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.

John R. Hale’s book ‘Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy’ has a strong exposition of the Peloponnesian War, and deftly handles its ebbs and flows and the disastrous military defeats.

“Bronze” is a good, challenging beer-and-pretzel game set in the Ancient World. It shows good research and offers great replay value, though it suffers from substandard graphics and lacks PBEM and Internet play.

This is the solution to the Combat Decision Game “Henry V at Agincourt, 1415” that was presented in the January 2011 issue of Armchair General® magazine.

Patch version 1.4 has been released for Field of Glory and it includes a number of changes.

HISTORY: Great Battles Medieval, a PC game from Slitherine based on the 100 Years War, has a few chinks in what is overall shiny armor and has vast replay value.

Take the role of King Henry V at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt in this free Command Decision Game.

This review says the PC game Lionheart: King’s Crusade is a first-rate diversion, even if it’s only a fraction as good as it could be.

In the board wargame Kawanakajima 1561, chit draws provide thick fog of war, and the game offers players a wide choice of tactics, according to this ArmchairGeneral.com review.

The Vikings: A History. Ferguson, Robert. Penguin Books. 451 pages, including 38 pages of notes, 12 illustrations, 14 maps. Paperback. $32.95.

At first glance, Robert Ferguson’s The Vikings appears to be a novel about Vikings that once raided Europe. In …

A review of Mount & Blade: Warbands praises the new multiplayer functions but acknowledges the game still retains the low production values and sub-par graphics of the original M&B.

A review of the PC game HISTORY Egypt: Engineering an Empire, based on The History Channel series, says it is rock-solid for what it is intended to be – an entry-level game of kingdom-building and ancient warfare.