Monthly Archives: December 2015 »
Foreign Policy: Storm the Beaches from your Living Room
BY MICHAEL PECK: Six D-Day wargames that let you invade Normandy all over again. “D-Day isn’t just one of history’s epic battles. It is also a magnet for wargamers. The Normandy invasion has that
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MMP: Brand New OCS Pre-Orders
By the Staff of MMP: Brand New OCS Pre-Orders Tunisia II Tunisia II is an Operational Combat Series game covering the campaign in Northwest Africa from November 1942 through May 1943. This new edition is
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The Washington Post: Game over – FTC goes after board game campaign
By Andrea Peterson Game over: FTC goes after board game campaign gone wrong in first crowdfunding case “Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter have helped launch a lot of nerdy gaming success stories. Politically incorrect party
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Foreign Policy: Fortress America (3rd edition) Review
By Michael Peck Playing the new Cold War board game is a trip back to the 1980s. So why is the theme of an America being invaded still so popular? “Chinese marines storm San
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New Republic: The Myth of the Christmas Truce Soccer Match
By Terri Blom Crocker “As everyone knows, the main feature of the First World War’s Christmas truce was an impromptu football match (soccer to Americans), which is featured in all the memorials to the
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The War Times Journal: Miniature Wargaming 101
Introduction What is miniature wargaming? Miniature wargaming is when you use scale models or figures of real-life people or equipment to recreate battles from some period in history – or even the future. This
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DefenseNews: Game Review – When Real Wargamers Design Wargames
By Michael Peck: “It is a strange fact that nowadays most people who design wargames have never been in the military (for that matter, neither are the politicians who fight wars). So I was
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Wired: Inside the Battle of Hoth – The Empire Strikes Out
By SPENCER ACKERMAN: “How did the Galactic Empire ever cement its hold on the Star Wars Universe? The war machine built by Emperor Palpatine and run by Darth Vader is a spectacularly bad fighting force,
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War Is Boring: It’s Kamikazes Versus U.S. Destroyers in This Brutal War Game
By Michael Peck: “From all around the compass, the Japanese suicide planes descend on your U.S. Navy destroyer. On the port bow, a Zero fighter skims the waves. From astern, a Betty bomber plunges
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