Nescaff's Game Blog

Hey Steve, not sure whether you are still out there in cyberspace but it would be cool to hear from you. Since logging back on here I noticed that you had kindly commented on my "Remember the Fallen" blog I placed some time ago also noted that you had emailed me. I never got those mails so I hope you didn't think me ignorant when I never replied. For the record my email is mike.palmer33@googlemail.com
I do on occassion forward some funnies I get sent but never here back so maybe your junk filter is trashing them. It would be great to hear from you again Steve. By the way thanks ...

Hi, well I am back now after being AWOL for some time and looking for more comments on stuff I post here and on my website www.boardwargaming.com
I am not a spammer but blog my site with my thoughts on board wargaming that has been my hobby for many years and it is always good to get comments from guys who read and understand the psyche of those of us in the wargaming community who get a bad press for "playing" wargames. Looking at Google Analytics it seems I have a pretty big following worldwide and at the outset my objective was to turn every state in the US green and I have ...

For me at least, the golden years of board wargaming were from 1979, the year I first discovered board wargames and probably 1991 when the bottom fell out of the board game market.

I believe the writing was on the wall for the hobby with the advent of Dungeons and Dragons in the late seventies and early eighties. This spawned a number of other fantasy type games and some companies sprung up that further enhanced the fantasy role play genre such as Games Workshop. I have to admit that the fantasy genre does not interest me in the slightest and it is hard enough to get people to accept ...

We are fast approaching 11 November when the UK and Commonwealth countries remember the fallen of the Great War and World War Two in services of rememberence to mark the hour and day that the Armistice was signed in 1918 that was to supposedly to be the war to end all wars. As we all know it was not and was the catalyst that caused the second world war and every other conflict since.

I believe that certain powers are trying to diminish the rememberence traditions and say it is outdated and no longer relevant however there is more need than ever now to continue the tradition as we ...

About 3 years back I mentioned to a friend that I owned SPI's Art of Siege Quad and he was somewhat taken aback that I had this game. He asked whether I had seen a recent auction on E-Bay where a mint copy of AoS was sold for over £400.00. I was amazed however I told him I would be lucky to get 400 beans for my copy as it was well played and a bit worse for wear.

A while later I got to thinking about this situation where someone buys a game such as Art of Siege and does not even open the box then puts it away for 20 years or so then sells it for a fair profit. I mean what is the ...