The Wargame League:

Grognards and fellow wargamers!   Many of us are relegated to playing our favorite games using the left half of our brain against the right half. For those of you that cram in as much fun as you can over the 9 days of WBC or some of you trek to PREZCON, ORIGINS, or some other gathering. Many may even meet as a group at a hobby store, or other such gathering at a local venue. Whereas all of these things have merit, they miss the ability to reach out across the ether to engage those stalwart souls that also yearn for competition in the many games we have come to love.

Whereas some of those games can be played and resolved in a couple of hours face to face. Many that I will discuss here can take much more time than we can devote in a single sitting even if that is over a long weekend. Utilization of Vassal and email has led to the ability to play across long distances and provide the vehicle that prevent leaving a game set-up on a table for weeks or months.

To that end, The Wargame League will try to address these issues in several ways. First – the website will link to those intrepid souls that already run a ladder in a popular grognard like game; i.e. TRC, War at Sea, Waterloo, VITP, G88. Second – we will establish ladders for those grognard games that currently lack a separately run ladder; already established: Africa Korps; and soon to follow – Bitter Woods, Breakout Normandy, Thunder at Casino, Luftwaffe. Third – the website will expand to include games that include hidden movement such as the Victory Games Fleet series, as well as some larger and more complex games from GMT, MMP, Compass, SPI, and others.

Some of the anticipated additional ladder games suggested and now on the site include Normandy 44, Ukraine 43, Russia Besieged, Next War Korea, The Barbarossa Series, La Bataille de Quatre Bras, River of Death, Devils Cauldron and Day of Days among others.

In the meantime, I ask those of you that are interested to keep a look out for the web site: wargameleague.com for updates. Additionally, you can email me at jeff.lange@mac.com for more information and to suggest games to add to the ladder.

Good luck on your future games, and may the odds be always in your favor!

Jeff Lange

Author: Jeff Lange