Opponents Wanted

Find Gaming Opponents!

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Spotlight Articles

Outstanding articles that are not necessarily linked to one particular game, but may have broad appeal to gamers.

Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly 11-13 October

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Join the Dragoons for an event with "...multiple tables for wargaming events, plus a large table for all-day monster wargaming across extended sessions."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 9/3/2024


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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


Poster: Pat L.
Post Date: 6/22/2022


Poster: Pat L.
Post Date: 5/26/2022


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Gaming Conventions

Gaming Conventions

Another new feature for Grognard.com, the Gaming Convention calendar will make it a snap to keep up with all the latest gaming conventions in your area. But we need your gaming convention information, so please contribute.



Grognard News

Grognard Challenge - Expanded Room for Comments! (6/25/2023)

The Comments entry area has been resized to 512 characters.

Grognard Originals

In addition to our links to great content all around the internet, expect to see more Grognard.com "originals" in the future.

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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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In Memoriam


Scott Cameron - October 2018

Submitted by: Mark D'Agosta

This month the Strategy Gamers of Long Island (Bethpage) lost a great friend, Scott Cameron. Scott was the type of guy that made gaming fun. He was always even tempered and good natured, even when losing. A rare bird in the wargaming community :-) He had a great sense of humor and was uniformly liked and respected by all of us.

Scott and I also shared the distinction of being the only members of the group to have completed a full campaign game of "Vietnam: 1965-1975" (Victory Games) over the course of 13 months! His NVA rolled into Saigon in the Summer of 1972, giving him the victory, but we promised that there would be a rematch some day. Unfortunately, that day will never come, but our Vietnam "experience" was a good time that I'll never forget.

All of us in the Bethpage gaming group will miss Scott terribly.



John Kula - December 2016

Submitted by: Mark D'Agosta

Passing along a bit of sad news: I was just notified that John Kula passed away in December. Although I did not know John personally, he was a regular contributor to Grognard.com over the years. When I was performing a code review when first taking ownership of this site, I recall seeing John's name all over the place.

John also edited and maintained the Simulacrum web site and PDF publication, and created and maintained an Excel version of the "Simulacrum" database (aka Simbase) that we've all used at one time or another.

Game Designer Brian Train has posted a nice remembrance article about John on his site

We'd like to extend our condolences to John's family, and let them know that John was a valued member of our community, and he will be remembered and missed.