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10/07/2025

Our video review for D-Day Dice 2nd Edition from Word Forge Games.

D-Day Dice is a multiplayer co-op game, where all players play their turn simultaneously and must help each other in order to stay alive. It also includes solitaire optional rules. Although built a…

09/07/2025

This also showed up today. Bloody Lane: A Solitaire Wargame by Vince Cooper. Looking forward to this one!

09/07/2025

These fantastic games arrived today! The Epic Battle of Alesia, Sh**un Solitaire, Europe at War 1940 Solitaire and French & Indian War Solitaire from Worthington Publishing.

09/07/2025

The May 2025 Monthly Debrief Video (S5E5) sponsored by Noble Knight Games is out and sees us discussing Beer & Pretzel Wargames.

The May 2025 Monthly Debrief Video, which is the 5th episode in Season 5 of this series, saw us discussing Beer and Pretzel Wargames. In our opinion, Beer and Pretzel Wargames refers to a style of …

08/07/2025

My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #39: The Victorious Leader from Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa from GMT Games.

With this new My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and…

07/07/2025

Our interview with Wolfgang Klein designer of Assault Sicily ’43 – Primosole Bridge Expansion from Assault Games and Sound of Drums.

There are a bunch of different tactical systems out there, and most of them are very good, but some are much better than others. There is always a new designer that will add some new tricks to make…

06/07/2025

06/07/2025

Our unboxing video for Comet: Allied Airman Rescue in World War II from Hollandspiele.

In this solitaire game from Brad Smith, you help allied airmen shot down in World War II escape from occupied Europe. There were several escape lines – networks of safehouses, forgers, and civilian…

05/07/2025

Also got these 2 today. Third Crusade and Kartini: From Darkness to Light from Ion Game Design.

05/07/2025

This came in the mail today! Pocket Air War Definitive Edition from WBS Games. Very well produced solitaire game.

05/07/2025

Solitaire Berlin is inching towards publication. The hold up is primarily the tariff thing. We remain on the fence as to where to print the components. But the files themselves are printer ready. Peek at the box art . . .

05/07/2025

Our unboxing video for A Gest of Robin Hood from GMT Games.

As you know, I love the COIN Series and anything associated with it. This new Irregular Conflicts Series is considered COIN adjacent and shares some of the same elements. T…