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I take a look at The Rock of Chickamauga, the epic 2-player wargame covering the Battle of Chickamauga in the US Civil War. This is the second game using the Black Swan ruleset for US Civil War games. The game is designed by Hermann Luttmann and published by Flying Pig Games.

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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/428288/the-rock-of-chickamauga

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(not yet)

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:40 Overview
03:57 Documentation
06:34 Counters
08:47 Player Aids
09:56 Cards
11:08 Dice
11:21 Maps
13:17 Final Thoughts & Giveaway

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The Rock of Chickamauaga Overview | Board Wargame | US Civil War | Flying Pig Games
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The Rock of Chickamauaga Overview & Giveaway! | Board Wargame | US Civil War | Flying Pig Games

Zilla Blitz

Sometimes when a new game comes out, you'll see someone say that it makes their previous game on the topic irrelevant, that the previous game has been fired. They only need one good game on each topic.

Maybe that's you. Or maybe you like to have several games on a topic and explore how different designers look at a conflict.

We'll talk about both approaches and then look at a whack of games on a a few popular topics. What's the best? What's not worth playing?
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Live Cardboard 17 - Games that fired other games. Or did they?

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Join Neal, Scott, and Stew (nearly) every Monday as we spin the ASL Wheel of Chaos to determine this week's Advanced Squad Leader Random Selection topic. We're just regular players bringing casual ASL to the masses.

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Advanced Squad Leader RSS - Episode 19 - AI and ASL
0:00 - Thanks, Supporters!! Intro Chatter
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Advanced Squad Leader RSS - Episode 19 - AI and ASL

Advanced Squad Leader Academy

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Another great design from Pako Gradaille: https://youtu.be/rUN-Ge_M0kY
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Habemus Papam | Unboxing & Overview

The Boardgames Chronicle

Battalion Combat Series
East Front

Initial Russian Break-outs by 1 TK have been reset by 11th Panzer. 5th Mech rolls across the river and is pushing KG Stupfeld.
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Inflection Point (Chir - Part 1)

Hex 2 Hex

Camp, Ross and Hexy play Blind Swords.

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The Day was Ours - Live Play

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Check out this Kim Kangar design from 2009 on the Algerian War of Independence. As you would expect with a Kangar design, the map and counters are beautiful (he's the artist as well as the designer).

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Ici, C'est la France Unboxing

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Cost Effective City Terrain

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Part 4 of our live playthrough of the 'Monmouth' from  'Battles of the American Revolution - Tri Pack II'. Published by GMT Games.

Tony's on the ropes!

Thanks to Tony for hosting and thanks to the designer Mark Miklos for joining us.

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The Tony and Rough Livestream - 'Battles of the American Revolution' Part 4

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