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Brilliant Maps: The 28 Best Map Based Strategy Board Games You’ve Probably Never Played
“If you like board games and you like maps, you’ve almost certainly played Risk and have likely also played such classics as Diplomacy and Settlers of Catan before. While these are all great games,
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Foreign Policy: Storm the Beaches from your Living Room
BY MICHAEL PECK: Six D-Day wargames that let you invade Normandy all over again. “D-Day isn’t just one of history’s epic battles. It is also a magnet for wargamers. The Normandy invasion has that
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New Republic: The Myth of the Christmas Truce Soccer Match
By Terri Blom Crocker “As everyone knows, the main feature of the First World War’s Christmas truce was an impromptu football match (soccer to Americans), which is featured in all the memorials to the
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War Is Boring: It’s Kamikazes Versus U.S. Destroyers in This Brutal War Game
By Michael Peck: “From all around the compass, the Japanese suicide planes descend on your U.S. Navy destroyer. On the port bow, a Zero fighter skims the waves. From astern, a Betty bomber plunges
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All About History: World War 2’s Tiger Tank: How invincible was it?
By Jack Griffiths An interview with David Jardine-Skears from The Tank Museum at Bovington on one of the most technologically advanced tanks of the World War 2, the Tiger. What role did the Tiger
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A Huge World Map on the Edge of a Lake. It Took One Man 25 Years to Build
By BENJAMIN STARR “Mark this down as one of the stranger maps we’ve covered. Along the banks of Denmark’s Lake Klejtrup is a 4,000-square-meter map, built from stones, soil and grass. It’s creator Søren Poulsen
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Abraham Trump’s Gettysburg Address
(Satire) By the staff of Funny or Die? “…..Thanks. What an incredible
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PJ Lifestyles: The 10 Most Badass Roman War Heroes
By Spencer Klaven: “Before Ancient Rome was a titanic empire, it was a collection of huts, a tribe of outlaws, and a few unshakable ideals — courage, virtue, and duty. The defense of those
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The Economist: Not twilight, but sunrise
By the Staff of The Economist: Table-top games are booming in the video-game age “ESSEN is not one of Germany’s better-known cities. But for the world’s growing band of board-game devotees, it is paradise.
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PM: Stop Reading This and Go Build Your Own Board Game
By William Herkewitz Jordan Goddard is a first-time board game designer from Carmel, Ind. Together with his partner, Mandy Moulin, he recently created and received Kickstarter backing for Collapse, a post-apocalyptic card game. Goddard
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