Pencil & Dice

Shock Troops - box cover front I don't have a great idea of what I would do with Wargames Factory' s new plastic shock troops fr...

I don't have too much to add to the last post, but here's a few more photos I took at the event.  Garrison Commander/Park Manage...

Sallying Forth I was able to attend the 250th landmark anniversary of Fort Loudoun's surrender to the Cherokees last weekend. Plenty...

Schurzen have been attached to my work-in-progress STUG platoon. Of course, I put them on backwards - I believe the profile of the plates sh...

I have to say this issue is a knockout. Even if you do not bother to read any of the Flames of War material, you get plenty of solid article...

In my spare time I've been reading the military-related items in Daniel Walker Howe's What God Hath Wrought , a history of the U...

Time to post some words and pictures about the Flames of War summer project. I've had some odd success with my Stugs. They have turned a...

I have been very pleased with Paizo's Gamemastery Flip-Mat line. I recently picked up a copy of the Dungeon (see right). In a lot of way...

My thanks to the WI team for believing in my vision for the 1863 campaigns for Chattanooga, which included the Battle of Chickamauga and the...

Years ago I took an interest in the Luftwaffe Field Divisions, Goring's answer to the manpower shortage on the Eastern Front. The ran...

The Stug G IIIs have been sprayed with primer, disassembled by dropping, and brushed with thin coats of black. More on these tough guys late...

I previously reviewed the game Hannibal: Rome v. Carthage here , and a little bit of Andrian Goldworthy's The Fall of Carthage here . ...

I mentioned in a previous post that I was interested in building the Hermann Goring Division and the US 3rd Division forces for an Italian ...

I submitted some guidelines for playing Missionary Ridge to Wargames Illustrated , with the intent that the bonus material might appear some...

I wrote a news story for the Chattanooga Times Free Press about the fourth annual Free RPG Day. You can read the online version here . My ...

I pitched the 'Campaign For Chattanooga' as a theme to Wargames Illustrated back in January; Dave and Dan gave it the greenlight an...

I got to do a news story on the 37th Georgia Living History Regiment while they appeared at Chickamauga Battlefield Park last weekend. They ...

While in Florida, I visited Fort Christmas, which is at the southeastern edge of Orange County (Orlando) . The park contains a replica of F...

The blog took another break last week while I spent some time in Florida visiting relatives, playing on beaches, and lazing about. I took so...

Wargames Illustrated asked me to write a piece (which turned into a two-part series) on the Roman army from a wargaming perspective. This w...