Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerQuite some time ago, there was a photo on BGG of a bookshelf with the poster’s references for a game on the Battle of Lepanto (I have no idea how the game is coming along), and Braudel’s two volume work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked up The Pacific Ocean a while ago at a library sale. It’s a history of the exploration of the Pacific Ocean written in 1940. It was the first of the “Oceans of the World” series, all written by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I was growing up, my dad had a small business in the wargaming industry, acting as a wholesaler for other companies, selling games retail by mail, and publishing a magazine. So, I grew up amidst a collection disparate products[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the third in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron After Hearts of Iron, Paradox turned its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After reading Norwich’s book on Venice, I looked at his other books, and saw one on the Mediterranean that looked interesting. However, most of the reviews for it said it was okay, but Abulafia’s The Great Sea was much better,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the first review here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas After Europa Universalis II, Paradox Interactive stuck with what they had proven that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For me, 1997 represents a high water mark in computer gaming. Some of this is an accident of circumstance, where I had a fair amount of free time and money, and a roommate who shared my interests. But, for me,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As of about AD 200, the Roman Empire was by far the most powerful state within its known world, and had been for over two hundred years. Three hundred years later, the western half of the Empire had ceased to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roger Collins is a name I’ve known for many years through his Early Medieval Europe 300–1000, so when I realized that a book I was considering getting was by him, it became an instant first choice. Covering nearly 2000 years[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Harold Lamb wrote a bunch of very readable and enjoyable historical biographies from the 1920s to ’60s, but is sadly not very well known today. He was an exemplar of a narrative style of popular history writing that seems to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…