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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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The Art of “Card Driven Game” Design – Why Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage is the best CDG ever published

March 16, 2011 Harvey Mossman

By Fred W. Manzo, Gary Andrews and Harvey Mossman The cards in a CDG wargame are typically used to move armies, generate random events and

Cold War: Strategy – Event Card Advantages

March 13, 2011 markbglife

Trying to Capitalize on Built-In Event Deck Biases in “Cold War” Overview Victory Games’ Cold War board game has a lot of moving parts and allows a

Cold War: Errata

March 12, 2011 markbglife

Unofficial Errata for “Cold War” by Victory Games Rules Booklet Vital Region SP Increase Correction: Page 3 – Right-hand column – “(page 6, Joint Economic Growth

Cold War: House Rules

March 12, 2011 markbglife

House Rules for Victory Games Cold War Degrading Political Alliance – The rules are unclear about this, so the question arose as to whether or not you

A New Variant for GMT’s “Battle Line” Card Game

March 8, 2011 Guest Author

Battle Line – Ancient Battles By Christopher Salander Originally published on http://www.grognard.com – Republished here with permission of Chris Salander Overview I was attracted to

Vietnam: 1965-1975 Record Sheets (Player Aids)

March 8, 2011 markbglife

Player Aids for Victory Games “Vietnam: 1965-1975” Board Game NLF, US and ARVN Record Sheets These record sheets provide a more organized bookkeeping space than

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