The Boardgames Chronicle

Today I have something special for you – a pirate game!

SPIEL, also known as Essen Spiel, is the largest annual board game convention in the world, held in Essen, Germany.

Taifa: Intrigue and War in Medieval Spain is a card-driven game from Worthington Publishing, designed by Victor Catala, Alex Folch, Jesus Peralta, and Ignacio Torres Siles, set during the fractured 11th-century era of El Cid.

Today I have a great pleasure to host on The Boardgames Chronicle blog Adam Niechwiej, designer and founder of the Polish publishing house Strategemata.

1914: Glory’s End / When Eagles Fight is published by GMT Games and designed by Ted Raicer.

Time to start a new series on the blog!

Dice Commandos is a solitaire tactical dice puzzle game designed by Cole Munro-Chitty – an unashamed tribute to 1980s action films packed into a compact, fast-playing format.

Plantagenet: Cousins’ War for England, 1459 – 1485 is a standalone game and at the same time already the fourth volume in the broader Levy & Campaign series from GMT Games.

Castelnuovo 1539: Come whenever you dare!

After my initial unboxing and overview – which you can still check in my earlier Baltic Empires Game Overview – I finally had a chance to put Baltic Empires: The Northern Wars of 1558-1721 properly to the table.

1920: Nest of Eagles is published by PHALANX and designed by Jaroslaw Flis.

About game: Kingdom of Heaven: The Crusader States 1097-1291 – designed by Scott de Brestian and published by Multi-Man Publishing roughly fifteen years ago – is a two-player, card driven, strategic level treatment of the whole Crusading era.

Revolutions: France 1820-1880 is published by Fellowship of Simulations and designed by Laurent Rix.

Some wargames ask you for a whole weekend.

Halls of Hegra is published by Tompet Games and designed by Petter Schanke Olsen.

Today I have a great pleasure to host on The Boardgames Chronicle blog once again David Thompson.

Empire of the Sun: The Pacific War 1941-1945 is published by GMT Games and designed by Mark Herman.

Wargameron is a four-days board game convention held in Poland, focusing on historical, strategic and tactical wargames.

Root: The Homeland Expansion is published by Leder Games, designed by Joshua Yearsley with the usual wonderful art by Kyle Ferrin.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of playing Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars with Janek – two full battles, back to back.

Sea & Steel: Columbus’ Voyages is published by Neva Game Press and designed by Antonio Vaquera.

About game: Punica: Rome vs Carthage was my genuine discovery of Essen Spiel 2025.

Coast Watchers: Allied Field Intelligence in the South Pacific, 1942-1943 is published by GMT Games and designed by Volko Ruhnke.

About game: Race to Berlin: Second Edition – the first wargame published by Portal Games – is a two-player title designed by Krzysztof Dytczak, covering the last months of the war in Europe, from December 1944 to May 1945.

Cuius Regio: The Thirty Years War is published by GMT Games and designed by Francisco Gradaille, with Mike Sigler as developer.

There are designers who release a game every couple of years and there is Mike Lambo.

Army of the Potomac: Campaigns of 1862 and 1864 is the second volume in Mark Herman’s Civil War Heritage series, published by GMT Games.

I am thrilled to bring you another update for our Dear Readers about Cube4Me products – featuring new sets and storage solutions for our favorite board games.

Inferno: Guelphs and Ghibellines Vie for Tuscany, 1259-1261 is the third volume in Volko Ruhnke’s Levy & Campaign series from GMT Games.

Blood & Roses is the third volume in GMT Games’ Men of Iron series, designed by Richard H.

We continue our grand campaign covering the Crusades, playing on tactical level all the major battles as depicted in Crusades expansion for Commands & Colors Medieval.

Baltic Empires: The Northern Wars of 1558-1721 is a 2-5 player strategic level wargame designed by Brian Asklev and published by GMT Games.

Three Days of Gettysburg: Deluxe Edition is published by GMT Games and represents the excellent treatment of the this classical game on the largest battle of the American Civil War.

Most of the time on this blog I write about tanks, battalions and moving lines of the front.

Chandragupta: Great Battles of the Mauryan Empire is the 13th volume in GMT Games’ long-running Great Battles of History series, designed by Stephen R.

My journey with Wargames started with typical Hex & Counters titles.

New Cold War is a card-driven geopolitical game from VUCA Simulations, designed by Andoni Orive and Igor Plaza, covering the thirty turbulent years between the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019.

Over the past few months I have had a great opportunity to play Seljuk: Byzantium Besieged, 1068-1071 extensively, and as the fifth installment in Volko Ruhnke’s acclaimed Levy & Campaign series, it definitely deserves a proper set of materials to help you