Levy & Campaign Series

Cavallata per Cortona – INFERNO Scenario Replay, Part 3

Volko Ruhnke / December 20, 2021 / 4 Comments

Volko’s test replay of Levy & Campaign Volume III proceeds into the scenario’s first Campaign, with the formation of each side’s Plan, while he incorporates and explains some ongoing development of the game. All art shown is merely for playtest, not final. … In the first two parts of our Inferno replay we set up this introductory scenario (set in […]

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Cavallata per Cortona – INFERNO Scenario Replay, Part 2

Volko Ruhnke / December 13, 2021

Volko’s replay of Levy & Campaign Volume III gets underway. All art shown is merely for playtest, not final. …

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Cavallata per Cortona – INFERNO Scenario Replay, Part 1

Volko Ruhnke / December 6, 2021

Please enjoy this detailed replay, as Levy & Campaign Series creator Volko Ruhnke runs his test set for Volume III, Inferno, through a full scenario.

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

Almoravid Vassal Module in Action

Volko Ruhnke / November 16, 2021

Here is a peek into the cutting-edge Vassal module engineered by the great Brian Reynolds for Levy & Campaign Series Volume II, Almoravid, from a solo game that Volko played to test out module operation. Have a look!

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Designer Blogs, Examples of Play

Almoravid: A Quick Look at Forces

Albert Alegre Jove and Volko Ruhnke / March 23, 2021

Here from the game’s designer with its researcher is an at-a-glance introduction to the units in the soon upcoming second volume of the Levy & Campaign Series, Almoravid—Reconquista and Riposte in Spain, 1085-1086, with comparison to the forces used in volume one, Nevsky.

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Designer Blogs

The Christian Kingdoms of Almoravid

Albert Alegre Jove and Volko Ruhnke / June 1, 2020 / 2 Comments

We turn after our recent tour of Muslim al‑Andalus to the 11th-Century Spain of the Christians. Like the later Teutonic and Danish crusader states of the Levy & Campaign Series’ previous volume, Nevsky, the Christian lords featured in Almoravid seek to expand their realms at the expense of neighbors of a competing religion. Albert and

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Designer Blogs, Inside the Game as History

The Taifa Geography of Almoravid

Albert Alegre Jove and Volko Ruhnke / May 18, 2020 / 1 Comment

Our Almoravid research and design team take us on a guided tour of 11th-Century Muslim Spain—a patchwork of middling to tiny “taifa” emirates. Al‑Andalus in the Levy & Campaign Series’ second volume presents players a far different political geography to exploit and maneuver across than that of Nevsky. Here we visit each 1085 taifa state

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Designer Blogs, Inside the Game as History

Mío Cid: Almoravid Testers’ Replay – Part III

Philip Dreher with John Campbell and Volko Ruhnke / May 11, 2020 / 2 Comments

Saludos, damas y caballeros—We arrive at our final installment of Phil Dreher’s full-length scenario replay of Levy & Campaign Series Volume II, Almoravid. In this final chapter, Phil’s opponent on the Christian side John Campbell joins him for their wrap-up reflections on Volume II, their campaigning, and strategy lessons. As before, all art here is

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Designer Blogs, Playtest Reports

Mío Cid: Almoravid Testers’ Replay – Part II

Philip Dreher with John Campbell and Volko Ruhnke / May 4, 2020

Welcome back—we return to the pageantry of medieval Spain! In this second of three parts drawn from a live Levy & Campaign playtest, Phil Dreher reports on his Muslims’ climactic year against John Campbell’s Christians in the 1085-1086 scenario of Almoravid, via Vassal magic by Miguel Ángel Sánchez Galán and Peter Wagner. Who will break

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Designer Blogs, Playtest Reports

Mío Cid: Almoravid Testers’ Replay – Part I

Philip Dreher with John Campbell and Volko Ruhnke / April 27, 2020 / 2 Comments

Join us for a saga out of medieval Spain! We present here only lightly edited an internal playtest report from Levy & Campaign Series’ Volume II, Almoravid. Phil Dreher authored the report, playing the Muslims against John Campbell as the Christians. They ran through the full-length scenario over several days in April 2020, entirely via a

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Designer Blogs, Playtest Reports

Cavallata per Cortona – INFERNO Scenario Replay, Part 3

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Almoravid Vassal Module in Action

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Mío Cid: Almoravid Testers’ Replay – Part III

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Mío Cid: Almoravid Testers’ Replay – Part I

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