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[20 Apr 2013 | No Comment | ]
Victory in the Pacific

Victory in the Pacific is a simple strategic wargame covering the Pacific Theater of WW2. It is a successor to the system developed in War at Sea which covers the Battle of the Atlantic.

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[4 Apr 2013 | No Comment | ]
Conquistador (Video Review)

Play one of four European powers in a bid to make your riches in the New World. Originally published by SPI in Strategy & Tactics magazine #58, a new version with a mounted board was published by AH.

This a one to four player game. The green counters are the Spanish, yellow counters are the Portuguese, red counters are the English, and the blue counters are the French.

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[13 Mar 2013 | No Comment | ]
Blackbeard (Video Review)

Players take up the roles of famous pirates navigating the major sea lanes during the golden age of piracy. Plunder and pirating await as each player moves about on the map in a variable system through a deck of cards.

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[16 Feb 2013 | No Comment | ]
Maharaja (Video Review)

The map depicts
the Indian sub-continent from the foothills of the Himalayas to the island of Sri Lanka
(aka Ceylon, Serendib).

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[12 Feb 2013 | No Comment | ]
Merchant of Venus (Video Review)

Players take on the roles of space traders who move their ships through interconnected systems discovering new alien worlds to trade with.

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[4 Feb 2013 | 2 Comments | ]
Then there was the definitive Avalon Hill game: Dune! (Video Review)

Dune – with three expansions (one from the Space Gamer)

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[30 Jan 2013 | No Comment | ]
Midway – a quick hit

The basic idea is each player has his or her own map of the area (in this case the Midway Island) behind a screen. Each player “searches” for the enemy fleet by flying search planes to the various zones on the map and calling the zone coordinates.

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[7 Jan 2013 | No Comment | ]
Candidate (Video Review)

During a 23 week period primaries will be held in the 50 states. Each player wages his campaign through careful management of ever changing resources, bluffs, and current events on a state-by-state basis to the climactic final days of the conventions and his or her party’s nomination.

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[14 Dec 2012 | No Comment | ]
Britannia (Video Review)

Britannia is a historical board game that broadly depicts the millennia-long struggle for control of England, Scotland, and Wales.

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[5 Dec 2012 | No Comment | ]
Rail Baron (Video Review)

You are living in the heyday of the locomotive. You are Jay Gould. And you have just added another railroad to your vast railroad empire.