Cold War Commander 2 Review

‘Modern’ wargaming is a funny little niche.  It covers a 70-year timespan which saw monumental change throughout, but when it comes to the Cold War is almost entirely speculative.  We’re historical wargamers, gaming a war that never happened. Modern games have been one of the periods that seems to have never really ‘taken off’ too. 

…Can’t do that

Podcaster Justin McElroy once described playing Dungeons and Dragons as (roughly) the following: It’s like playing pretend as a kid, only every now and then a guy goes ‘no no, you can’t do that’ It’s stuck with me for years: anyone who has played a tabletop rpg will know how brilliantly accurate and funny it

Zona Alfa Review – Initial Impressions

There aren’t many games, of any kind, that I find I want to pre-order or buy on release day. I’m the kind of person that would rather keep their powder dry and see how others take to a game before committing. Why put your money down and take that risk when you can let others

A question of competing

I met up last night for a very irregular (due mainly to my schedule) game of Team Yankee. I’ve still got, essentially, naff all of a force to use, but there are enough of us to club together and make something of a decent scope. As we were all playing as NATO countries let’s call

An utter fiasco

There’s a habit, when a blog goes into a long, drawn-out pause, of starting afresh with a whole new site when starting again. I’m going to try and break that habit, and instead build up a head of steam here once more. Although this blog has primarily been cycling-related in the past my idea for