Tom Thornsen (Prussia) and Bob Demaio (French) re-enact the Battle of Mars-la-Tour with the Full Battle Scenario “A Day of Battle”. To read Part 1 follow this link, and to read Part 2 follow this link.
At Any Cost: Metz 1870 After Action Report – Battle of Mars-la-Tour (The Finale) Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Playtest ReportsTom Thornsen (Prussia) and Bob Demaio (French) attempt to re-enact the Battle of Mars-la-Tour with the Full Battle Scenario “A Day of Battle”. To read Part 1, follow this link.
At Any Cost: Metz 1870 After Action Report – Battle of Mars-la-Tour (Part 2) Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Playtest ReportsTom Thornsen (Prussia) and Bob Demaio (French) attempt to re-enact the Battle of Mars-la-Tour with the Full Battle Scenario “A Day of Battle”.
At Any Cost: Metz 1870 After Action Report – Battle of Mars-la-Tour Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Playtest Reports“It is difficult to think of a great passage of arms in which one critical day of battle was so strangely – and so soon – underscored by another” – David Ascoli, author of A Day of Battle On the evening of Tuesday, August 16th 1870, the battlefield of Mars-la-Tour looked much like countless other
BLOODY THURSDAY: The Battle of Gravelotte-St. Privat 1870 Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Inside the Game as HistoryAt Any Cost P500 Page “The tragedy is that, obsessed with avoiding defeat, he was blind to a beckoning victory.” – David Ascoli, author of A Day of Battle, referring to French Marshal Francois Bazaine The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was fought on August 16th, 1870 and is considered to be one of the more remarkable
A BECKONING VICTORY: THE BATTLE OF MARS-LA-TOUR 1870 Read Post »
Inside the Game as HistoryOne of the highlights of my trip to WBC this year was meeting Fred Manzo. Fred introduced himself to me on my first day in the GMT demo area. He was sitting with the maps and promotional material for the two games he is developing (both designed by Hermann Luttmann), Hammerin’ Sickles– Longstreet Attacks at Gettysburg and At
Interview with Developer Fred Manzo Read Post »
InterviewsAugust 16th marks the anniversary of the Battle of Mars-la-Tour and August 18th the anniversary of the Battle of Gravelotte-St. Privat, both fought in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. These two battles were titanic struggles, yielding approximately 60,000 casualties in total. Both battles were tremendously important military events when placed into proper historical perspective. In
The Other Forgotten War Read Post »
Inside the Game as HistoryThe P500 Program is a core aspect of how we run our business, allowing you guys – our customers – to tell us what you want us to produce. P500 also helps us fund that production upfront, so that cash flow, a notorious killer of companies, is almost never an issue for us. When a
Confessions of a P500 Virgin Read Post »
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