Armchair General’s Rick Martin had the opportunity to catch up with Academy Games’ founder Uwe Eickert to discuss Academy’s games and where this fast-growing company is going.

The outstanding TV series ‘Battlestar Galactica’ now has an equally great boardgame to match.

Offering tactical depth and deep strategy, Age of Conan is about as good as boardgames get.

A list of game conventions for summer 2011.

Succeeding where most light wargames fail, Arnhem ’44 captures Operation Market Garden without too much overhead.

Lock ‘n Load’s Summer Lightning, a wargame of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, is flying off the shelves.

Armchair General’s Christopher Beck takes a look at Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game. Find out why he says it represents a “new golden age” in gaming.

The ‘Barbarossa: Crimea’ boardgame has lots of German allies, close air support, siege artillery, and land and sea interdiction, but its rules are complicated.

Academy Games is offering a special pre-order bonus to gamers who order Strike of the Eagle, their upcoming block game of the Polish-Russo War.  Strike of the Eagle is the first game in the Fog of War series of …

A fast-moving game of the quick draw, Cowboys: Way of the Gun is a beer and pretzels boardgame of the Old West.

With the right group, and the right scenarios, Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon makes for a pleasant evening.

Phantom Leader is a well-designed, streamlined, card-driven solitaire game covering the air war in Vietnam. Highly recommended.

A new Introductory Box Set for Battletech is being released, and it delivers a lot of value for the money.

Germantown: Washington Strikes back is a boardgame of the battle that that led French to give serious consideration an alliance with the American colonists in their rebellion against Great Britain.

Despite the flaws in the Commands & Colors System, the Napoleonics version of the game system scores an A grade.

Exclusive Armchair General interview with Larry Bogucki, developer of the Warparty boardgame, which brings the fantasy genre of D&D-like games to a more familiar boardgame mechanic of something like Axis & Allies.