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And Now For Something Completely Different ……
By Hermann Luttmann …. Hammerin’ Sickles, a regimental-scale Gettysburg game! What? You say you already own a dozen Gettysburg games? And you currently have a multitude of games with all sorts of different tactical American
Read More »Hell’s Gate – A Boardgaming Way Review
This is a different kind of game, and so it needs a different kind of review. Enjoy – Mitch HELL’S GATE Designer: Professor Philip Sabin Publisher:Victory Point Games A Review by Mitch Freedman Back
Read More »What Happened to the Hood? – The Replays
By Paul Comben A slight change of plans here, owing to issues of space. The two games being used are Jack Greene’s The Royal Navy and Gary Graber’s Battleship Captain. Both games have relatively simple movement
Read More »The France ’40 “Dynamo” Scenario – A Boardgaming Way replay
By Robert DeMaio Designer: Mark Simonitch Publisher: GMT Games (2013) An Allied Heart Pounder! When I first tried the Dynamo scenario from France ’40, I looked at the setup and assumed I was in for
Read More »Paul Koenig’s The Bulge: 6th Panzer Army – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman 6th Panzer Army Designer: Paul Koenig Publisher: Victory Point Games When I open a new game, the first thing I do is to look at the map and the neat rows
Read More »HAMMERIN’ SICKLES – Detailed Sequence of Play – A Boardgaming Way Preview
By Hermann Luttmann HAMMERIN’ SICKLES – Detailed Sequence of Play Hammerin’ Sickles is played in a series of Game Turns, the actual number of turns depends on the scenario selected. Every Game Turn (about
Read More »Bannockburn 1314 – Blades & Axes: A Boardgaming Way Review (version 2.0)
By Robert DeMaio Bannockburn 1314 – Blades & Axes Publisher: Taktyka I Strategia Designer: Wojciech Zalewsk Hear ye! Hear ye all commoners! Behold the finding of Bannockburn 1314 and three other medieval games designed by
Read More »GMT places “At Any Costs: Metz 1870” on their P500 list.
By the GMT staff “On the morning of August 16th, 1870 at the Gravelotte crossroads outside the fortress of Metz, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French Second Empire, turned over command of the Army
Read More »Cuba: The Splendid Little War – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Donald Allen Designer: Javier Garcia de Gabiola Publisher: Victory Point Games Out of the box… This game is strictly a two-player simulation of the third War of Cuban Independence. One player controls the Cuban
Read More »Sign of the Pagan: A Boardgaming Way Review
Reviewed by Mitch Freedman Designed by Richard Berg Published by Victory Point Games Let’s begin by stating the obvious. Richard Berg has probably written more war games than I have ever played – a
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