There’s been something of a resurgence in American Civil War strategy games lately, with AgeOD and Western Civ both delivering very different visions of the conflict in recent years.
Now Gary Grigsby is turning his eyes to the War Between The States.
Taking gamers back to the American Civil War, Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States allows […]

[Read more →]

Matrix Games has released War Engine into the wilds of the internet as a celebration of tax day. The only reward I need is the security that my money is being well spent on a well-managed war that makes America safer from its enemies. But since that’s not happening, I guess this will have to […]

[Read more →]

Guns of August (Adanac Command Studies/Matrix Games) is a rare example of how to capture the seemingly uncapturable. Making a good game about World War I requires a design that forces the player to accept stasis on some fronts as a matter of course. It means creating rules that limit how much progress the player […]

[Read more →]

Larry Bond’s Harpoon - Commander’s Edition is everything it is supposed to be. It’s the same Harpoon that I fell in love with almost twenty years ago. It has all the scenarios that I played repeatedly from both sides, plus the EC 2003 scenarios that I missed. And there’s a Western Pacific Battleset with some […]

[Read more →]

In their continuing effort to revamp, revisit and release every great old wargame from the past, Matrix Games has announced the arrival of Larry Bond’s Harpoon - Commander’s Edition. This isn’t the realistic and ugly Harpoon 2 and 3, it’s the classic Harpoon design with a few new bells and whistles.
Harpoon was the first game […]

[Read more →]

Matrix Games has announced a new “turn-based strategy masterpiece”. Their words, not mine.
Advanced Tactics WW2 is a wargame from Dutch gaming outfit VR Designs. It is based on their freeware wargame People’s Tactics, available on their website. Judging from the screenshots, seems to have both theater and regional combat. Operational Art of War III has […]

[Read more →]

I’ve mentioned Clash of Steel (no relation) a few times before. For me, it epitomizes the perfect light wargame. Units arrive, you place them, and then you run across a hex map of Europe killing Nazis.
Commander: Europe at War is better. It’s not perfect, by any means, but I’m pleasantly surprised. Matrix Games has had […]

[Read more →]

Via Tacticular Cancer.
After leaving Shrapnel Games last month in a confusing he said/she said over the completion/termination of 82nd Airborne, Boku Strategy Games has signed on with Shrapnel arch rival Matrix Games.
Boku is the maker of the Horse and Musket series - great 18th century warfare games in dire need of a spit and polish.

[Read more →]