Wolfram Grajetzki’s book “Greeks and Parthians in Mesopotamia and Beyond: 331 BC – 224 AD” examines a part of history that is all too often overlooked, when the eastern territories that had been conquered by Alexander the Great were losing ground to a new power, the Parthians.

With Sekigahara The Unification of Japan, GMT Games has continued their tradition of releasing top-notch war games featuring daring, trend-setting designs.

Win a copy of the 50th Anniversary edition DVD of the film classic Ben-Hur!

A preview of Crusader Kings II says the new game should be a worthy successor to Paradox’s 2004 surprise hit, with improved graphics, a greatly refined military element and more.

A sequel to the acclaimed Hegemony Gold series, Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar has been announced.

Paradox takes aim at the Japanese Civil War with Sengoku – but can it compete with Shogun 2: Total War?

The small, passionate team at Longbow has crafted a tight game focusing on a discrete period of history with Hegemony Gold. This RTS revels in its boardgame roots.

A wargame of medieval cavalry, “Infidel” is for the gamer who relishes a good cavalry charge, mounted archers, and defenders with polearms.

A new expansion to the Field of Glory system has been released, Eternal Empire, and for one week a $10 discount is being offered for early purchases.

The King Arthur Collection is a mix of Total War and Heroes of Might and Magic, offering strategic depth with a magical twist.

Bronze, a strategy game from Shrapnel Games, is soon to become a boardgame, too.

With Sengoku, Paradox Interactive turns the attention of its Europa Universalis system to the two-hundred year struggle between clans to establish the Shogunate of Japan.

2500th Battle of Marathon Anniversary.  Boardgame AAR. 

26.2. The stickers are everywhere. If you do a web search for what the heck it means, you’ll get plenty of answers, and they’re accurate enough: it means that person runs in …

Animated map of Ancient Greece, courtesy of The Map as History. Click on map to start animation.

Armchair General has partnered with The Map as History, a company that produces outstanding animated maps with accompanying narration. Each month, a link …

Painstaking archaeological work determined the actual location of Bosworth Field, the penultimate battle of the War of the Roses, where King Richard III was killed.

Though her book ‘The War that Killed Achilles’ is in large part a summary of the ‘Iliad,’ Caroline Alexander highlights how the poem revolves around Achilles’ anger, his motives for quitting the fight and his further decision to again don his armor.