On the table

On the Table is an irregular series of articles about games I’m playing at home, or elsewhere. These are not strictly speaking reviews, more a taster, and some thoughts and impressions.

SCGCon 2025

SCGCon is sort of PunchedCon's little brother.

2025, convention, liverpool, men of iron, scg, scgcon, second chance games, stamford bridge, successors, virgin queen

Unfurl Your Banners

Summer gathering of this popular wargame event in the Lake District.

1793, Churchill, congress of vienna, convention, fire in the lake, kingmaker, unfurl your banners

Save South Vietnam

Solitaire Vietnam game with a bit of depth and historic arc. Can you hold on to Saigon?

fortress games, indo-china, solitaire game, states if siege, vietnam

PunchedCon 2025

Here's a few reflections and photos from PunchedCon, the UK's largest war boardgames event.

aar, congress of vienna, convention, here i stand, punchedcon, russian civil war, the sword of rome

I’m eagerly awaiting playing Congress of Vienna at PunchedCon in May. It looks like being one of the game releases of 2025, an “event” kind of game akin to Here I Stand. Congress of Vienna is the fourth in the Great Stateseman series…

18th century, Austrian Empire, British Empire, CDG, diplomacy, Europe, GMT, Great Statesmen, Napoleonics, Russian Empire

In the Shadows: Resistance in France 1943 – 1944

It is a bitter cold New Year’s Eve. The people of France, having suffered two years under Nazi control, still have reason for hope. In safe houses across the country, members of the French Resistance raise a glass and share meager rations. The…

CDG, France, GMT, In the Shadows, solitaire game, World War 2