The Boardgames Chronicle

Three Days of Gettysburg: Deluxe Edition is published by GMT Games and represents the excellent treatment of the this classical game on the largest battle of the American Civil War. First released in 1995, 3DoG has stood the test of time as one of the most popular entries in the Great Battles of the American Civil War series – a desi...

Most of the time on this blog I write about tanks, battalions and moving lines of the front. But every now and then a game comes along which has nothing to do with war and still scratches exactly the same itch – the itch of expanding, competing for territory, and squeezing the most out of limited resources. March of the Ants: Evolved Edition is one o...

Chandragupta: Great Battles of the Mauryan Empire is the 13th volume in GMT Games’ long-running Great Battles of History series, designed by Stephen R. Welch under the series framework created by Richard Berg and Mark Herman. It is a hex-and-counter game that brings the ancient warfare system to India for the first time, tracing Chandragupta Maurya’s...

My journey with Wargames started with typical Hex & Counters titles. And while my hobby grew across the years, and I started to experience many more types of conflict simulations, I was always very fond and keen to play that type of games. The moving lines of the front, the initiative struggle, the friction of command, the chaos of war – I loved and love it all. Different...

New Cold War is a card-driven geopolitical game from VUCA Simulations, designed by Andoni Orive and Igor Plaza, covering the thirty turbulent years between the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Up to four players take the reins of the great powers jockeying for the new world order – the US