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[16 Jun 2013 | No Comment | ]
Paths of Glory (Video Review)

 
They called it the Great War. In over four years of titanic struggle, the ancient Europe of Kings and Emperors tore itself to pieces, giving birth to our own violent modern age. The bloody battles fought in the trenches of the Western Front, the icy plains of Poland, the mountains of the Balkans, and the deserts of Arabia, shaped the world we know today. We are all orphans of the Great War.
Paths of Glory: The First World War, designed by six-time Charles S. Roberts awards winner, Ted Raicer, allows players …

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[6 Jun 2013 | No Comment | ]
Napoleonic Wars (Video Review)

“The Napoleonic Wars, 1805 – 1815, brings you a fast-paced, tension-filled, card-driven wargame using a point-to-point movement system that pushes the envelope in a new direction for this pivotal period of history. Having a simple-to-learn strategic system and short rulebook, The Napoleonic Wars, can be played in an evening as the cards and Diplomatic Track make for tough decision-making in the face of everchanging enemy threats.

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[12 May 2013 | No Comment | ]
Rebel Raiders on the High Seas  (Video Review)

Rebel Raiders on the High Seas is a comparatively short and simple game of the naval conflict at sea and on the great rivers in the American Civil War. Easily playable in less than three hours, Rebel Raiders on the High Seas is a strategic contest between two players, one seeking to reunite the Union by force, the other to maintain its new independence in the face of the escalating industrial might and resolve of its northern brother.

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[26 Apr 2013 | One Comment | ]
Newtown (Video Review)

Newtown includes a three-tiered movement system that simulates the individual nature of Indian warfare. Small war parties often acted according to their own will rather then following orders from “commanding officers.”

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[27 Mar 2013 | No Comment | ]
Sweden Fights On (Video Review)

 
Sweden Fights On is a tactical battle game featuring four battles from the later half of the Thirty Years War. It is the second volume in the Musket & Pike Battle Series covering warfare in the 17th Century. This volume traces the fall, revival, and pinnacle of Swedish military fortunes after the death of King Gustav II Adolf at Lützen in 1632.
The Musket & Pike Battle Series transitions from the English Civil War period (This Accursed Civil War, Vol. I) to the Thirty Years War period with added features such …

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[25 Mar 2013 | No Comment | ]
Prussia’s Glory II (Video Review)

GMT’s grand tactical, light-moderate Seven Years War battle series continues with four more battles in Prussia’s Glory II.

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[22 Mar 2013 | No Comment | ]
Pax Romana

How did Rome get to be Rome? Why did the Glory That Was Greece fade? What stopped Carthage from making an empire of the Mediterranean? Could the Seleucids really have conquered the western world?

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[1 Mar 2013 | No Comment | ]
Saints in Armor (A Video Review)

The Bohemian Revolt of 1618 triggered the Thirty Years War and in the early period of the war the Catholic/Imperial cause enjoyed an almost unbroken string of victories. This game, part of the Musket and Pike Battle Series, simulates six battles of the early Thirty Years War.

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[28 Feb 2013 | No Comment | ]
Sword of Rome (Video Review)

This time, event cards and point-to-point maneuver enable up to four players to recreate the vicious struggles among the peoples of Italy and Sicily in 4th and 3rd Centuries BC.

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[15 Feb 2013 | No Comment | ]
Saints in Armor

Latest installment in the Musket & Pike series