A hopeless hybrid (war)game…in a good way! Castelnuovo 1539
by RockyMountainNavy, 27 April 2026 Thanks to the generosity of Spanish boardgame publisher Draco Ideas, on behalf of The Armchair Dragoons I got the opportunity to …
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First Impressions of Shadow Empire – Republica DLC
by Peter Robbins, 23 April 2026 Shadow Empire can be described with one word – sophisticated. I don’t use that word often in game reviews, as …
Armchair Dragoons Reviews Sea & Steel
by Michael Eckenfels, 20 April 2026 There is a certain gravity that comes with cracking open a wargame set in 1492. As someone who has spent …
Little Wargame with Italy ’43
RockyMountainNavy, 20 April 2026 Italy ’43: Fifth Army’s Advance to the Gustav Line designed by Mark Simonitch and published by GMT Games in 2025 is …
Space Empires 4X Endgame: All Good Things Part 2
by MarcM, 16 April 2026 The battle was joined, and the hits were coming. Would the Enterprise survive?
Space Empires 4X Endgame: All Good Things Part 1
MarcM, 09 April 2026 I don’t like endings. But here we are at All Good Things, the end of the Space Empires 4X series. And …
Lissa Takes Two ~ The Two Faces of There Must Be A Victory
RockyMountainNavy, 6 April 2026 Last October at the 2025 The Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly I picked up from the swap table the wargaming magazine Against …
Armchair Dragoons Reviews Unconditional Surrender! Western Campaigns
by Bill Simoni, 06 April 2026 Unconditional Surrender! Western Campaigns (USWC) is a scaled-down sequel to 2014’s Unconditional Surrender! (USE). Whereas USE put up to three …
Armchair Dragoons Reviews Brief Border Wars II
by Brant Guillory, 1 April 2026 There have been a variety of threads in a variety of places asking the public “What’s a topic you wish …
First Impressions of Panzer Campaigns: Donbas ’43
Peter Robbins, 30 March 2026 Donbas ‘43 by WDS is an operational level hex and counter based computer wargame depicting the very important offensives that …