Monthly Archives: March 2015 »
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Ohio company making a mark with historical strategy games
By Jon Chavez: Uwe Eickert loves to play games but you won’t catch him playing cards or a simple board game like Monopoly. When leisure time arrives, his playground is the past. Mr. Eickert,
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The Washington Post: A First Look at Settlers of Catan: The Movie
By Alexandra Petri: The rights to the popular board game Settlers of Catan sold, according to Deadline, to the producer behind “Sacrifice Pawn.” This is just the board game movie we deserve, but probably
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Variety: ‘Settlers of Catan’ Movie, TV Project in the Works
By Dave McNary Film Reporter@Variety_DMcNary “Gail Katz, whose producing credits include “Pawn Sacrifice,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm,” has acquired feature film and TV rights to the boardgame “The Settlers of Catan.”
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Strategy & Tactics Press: Briefing Room: MW17: Operation Vulture!
Operation Vulture: Possible US Intervention at Dien Bien Phu By Joseph Miranda The French command responsible for Indochina was the CFEO (French acronym for Far East Expeditionary Corps), and the reports from Dien Bien Phu it was receiving weren’t
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Revolution Games Sale ends Tuesday Night
By Roger Miller Just a reminder that our free shipping on all orders $60 or more comes to an end on Tuesday. Also thanks to everyone who ordered Stonewall’s Sword. By far our fastest
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A Design Analysis of “The Lamps Are Going Out – World War I”
By Kirk Uhlmann “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.” – British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey Since Herm has given a
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Foreign Policy: Guns of October
By Michael Peck: I played every game about the Yom Kippur War, so you don’t have to. Here’s what I learned. It was at 2 p.m. on the sixth day of October 1973 —
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Welcome to the 2011 For The People BPA PBeM Tournament Page
By Tom Thornsen These games were completed by 4 May 2013 Don Chappell was the Game Master. Tom Thornsen and Michael Mitchell served as assistant GMs Tom Thornsen administered this web page and report game
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Deseret News: Pay Dirt is an immersive board game about modern-day gold mining.
By Ryan Morgenegg The board game Pay Dirt is about the gritty and competitive world of modern-day gold mining in frigid Alaska. In this worker-placement-style game, players take the roles of enterprising mining companies
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WSJ: This Spring, Mets Play for the Love of the (Trivia) Game
By JARED DIAMOND If you want to know which river is Europe’s longest, or which Chicago hotel was built in the Italian Renaissance style, someone in the dugout can probably tell you PORT ST. LUCIE,
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