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Grant’s Top 10 Solitaire Wargames of 2024!

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Grant Kleinhenz, in The Players' Aid, offers an intriguing list of solitaire games from last year. See which one had him commenting "...I was very much intrigued by the concept but more importantly about how this game planned to do just that."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 5/7/2025


Historicon 2025

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Historical Miniatures Gaming Society July 16-20, 2025. Lancaster County Convention Center, Lancaster, PA. Hundreds of tabletop miniatures games for you to participate in; tournaments; hobby classes; lectures; a board game library; and over 60 hobby-related vendors.

Poster: Robert Holifield
Post Date: 4/29/2025


Keeping SPI Alive in ’25! -- Welcome, SPI Gamers!

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"SPI's Alive in 2025!" Convention! July 16-20-2025 in Lancaster, Penn! HISTORICON offered space for a National SPI Wargame Convention! Your chance to play face to face with other SPI enthusiasts! The program will feature structured matches, open gaming, Quad, and monster games. See www.spigames.net for details.

Poster: Robert Holifield
Post Date: 4/29/2025


Fight for Bühl

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"The Austrian artillery is now somewhat exposed, worse - they go low on ammunition (maximum fire is one die - as per a random event ….. unlucky!)" Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, brings us a fast-paced French/Austrian Napoleonic clash, using his home brew rules. Can the Austrian gunners save themselves and the day when they "...keep up the pressure on the horsemen and eventually, the mauled French cavalry are deterred from making any further attacks..."!?!

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 4/23/2025


Breed's Hill 1775

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"...given all the SNAFUs on both sides of this early battle of the American Revolution, it seems apt that this battle be named for the wrong place." See how Jeff Berry, in Obscure Battles, elegantly explains that this was "The battle that should never have happened".

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 4/16/2025


German WWII Pocket Army in 10 / 12mm

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"WWII can pass across the painting table at surprising speed compared to other periods and so it makes for a good quick project to fit in between other bigger projects...". Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, discusses a new World War II Pocket Army project he has underway: "...kampfgruppe Schmidt is ready for action..."!

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 4/4/2025


Jack Greene, 1949 – 17 March 2025

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Kevin Zucker shares some memories of his recently passed friend, designer Jack Greene.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/24/2025


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PE TANG 1900 Q&A with Marco Campari

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PE TANG 1900 Strategy Tips

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PE TANG 1900 Optional Line of Sight Table

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PE TANG 1900 Introductory War Game Review

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Game: Assault Series



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Publisher: Game Designers Workshop (GDW)
Series: Assault Series
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Frank Chadwick
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Description:


Assault postulates a conventional conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in the European environment in 1985." Assault, the first game in the Assault Series, includes U.S. and Soviet ground forces. Contains Assault, Boots and Saddles.


Articles


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Pub Date
Article Description
Source
942
Date: 7/15/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
My Assault Page - New Expanded Soviet Army

"New expanded Soviet Army enters the war with the Soviet Air Force (VVS), updated Western Group of Forces and new rules for Advanced Assault including updated CAS and Radar rules." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted a tremendous update. Check it out!
Web Link
941
Date: 5/31/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Hungarian Army

"This time the Hungarians support the Southern Group of Forces effort." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted variant Hungarian Army counter sheets and data charts (as PDFs).
Web Link
940
Date: 5/22/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Albanian Army

"Now the Albanian Army engages in border clashes with just about everybody." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted variant Albanian Army counter sheets and data charts (as PDFs).
Web Link
939
Date: 5/13/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Romanian Army Variant Materials

"New threat for the Greeks and Yugoslavians as the updated Romanian Army's Danube Front enters the fray." Christopher Selman, on My Assault Page, has posted variant Romanian Army counter sheets and data charts (as PDFs).
Web Link
938
Date: 4/24/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Assault Series Updated Bulgarian and Russian Counters

"The Balkans heat up as the Turks and Greeks face the updated Bulgarians and Russians." Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted variant counter sheets (as PDFs) for Bulgarians and Russians.
Web Link
937
Date: 3/25/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Soviet Airborne Command - Independent Desant Battalions/Brigades and Airborne Divisions

Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted variant counter sheets (as PDFs) for Soviet Airborne Command - Independent Desant Battalions/Brigades and Airborne Divisions.
Web Link
936
Date: 8/19/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
Updated XVIII Airborne Corps for Advanced Assault

If you are a fan of GDW's Assault Series, Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted an updated counter sheet (as a PDF) for the XVIII Airborne Corps.
Web Link
935
Date: 7/18/2020
Poster: Harvey M.
Golan Heights 1973

The Assault Website run by the Southeast Tennessee Association of Wargamers provides this homegrown variant for Game Designer Workshops Assault Series.
Web Link
934
Date: 1/8/2020
Poster: Doug Holt
Middle East ​Assault

Fans of GDW's Assault Series, check it out! Christopher Selman, on his My Assault Page website, has posted counter sheets (as PDFs) for the Egyptian 3rd Army in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Thanks Christopher!
Web Link
932
Date: 1/1/1900
Poster: Mark D.
review

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933
Date: 1/1/1900
Poster: Mark D.
review

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