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Spotlight Articles

Outstanding articles that are not necessarily linked to one particular game, but may have broad appeal to gamers.

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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Gaming Conventions

Gaming Conventions

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Grognard Originals

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PE TANG 1900 Q&A with Marco Campari

Some Q & A between myself and Marco Campari, designer of Pe Tang 1900 from Lumaca Games.

PE TANG 1900 Strategy Tips

This is the strategy I developed after playing Pe Tang 1900 from Lumaca Games.

PE TANG 1900 Optional Line of Sight Table

Here is an optional table to make it a little more difficult to eliminate the Boxer artillery.

PE TANG 1900 Introductory War Game Review

My review for this great introductory war game concerning an obscure siege of a cathedral during the Boxer Rebellion. Use this game to recruit new war game players.

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Game: Mr. President



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Publisher: GMT Games
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Gene Billingsley
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Description:


Mr. President is a solitaire game about governing as the President of the United States. It's not an election game. It begins after you've been elected. It's about sitting in The Chair and trying to advance your agenda while navigating ongoing crises, political enemies, public opinion, your relations with Congress and the press, and keeping your country secure in a world of rival nations and agendas that just seems to keep blowing up around you. Mr. President is a resource management game, where you never have enough resources to achieve your entire agenda, and the path you take through an always unpredictable storyline rests on the choices you make. Depending on the results of those choices, and on the unfolding of a "different every game" story, you'll either be thinking "POTUS? Piece of Cake!" or "Why was it that I WANTED this job?" many times in each game.


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Date: 8/25/2023
Poster: Doug Holt
FIRST IMPRESSIONS, SOLITAIRE SUNDAY First Impressions: Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020 from GMT Games

"I really enjoyed our play of Mr. President and as a solitaire game it ticks all the boxes for me." Grant Kleinhenz, in The Players' Aid, reviews this game about governing as President of the United States. See what critical aspect of the game leads Grant to comment that "This part of the game is very stressful and I found the tension to be real..."!
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4
Date: 12/16/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
“Cat-Herder-in-Chief”: Playing the Mr. President 2017 Hard Scenario (Part 3)

"An important strategy in Mr. President is to solve problems before they blow up in your face." Rick Engelbart, with comments by game designer Gene Billingsley, continues a replay of the "hard scenario", showing some of the twists and turns possible in this game. Check out what elicits this comment: "Ugh! What a lousy card to get at the end of the Activation Phase. It did indeed bring some unwanted Chaos to the game."
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Date: 9/2/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
“Cat-Herder-in-Chief”: Playing the Mr. President 2017 Hard Scenario (Part 1)

"No game of Mr. President will ever be the same; in fact, no scenario setup will ever be the same...". Veteran playtester Rick Engelbart starts an AAR of GMT Games' Mr. President, accompanied by tongue-in-cheek comments from designer Gene Billingsley. Things get interesting when Rick has to deal with a major adversary: "Since its now Cold War II, I’ll need to hit China with both Multi-lateral and Unilateral sanctions…"!
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2
Date: 8/5/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
Pragmatism, Tension, and the Power of Cooperation in Mr. President

"...in Mr. President, you allow your alliances to weaken at your peril." Gene Billingsley discusses key elements in his GMT Games' Mr. President, "...a solitaire game about governing as the President of the United States...". Gene covers player tradeoffs, to include frustrations: "If I only had a nickel for every time I’d heard a tester (or myself) bemoaning, 'How do I reign in the Israelis?'"
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1
Date: 8/4/2017
Poster: Doug Holt
Domestic Tranquility (or not!) in Mr. President

"The game has you manage quite a bit of unexpected chaos..." Gene Billingsley discusses design progress on domestic issues in his GMT Games' Mr. President. Seems Gene will force you to you juggle both foreign and domestic crises if you want to "…become an amazing President – loved by at least 51% of the people!"
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