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The Ancient World – Carthage, The First Punic War – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Tom Thornsen It is 264 BC and you are a member of the Roman Senate. News comes from the south that the Syracusan Tyrant Hiero has allied with the Carthaginians and is preparing
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War Is Boring: Staggering Odds, Brutal Tank Battles in New War Game
By Mike Peck It’s Israel versus Syria in board game ‘Days of Battle: Golan Heights’ The odds were staggering. Just 177 Israeli tanks facing horde of 1,400 tanks of the Syrian army. Just 200
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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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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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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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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
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