‘Tank on Tank’ is a quick-playing, easy-to-learn boardgame in which the number of actions a player may perform in a given turn is concealed by the fog of war.

Comparing how tanks operate in Battlefield 3 and Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad tells us a lot about how the games themselves are designed and the kind of gamer each will appeal to.

A new convert learns why the Flames of War miniatures games are so wildly popular – even when it’s his Tigers that are burning!

Can you survive the Reformation and lead your group to victory?

Island War depicts the skirmishes in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

The Valley of Tears is a tactical game that simulates the Syrian attack on the Israeli’s 7th Armor Brigade’s sector of the Golan Heights in 1973. The counters represent armor and infantry platoons and the hexes approximately 200 meters. To win, the Syrians must force their way across the anti-tank ditch, battle through the Israeli lines, and exit nine armored platoons off the west edge of the map.

The Valley of Tears: 7th Brigade Stands Defiant is a simulation of the Syrian attack on the Golan Heights during October of 1973. The game focuses on capturing the feel of the Syrian assaults during from 7-11 October.

Stalingrad: A Walk in Hell simulates the fighting for the western section of Stalingrad in 1942. The player controls – by moving counters across the map and combating enemy formations – the German and Soviet formations that fought in the battle.

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse occupies a unique place in American history. It is one of the least well known, yet most influential battles, ever fought by our soldiers. Nathan Greene’s tactical defeat in the bare woods and muddy fields of North Carolina heralded a strategic triumph that would eventually lead to Cornwallis’s retreat, encirclement, and surrender at Yorktown—an event that signaled the end of armed conflict in the freshly born United States of America.

Grab the latest bonus game, Brothers by My Side, from our September issue of Armchair General magazine! The fight for Landing Zone (LZ) X-Ray and the Ia Drang campaign have received more than their fair share of Vietnam War ink. It was not only the first significant battle between the Americans and NVA, but also the first test of our new airmobile infantry.

The July 2004 issue of Armchair General magazine features Mark H. Walker’s Omaha: The Battle for the Beach. See if you have what it takes to fight off the beach on D-Day in this bonus board game! This game comes in the form of a PDF file and is a hex-based tabletop wargame.

Changes and updates to Mark H. Walker’s Lee at Gettysburg game.

Player notes for Mark H. Walker’s Lee at Gettysburg : The Battle for Cemetery Ridge game. Information on this downloadable bonus game can be found on p. 51 of the second issue.

With the dawn of Issue 2 we see Armchair General’s second bonus game. Mark H. Walker’s Lee at Gettysburg: The Battle for Cemetery Ridge is this issue’s featured game. Check it out!

Learn more about our Operation Iraqi Freedom game as featured in the Premiere Issue of Armchair General magazine! This Mark H. Walker game is a free bonus included with our first issue. Details inside, including a downloadable VASSAL module!