The Boardgaming Life

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.

Continue reading
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.

Continue reading
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.

Continue reading
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

Continue reading

“Dawn of the Zeds” Board Game Erratum – 03-26-2013

March 26, 2013 Guest Author

Dawn of the Zeds Errata by Victory Point Games 1. In 3.1 (Tutorial Scenario), the last sentence to the Scenario Specific Rule has been changed:

Borodino 1812: Board Game Review

March 7, 2013 Harvey Mossman

Borodino 1812 Review Borodino was the climactic battle of Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon needed a decisive defeat of the Russian army

Duel of Eagles: Mars-la-Tour 1870 Board Game Review

February 11, 2013 markbglife

Overview For the last two weeks, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with Hermann Luttmann’s latest design, Duel of Eagles, which features an August 1870 battle

Slouch Hats & Eggshells: First Look (Review)

November 12, 2012 markbglife

Review of Vance Von Borries’s Slouch Hats and Egg Shells Overview Slouch Hats and Eggshells, designed by Vance von Borries and published by Legion Wargames, is a war board

Empire of the Sun: In An Afternoon

October 25, 2012 Tom Thornsen

Strategies for the 1943 Scenario in Mark Herman’s “Empire of the Sun” by Tom Thornsen Credits: Awesome Robert Bailey painting titled “Imperial Sacrifice” Overview Many

Amateurs to Arms!: Board Game Review

October 2, 2012 Harvey Mossman

A Decidedly Professional and Excellent Design Overview It is currently the bicentennial of the war of 1812, a conflict that is often neglected and misunderstood

« 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 … 30 »

	Komisar on Strike of the Eagle: Soviet In…
	Hillary on Toulon 1793 A BoardgamingLife…
	My Site on Empire of the Sun: Review
	Addison on The Civil War: Cavalry “…
	Ethan McKinney on Battles of The Black Cavalry:…