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The Origins of the AVALON HILL GAME COMPANY 1952-1963

The Avalon Hill Game Company is 72 years old this year and time to chronicle the history of Avalon Hill. In Part 1, Origins, we will look at the story of not only the establishment of a game company, but an industry and a hobby. Thanks to Legendary Tactics YouTube Channel for this great series.

Poster: Robert Holifield
Post Date: 4/18/2024

Tributes pour in after death of award-winning veteran wargame designer Dean Essig

Mike Didymus-True, in BoardGameWire, brings us the sad news of the passing of designer Dean Essig.

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 4/1/2024

Alumwell Wargame Show 2024

"...I actually enjoyed this show more than any other that I have been to in the past couple of years." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, regales us with sights and surprises from this show, along with some great pictures! And check out the source of an insight that led Norm to conclude "It made me realise that considering these things went into the air in their thousands, the financial investment in longbow archers must have been huge."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/22/2024

Fields of Corn & Rye

"...I was pretty sure that I had found something that might do the job." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, discusses a way he's found to address an old itch, namely adding texture and/or crop fields to tabletop settings. Check out what he finds to be a reasonable, cost-effective approach, considering that "...sometimes I think we have made ourselves a picture perfect world and lost something along the way."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/11/2024

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.

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

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Grognard Opponents Wanted (9/14/2022)

New Opponents Wanted function. You can now set your ad expiration date, up to one year. Requires site registration.

Gaming Conventions

New Gaming Conventions calendar. You can see all upcoming gaming conventions worldwide.

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If you belong to a gaming club, or know of one, please drop us a line and let us know so we can get it listed on Grognard.com!

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Grognard Originals

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

Fast, simple, not expensive, little errata, but only reasonably fun. (War game Review)

In his review on BoardGameGeek, Brendan Whyte first turns a critical eye towards the components and rules and lists their shortcomings. Game play fares better: “…the game is fast and quite fun”. Whyte then goes into comprehensive details covering game mechanics and spares no criticism for the game opponent (AI). His discussion concerning solitaire board games vs solitaire computer games is very interesting.

PE TANG 1900 Q&A with Marco Campari

Some Q & A between myself and Marco Campari, designer of Pe Tang 1900 from Lumaca Games.

PE TANG 1900 Strategy Tips

This is the strategy I developed after playing Pe Tang 1900 from Lumaca Games.

PE TANG 1900 Optional Line of Sight Table

Here is an optional table to make it a little more difficult to eliminate the Boxer artillery.

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Game: Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars

(p10021)		Publisher: GMT Games Series: Great Politicians Series Game Type: Board Designer(s): Mark Herman Search for this and related games with Noble Knight

Description:

In Pericles, four players are arrayed as two teams of two Athenians versus two Spartans. The Athenian players are either the Aristocrats (e.g., Pericles et al) or the Demagogues (e.g., Cleon et al). The Spartan players represent the two royal houses (Eurypontid and the Agiad). To win the game, a player’s side has to win the war and they have to be the incumbent government when victory is declared. Thus the game challenges you to both cooperatively work to defeat your City State's enemy, while dominating your domestic opponent.

Articles

Article ID	Pub Date	Article Description
15	Date: 4/27/2020 Poster: Doug Holt	Pericles – Suicide of Greece scenario – do not underestimate Phormio! "Yes, the game against bots brought a lot of fun! It was very hard to trick Phormio...". Michal, writing in The Boardgames Chronicle, uses some social distancing time to take on the bot in GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars. Check out some of the eyebrow raising developments, like: "Really, Athens on land beating our forces?"
14	Date: 1/21/2019 Poster: Mark D.	Pericles: Reviewd by The Boardgames Chronicle Another review, shared by Michal Kowalczuk at "The Boardgames Chronicle", of a more recent Mark Herman effort, "Pericles" which depicts the epic ancient clash between Athens and Sparta...
13	Date: 9/8/2018 Poster: Mark D.	Pericles: Game Review Video Full set of videos produced by Enrico Viglino. Intro, review and replay.
12	Date: 9/5/2018 Poster: Harvey M.	Teaching Pericles A brief replay to learn some of the game mechanics in some of the shorter scenarios
11	Date: 8/21/2017 Poster: Doug Holt	JUST ASK PHORMIO (or “how to teach Pericles”) "...use the Phormio AI system to advise you as if Alcibiades was sitting by your shoulder." Designer Mark Herman provides a helpful method to get players up to speed with his GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars. Use "Phase 1: War with Words" and "Phase 2: War with Spears" to help you more quickly enjoy "…a mechanically simple game with complex strategy…"
8	Date: 7/16/2017 Poster: Mark D.	Pericles - A Boardgaming Life Review " 'We will leave this war to our children' , King Archidamus’ prophetic retort to the Spartan assembly at the opening of the 2nd Peloponnesian war sounded the alarm that the conflict would be generational. His compatriots did not agree and thought an easy victory would be had, yet the war lasted 27 years, cost thousands of lives and fundamentally changed the Greek civilization." Harvey Mossman, writing for The Boardgaming Life site, has created a thoughtful and well illustrated review of the game, covering all the key elements and processes. Highly recommended reading...
10	Date: 5/22/2017 Poster: Doug Holt	Unleashing Hell: Redeployment Rules in Pericles "… you can do that?" Designer Mark Herman addresses questions raised by players of his GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars. Redeployment rules have created some consternation, but Mark shows how those rules fit into the big picture of a proper simulation: "…the redeployment rules are by intent very flexible..."
9	Date: 5/2/2017 Poster: Yannick Stoneage	First Thoughts on this hefty game by GMT On of my most wanted games this year. They compare the game with Churchill because of the debate part of the board. But at the end it is more a wargame. Can't wait to get my teeth on this game.
7	Date: 4/17/2017 Poster: Doug Holt	Pericles: Strategy in the Archidamian War "Since this is all preplanned and secret, some really cool situations arise." Designer Mark Herman offers strategy tidbits in his GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars. Of course, while most strategy is dependent upon game mechanics, there are always event cards to keep things from being cut and dried. As Mark says of "Will of Assembly" cards: "In Pericles, the respective assemblies do not supply free lunches."
6	Date: 6/22/2016 Poster: Doug Holt	Delian League Diaries #6 "Phormio will hold your hand and walk you through its logic..." Mark Herman lays out a fascinating play of his GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars using decision flowchart 'Bots he has developed as a new and/or solitaire player aid. Lots of twists and turnings-of-the-table ensue, leading Mark to conclude "You can’t make stuff like this up..."
5	Date: 5/26/2016 Poster: Doug Holt	Delian League Diaries #5 Ah, the exquisite frustrations of asymmetric warfare! Mark Herman offers a strategy guide for his GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars. See why "...play testers with little to no knowledge of this period organically repeated the exact mistake made by Athens in the real war..."!
4	Date: 5/5/2016 Poster: Doug Holt	Delian League Diaries #4 What grief will Alcibiades cause next...? Mark Herman is back with more playtest "historical back and forth", which is what he seeks to achieve with his GMT Games Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars. Or, as his playtesters put it, “insanely fun”.
3	Date: 5/2/2016 Poster: Doug Holt	Delian League Diaries #3 This is not "RAM"! Mark Herman returns with a fascinating progress report on his GMT Games Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars, with insights on his innovative player country leadership system, as well as its results in a playtest!
2	Date: 2/16/2016 Poster: Pres Gabrillo	Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars Dave Neumann follows up on designer Mark Herman's latest, Pericles.
1	Date: 2/9/2016 Poster: Doug Holt	Delian League Diaries #1 "Aristophanes (the playwright) in a wargame?" Designer Mark Herman begins a discussion of his GMT Games' Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars project, which casts each player as either Athenian or Spartan, with both political and military objectives. Can you resolve the Peloponnesian War with victory over the other city state, and as ruler of your own?

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