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!

The latest Axis & Allies War at Sea expansion, Surface Action, is a mixed bag. ArmchairGeneral.com’s Paul Glasser fills us in.

A story about the struggles of the Ernie Pyle Museum in his Indiana hometown raises broader questions about big museums vs. small ones and the survival of small, local museums in today’s economy.

Jim Cobb takes a look at the two expansions for Battle Academy (previously Battlefield Academy) and likes what he sees.

A Command Decision Game in which you must choose the best course of action for the Japanese defense of Saipan in 1944.

This is the solution to the Combat Decision Game “Clarke at the Battle of Nancy, 1944” that was presented in the November 2011 issue of Armchair General® magazine.

Tunisia was a unique battlefield during the Second World War, and John Tiller captures the spirit of it perfectly in Tunisia ’43.

Armchair General Advisory Board Member Carlo D’Este wins the $100,000 2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

The long-awaited sequel has arrived and Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad has already outsold the previous game’s volume in just a few short weeks. Even better? It looks like it’s destined to become another classic.

The U.S. Army’s famous Patton Museum is undergoing a multi-year transformation changing its focus to that of Army leadership.

Work on a new MMO set during World War II has been announced. The developers of Hitman are now working on Heroes and Generals and applications for the Alpha are now being accepted.

Douglas E. Nash reviews Blood, Steel, & Myth: The II. SS Panzer Corps and the Road to Prochorowka by George Nipe, Jr. — a new account of the Battle of Kursk that will shock and surprise you.

Author and Historian Carlo D’Este takes us to Anzio in his 11th installment of the his Journey to World War II battlefields series.

In “Hitler’s Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler’s Black Knights and the Occult Origins of the SS” Bill Yenne explores how Hitler and Himmler used a variety of social movements in 1920s Germany to create the mythic images of the SS.

The second Campaign Book for Memoir ’44 has been announced, with new campaigns in the Pacific and European theaters.