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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: With It Or On It

(w10057)		Publisher: Hollandspiele Series: Shields & Swords Ancients Series Game Type: Board Designer(s): Tom Russell Search for this and related games with Noble Knight

Description:

With It Or On It is the first game in the Shields & Swords Ancients series. Like its medieval era cousin Shields & Swords II, this series takes a broad brush approach to simulating battles, this time of the ancient period, with an emphasis on speed and playability. While the basic philosophy and the core system of using Command Markers to activate Wings remains the same, each game in this Ancients line is designed from the ground-up to incorporate elements specific to its period and style of warfare. This first game looks at six battles fought during the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian Wars. Hoplite units that are attacking may use the Combat Class of the best hoplite in the line, giving them an advantage over heavy and light infantry formations. As a result of combat, units become exhausted, but these results may be distributed elsewhere in the line - a break occurs when there are no fresh units that can satisfy the result. Break the enemy line at the right time in the right place, and it will crumble in a disastrous rout. Maintaining pressure on the enemy while managing the morale of your own men is crucial to deciding the battle, and with it, the fate of empires.

Articles

Article ID	Pub Date	Article Description
7	Date: 4/20/2021 Poster: Harvey M.	Shields & Swords Ancients - Marathon wrap up The Players Aid gives us their initial opinion on the Shields & Swords Ancients series with the game With It or On It published by Hollandspiele.. Much simpler than the Great Battles of History system, it seems to find the right mix of decision-making for battles in ancient times.
6	Date: 2/19/2021 Poster: Harvey M.	Shields & Swords Ancients-Marathon Wrap Up The Big Board gives us their opinion of With It or On It, a tactical ancients game published by Hollandspiele. They like the fact that it is much simpler than the Great Battles Of History system making for a clean simple system that is not simplistic in its game decisions.
5	Date: 9/19/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Shields & Swords Ancients: With It or On It from Hollandspiele – Action Point 4 The Players Aid continues their series of Action Points on With It or On It published by Hollandspiele in their Shields & Swords Ancients series. This is the fourth and final Action Point which covers the Combat Phase, the Unit Type Modifier Matrix and how it all interacts with the Combat Results Table.
4	Date: 9/4/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Shields & Swords Ancients: With It or On It from Hollandspiele – Action Point 3 The Players Aid continues their series of Action Points covering the Shield & Swords Ancients: With It or On It from Hollandspiele. In their third Action Point, they explore the various Phases of the Sequence of Play giving more detail on the Skirmish Phase and Move Phase.
3	Date: 8/20/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Shields & Swords Ancients: With It or On It from Hollandspiele – Action Point 2 With It Or On It is the first game in a new Shields & Swords Ancients Series from Hollandspiele that uses a system developed in the Shields & Swords Series that deals with medieval battles. The Players Aid brings us their second Action Point covering the very interesting Command Phase where the player must make tough decisions about how to use their limited double sided Command Chits.
2	Date: 8/8/2020 Poster: Harvey M.	Shields & Swords Ancients: With It or On It from Hollandspiele – Action Point 1 From Hollandspiele we get a smart little game, With It or On It, the first game in a new Shields & Swords Ancients Series. The Players Aid gives us their first look while initiating another one of their fine action point series that will cover the basics of the system and take a look at the different types of units available to the commander, discuss how best to use their limited double sided Command Chits, evaluates Movement of units across the battlefield and how this changes when entering Skirmish Zones and explore the Combat Phase, and dissects the Unit Type Modifier Matrix and how it works with the Combat Results Table.
1	Date: 8/7/2020 Poster: Doug Holt	Shields & Swords Ancients: With It or On It from Hollandspiele – Action Point 1 "With It or On It was simply a revelation and an utter joy to play." Grant Kleinhenz begins a series of pieces about Hollandspiele's With It Or On It, the first game taking the Shields & Swords system from medieval to ancient battles. Check out why Grant comments that "The game is light, fast playing and the rules overhead is low but the game has some really interesting decisions regarding how to go about defeating your opponent."

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