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Discworld – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman Discworld: Ankh-Morpork Sometimes you buy a game thinking you will really enjoy it, but when you start playing, you find that the mechanics don’t work right, or the rules are too cumbersome
Read More »Kingsburg – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Fred Manzo Designers: Andrea Chiavesio and Luca Iennaco Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games (2007) Kingsburg is a good, light, family game, especially for those people who enjoy fiddling with numbers. Although, it almost totally
Read More »Seizing the Tactical Initiative in Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Fred Manzo Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage – Seizing the Tactical Initiative “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – Attributed to Sun Tzu
Read More »Axis and Allies Tactics – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Fred Manzo Overview I always liked Axis and Allies. It was one of the famous Game Master series that Milton Bradley published starting back in 1981 (the others in the series were Conquest
Read More »The “Spoiling Attack” in Axis and Allies – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Fred Manzo The “Spoiling Attack” in Axis and Allies Another tactic our group has sometimes found useful in Axis and Allies is the “Spoiling Attack.” In my last Axis & Allies strategy article,
Read More »Two Bad Generals or How to Use Varro and Longus in Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Fred Manzo How to Use Varro and Longus in Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. If you
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