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The Economist: Not twilight, but sunrise
By the Staff of The Economist: Table-top games are booming in the video-game age “ESSEN is not one of Germany’s better-known cities. But for the world’s growing band of board-game devotees, it is paradise.
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PM: Stop Reading This and Go Build Your Own Board Game
By William Herkewitz Jordan Goddard is a first-time board game designer from Carmel, Ind. Together with his partner, Mandy Moulin, he recently created and received Kickstarter backing for Collapse, a post-apocalyptic card game. Goddard
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Video: Professor Marco Arnaudo review of: Wing Leader Victories 1940-1942 (GMT)
By Marco Arnudo: From GMT: “…Wing Leader is an exciting new game system of large scale aerial combat in World War II. Based on a unique side-scrolling view, in which altitude is clearly visible,
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“At Any Costs: Metz 1870” alternative title and cover tried out
Hermann made up an alternative cover for At Any Costs: Metz 1870 using an old suggestion of mine. It has possibilities I’ll say that. OK, so it’s a bad pun, but is it any
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BBC: Flypast marks Battle of Britain 75th anniversary
BBC: 15 September 2015 Last updated at 19:17 BST A flypast involving Spitfires and Hurricanes has taken place to mark 75 years since the decisive encounter of the Battle of Britain. A service was
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CNN: Origins of 8 classic board games
By Keith Law: 1. Backgammon Other than chess — the history of which is well-covered elsewhere — the most enduring table game of the last few centuries is backgammon, also known as “tables” early
Read More »At Any Cost: Metz 1870 counter-sheets released
By GMT Here are the fronts of the two counter sheets for At Any Cost: Metz 1870. The counter art is by Pascal and Mark Simonitch. (Click to enlarge) Left side (Front 1): Right
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“Invaders from Dimension X!” and Einstein
By Fred Manzo A new publishing company “Tiny Battle” has just released Hermann Luttmann’s newest game “Invaders from Dimension X!” As I was the developer of the game I thought I’d add a few
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How the 124th earned its name
By Fred Manzo “….As is well known, the 124th received its unofficial nickname, “The Old Reprobates,” during the suppression of the Catalianian Conspiracy. According to legend, Her Imperial Highness, Empress Ashley IV, was in
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Flying Pig Games releases issue #3 of Yaah! magazine.
By the Staff of Flying Pig Games: Yaah! #3 Shipping! Biggest Issue Yet is in the Mail The counters are in and the magazines are shipping. This is the bestest (sic) and biggest
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