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Another new feature for Grognard.com, "Opponents Wanted" provides a quick and easy way to locate gaming opponents with similar gaming preferences. Requires site registration.

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.

If you are sponsoring a board gaming convention of some type, or know of one that is not listed on Grognard.com, then please contact us and let us know!

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: Don’t Tread on Me

(d10064)		Publisher: White Dog Games Game Type: Board Designer(s): Ben Madison Search for this and related games with Noble Knight

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Don't Tread On Me is a strategic-level solitaire simulation of the American Revolution, published by White Dog Games. Based on the popular Vietnam Solitaire: Special Edition game system from White Dog Games, "DTOM" was designed by R. Ben Madison and developed by Wes Erni. The player of this solitaire game plays the British side along with American "Loyalist" forces against the A.I. forces of George Washington and the Continental Congress. The game features a number of innovative elements including political control, state loyalty levels (which can change), and an off-map system to show the presence of militia forces in a battle.

Articles

Article ID	Pub Date	Article Description
11	Date: 10/2/2020 Poster: Doug Holt	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 7 "Enter the concept of buying loyalty with Trading With the Enemy." Grant Kleinhenz concludes his review of White Dog Games' Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game. Grant finds the game challenging enough that he still doesn't have a sure winning strategy after three games, but that he finds playing the title "…is an experience more than it is a game and I thoroughly enjoyed its twists and turns…"!
10	Date: 9/15/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 6 The Player's Aid continues their series on Don’t Tread on Me by White Dog Games. In Action Point 6, they cover the Place Rebels Phase and the Rebel Campaigns Phase.
9	Date: 9/4/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 5 Action Point 5 covering the game Don't Tread on Me from White Dog Games has The Players Aid giving a detailed look at the Battle Phase procedure, particularly the innovative combat results table and the optimum use of Militia.
8	Date: 8/23/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 4 The Players Aid brings us Action Point 4 of their study of Don't Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games. In this Action Point they focus on the many different aspects of the British Ground Phase, which includes Winter Attrition, Amnesty, Paroles, British Unit Purchase and Deployment on the map.
7	Date: 8/7/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 3 The rebels keep rebelling as The Players Aid brings us their third action point for Don't Tread on Me published by White Dog Games. In this action point point they a deeper look at the various phases of the Sequence of Play beginning with the Smugglers Phase and the Naval Phase.
6	Date: 8/5/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 2 The Players Aid continues its action points series on White Dog Games' simulation of the American Revolution, Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game. In this Action Point they focus on the differing units and their abilities as well as the anatomy and meaning of the values on the counters.
3	Date: 7/10/2020 Poster:	Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game from White Dog Games – Action Point 1 In honor of Independence Day, The Players Aid begins one of their action points series on White Dog Games' simulation of the American Revolution, Don’t Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game. They cover the map and its various Counties and terrain types, the Turn Record Track to give perspective to how the action plays out and how the player must meet the demands of Lord North and King George III, the differing units and their abilities as well as the anatomy and meaning of the values on the counters, the various phases of the Sequence of Play including the Naval Phase and Smugglers Phase, British Ground Phase, Battle Phase and procedure, placing new Rebels Phase and Rebel Campaigns, Logistics and Liberty Phase and the Random Event Phase and the various victory conditions.
2	Date: 7/3/2020 Poster:	Gaming the American Revolution – Ranking the Games We Have Played – 2020 Edition The Players Aid presents a nice overview of several games covering several battles of the American Revolution very war in honor of July 4 Independence Day holiday.
1	Date: 7/7/2017 Poster:	Re-fighting the Revolution on Independence Day Brent Campbell recounts his experiences playing this solitaire game on American Independence Day.

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