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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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Prelude to Waterloo – A Boardgaming Way Essay
By Paul D Fish DVM On April 6, 1814 Napoleon was forced to abdicate his thrown and go into exile on the island of Elba, near his birthplace in Corsica. He remained there for
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“Stonewall’s Sword” in development at Revolution Games
From the Revolution Games Staff: The stifling hot morning of August 9th, 1862, Maj. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s corps of Confederate veterans encountered a lone Union division under the shadow of Slaughter’s Mountain (also
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A BECKONING VICTORY: THE BATTLE OF MARS-LA-TOUR 1870 – A Boardgaming Way Essay
by Hermann Luttmann “The tragedy is that, obsessed with avoiding defeat, he was blind to a beckoning victory.” – David Ascoli, author of A Day of Battle, referring to French Marshal Francois Bazaine The Battle
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Chainmail: Medieval Combat – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Tom Thornsen Chainmail – First Impressions Designer: Richard Berg Publisher: Worthington Games (2009) [Chainmail: Medieval Combat should not be confused with the game Chainmail, the miniatures game created by Gary Gygax in 1971. Richard
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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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Take Me To Your Leaders! Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and their Counters in Wargaming – A Boardgaming Way Survey
By Paul Comben A few months ago I took at look at how military notions of command were (or were not) translated into board wargame mechanisms. As a sort of follow-up to that, I
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Beta Rules for “At Any Cost: Metz 1870” – A Boardgaming Way Special Presentation
By Hermann Luttmann At Any Cost: Metz 1870 Rules 1.0 Introduction 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
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Heights of Courage and Yom Kippur – A Boardgaming Way Paired Review
Review by Mitch Freedman Heights of Courage Game Design – Steve NewhouseGame Development – Ernesto Sassot / Dean Essig ————————————- Yom Kippur Game Design – Al SandrickGame Development – Dean N. EssigThe Gamers, Inc.
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Victory Games’ – The Civil War – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Tom Thornsen Victory Games – The Civil War Designer: Eric Lee Smith Publisher: Victory Games (1983) In 1983, Victory Games published The Civil War, one of the classic games to cover the entire American Civil War.
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