is simultaneous. No…

Battlegroup TEC

This is a Terrain Effects Chart that I remade a bit from the one that Paul Case made. Since his was the 2nd version he made, I call mine 3rd version. But all I did was make it into a one-page whereas his was two pages. I also added some minor stylistic additions. Simon Tyler…

Combat Rules

Duplicate catalog listing of what is found at http://www.combatrules.com. US dollar amounts are shown. Note to those living in Australia and Japan: standard color is not available from Amazon, so you must choose either a black ink edition or a premium color edition. Our triumvirate of World War II rules covers all levels of detail:…

Counters

I found a nicely-written blogpost about wargame counters (as the half-inch cardboard chits are called) by a guy interested in design. It gives a overall view of they got their start and his view of when they peaked. He mentioned how Charles S. Roberts took the symbols for Tactics II from a post-World War II…

BrewUp

This is where we will post the latest news and variants for the World War II miniatures ruleset, Brew Up, by Leon Tucker and Tom Crepeau. These will be available through CombatRules.com later this summer. Stay tuned!

Balkenkreuz & Stars for World War II air & AFVs

To have it in one place, I am posting this and will add nationalities to my current miniature war efforts. German Cross The featured image above and the following text came from this Wikipedia page: “All the styles of the Balkenkreuz used by the Third Reich’s Luftwaffe drawn with the official proportions specified by the…

Tractics’ Direct Fire Mode

Gamers ask about the step-by-step logic of the DFM, Direct Fire Mode, in Tractics. I thought it would be helpful if you could see the summary of DFM. The ruleset also has a more detailed description of the steps and their tables.  Tractics uses a 1D20 for most rolls with the same or lower than the adjusted base will hit.…

Immersive and Playable Terrain

I listened to an On Patrol Podcast about Terrain, Not Just an Afterthought, by two gaming soldiers, Fightin’ Kentuckian and Wyndehurst Productions (who I call K&W hereafter). At 75 minutes long, one needs to set aside the time. But it’s worth it; they did a good job. The core themes are the importance of terrain…