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Spotlight Articles

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

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.

Grognard News

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

The Comments entry area has been resized to 512 characters.

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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Gaming Clubs/Organziations

New Gaming Clubs/Organizations listing. You can search for existing gaming clubs worldwide.

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!

New Search Features

Now you can search for specific games (or games by publisher) using the new Game Search feature, located at the top right corner of the this page. In addition you can now harness the power of Google to search the entire Grognard.com site for any specific information you'd like. Just enter a search word or phrase into the Google box labeled "Search All of Grognard.com" and click magnifying glass button. Search features will continue to be improved and enhanced going forward so check back often to see the latest stuff.

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: By Stealth and Sea

(b10092)		Publisher: Dan Verssen Games Game Type: Board Designer(s): David Thompson and Nicola Saggini Search for this and related games with Noble Knight

Description:

By Stealth and Sea is a solitaire or cooperative game that takes place during the Battle of the Mediterranean in World War II. In By Stealth and Sea, you lead elements of an Italian commando frogmen unit called Decima Flottiglia MAS. Under your command, teams of frogmen will pilot manned torpedoes in attacks against the Royal Navy in the heavily guarded harbors of Gibraltar, Algiers, and Alexandria. By Stealth and Sea’s campaign system features all nine key historic manned torpedo attacks by the Decima Flottiglia MAS against the Royal Navy. During the campaign, you can advance your technology and train your frogmen, but the Royal Navy responds to successful attacks by improving their defenses. The remarkable accomplishments of the Decima Flottiglia MAS served as a model for other naval special forces for years after World War II. Will you be able to match these historic results? Or will you succumb to the defenses of the Royal Navy?

Articles

Article ID	Pub Date	Article Description
7	Date: 3/10/2021 Poster: Doug Holt	Remember to Always Be Bold – The Campaigns of the Tenth Assault Vehicle Flotilla. “By Stealth and Sea” Board Game Review. "By Stealth and Sea is a solid game. It delivers an engaging solitaire experience and in 2021 that’s a welcome feature!" Ray Garbee reviews Dan Verssen Games' By Stealth and Sea, which covers World War II Italian commando operations in the Mediterranean. Ray finds the missions against card driven defenders offer good replayability, (sometimes frustrating) realism and "…captures quite well the challenge faced by the commandos using these cutting-edge weapons."
6	Date: 1/21/2021 Poster: Harvey M.	By Stealth and Sea: Harbor Defense Examples Seek Out and Play continues their mission to teach board game rules to the public. In this video, they present an example of how the Harbor Defense Phase works in DVG's By Stealth and Sea. Each example is one that is presented in the rulebook. For the video, the examples are highlighted by text and then described to show how each part of the Harbor Defense Phase works.
5	Date: 1/16/2021 Poster: Harvey M.	BY STEALTH AND SEA FROM DVG "The history has been thoroughly and lovingly researched and crafted with the expected quality of production", states A Wargamers Needful Things in their latest review of a new design from Dan Verssen Games, called By Stealth and Sea
4	Date: 1/9/2021 Poster: Harvey M.	By Stealth and Sea: Turn Sequence Seek Out and Play discusses the turn sequence for DVG's By Stealth and Sea. A solitaire game designed by David Thompson. This short video covers the basic turn sequence, so you can visualize how the game is played turn by turn for each mission
3	Date: 12/23/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	By Stealth & Sea Impressions after first play. The Big Board takes a look at By Stealth and Sea published by Dan Verssen Games, a solitaire or cooperative game that takes place during the Battle of the Mediterranean in World War II. In By Stealth and Sea, you lead elements of an Italian commando frogmen unit called Decima Flottiglia MAS. Under your command, teams of frogmen will pilot manned torpedoes in attacks against the Royal Navy in the heavily guarded harbors of Gibraltar, Algiers, and Alexandria.
2	Date: 11/15/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	By Stealth and Sea from DVG Preview By Stealth and Sea, the latest design from Dan Verssen Games, is previewed by Moe's Game Table. The game covers the Italian torpedo attacks during World War II and and, as far as I can tell, no other game covers this topic.
1	Date: 2/26/2020 Poster: Doug Holt	Interview with David Thompson Co-Designer of By Stealth and Sea from Dan Verssen Games Coming to Kickstarter February 25th "...embracing the history is of the utmost importance." Grant Kleinhenz, writing in The Players' Aid, interviews designer David Thompson about his upcoming By Stealth and Sea, by Dan Verssen Games. Clearly a fascinating design challenge. For example, check out the dynamic where the game "…allows the player to drive the level of variance in the game, balancing certainty against action economy."

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