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Spotlight Articles

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

The Battle of the Sacred Grove (Med Campaign 5)

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"Upon sighting the lead elements of Roman forces, being the swift-moving Equites and Velites, this mass of warriors descended from the heights to fall upon Regulus’s army." Prufrock brings us a nicely photographed Roman/Barbarian minatures clash set in 225 BC. How do the Romans fare, while already engaged, when "...a large body of the Boii tribe arrived to the north, moving southwestward towards the ridge, aiming to bolster their colleagues..."?

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 5/21/2025


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


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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 #1227, Started on 18 May 2025

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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 #1226) - Gareth Scott


Search for The Dogs of War with Noble Knight Games

In the last Challenge, there were 35 correct answers, but this time Gareth Scott was the first to register a correct guess, identifying The Dogs of War (Thin Red Line Games).




Congratulations to Gareth Scott on Grognard Challenge win #90!


You can search for The Dogs of War 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 11 May 2025 Challenge (1226) 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 Scott5/11/2025 4:20:54 PM
2Jeff Muniz5/11/2025 4:22:08 PM
3koen schoonjans5/11/2025 4:27:00 PM
4Alejandro Calle5/11/2025 4:29:51 PM
5Gary Wishik5/11/2025 4:30:51 PM
6Dick Boyes5/11/2025 4:36:09 PM
7Phillip Campbell5/11/2025 4:38:46 PM
8Mark Marychurch5/11/2025 4:47:16 PM
9Royce Reiss5/11/2025 4:49:20 PM
10Eric Iven5/11/2025 4:53:29 PM
11Robert Woodward5/11/2025 5:02:41 PM
12Stewart Newman5/11/2025 5:09:16 PM
13Paul Poon5/11/2025 5:15:10 PM
14Tony Jimenez5/11/2025 5:49:59 PM
15Dennis Beauchamp5/11/2025 6:00:19 PM(a moment of silence)
16David Mathieson 5/11/2025 6:27:53 PM
17Jonathan Snowden5/11/2025 6:58:27 PM
18R L Moses5/11/2025 7:06:02 PMOne of those cases/where none of these games save two are in my collection/in all Russian forces are off to the races/while NATO scrambles to offer protection/One can easily see Mr. Teed refusing to yield/transforming lawn and land/into an effective minefield/in any event/any invasion would create quite a mess/all I can offer is a bit of a wild guess.
19Attilio Tribuzi5/11/2025 7:07:28 PM
20Don Timian5/11/2025 7:16:48 PM
21Steven Rauch5/11/2025 7:18:13 PM
22David Gardey5/11/2025 7:27:36 PM
23Fred Mottern5/11/2025 7:35:46 PM
24Terence Andrews5/11/2025 7:43:34 PM
25Lee Balsiger5/11/2025 8:15:27 PM
26Erik Ljungberg5/12/2025 12:59:40 AM
27Robert Fix5/12/2025 2:23:10 AM
28James Engler5/12/2025 6:39:03 AM
29Lionel Teed5/12/2025 9:57:21 AMRuff one this week! Pun intended! I am tardy in my reply as yesterday was Mother's Day and my darling Wendy told me all she wanted was me out of the house for a few hours….so off to the Golf Course I went! I had my worst day on the course in a few years though! I also broke the throttle control on one or the mowers so now I need to get it up to the repair shop! Weather has been super though, so lots of opportunities to be outside! The answer list was a little barren of comments this week, hope to see more!
30Gary Pickett5/12/2025 12:02:48 PM
31Christine Van Schultz5/12/2025 3:00:40 PM
32Frank Garner5/13/2025 8:59:01 AM
33Stanley Hazard5/13/2025 9:59:50 AM
34Mark Hill5/17/2025 11:53:42 AMOf the best from out of Trezzano Italy
35Matt Kiriazis5/18/2025 12:15:12 AMGuessed South Mountain (WRONG) instead of Glory III (which I never owned after buying Glory I-II). I would have been in 3rd had I been correct, so more agony of defeat. Last week’s winner Gary Wishik (11) was first to comment. Lionel Teed (26), Tom Barkalow (27), Dennis Beauchamp (34) and RL Moses (38) followed with comments. While I was first to comment amongst those who had incorrect guesses, I was joined by Dan Hawkins with his wrong guess. Mark Marychurch had the 45th and last correct answer of the week
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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 *
1Dan Hawkins5/11/2025 4:21:12 PMI own a couple of these so I can narrow it down! I hope I win and Go Pacers!!!!
2Warren Brehm5/11/2025 4:27:22 PM
3Dave Smith5/11/2025 4:34:51 PMI don’t know this one
4Jeff Kenneday5/11/2025 6:02:33 PMGuessin agin!
5Henry Golabek5/11/2025 7:14:12 PM
6David Chauvel5/12/2025 11:38:13 AM
7Mark Sheppard5/12/2025 8:03:28 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 Scott90
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
Gary Wishik15
Richard Fluck15
Gary Logs14
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
12265/11/2025Gareth ScottThe Dogs of WarThin Red Line Games
12255/4/2025Terry GraffGlory III: Battles of Antietam and Cedar CreekGMT Games
12244/27/2025Gary WishikLa Bataille de LignyClash of Arms
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
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