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Dawn’s Early Light – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Don Allen: Dawn’s Early Light This game is the second in a series. I have not played the first, and as I started out on the review process neither had I played the
Read More »Video: Professor Marco Arnaudo review “Fire in the Lake.”
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Read More »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 —
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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.
Read More »Wadi Vogell – The Prelude – (A Photo Essay of a Skirmish level miniatures war game)
By Fred Manzo Mike Vogell and I have been working on a skirmish level miniatures game involving American troops guarding a Middle – Eastern village for some time now. So far we’ve got
Read More »Vietnam Solitaire Special Edition – A Preview on The Boardgaming Way
By The White Dog Games Staff Overview According to designer David Kershaw, “The first version of the map was drawn on the back of a travel book, The Rough Guide to Thailand, at the poolside of
Read More »Days of Battle: Golan Heights – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman Designer: Frank Chadwick Publisher: Victory Point Games Days of Battle: Golan Heights The first time you open Golan Heights and lay out the pieces – the starting position for all the
Read More »A Grimm Tale of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) – of GMT’s Board Game Labyrinth: The War on Terror 2001 – ? – A Boardgaming Way Analysis
By Fred W. Manzo Labyrinth: The War on Terror 2001 – ? (A Boardgaming Way Analysis) As Harvey Mossman has already produced a fine review of GMT’s Labyrinth: The War on Terror for The
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