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Six Empires A BoardgamingLife Preview

November 17, 2019 Harvey Mossman

Six Empires is a 2-6 player game of military and diplomatic strategy set in Europe, North Africa, and the New World in the year 1714. Each player controls of one of six empires, each with its unique flavor and play style. In addition to the playable empires, there are 17 independent nations, and any empire which is not controlled by a player remains in the game as a non-player empire.

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Ships of the Line: Trafalgar Part 2

April 2, 2017 Harvey Mossman

Therefore, what you will not get in Trafalgar, with sixty ships in the combat area, is a lot of overly detailed fiddling around with rigging and sail arrays – that part of the ship’s handling is now simply defined by one of three modes of sail deployment: low, medium and full. There is rather more detail assigned to combat, because, if we are honest about it, that is why we are playing the game in the first place – to experience a battle, not a regatta.

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Ships of the Line:Trafalgar 1805

February 12, 2017 Harvey Mossman

Trafalgar 1805 certainly has plenty of colour – sixty minis (supplied painted if that is your purchase option, and flaunting their national ensigns from the stern) will deploy on ten sea-effect tiles, whilst their crews will bustle around on ship logs dedicated to each of those sixty ships, loading different types of ammunition (advanced game), fighting fires, fighting enemy crews, and taking axes to fallen masts, canvas and rope in order to clear the broadsides and ready the ship once more.

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REVENGE OF CHUCKIE- A BoardgamingLife Review of Victory Point Games English Civil War Game Cruel Necessity

December 27, 2015 Harvey Mossman

Oliver Cromwell, who boasted a head rounder than Charlie Brown, delivered the best line at Parliamentary Comedy Club: “The act of regicide was a cruel necessity.”
Hence the title for a solitaire board game of the English Civil War pitting you, as a split Puritan personality called Parliament, against a host of Royalists in support of papists

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Le Vol de L’Aigle – A Board Gaming Life After Action Report

July 20, 2014 Harvey Mossman

By Harvey Mossman Last year, our wargaming group in Long Island decided to play Le Vol de l’Aigle via email with myself as

How War Works: A BoardgamingLife Review of Playford Games’ Moral Conflict Series

May 18, 2014 Guest Author

by Paul Comben Introduction In the increasingly fractious relationship between Adolf Hitler and his senior commanders, it was the Fuhrer’s repeated complaint that his

Breaking the Chains – A Boardgaming Life Review

May 10, 2014 Harvey Mossman

By Harvey Mossman Publisher Compass Games Designer: John Gorkowski The next military conflict will likely involve naval and air assets of the United States as

Sauron – A BoardgamingLife Review and Essay

April 27, 2014 Guest Author

By Mitch Freedman Simulations Publications, Inc. 1977 Designer – Rob Mosca Long before the modern Hobbit craze, long before Peter Jackson, there were some books

Blocks in the West- A Boardgaming Life Review by Harvey Mossman

March 24, 2014 Harvey Mossman

I must admit to being a bit of a “Blockhead” when it comes to wargaming because blocks eloquently address issues of fog of war and

A Spoiled Victory, A Boardgaming Life Review

March 1, 2014 Guest Author

by Mitch Freedman Game Design: Paul Fish and Hermann Luttmann Publisher: White Dog Games http://www.whitedoggames.com/#!dunkirk/c1qjs Here’s what you need to know before anything else. Games are

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