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Welcome to Centerville – Strategy Tips from ElusiveMeeple

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Today’s Welcome to Centerville Strategy Tips article is from Robert Crowter-Jones, the writer behind ElusiveMeeple, a wonderful and useful site that provides both reviews and strategy tips for a wide variety of boardgames. Robert has reviewed Welcome to Centerville in some depth and written strategy tips for the game on his blog (see the ElusiveMeeple site). For strategy tips on Triumph […]

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King Louis, Prince Conti, Marshal De Saxe (or, “Neurosis, Petulance, Brilliance and Debauche”): Running the Biggest Dog on the Continent – French Strategy in Clash of Sovereigns

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Here is a first collection of thoughts on French strategy in COS. I hope to write at least one article on strategy for each Power, and may get to a second if I just skip sleeping for the next year. Er, so, don’t hold your breath on that…. To start with a one-line look over

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Manoeuvre: Distant Lands Tournament Part 4 of 4: France vs. Qing Dynasty

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Below is Part 4 in a series from David Waldorf covering a Manoeuvre: Distant Lands tournament “March Madness” style. Parts 1, 2, and 3 can be found here, here, and here. Enjoy! -Rachel

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Manoeuvre: Distant Lands Tournament Part 3 of 4: Tokugawa Shogunate vs. Qing Dynasty

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Below is Part 3 in a series from David Waldorf covering a Manoeuvre: Distant Lands tournament “March Madness” style. Parts 1 and 2 can be found here and here. Enjoy! -Rachel

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Manoeuvre: Distant Lands Tournament Part 1 of 4: Sweden vs. Qing Dynasty

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As promised, here is the first article in the follow-up series to the Manoeuvre tournament I wrote a few months ago. I’m back now with the Distant Lands expansion, and I will pit those armies against each other in a series of elimination battles with the winner moving on to fight the French army (the

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Wild Blue Yonder: Campaign Training Mission

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Author’s Note: Almost all of the inspiration for the little mission in this article came from the excellent book Battle of Britain Voices: 37 Fighter Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories, by Jonathan Reeve (Amberly Publishing, 2015). The introduction provided helpful notes on chronology and tactics, and some of the first-hand accounts provided further ideas on which

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Thunder Alley – Strategy Tips from ElusiveMeeple

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Today’s Thunder Alley Strategy Tips article is from Robert Crowter-Jones, the writer behind ElusiveMeeple, a wonderful and useful site that provides both reviews and strategy tips for a wide variety of boardgames. Robert has reviewed Thunder Alley in some depth and written strategy tips for the game on his blog (see the ElusiveMeeple site). For strategy tips on Triumph and Tragedy, 1960:

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Hunt for Blackbeard: Action on the Map

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We carry on our examination of gameplay in Hunt for Blackbeard where our previous article left off. We had surveyed the state of each player’s hidden area at a moment of play within the third of four possible turns. Now we look at the action on the shared main map board—especially, combat. Like the career

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Wild Blue Yonder: Tips for Beginners

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If you are trying to get into Wild Blue Yonder and you’ve never played a Down in Flames game before, the amount of material in the box can seem daunting. But it is being touted as a logical place for beginners and veterans of the system alike to dig into, so below you’ll find a

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