May 2013
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Dawn of the Zeds Review →
Fred W. Manzo @ The Boardgaming Life
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The Third World War Replay →
Jeff Schulte @ BoardGameGeek
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Struggle for New France →
New from Schutze Games. Struggle for New France is an introductory level point-to-point movement wargame covering the Seven Years War (1754-1762), focusing on events occurring in North America as a grand campaign game. Players take on the role of either the governor of New France or the British American colonies as they struggle to conduct a war with the limited resources available and...
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First Strike '62 →
New from Schutze Games. First Strike ‘62 is Bruce Costello’s new design using the First Strike system, covering the Cuban Missile Crisis when both sides relied on heavy bomber forces. Using historically accurate strategic (ie Nuclear) force structures the players will be responsible for fighting the war on a global scale when the diplomats fail. Price: $58.
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Decision Games 25th Anniversary Sale →
Decision Games is celebrating 25 years in business and in honor of this milestone Doc Cummins has put together a retrospective of DG’s 25 years in the gaming industry. Read Part One - The Pre-History of Decision Games now and watch for the continuing story over the next 25 days. Decision Games is also holding a 25th Anniversary Sale and will have one DG Box Game on sale at 25% every day...
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Red Menace →
New from White Dog Games. Red Menace is a solitaire wargame pitting the strategic nuclear and defensive forces of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom against those of the Soviet Union and its client state, Cuba, in 1959. The game focuses primarily on the role of strategic bombers, but other types of supporting aircraft such as Interceptors, Airborne Early Warning planes, and Aerial...
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April 2013
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Obscure Battles in the Spotlight →
CSW member, Jeff Barry, has created the new blogsite, Obscure Battles. This blog features detailed descriptions (including highly detailed maps and precise, unit-by-unit orders of battle) for lesser known battles. Battles covered so far include Mollwitz 1741, Chotusitz 1742, Soor 1745 and Durnstein 1805. The author would love to get some reaction from fellow CSW members. Each submission proposes...
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Fortress Berlin Special Offer →
Special offer from Against the Odds Magazine. April, 1945. The last major battle of WW2 in Europe begins. Berlin. To commemorate the Battle for Berlin, ATO Magazine is running a special offer, now through May 3rd, 2013… full of choices!
Fortress Berlin is an award-winner and ATO’s best-selling game of all time. Now you can have it, for FREE. And, you can score every expansion and variant too!...
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Flight of the Eagle, Volume III Preorder →
Preorder from Pratzen Editions. The Flight of the Eagle marks the third and last volume of our Napoleonic campaign rules. This game system is an umpired, double-blinded system in which players communicate only through written messages. It uses maps of that time and a simple system to manage units. Combats are solved using a face to face system, simple but precise, with the morale as the main...
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GAMA Announces 2013 Origins Awards Nominees →
GAMA has announced the 2013 Origins Awards Nominees
Death Before Dishonor Review →
Patrick Baker @ Armchair General The reviewer for ArmchairGeneral.com was pleasantly surprised by the amount of depth in Death Before Dishonor: The Battle of Santiago Bay from High Flying Dice Games. Victory conditions are well-balanced, and players have to make a number of tactical decisions. Scenario variants add to the replay value in this Spanish-American War naval game. [related story]
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Geek Chic tonight on 'Shark Tank' →
Many of you may already be aware of the ‘dream custom game tables’ created by Geek Chic. A self-described geek from Lynnwood, Wash., hopes a deal for his custom, made-to-order furniture will make him cool. “Shark Tank” airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. [watch the preview]
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Hex Encounter episode #12 includes a Winter...
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OSG Moving Sale...save 50%! →
Operational Studies Group is moving their offices to Paris! In celebration of the big move, they are holding a Moving Sale with everything 50% off for a limited time. Act now before such incredible savings are gone.
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Road to Cheren →
New from Revolution Games. The Road to Cheren covers the Eritrea campaign in East Africa in 1941. The campaign featured British and French forces versus the Italians in a wild and mountainous country. Cheren is a game where the movement of each piece is critical. There is also a chit pull system to give both sides some special abilities and keep the enemy guessing as to what comes next. Finally...
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Crossfire Hurricane →
New from High Flying Dice Games. Crossfire Hurricane: The Battle of Long Tan covers the August 18, 1966 fight between the Australians and Viet Cong at the Long Tan rubber plantation. This was the largest engagement fought by the Aussies in South Vietnam, and one in which they prevailed against numbers almost 6 times their own, and in the midst of monsoon like weather! This revised edition...
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Battle of Adobe Walls →
New from Legion Wargames. The Battle of Adobe Walls covers one of the largest battles between U.S. and Great Plains Indians. Kit Carson was given command of the US forces, and his mission was to find the Comanche and Kiowa winter camps and eliminate this threat to the settlers that were moving into and through this area of the Texas panhandle. Order before end of April and pay only $40 Preorder...
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C4 Corner Cutter Tax Day Sale →
Now through Tax Day, the C4 Corner Cutter, the tool that greatly speeds up monotonous counter clipping, can be purchased for $16.95 (save $3) on Ebay or direct from Dave King Freelance Associates. The C4 speeds up the tedious task of clipping counters and it costs less than a game and makes every wargame better. And remember, 1st Class shipping is always Free to APO/FPO addresses. For more...
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Birds of Prey Replay →
Markus Broecker @ BoardGameGeek
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Modern War #5: Drive on Pyongyang →
New from Strategy & Tactics Press. Modern War, Issue #5 featuring the insert game Drive on Pyongyang. Designed by Ty Bomba, this an updated “what-if” simulation of the fighting that might occur on the Korean peninsula if the US-led anti-terrorism Coalition launches a ground war to finally settle with the Pyongyang regime. The game is a two-player wargame of low-to-intermediate...
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Battle for Stalingrad on Kickstarter →
Now on Kickstarter from Dan Verssen Games. Battle for Stalingrad is a card based wargame focusing on one of the most brutal periods of the Second World War. With the help of backers, we’ll be able to make the game better than ever. We have plans for some interesting stretch goals including a whole new deck that will add even more options to the game. The campaign closes on April 29, but your...
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Napoléon, 4th Edition Stretch Goals on Kickstarter →
Napoléon, 4th Edition has been funded on Kickstarter. Several stretch goals have already been achieved and another is in sight. This all-new version will feature many upgrades from all previous versions, including a deluxe, mounted map board, large 24mm hardwood blocks, two color sets of the rules, larger tactical maps, order of battle display, and more. [visit Kickstarter page]
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Sentinels of the Multiverse Review →
Denny Koch @ Homefront Wargame Center Not a wargame in the strict sense, but a game about war and combat, about superheros against super villains - is this the Superhero Game you are waiting for? [Read the review]
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Blood & Sand Review →
Patrick Baker @ Armchair General In Blood & Sand, a game of WWII campaigns in North Africa, Richard Berg offers a system that replaces Combat Results Charts with “bucket o’ dice” rules in which each counter gets a varying amount of dice with which players try to roll to-hit numbers. Opportunity cards cover historical events such as the U.S. motorizing its infantry. The ArmchairGeneral.com...
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Mercury / Market Garden Review →
Patrick Baker @ Armchair General Worthington Games put two famous airborne operations of WW2 into a single game box — the German invasion of Crete (Operation Mercury) and the Allied attempt to seize Rhine bridges in Holland (Operation Market Garden). The oversized hexes and playing pieces are a nice touch, but both games have balance and replay problems, according to this...
