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[22 Apr 2013 | 3 Comments | ]
Cedar Mountain (Video Game Review)

American Civil War battle of the same name. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson against political general Nathaniel Banks as a prelude to Bull Run, August 9, 1862. A meeting engagement, Banks launches a spoiling attack against a superior CSA force and then has to conduct a fighting withdrawal to survive.

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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 Feb 2013 | 2 Comments | ]
Breitenfeld (Video Review)

S&T Magazine ‘fifth wheel’ of the 30 years war quad.

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[11 Feb 2013 | 2 Comments | ]
Russian Civil War (Video Review)

Multi-player, backstabbing and rollicking fun!

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[1 Nov 2012 | No Comment | ]
Pea Ridge (Video Review)

Decisive battle of the trans-Mississippi theater.

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[25 Oct 2012 | No Comment | ]
Wilson’s Creek (Video Review)

From Terrible Swift Sword, the GBACW series decended. This was the first game in the second (named) incarnation of that series.

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[19 Oct 2012 | No Comment | ]
The Alamo

Assault on the Texas mission.

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[1 Oct 2012 | No Comment | ]
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Applies armored combat like rules system to a political/intrigue game.

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[29 Aug 2012 | No Comment | ]
Empires of the Middle Ages (Review and Play Through)

Highly innovative design from SPI’s glory days.For a long time, this was the only fairly serious power-politics game set in the medieval period.

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[27 Jun 2012 | No Comment | ]
World War 1 ( Review & Play Through)

Coffee-table sized representation of the Great War in Europe.