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Six Empires A BoardgamingLife Preview

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.

Ships of the Line: Trafalgar Part 2

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.

Ships of the Line:Trafalgar 1805

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.

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

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

Moscow ‘41 – A Boardgaming Life Review

August 14, 2016 Harvey Mossman

This game gives and it takes away. What do I mean? Well, just by looking at the map and the full game’s very first impulse pairing, we see that the German player has a great deal he or she can feel pretty superior about…only it all comes with subtle or blatant provisos, limitations, hindrances…as well as enraged Russians or partly bewildered Russians getting in the way.

Blitz! Clever Design on a WW II Global Scale

July 16, 2016 Harvey Mossman

The Europa system from GDW/GRD was probably the most ambitious game system from a size perspective: If I recall rightly, 16 miles to the hex with division counters supplemented by regiments and battalions; aircraft at group level (or is it squadrons?)

Dien Bien Phu: The Final Gamble

July 9, 2016 Harvey Mossman

This is a siege game which represents the defense of an airstrip by the equivalent of a French division against more than three Viet Minh infantry divisions supported by nine artillery battalions. The setting is a valley located in the highlands near the border between Vietnam and Laos in 1954. The game is divided into 21 turns, each of which represents three days. If the French have not surrendered at the end of the last turn, the French player wins. If they have surrendered, the Viet Minh player wins.

The Year 1813 and “The Struggle of Nations” Comments on the Campaign and a Kevin Zucker Design

April 30, 2016 Harvey Mossman

By the commencement of the 1813 campaign season, it seemed, at least at first glance, that Napoleon had achieved the impossible. By any one of a number of measures, he had rebuilt the numerical strength of the forces he could command to the point where they outnumbered the coalition armies currently reaching across eastern and central Germany. But, to a considerable extent, this was a delusion.

Glory III – After Action Report

April 21, 2016 Tom Thornsen

by Tom Thornsen Designer: Richard Berg Publisher: GMT Games “Awesome Bob” and I have both had this game in our collections for some time and

The Last Spike- a BoardgamingLife Review

April 17, 2016 Harvey Mossman

In the game, players compete to accumulate money from land speculation out West where railroads are due to be built. This differs very much from the railroad building genre popular in eurogame circles where building the rail line is paramount and moving commodities is profitable. In this game your goal is to buy the land where the railroad track would be laid and profit when the track is actually completed between 2 cities. There is no product to move and no cargoes to be managed.

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