Qwexit: a scenario for Canadian “Civil War”
Variant cover by Cavan Cunningham! My non-Canadian readers may or may not know that on October 21, 2019, Canada had a general election. The incumbent party, the Liberal Party of Canada, was returned...
View ArticleTeam play of COIN system games
O’er the hills and far away…. The estimable Brant Guillory of Armchair Dragoons and other manifestations has published a guide to the team play of GMT COIN system games that he and his group have put...
View ArticleCivil Power: making your own scenarios
Copies of Civil Power are starting to thud and rattle into mailboxes across the land. https://www.consimsltd.com/products/civil-power in case you haven’t had a chance to order your copy yet! I’ve...
View ArticleSend in the drones
Over at Forbes magazine, the very clever Michael Peck writes on a new move to place new technology on other new technology for an old purpose. It may take a while for the Pentagon to get what it wants...
View ArticleKashmir Crisis: solitaire rules
Today at the Boardgamegeek.com entry for Kashmir Crisis, player (yes! there is at least one!) Steve Roberts posts about his method for an automated manual opponent for the game, using a second deck of...
View ArticleStrike for Berlin: new alt-hist scenario for Ostplan 1919
/ Here is something new-old for you: an even-more-alt-hist scenario for my alternate-history game Strike For Berlin. In December 1918, a general revolt across “Greater Poland” (mostly the territory...
View ArticleAn idea whose time had to come, I suppose.
https://www.youtube.com/@nullitaire/videos Nullitaire game: a game played with zero human players. I started joking about this some time ago after A Distant Plain came out, about 10 years ago, with 4...
View ArticleVariants: “Freedom Convoy” scenario for Civil Power, counters for Palace Coup
(dotty art found on Internet) Chris van Someren of the Netherlands has uploaded to Boardgamegeek a special scenario he has concocted about the clearing of the “Freedom Convoy” protestors off...
View ArticleVariant: We Are Coming, Gaza!
NOTE: See edit below dated 2 January 2024. This variant has been undertaken by actual events. I have created a variant for We Are Coming, Nineveh! that explores the possible conduct of the announced...
View ArticleVariant: Operation ZUGSTOSS, for Berlin ’85
Berlin ‘85: Enemy At The Gates was designed by James Dunnigan, one of my favourite game designers. It was the issue game in #79 of Strategy and Tactics magazine and SPI also published it separately in...
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