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Five Times Fives – A Boardgaming Way Review of “Knights of the Air”
By Paul Comben: Looking for Buried Wargaming Treasure in the BGG Basement Part 1 Knights of the Air By and large we all have an idea how this works – wargames rated over
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Dien Bien Phu – The Final Gamble – A Boardgaming Way Review
Review by Jerry Wong: Dien Bien Phu – The Final Gamble is another great game from Legion Games (a small upcoming game company) by the designer Kim Kanger. It covers the critical battle that
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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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Video: Professor Marco Arnaudo review “Fire in the Lake.”
By Professor Marco Arnaudo Used with Permission. Game Resources:
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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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FiveThirtyEightLife: Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet
By OLIVER ROEDER The game ends in nuclear war only about 5 percent of the time. That’s a good thing. It gives Ananda Gupta faith in humanity. The game is called Twilight Struggle, and it’s the
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MMP’s “The Tide at Sunrise” – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Tom Thornsen The Tide at Sunrise Designer: Yukihiro Kuro and Adam Starkweather Publisher: MMP (2010) A few years ago Multi-Man Publishing© issued The Tide at Sunrise in its International Games Series (IGS), this one from Japan
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