The Boardgames Chronicle

1914: Glory’s End / When Eagles Fight is published by GMT Games and designed by Ted Raicer. This is two full games in one box, one for the Western Front and one for the East, both revised editions of the campaign games Raicer originally created for the late lamented Command magazine before he went on to Paths of Glor...

Time to start a new series on the blog! After years of playing, reviewing and recording wargames, I noticed that I keep coming back to the same handful of mechanisms – the ones that make a game “click” for me. In My Favorite Boardgames Mechanics I will pick one mechanic at a time, explain what it is, share what I like about it and what sometimes bothers me, a...

Dice Commandos is a solitaire tactical dice puzzle game designed by Cole Munro-Chitty – an unashamed tribute to 1980s action films packed into a compact, fast-playing format. You take command of a team of elite operatives and guide them through a series of missions that demand a sharp mix of stealth, combat, and clever use of each ch...

Plantagenet: Cousins’ War for England, 1459 – 1485 is a standalone game and at the same time already the fourth volume in the broader Levy & Campaign series from GMT Games. Designed by Francisco Gradaille (with Volko Ruhnke), it takes the system created for the 13th-Century Baltic and reshapes it...

Castelnuovo 1539: Come whenever you dare! is published by Draco Ideas and designed by Francisco Ronco. It recreates one of the great last stands of the sixteenth century. In the summer of 1539 the Spanish garrison of Castelnuovo, today Herceg Novi in Montenegro, found itself facing an Ottoman fleet and army of some 5...