Air Conflicts: Secret Wars

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is the perfect example of a game for which the genre has a ton of competition on PC and very little comparable action on consoles. Read more

Frederick’s Devil’s Brigade & Bringing Back the V-42 Stiletto

The fight at Monte La Difensa on December 3, 1943, was swift but brutal as members of the First Special Service Force, a combined unit of U.S. Read more

The Monitor & The Merrimack: The Battle of Hampton Roads

Most history books teach that the War between the States began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries ringing Charleston harbor fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender the following day. Read more

Exercise Tiger: Deadly D-Day Rehearsal

It was spring 1944, and the morning sun was glinting off the face of the water as the Landing Ship, Tank (LST) transports chugged their way through the choppy surf and headed in close toward shore, their destination a gravel-strewn stretch of beach on the English Channel code named “U” for Utah. Read more

Erwin Rommel Frustrated By French Foreign Legion At Bir Hacheim

When Brig. Gen. Joseph-Pierre Koenig, commander of the 1st Free French Brigade, surveyed the area he had just been ordered to defend, he must have been mightily discouraged. Read more

Operation Jericho

On the bitterly cold, windswept morning of February 18, 1944, the crews of 19 De Havilland Mosquito Mk.VI Read more

Galeazzo Ciano’s Diary: The Inside Story of Mussolini’s Government

On July 19, 1940, fresh from his victorious campaigns on the Western Front, German Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler delivered his “peace speech” to the Reichstag in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House. Read more

War Came Home to the Streets of Arnhem

British airborne troops were landing near Arnhem, Holland, on the morning of September 17, 1944. Despite the fact that elements of two veteran SS panzer divisions were reconstituting in the area, the Germans were taken much by surprise. Read more

Operation Magic Carpet

When World War II in Europe came to an end, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, published a victory message to the troops. Read more

World of Warships

Similar to the way wargaming.net has handled previous releases, World of Warships is an ever-expanding project that continues to add new features as it barrels toward its full release. Read more

Wars and Battles

It’s kind of amazing how far war strategy games have come on mobile devices over the years. It seems like just yesterday I was settling for some rather rudimentary turn-based entertainment, but now we have more solid and impressive options like Kermorio’s Wars and Battles. Read more

Britain Invades the Chesapeake

As the morning sun dawned over the village of Havre-de-Grace on May 3, 1813, a few sleepy militiamen stood watch over the Susquehanna River, watching for marauding British ships. Read more

Einsatzgruppen in Germany: The Nazi Killing Squad

The wide-scale murder of Jews by Nazi Germany’s Einsatzgruppen began in Poland in September 1939, protested only by German Army Generals Johannes Blaskowitz and Georg Kuchler. Read more

Vietnam War Weapons: The AC-47 Gunship

The night of October 17, 1969, was a harrowing one for the South Vietnamese soldiers at Phung Hiep Army outpost. Read more

April 2013 World War II Games

Developed by DMD Enterprise, an independent developer established in Warsaw, Poland, Uprising 44: The Silent Shadows is the kind of work that exemplifies “rough around the edges.” Read more

The Irish Rifles At the Battle of Chancellorsville

The city of New York provided more regiments than did many states during the Civil War, and the deeds of several of its regiments, such as the 9th New York “Hawkins’s Zouaves,” 39th New York “Garibaldi Guard,” and 42nd New York “Tammany Regiment” are well known. Read more

Valkyria Duel

Valkyria Chronicles is an interesting franchise.

It’s one of those series one would assume is more popular than it really is simply due to the overwhelming fan fervor, and their vocal disappointment at the fact that it didn’t catch on as blazing hot as it could have in North America. Read more

Walking in the Footsteps of Heroes

I wrote previously about my guided three D-Day tours in the summer of 2014. I repeated the tour-guiding experience in May and June this year for the Minnesota World War II History Roundtable during a tour of Fifth Army battlefields in Italy. Read more

Game Reviews: Bugs vs. Tanks!

It’s not often you get a chance to play a World War II-related game on Nintendo’s portable 3DS platform. Read more

Teutonic Knights Under Ulrich Fight The Strategic Battle of Tannenberg

On the morning of July 15, 1410 two heralds approached the enormous host of Poles, Bohemians, Hungarians, Czechs, Cossacks, Tartars, Livonians—any and all who felt they had a grudge against the opposing force of Teutonic Knights and their allies, also gathered from all over Europe. Read more