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First Man in Rome: Senatus Consultum Ultimum STRATEGIKON SERIES · THIN RED LINE GAMES SENATUS CONSULTUM ULTIMUM: the Rubicon month, 50/49 BC Pictorial After Action Report · BigBoard Gaming · @wargamer · October 2026 GAME DETAILS Field Value Game First Man in Rome (rules v39) Publisher Thin Red Line Games Designer Fabrizio Vianello Scale Operational-tactical; […]

Silent Dead Series BELYY — Operation Mars, 25 November to 4 December 1942 Pictorial After Action Report · BigBoard Gaming · @wargamer · October 2026 GAME DETAILS Field Value Game Belyy — Silent Dead Series: Operation Mars 1942, Volume I Publisher Legion Games Designer Greg Blanchett (rules, development, maps, counters, Vassal module) Scale Battalion and […]

Von Manstein’s Backhand Blow — Schwerpunkt Series GMT GAMES ·  VON MANSTEIN’S BACKHAND BLOW — the Donets basin and the third battle of Kharkov, 31 January to 22 March 1943 Pictorial After Action Report · BigBoard Gaming · @wargamer · Began August 2026 GAME DETAILS Field Value Game Von Manstein’s Backhand Blow Publisher GMT Games, […]

BigBoard Gaming · monthly series · 1. The Strategy The seventh of the Hundred Unorthodox Strategies is a position problem dressed up as a naval one. Fight near a river or a lake and you need boats, barges, ferries, that part is obvious. What is not obvious, and what the whole strategy turns on, is […]

This is the next in an occasional series where we use Joe’s mapandcounters.blogspot.com and the articles from my reference library of magazines to explore two different takes on the same battle. The Battle of Midway, 3–6 June 1942 In May 1942, before a single ship sailed, the Imperial Japanese Navy wargamed the Midway operation aboard […]