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Bobby Lee Broadcasting: An “Entertainment” for Wargamers
By Paul Comben In a post Civil War alternative reality…Major Taylor and Robert E Lee are in a radio studio… Taylor: You are listening to M.A.R.S.E., the Entirely Lost Cause Radio Network, 1861 to
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Ney and Twice Ney!
By Paul Comben Grand Tactical Interpretations of Quatre Bras Part I It was not long after the ordeal of Waterloo that Wellington’s diminished but triumphant Anglo-Dutch army returned to the site of its first
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Facing Serious Charges?
By Paul Comben Medieval Cavalry in Board Wargames According to more texts than I would care to count up, the Battle of Hastings lasted from the morning of a mid-October day in 1066 to
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Bringing Back the Bygones – Part II: Combat (1968) & William the Conqueror (1976)
By Paul Comben To come straight to the point, whatever mainstream wargaming was doing between 1968 and 1976, it was not doing it with either of these two oddities. Then again, one abiding memory
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Bringing Back the Bygones: An Occasional Look at the Vintage Side of Boardgaming
By Paul Comben The Battle of the Little Big Horn Review Designer: Eduardo Rojas Publisher: Waddingtons Games (1962) So who remembers this one? For no small amount of time I have told people that my first
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