The Barracks Emperors: Examining the Influence Cards Part 2 — Senate Cards

This is part two in a series of articles examining all the influence cards in The Barracks Emperors, one suit at a time. Part one, which can be found here, discussed Military cards. In this article, we look some of the uses and subtleties of the cards in the Blue suit. Just as in Time of […]

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Bayonets & Tomahawks Warpath Chronicles #11: Action Round Example

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Border Reivers Design Diaries #7-9: Play Cards, Hold Cards, and Summer Strategy Analysis

Compiled below you will find the seventh through ninth installments of an ongoing design diaries series from Border Reivers designer Ed Beach. (The previous installments can be found here.) He regularly publishes new design diaries and other updates on the “Reivers and Reformers” Facebook group, so if you would like to read those as they are released you

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A New Wargamer’s Insights and Impressions from Commands and Colors: Ancients

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Seas of Thunder: Her Netherlands Majesty’s Ship De Ruyter

HNLMS DeRuyter was a Royal Netherlands Navy light cruiser built over the period of 1933-1935 being commissioned on October 3, 1936. She was named after Admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, who was one of the most skilled admirals in the Dutch Navy during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. She was set up as a flotilla leader

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The Barracks Emperors: Examining the Influence Cards Part 1 — Military Cards

The Barracks Emperors is a strategic trick-taking game that offers many new twists on the genre – see my earlier article here for more information on how the game is played. One twist is that every card played also grants the player a one-time special ability, in addition to the card’s inherent trick-taking potential based

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Border Reivers Design Diaries #4-6: Cattle & Sheep & Horses, Recruiting Wardens and Reivers, and The Political Game – Offices and Allied Families

Compiled below you will find the fourth through sixth installments of an ongoing design diaries series from Border Reivers designer Ed Beach. (The first three installments can be found in the previous article here.) He regularly publishes new design diaries and other updates on the “Reivers and Reformers” Facebook group, so if you would like to read

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The Christian Kingdoms of Almoravid

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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Bayonets & Tomahawks Warpath Chronicles #10: Game Year Example Part Two

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Border Reivers Design Diaries #1-3: The Marches, Anatomy of a March, and Defending Your March

Compiled below you will find the first three installments of an ongoing design diaries series from Border Reivers designer Ed Beach. He regularly publishes new design diaries and other updates on the “Reivers and Reformers” Facebook group, so if you would like to read those as they are released you can do so here. Enjoy!

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