David's Wiki

Fairly formal reviews based on a single formal play to help down select the games to focus on. Format roughly follows Peter Perla's “Model Outline of a Hobby Wargame Review” in The Art of Wargaming. Stars are out of 5 and highly personal based how much they might contribute to the PhD (and are changing over time)!

• Arnhem, Storm Over Arnhem - Avalon Hill ***
• Berlin'85 - SPI ***
• Budapest 1956, Days of Ire - Cloud Island ***
• Budapest 1956, Nights of Fire - Mighty Boards ***1/2
• Donetsk - Tiny Battle Publishing *** 1/2
• Grozny, Into a Bear Trap - LPS/Against The Odds ***1/2
• Hue, Battle of Hue - Tiny Battle Publishing ***
• Hue, City of Confusion - High Flying Dice Games ****
• Mosul, We Are Coming Nineveh - Nuts! ****
• Ortona, Christmas in Hell - High Flying Dice Games ***
• Ramadi, Battle for Ramadi - Tiny Battle Publishing ***
• Stalingrad, Pavlov's House - DVG ****
• Tango Down (CQB) - Tiny Battle Publishing ****
• War In The Megacity - CounterFact ***1/2

These aren't really Urban, but thought I'd put them here so I know where they are:

• Littoral Commander - Dietz Foundation ****
• Ukrainian Crisis - Hollandspiele/Brain Train ****

• Seize Warsaw - VCOW game, Offside in The Nugget
• Flashpoint: Fire Rescue - tactical fire fighting game
• Blockbusting - the Phil Sabin game
• Rattenkrieg: Assault on the Tracktor Factory - postcard game
• Shooting Daedelus - Evan d'Alessandro CQB game

• The Battle of Hue! - See my Battles of Hue paper
• Vietnam Battles: Hue - See my Battles of Hue paper
• A Week in Hell: The Battle of Hue - See my Battles of Hue paper
• Block by Block – Battle of Hue - See my Battles of Hue paper
• Hue - See my Battles of Hue paper

• ACP164
• Force on Force/Ambush Alley
• Ultramodern
• Skirmish Sangin
• Dropzone Commander
• Azhanti High Lightning (actually grid based)