Pencil & Dice

WI 259 Today, I'm throwing out some ideas on how I would handle the occasional strafing and dive-bombing in a World War II skirmish g...

OK, I know I said I would post next on artillery fire in WW II skirmish gaming, but I stumbled across some great data on German Air-to-Groun...

WI 259 This post is part of a series regarding combined arms in skirmish level games (primarily World War II and taking inspiration from ...

[This guest post by WI regular contributor Neil Smith is in response to some recent posts on combined arms in skirmish wargaming: here an...

WI 259 In my last post I mentioned talking about my thoughts on bringing in the heavy guns (indirect/off-board artillery fire, naval gunn...

WI 259 I'm working on a post or two regarding ideas on how to integrate combined arms into skirmish-level World War II gaming (ie. wh...

El Cid! Seriously, I have been remiss for not mentioning this great article by James Morris (another favorite historical wargaming author...

WI 283 Well, sometimes it takes awhile to search, copy, and paste. Following is my battle report for the Jacob's Trench scenario fro...

The aftermath of a number of time-sensitive projects have left me with little time for the blog recently. I expect to get back on track with...

WI 283 cover John Bianchi asked me to playtest his Lone Pine scenarios that he planned to use in Wargames Illustrated's Gallipoli iss...

I've been delayed a bit from blogging due to lose of electricity for nearly 48 hours. I'm quite thankful, because outside of the los...

Here's a glimpse of WI 283, the Gallipoli issue. You can get a full preview over at the Flames of War website here . This was one of t...

D&D Basic Set box cover art Dungeons & Dragons has been around for a little longer than 30 years; I think something close to 35 y...

I suppose it was no big surprise that Warlord Games released their new ancients wargame title at Salute this weekend. Now that it's out,...

I have added Army Painter winter tufts to my US heavy weapons teams, and I like how they turned out. I tried out the model railroad straw st...

Flakpanzer 38 with card shield I got a chance to catch up on some of my Flames of War miniature projects this weekend. First up are the F...

cover WI 281 Neil Smith fires a couple of impressive salvos in the WI artillery issue, covering the American Civil War, the Franco-Pruss...

cover WI 281 Dr. Stephen Summerfield gives readers a one-stop look at Napoleonic horse artillery, and goes just beyond the highlights of ...

Cover of WI 281 Picking up from the last review of Wargames Illustrated's Artillery Issue (#281), we move onto the late medieval per...

Anyone with a copy of Wargames Illustrated #282 can see that Gallipoli takes the spotlight theme for the May issue (you know, on the last pa...