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Axis and Allies Pacific: 1940 (First Edition) – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Fred Manzo Axis and Allies Pacific: 1940 (First Edition) Overview I like A&A in general and believe Axis & Allies Pacific: 1940 is a beautiful looking game with the potential to become the
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A Game of Thrones Board Game (First Edition) – And the question of “What is Fun?”
By Fred Manzo A Game of Thrones James Dunnigan once said “movement equals fun.” I’d say “Interaction equals fun,” movement being just one way players interact. For example, a typical Euro “multi-player solitaire” game
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Merchants and Marauders: A Boardgaming Way Review
By Fred Manzo Merchants and Marauders At Origins last summer, three of us tried Merchants and Marauders, a Euro published by Z-Man Games in 2010 and designed by Kasper Aagaard and Christian Marcussen. It’s
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By Fred Manzo A Game of Thrones A few months ago we played the first edition of A Game of Thrones. It was designed by Christian T Petersen and Kevin Wilson and published in
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Dungeons and Dragons: Conquest of Nerath: A Boardgaming Way Review
By Fred Manzo Dungeons and Dragons: Conquest of Nerath Dungeons and Dragons: Conquest of Nerath, commonly called Conquest of Nerath, was designed by Richard Baker, Mons Johnson and Peter Lee and published by Hasbro/Wizards
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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
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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
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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,
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Battlestar Galactica (First Edition): A Boardgaming Way Review
By Fred Manzo A Review of FFG’s 2008 Release of Battlestar Galactica Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games designer: Corey Konieczka Battlestar Galactica – The Board Game (BG) is a solid card driven co- operative game,
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