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Spotlight Articles

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

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


Wargaming Clubs of the Warring Clubs Era 1965-69

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Alan Arvold has shared a fascinating article with us, meant as "...a supplement to the History of Wargaming article..., specifically to the sidebar on Wargame Clubs. It is a listing of the known clubs." Thanks Alan!

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


My Top 3 Wargames designed by… John H. Butterfield!

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"...focus on creations of one author, whom you can treat as a whole wargaming history in micro-scale." Michal, in The Boardgames Chronicle, covers his three favorite John Butterfield games. See which game has a feature that "...creates fog of war as you do not know which part of enemy forces can still act in a turn."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/19/2025


Wednesday War Stories ~ Iron Ships & Iron Men at the Battle of Hampton Roads

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"In some ways the game was frustrating; how could it not produce a clearly superior victor?" RockyMountainNavy, in Armchair Dragoons, has an interesting discussion of the classic "Monitor versus Merrimac" clash, and how that applies to wargaming. Check out what conclusion he reaches, reinforced by the comment: "No better description of the impact of the Battle of Hampton Roads on naval warfare exists than the response of the Royal Navy upon hearing of the battle."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/14/2025


The Vietnam War Miniatures Collection (video)

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The Dusted Game Shelf dusts off his proud collection of miniatures suitable for table top Vietnam War battles.

Poster: Pat L.
Post Date: 3/1/2025


Rodger B. MacGowan Has Passed Away at Age 77

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W. Eric Martin reports the sad news: "Artist/designer Rodger B. MacGowan passed away on February 22, 2025, and if you have been a gamer for any amount of time over the past fifty years, you have likely seen his work."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/26/2025


Rebellion in the Colonies (American Revolution, #1)

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America's "...humble beginnings – as a collection of colonies in strife with their British metropolitan government." Clio, in Inside GMT Games, begins a series on the American Revolution, in honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of its founding.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/21/2025


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Gaming Conventions

Gaming Conventions

Another new feature for Grognard.com, the Gaming Convention calendar will make it a snap to keep up with all the latest gaming conventions in your area. But we need your gaming convention information, so please contribute.



Grognard News

Grognard Challenge - Expanded Room for Comments! (6/25/2023)

The Comments entry area has been resized to 512 characters.

Grognard Originals

In addition to our links to great content all around the internet, expect to see more Grognard.com "originals" in the future.

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.

More Grognard Originals...


Grognard Challenge

Latest Challenge

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The Grognard Challenge



Can You Guess The Name of This Game???

Challenge #1219, Started on 23 Mar 2025

(Select your choice from the options below the graphics)


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Choices






Comments (Optional - Max 512 characters) - Keep it civil; keep it clean; these comments will appear next to your name in next week's results list.


Results for the Last Grognard.com Challenge

Last Week's Challenge Winner (Game #1218) - Gareth Scott


Search for The Napoleonic Wars with Noble Knight Games

In the last Challenge, there were 49 correct answers, but this time Gareth Scott was the first to register a correct guess, identifying The Napoleonic Wars (GMT Games).




Congratulations to Gareth Scott on Grognard Challenge win #87!


You can search for The Napoleonic Wars with Noble Knight Games.

You can also find all the Grognard.com articles here.




Good luck to everyone with the new Challenge!


Thanks for participating in the Grognard Challenge!
-The Grognard Team

 

Well done and, for those not in first place, hope you finish higher next time! New Challenge files may be published at any time between 12:01AM to 11:59PM each Sunday (U.S. Eastern Time), so please submit your guesses before 11:59 PM of the following Saturday, and check back often on Sundays for the Challenge results, and the new Challenge images.

An ordered list of Challengers making correct guesses in the 16 Mar 2025 Challenge (1218) follows:

* Grognard.com is not responsible for any offensive language in the Challenger Comments. Please report any such language to Admin @grognard.com and it will be removed as soon as possible.
#Challenger NameResp Time (PST)Challenger Comment *
1Gareth Scott3/16/2025 4:05:13 PM
2Gary Logs3/16/2025 4:05:40 PM
3David Mathieson 3/16/2025 4:06:38 PM
4Tom Cundiff3/16/2025 4:06:52 PM
5Jeff Muniz3/16/2025 4:07:35 PM
6Dan Hawkins3/16/2025 4:08:41 PMI’ve lost this contest more times than the casualties Napoleon suffered marching back from Moscow.
7Matt Kiriazis3/16/2025 4:08:43 PMSwag
8Doug Mann3/16/2025 4:08:51 PMAnother wild guess
9Mark Marychurch3/16/2025 4:09:04 PM
10koen schoonjans3/16/2025 4:11:19 PM
11Tom Barkalow3/16/2025 4:11:30 PMIt's 1 of 2 of the ones I don't know so we'll see if I'm right or not.
12Henry Golabek3/16/2025 4:11:51 PM
13James Engler3/16/2025 4:13:46 PM
14John Vinal3/16/2025 4:15:04 PM
15Lionel Teed3/16/2025 4:15:59 PM33 Correct and 5 Not! Mr. Scott returns to the winners circle with a strong 2:47 lead over Mr. Mathieson. Mr. Hawkins plea to the big guy worked out! Mr. Moses is a close lucky 13th with some excellent lines. I managed an 18th! A bunch of comments this week, good to see. Impressed that Mr. Beauchamp has to leave the house in snow pants! Mr. Woodward uses some logic for his answer, as does Mr. Picket. Mr. Garner is indeed back a bit. While Matt has strong comments and good logic sadly is 8:40:00 to soon!
16Robert Woodward3/16/2025 4:17:39 PM
17Robert Fix3/16/2025 4:17:52 PM
18Gary Wishik3/16/2025 4:20:38 PM
19David Gardey3/16/2025 4:22:52 PM
20Alejandro Calle3/16/2025 4:33:23 PM
21Phillip Campbell3/16/2025 4:38:29 PM
22Dave Smith3/16/2025 4:50:42 PM
23Dick Boyes3/16/2025 4:51:00 PM
24Dennis Beauchamp3/16/2025 4:58:01 PMI don't think it's any of the choices so a complete guess
25Royce Reiss3/16/2025 4:59:53 PM
26Stuart Hall3/16/2025 5:05:09 PM
27Fred Mottern3/16/2025 5:06:22 PM
28Stewart Newman3/16/2025 5:17:40 PM
29Lee Balsiger3/16/2025 5:17:54 PM
30Don Timian3/16/2025 5:33:47 PM
31Gary Pickett3/16/2025 5:52:46 PM
32Attilio Tribuzi3/16/2025 6:14:31 PM
33Hans Feldmann3/16/2025 6:43:29 PM
34Warren Brehm3/16/2025 8:16:26 PM
35Frank Garner3/16/2025 8:26:03 PM
36Steven Rauch3/16/2025 8:45:27 PM
37Jeff White3/16/2025 8:55:10 PM
38Chris Anthony3/16/2025 9:28:31 PM
39Paul Poon3/16/2025 9:47:55 PM
40Terence Andrews3/17/2025 12:55:49 AM
41Jeff Kenneday3/17/2025 2:07:14 AMBig guess, it looks strategic and this title sounds strategic, maybe.
42Luc Kustermans3/17/2025 4:22:31 AM
43Fabrizio Giuberti3/17/2025 6:05:09 AM
44John Edgington3/17/2025 12:12:34 PM
45R L Moses3/18/2025 12:34:21 AMNot operational/not strategic/with Napoleon/there’s always someone penning a paean/purported wisdom through a battle edict/how violence is a matter of mass and speed/he’d proclaim about storing wood/if he’d known Mr. Teed/Instead he invaded Russia and tried on Egypt/though there was a channel where he dared not to have leapt/wasn’t ’til Waterloo/when an appointment with the Prussians was with Wellington kept/so many games/so many names/history is full of spats/glad these Challenges/are not like that
46Louis Kolkman3/18/2025 5:46:24 PM
47David Chauvel3/19/2025 9:50:12 AMOne of my best multi player wargame with Sword of Rome.
48Eric Iven3/19/2025 11:41:29 AM
49Christine Van Schultz3/19/2025 12:33:13 PM
* Grognard.com is not responsible for any offensive language in the Challenger Comments. Please report any such language to Admin @grognard.com and it will be removed as soon as possible.


There were no INCORRECT guesses this week! Congratulations to our astute Grognards!



Challenge History

Top "25" All-Time Challenge Winners

Here are the top 25, and anyone else who has as many wins as number 25.


Challenge Winner# of Challenges Won
Gareth Scott87
koen schoonjans54
Kim Meints51
Jeff Muniz50
Elias Nordling49
Bill Bruno48
Alejandro Calle45
Allan Rothberg45
Kevin Donovan40
Javier Romero27
Robert Fix25
Thomas Heaney25
Stephen Mrenna23
Eric Iven20
Mike Welsh16
Richard Fluck15
Gary Logs14
Gary Wishik14
Paul Poon14
Tom Collipi14
Thomas Margraf13
Thomas Sobczak13
David Niday12
Julian Barker12
Mochara Caraher12

Past Winners of the Grognard.com Challenges

Here's a complete list of Challenge winners, starting from day #1. The only information missing now is the actual dates of the first 30 Challenges. If anyone has this information, please let me know and I'll gladly update the database.


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Challenge IDChallenge DateWinner NameGame NamePublisher Name
12183/16/2025Gareth ScottThe Napoleonic WarsGMT Games
12173/9/2025Gareth ScottWallensteinQueen Games
12163/2/2025Alejandro CalleLock 'n Load: Heroes of the PacificLNL Publishing
12152/23/2025koen schoonjansDAK2: The Campaign in North Africa, 1940-1942Multi-Man Publishing
12142/16/2025Gareth Scott1944: Race to the RhinePhalanx Games Polska
12132/9/2025Gareth ScottBlue MaxGame Designers Workshop (GDW)
12122/2/2025Gary WishikWurzburg: Soviet-American Combat in the '70'sSPI
12111/26/2025Tom CundiffWaterloo: The Fate of FranceL2 Design Group
12101/19/2025Tony JimenezStonewall Jackson's Way II: Battles of Bull RunMulti-Man Publishing
12091/12/2025Jeff MunizPeloponnesian WarGMT Games
12081/5/2025Gareth ScottSouth Pacific: Breaking the Bismarck Barrier 1942-1943RBM Studio
120712/29/2024Robert WoodwardWhere There is Discord: War in the South AtlanticFifth Column Games
120612/22/2024Jeff MunizAfrika: The Northern African Campaign, 1940-1942Multi-Man Publishing
120512/15/2024Christine Van SchultzRolling ThunderCommando/Group 3
120412/8/2024Jeff MunizAtlantic ChaseGMT Games
120312/1/2024Alejandro CalleRichard III: The Wars of the RosesColumbia Games
120211/24/2024koen schoonjansGustav Adolf the Great: With God and Victorious Arms GMT Games
120111/17/2024Jeff MunizRed Storm: The Air War Over Central Germany, 1987GMT Games
120011/10/2024Dan HawkinsJutlandAvalon Hill
119911/3/2024Gareth ScottCampaigns of Frederick the Great3W
119810/27/2024Dave SmithLock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of NormandyLNL Publishing
119710/20/2024Jeff MunizBritanniaFantasy Flight Games
119610/13/2024Robert FixSword and SailAndrew Jaster Multimedia Design
119510/6/2024Jeff MunizSkies Above the ReichGMT Games
11949/29/2024Doug MannVictory in VietnamMicrogame Design Group
11939/22/2024Gareth ScottBoer War: The Struggle for South Africa – 1899-1902Decision Games
11929/15/2024Gareth ScottNothing Gained But GloryGMT Games
11919/8/2024Robert FixInfidel: The Supremacy of Cavalry in the Crusader Era – 11th-12th CenturyGMT Games
11909/1/2024Gareth ScottI Will Fight No More ForeverSimulations Canada
11898/25/2024koen schoonjansThe Chosin FewVictory Point Games
11888/18/2024Alejandro CalleCommands & Colors Tricorne: The American RevolutionCompass Games
11878/11/2024Gareth ScottYpres 1914Microgame Design Group
11868/4/2024Jeff WhiteTrireme: Tactical Game of Ancient Naval Warfare 494 BC-370 ADAvalon Hill
11857/28/2024Jeff MunizArab-Israeli WarsAvalon Hill
11847/21/2024Matt Kiriazis1815: The Waterloo CampaignGame Designers Workshop (GDW)
11837/14/2024koen schoonjansFirst Blood: The 1st and 2nd Battles of ManassasSimulation Design Inc
11827/7/2024Gareth ScottAble Dog Skyraiders over Korea(Web Published)
11816/30/2024Jeff MunizDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpireAriel
11806/23/2024Don TimianMolino Del Rey: Gateway to Mexico CityDecision Games
11796/16/2024Gary WishikN: The Napoleonic WarsWhite Dog Games
11786/9/2024Jeff MunizSign of the PaganVictory Point Games
11776/2/2024Dick BoyesThe War for the UnionClash of Arms
11765/26/2024Alejandro Calle1950: The Forgotten WarConflict Simulations, Ltd.
11755/19/2024Gareth ScottSeven PinesMulti-Man Publishing
11745/12/2024koen schoonjansCaesar: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar: The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C.GMT Games
11735/5/2024Alejandro CalleHamburger HillXTR
11724/28/2024Gareth ScottPremières GloiresCerigo Editions
11714/21/2024Eric IvenAthens & Sparta Columbia Games
11704/14/2024Gareth ScottPickett's Charge: A Game of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863Yaquinto
11694/7/2024Jeff MunizVictory in Hell: The First Battle of the Naktong River, August 5-19, 1950High Flying Dice Games
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