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Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 4/29/2024


History of Wargaming

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One of our Grognard members kindly submitted a scan of a fascinating early article about wargaming. The article is The History of Wargaming, by Martin Campion and Steven Patrick, and was in Strategy & Tactics, 1972, issue 33 used with permission from Decision Games.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 4/4/2023


Campaigning and fast play WWII tactical rules

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"The rules provided by Matt are designed to allow the fast play needed to cover so much potential action, so that friends can complete their campaign in a day." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, checks out a fast play campaign system offered by Matt Irsik in Warning Order, which is a free, online wargames journal. Check out the action in Norm's test run through, and why he concludes that "…Matt has provided us with an engine that gets things moving and helps ensure that a campaign can be fought through relatively quickly to a conclusion."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 8/10/2022


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Poster: Pat L.
Post Date: 6/26/2022


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A Close Look at a Neglected Gem

Long overdue review of Victory Games' "Central America: America's Backyard War", written by Mark D.. In depth review covering rules, game features, and scenarios (one of the highlights of the game). Editor's note: I've been playing this game again after a long, long time, so I felt this article was worth re-publishing to maybe spark interest in the game...

Falling Sky - Perfect Opening Moves - Roman (updated)

Is there such a thing as a "Perfect Opening Move" in any of GMT's COIN Series games? Mark D. shares his idea of a "perfect" opening turn for the Romans in Falling Sky. Enjoy.

Editor's note added on 5/15/2021.

Higlanders - Scenario for Vietnam: 1965-1975

Experimental scenario for Vietnam: 1965-1975 created and shared by Mark D'Agosta.

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Game: Pax Britannica: The Colonial Era 1880 to the Great War



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Publisher: Victory Games
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Greg Costikyan
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Description:


Multi-player game of diplomacy and conflict.


Articles


Article ID
Pub Date
Article Description
Source
409
Date: 4/10/2022
Poster: Pat L.
Pax Brittania: A Reader's Digest

Reddit has an interest group for Pax Britannica: The Colonial Era 1880 to the Great War moderated by the PrussianSpaceMarine. This link includes the game rules but if you click further you will find a forum, game aids, and variants.
Web Link
408
Date: 4/3/2022
Poster: Pat L.
Pax Britannica: The Colonial Era 1880 to the Great War (web page)

Enthusiast Mark O’English assembled this web page devoted to this 1985 game designed by Mark Costikyan. The page includes many links from around the internet plus house rules and player aids developed by O’English. Several of the links are broken but archive.org has preserved them. Click this link for: Costikyan’s Pax Britannica web page. Our special thanks go to archive.org for preserving these web pages.
Web Link
407
Date: 8/22/2014
Poster: Mark D.
American Strategy

"Beyond Manifest Destiny" - American strategy in Pax Britannica, written by James Werbaneth for The General magazine.
Grognard Hosted
406
Date: 8/22/2014
Poster: Mark D.
John Moser: Pax Britannica Fan Site

Fan site dedicated to all things Pax Britannica, created by John Moser.
Web Link
402
Date: 12/7/2013
Poster: Mark D.
Dave Rubin: Income and VP calculator (Excel)

Excel-based Income and Victory Point calculator submitted by Dave Rubin.
Grognard Hosted
393
Date: 12/7/2013
Poster: Mark D.
Mark O''English: American Strategy

American strategy article, titled "The United States of America in Pax Britannica", penned by Mark O''English.
Grognard Hosted
405
Date: 6/3/2011
Poster: Mark D.
David Banks: BGG Review

Review by David Banks for BGG.
Web Link
404
Date: 11/13/2008
Poster: Mark D.
Roger Cooper: Victory Point Calculator (Excel)

Nice Excel-based victory point calculator submitted by Roger Cooper.
Grognard Hosted
387
Date: 6/30/2007
Poster: Mark D.
Internet PBEM Ladder

Site maintained by Mark O''English. Appears to have been last updated in June 2007.
Web Link
397
Date: 4/10/2002
Poster: Mark D.
Shaun Derrick: Variant PBM/PBEM rules (Word)

4th edition of these PBM/PBEM rules compiled by Shaun Derrick.
Grognard Hosted
399
Date: 9/23/2001
Poster: Mark D.
Alex Sanders: Great War Inevitability Variant

Alex Sanders composed this "Great War Inevitability" variant to make focus the penalties for starting the "Great War" specifically on those who start it! A few other minor tweaks as well.
Grognard Hosted
398
Date: 7/31/2001
Poster: Mark D.
Rob McCarter: Income/VP Calculator (Excel)

A handy tool for Pax players, shared by Rob McCarter.
Grognard Hosted
384
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Ben Baron: PBM setup sheet

Variant setup by Ben Baron.
Grognard Hosted
383
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Jeff Janoska: House Rules

House rules posted by Jeff Janoska.
Grognard Hosted
382
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Jeff Janoska: Variant Great War rules

Detailed Variant rules posted by Jeff Janoska.
Grognard Hosted
381
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Greg Costikyan: Designer Q&A

Q&A session with designer Greg Costikyan.
Grognard Hosted
379
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Eric Scharf: Replay

Awesome, detailed replay by Eric Scharf.
Grognard Hosted
388
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Article Index

A list of publication articles that covered Pax Britannica
Grognard Hosted
394
Date: 12/17/1998
Poster: Mark D.
Q&A, House Rules, etc

A compilation of questions, errata and house rules.
Grognard Hosted
391
Date: 8/14/1998
Poster: Mark D.
James Bailey: Russian Options (Strategy)

Excellent strategy article by James Bailey titled "Money for Nothing (and Czechs for free?)". Great read and interesting strategy...
Grognard Hosted
389
Date: 7/14/1996
Poster: Mark D.
James Baily: The Franco-Nippon Gambit (Strategy)

James Baily presents his "Franco-Nippon Gambit" strategy and presents it as the only way that either France or Japan have a chance of winning the game. Very interesting.
Grognard Hosted
378
Date: 1/12/1994
Poster: Mark D.
M. Baswell: Review

Review by M. Baswell.
Grognard Hosted
380
Date: 8/24/1993
Poster: Mark D.
Errata and PBM rules

Comprehensive errata and PBM rules posted by James Kline.
Grognard Hosted
400
Date: 6/1/1993
Poster: Mark D.
Greg Costikyan: Rules Improvements

Designer Greg Costikyan created some changes to improve the game''s play. This site also contains tournament rules and play-by-mail rules that he''s developed.
Web Link
386
Date: 4/22/1991
Poster: Mark D.
List of PBEM Opponents

Compiled by Brian Rapp.
Grognard Hosted
385
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
PBM player information sheet

Grognard Hosted
401
Date: N/A
Poster: Mark D.
official PBM rules

Web Link