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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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[15 Apr 2013 | No Comment | ]
The Civil War ( Video Review)

The Civil War depicts the nation and its leaders as no game has done before. Players re-create history on a map stretching from the Eastern shores through the untamed lands of New Mexico, maneuvering and engaging their armies according to the carefully drawn abilities of over 60 individually represented commanders, as ocean-going and riverine naval units battle for control of critical waterways.

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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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[2 Apr 2013 | No Comment | ]
A Most Dangerous Time (Video Review)

 
This is the game that made Tetsuya Nakamura famous. As you have seen from MMP’s Fire in the Sky and from MMP’s A Victory Lost, Nakamura provides a unique insight into military history. MMP is proud to present what is widely considered to be his finest effort. Instead of providing a broad overview of Feudal Japan, A Most Dangerous Time focuses in on the most dire moment of all: 1570-1584. Oda Nobunaga, one of the most notorious figures in Japanese history, fights against all of Japan and the victor will …

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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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[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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[6 Feb 2013 | No Comment | ]
No Retreat (Video Review)

With some corrective Rule changes. This review comes with corrective element to correct a mistake in a rule misunderstanding which lead to a defective play through.

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[26 Jan 2013 | No Comment | ]
Mr. Madison’s War

In June of 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the young Republic of the United States declared war on Great Britain.

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[10 Dec 2012 | One Comment | ]
Critical Video Review – Fleet

Fleet, which is for ages 10 and up and plays in about 30 minutes, is a 2 to 4 player game designed around resource management. The story behind the game is that a previously unknown bay in Canada has been discovered, and of course, it has a bountiful supply of fish!

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[7 Dec 2012 | No Comment | ]
Skirmish ( Video Review)

One of the American Heritage Command Decision Strategy Games, highly prized by collectors.