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Spotlight Articles

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

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


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


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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 #1224, Started on 27 Apr 2025

(Select your choice from the options below the graphics)


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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 #1223) - David Mathieson


Search for The Hunters - German U-Boats at War, 1939-43 with Noble Knight Games

In the last Challenge, there were 33 correct answers, but this time David Mathieson was the first to register a correct guess, identifying The Hunters - German U-Boats at War, 1939-43 (Consim Press).




Congratulations to David Mathieson on Grognard Challenge win #8!


You can search for The Hunters - German U-Boats at War, 1939-43 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 20 Apr 2025 Challenge (1223) 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 *
1David Mathieson 4/20/2025 4:43:41 PM
2Jeff Muniz4/20/2025 4:43:56 PM
3Phillip Campbell4/20/2025 4:45:23 PM
4R L Moses4/20/2025 4:46:23 PM
5Gary Pickett4/20/2025 4:47:43 PM
6koen schoonjans4/20/2025 4:47:49 PM
7Gary Logs4/20/2025 4:48:02 PM
8Dave Smith4/20/2025 4:52:25 PMYet another guess…
9Erik Ljungberg4/20/2025 4:55:22 PM
10Paul Poon4/20/2025 4:55:49 PM
11Mark Marychurch4/20/2025 4:59:50 PM
12Alejandro Calle4/20/2025 5:04:48 PM
13John Vinal4/20/2025 5:08:18 PM
14Royce Reiss4/20/2025 5:16:37 PM
15Attilio Tribuzi4/20/2025 5:18:39 PM
16Gary Wishik4/20/2025 5:42:28 PM
17Gary Zsigrai4/20/2025 5:44:19 PM
18Kevin Donovan4/20/2025 6:15:51 PM
19Stuart Hall4/20/2025 6:38:57 PMThe Spanish Coast isn't in the Pacific and neither were there many German U-Boats being operated by the US. Similarly, North America isn't in the Med. I've seen two of the others so that leaves only one possibility.
20Frank Garner4/20/2025 7:04:36 PM
21Dennis Beauchamp4/20/2025 7:37:35 PMNo guessing on this one. I played this great game many, many times. Though unfortunately not recently. Sometime soon. It sits on the special bookcase with the 9 or 10 games I will or intend to play any time now!
22Terence Andrews4/20/2025 8:41:29 PM
23Robert Woodward4/20/2025 9:02:57 PM
24Lee Balsiger4/20/2025 11:10:39 PM
25Tony Jimenez4/20/2025 11:16:19 PM
26Don Timian4/21/2025 1:43:59 AM
27Doug Mann4/21/2025 6:15:11 AM
28Lionel Teed4/21/2025 10:28:12 AMMy Social activities are keeping me late in replying! However, Mr. Hawkins wins in the comment field for me! Mowing the lawn! I did bring out the equipment, gassed them up and made sure they were up and running ready to go. Need a small part for one to keep the deck up but the other 2 are good! I am hoping that this year is when I get all those projects done...but it is a big list so I may not get to them all! I note a good number of guesses, correct and otherwise and no Mr. Moses Proses, hope all is well
29James Engler4/21/2025 10:42:59 AM
30Tom Cundiff4/21/2025 6:04:57 PM
31Louis Kolkman4/23/2025 6:53:44 AM
32David Chauvel4/24/2025 3:57:00 AM
33Hans Feldmann4/25/2025 8:58:09 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.


An ordered list of Challengers making INCORRECT guesses

* 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 Scott4/20/2025 4:42:31 PM
2Henry Golabek4/20/2025 4:44:46 PM
3Matt Kiriazis4/20/2025 4:45:16 PMSwag
4Christine Van Schultz4/20/2025 4:57:57 PM
5Eric Iven4/20/2025 4:58:08 PM
6Jeff Kenneday4/20/2025 5:00:38 PMJus guessin.
7Dan Hawkins4/20/2025 5:23:55 PMI consider myself a cross between Rik Smits and TJ McConnell except I can no longer dunk. Go Pacers!
8Steven Rauch4/20/2025 9:04:40 PM
9Ron Freda4/21/2025 9:15:29 AM
10Robert Fix4/21/2025 7:23:44 PM
11Mark Sheppard4/23/2025 7:31:09 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.

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 Scott89
koen schoonjans54
Kim Meints51
Jeff Muniz50
Elias Nordling49
Bill Bruno48
Alejandro Calle46
Allan Rothberg45
Kevin Donovan40
Javier Romero27
Robert Fix26
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
12234/20/2025David Mathieson The Hunters - German U-Boats at War, 1939-43Consim Press
12224/13/2025Gareth ScottStalingrad PocketMulti-Man Publishing
12214/6/2025Robert FixFatal Alliances: The Great War 1914-1918Compass Games
12203/30/2025Gareth ScottSuez '73: The Battle of Chinese Farm: October 15-22, 1973Game Designers Workshop (GDW)
12193/23/2025Alejandro CalleThe Civil War: 1861-1865Victory Games
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
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