- A Crowning Glory: Austerlitz 1805 Review
- The Battle of Stalingrad First Look [video]
- ATO Magazine, Issue 56: Hitler’s Stalingrad, Breslau 1945 (new from LPS)
The Perry Moore design looks hard at this defiant siege (the city held out AFTER Berlin fell!). With over 300 counters and a 22" x 34" map scaled at about 650 yards per hex, a game turn represents one week. The game captures the flavor of planned, grand assaults quickly degenerating into gritty, street-level fighting, with players alternating conducting operations during the turn. Skillfully positioned reserves and sharp counterattacks can blunt massive thrusts, but at possibly a too frightfully high rate of casualties. Folks are liking the large hex size too! [Forum]
- Fortress Berlin Review [video]
- Pushing Cardboard, Episode 6 [podcast]
- Lee’s Greatest Victory First Look [video]
- Napoleon at the Berezina Overview [video]
- Player Aid Demo for Napoleon at the Berezina [video]
- Buffalo Wings AAR
- 2019 Annual: La Vendée, 1793 (new from LPS Inc)
Against the Odds Magazine has shipped another "Annual," the XL sized issues that contain a larger game and larger magazine than normal. "La Vendee, 1793" looks at the southern French provinces that rejected both the Revolution and Napoleon, and were never completely suppressed. (In 1815, Napoleon stationed 20 THOUSAND troops there!). The game looks at the first revolt, which was the largest and had the best chance of attracting foreign intervention. The "Whites" (anti-revolutionaries) want to seize and hold Republican forts and attract English help. The "Blues" must crush the rebellion and fight off partisans as well. Full-sized playing cards bring added surprises to this area-movement game by John Poniske, while Mark Mahaffy's beautiful graphics bring sparkle to map and components. [Forum]