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Game: Table Battles



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Publisher: Hollandspiele
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Tom Russell
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Description:


Here is something new and exciting, something completely unlike any other game on your table. Table Battles is a thinky filler, a light dice game that nevertheless will have you scratching your chin and agonizing over your decisions. It reduces armed conflict to its essentials, to the absolute universal truths behind all battles: the threat of force and its application. It's about leverage, about feints and counterfeints, threats and counterthreats, about creating openings and then going for the jugular, about leaving openings and springing a trap.


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Date: 7/6/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
2nd Day of Gettysburg, with Table Battles

"With some Civil War reading on the go at the moment I had a hankering to play an appropriate game." Prufrock decides to play a day of Gettysburg using a Hollandspiele's Table Battles expansion. Check out the action and find out why a somewhat frustrated Prufrock feels forced to conclude that "Playing Gettysburg with Table Battles was one way to get a Civil War game in, but it is not one that I can take any satisfaction from."
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5
Date: 8/25/2021
Poster: Doug Holt
Three Battles of Bosworth

"…a fun way to get into the spirit of the event, play the battle, and have hardly any clean up required." Prufrock decides to help celebrate the Society of Ancients' battle day by playing the Battle of Bosworth using Hollandspiele's Table Battles. He's playing a best-of-three series, with "Bosworth I to the kingslayer!" Can Henry win the series?
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4
Date: 3/18/2021
Poster: Harvey M.
Pharsalus with Table Battles

Table Battles, a design from Hollandspiele, simulates various set piece battles using colored sticks to represent the units. Here's No Great Matter uses miniatures instead as they tackle the Pharsalus scenario.
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3
Date: 2/15/2021
Poster: Harvey M.
Video Review: Table Battles 2nd Edition from Hollandspiele

The Table Battles system, by Hollandspiele, is a light battle game that recreates battles throughout human history with broad strokes and an emphasis on playability. Players roll and allocate dice to Unit cards, with each card accepting specific die results or dice combinations. On a later turn, those dice are removed to activate the Unit and attack an enemy formation, removing wooden pieces assigned to the formation in question. But the enemy may be able to screen the attack (cancelling it), counterattacking (inflicting extra losses on the attacker), or absorb it via a strategic reserve. The Players Aid reviews the the second edition printing.
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2
Date: 7/24/2020
Poster: Doug Holt
Quick Review: Table Battles, by Hollandspiele

"...interplay is dynamic and there is a nice range of options in how to approach each battle." Prufrock spells out why he loves Hollandspiele's Table Battles. He finds a fun, flexible system, owing to the fact that the "…rules are very succinct - just four pages - but they are flexible enough for all kinds of situations and eras to be gamed."
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1
Date: 10/2/2017
Poster: Doug Holt
GrogHeads Reviews Table Battles

"… it might not be a wargame. There is no map. There isn’t any movement of pieces." Doug Miller wants to take a curmudgeonly approach to reviewing Hollandspiel’s Table Battles, but he just can't! See why the little game without a map has sucked him in: "…this amazingly simple game does a stunning job of capturing the essence of each one of the included battles."
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