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Dawn’s Early Light – A Boardgaming Way Review

Dawn’s Early Light – A Boardgaming Way Review

Donald Allen June 30, 2015 1

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

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Video: Professor Marco Arnaudo review “Fire in the Lake.”

Video: Professor Marco Arnaudo review “Fire in the Lake.”

Fred Manzo April 24, 2015 0

By Professor Marco Arnaudo  Used with Permission. Game Resources:

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Foreign Policy: Guns of October

Foreign Policy: Guns of October

Other March 29, 2015 0

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 —

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FiveThirtyEightLife: Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet

FiveThirtyEightLife: Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet

Other January 9, 2015 0

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

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War Is Boring: Staggering Odds, Brutal Tank Battles in New War Game

War Is Boring: Staggering Odds, Brutal Tank Battles in New War Game

Other December 20, 2014 0

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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Heights of Courage and Yom Kippur – A Boardgaming Way Paired Review

Heights of Courage and Yom Kippur – A Boardgaming Way Paired Review

Mitch Freedman November 10, 2014 0

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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Wadi Vogell – The Prelude – (A Photo Essay of a Skirmish level miniatures war game)

Wadi Vogell – The Prelude – (A Photo Essay of a Skirmish level miniatures war game)

Fred Manzo May 2, 2014 0

  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

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Vietnam Solitaire Special Edition – A Preview on The Boardgaming Way

Vietnam Solitaire Special Edition – A Preview on The Boardgaming Way

Other April 11, 2014 0

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

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Days of Battle: Golan Heights – A Boardgaming Way Review

Days of Battle: Golan Heights – A Boardgaming Way Review

Mitch Freedman April 11, 2014 2

 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

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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

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

Fred Manzo March 23, 2014 0

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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