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	Game: Raid on Iran Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Game Type: Board Date: 4/5/2025 7:02:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Raid on Iran (1980) Michail from the Board Game Guys describes components, setup, and game play. Recommended “…for players who enjoy strategic planning and can appreciate the historical context”.
	Game: Kung Fu 2100 Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Game Type: Board Date: 4/5/2025 Poster: Pat L.	Unboxing Video: Classic Pocket Box Games Bundle from Steve Jackson Games Alexander Klein from the Players’ Aid received the Classic Pocket Box Games Bundle produced by Steve Jackson Games and unboxed the 6 games in this video: Kung Fu 2100, Raid on Iran, Necromancer, One Page Bulge, Undead, and The Awful Green Things from Outer Space. From the looks of the contents, it appears that the previous owner created copies of various parts to preserve the original components.
	Game: D-Day Publisher: Avalon Hill Game Type: Board Date: 4/4/2025 Poster: Pat L.	In Memoriam: Revisiting the Avalon Hill Classics, Part II (game inventory) Joseph J. Scoleri III posted this complete inventory and physical description of the box contents for Avalon Hill’s vintage war games from the 1950’s and 1960’s.
	Game: Close The Atlantic - World War Three Publisher: Mike Raymond Game Type: Board Date: 4/2/2025 9:27:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Vassal Module: Close The Atlantic World War Three Designer Mike Raymond tips us off that Joel Toppen has posted a Vassal module for his modern naval combat game!
	Game: Black Swan Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 4/2/2025 8:13:00 AM Poster: Seek Out and Play	Dark Black Expansion for Black Swan In this short video, we look at the Dark Swan Expansion for Black Swan by Vento Nuovo Games. We start with an unboxing of the components, followed by an explanation of the new rules, and the specific new units for Italy and Germany.
	Game: WorldKiller Publisher: SPI Game Type: Magazine Date: 4/1/2025 7:13:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Let's Play WorldKiller (2 videos) Blue Botic likes to modify components to improve war game play. In the 1st video, you will see him play Worldkiller, a game from ARES magazine, using his modified map. The 2nd video is a review where his main criticisms are with the game components. His sophisticated solution includes a second modified map and counters that are home-made miniatures! Click these links to see the videos and a picture of the original game map for comparison: Replay; Review & Design Discussion; and Original Map Detail.
	Game: Moscow '41: The Road to Moscow, July - December 1941 Series: Barbarossa Trilogy: Leningrad '41, Moscow '41 and Kiev '41 Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/31/2025 9:19:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Moscow '41: High Noon at the Con! "...what was about to unfold had all the makings of a classic high noon." VentoNuovo Games brings the next of some interesting reveals leading to the Expansion: "Would the young designer have managed to survive the plans of the world champion? Or would the challenge have been quickly won by the tech assisted champion?"
	Game: Cuba Libre Series: COIN Series Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/30/2025 7:55:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Cuba Libre 2nd vs 3rd Printing kart93 opens the discussion and several commenters chime in on Reddit’s boardgames pages.
	Game: Golan '73 Series: Fast Action Battles Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/30/2025 7:30:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Fast Action Battles: Golan ’73 The “blocks” of the.. Kippur Here is a gem from The Obelix that includes a review, complete game description, game play, strategy, and great illustrations. There is also a discussion of the FAB series up to 2017. Be sure to click the author’s biography for a humorous game-centric description and use the translate feature to convert the Italian text.
	Game: Burning Banners: Rage of the Witch Queen Publisher: Compass Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/29/2025 8:23:00 AM Poster: The Boardgames Chronicle	Burning Banners Session Reports – Campaign 16 – Assault in the North Another exciting scenario in world of Burning Banners - this time great 3-player scenario in which the Army of the Dead will face its demise!
	Game: Iwo Jima 1945 Publisher: Worthington Publishing Game Type: Board Date: 3/29/2025 8:21:00 AM Poster: The Boardgames Chronicle	Iwo Jima 1945 – Unboxing & Overview We present today Unboxing & Overview for one of the newest products from Worthington Publishing - Iwo Jima 1945. Enjoy!
	Game: Divided Ground: Middle East Conflict 1948-1973 Series: Campaign Series Publisher: Talonsoft Game Type: Computer Date: 3/29/2025 7:18:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Divided Ground – PC (Game Page) The SPOnG is a web site with the goal of listing every computer game ever published! This page for Divided Ground includes a mini-review and several cover and screen shots.
	Game: Civil War Publisher: Avalon Hill Game Type: Board Date: 3/29/2025 7:11:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	"Civil War": Avalon-Hill's 1961 Game James N. posted this nicely illustrated description and included remembrances of playing the game. Included are 5 pages of comments from the Civil War Talk Forum, an excellent web site for American Civil War game players. The comments quickly diverge to Civil War chess sets, other vintage war games, and many illustrations. Don’t miss the miniatures display in the lowest pages of comments.
	Game: Chancellorsville (1st Edition) Publisher: Avalon Hill Game Type: Board Date: 3/29/2025 7:06:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Tabletop Simulator Module for Chancellorsville Steam has added a module for Avalon Hill’s Chancellorsville for their Tabletop Simulator. The Tabletop Simulator allows you to make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created modules with players in the Steam community.
	Game: Moscow '41: The Road to Moscow, July - December 1941 Series: Barbarossa Trilogy: Leningrad '41, Moscow '41 and Kiev '41 Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/28/2025 7:47:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Luftwaffe: First of the Five Secrets Revelead! "When we started telling you about the expansion for Moscow '41, we had left some topics hanging." VentoNuovo Games offers the first of a number of interesting reveals from their research: "The VVS (Military Air Forces of the USSR) in 1941 had nothing similar..."!
	Game: Illusions of Glory: The Great War on the Eastern Front Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/26/2025 8:29:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Multi-Player Variant for Illusions of Glory "Here is a variant for up to two players on a side." Perry Silverman, in Inside GMT Games, lays out intriguing elements to make this World War I game multiplayer. For example, "...an AP (Allied Powers) player may choose to play a Strategy Card from his own hand or the other AP player’s hand, simulating the friction in Allied Powers decision-making and allowing some 'interesting' and 'exciting' table talk."
	Game: Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis, 1860-61 Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/23/2025 7:40:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Learn As We Play: Fort Sumter (video) In this video, The War Room discusses the rules, setup, and game mechanics.
	Game: Brandywine Series: Battles of the American Revolution Series Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/23/2025 7:35:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Brandywine - Battles of the American Revolution (GMT Games) AAR (video) Justegarde presents this after-action report in this nicely done video. The battle ended in a disaster for the Colonials. The reviewer loves the game system calling it a “fantastic experience playing through all of these games” in the series playing both solo and head-to-head. The last minute mentions other games in the series that he played recently.
	Game: Empires of the Middle Ages Publisher: SPI Game Type: Board Date: 3/22/2025 7:56:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Download parts for SPI Games SPIGAMES.net is an excellent source for all things related to SPI Games. This link presents downloads for rules, counters, charts, and maps. Scroll down for parts related to Empires of the Middle Ages.
	Game: NATO Division Commander Publisher: SPI Game Type: Board Date: 3/22/2025 7:23:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	NATO Division Commander(SPI) This video describes the Japanese version of this game including an unboxing and game review from もりつち　シミュレーション・ウォーゲームで歴史を学ぼう. Be sure to use auto translate to understand the commentary.
	Game: Nieuchess Publisher: Avalon Hill Game Type: Board Date: 3/22/2025 7:08:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	How To Play: Nieuchess (video) The Name of the Game discusses the entire rules set and then plays a game using the VASSAL version on a computer. The video starts with a concise review of the early Avalon Hill games when Charles Roberts owned the company including war games from Tactics to Afrika Korps and the educational non-war games Verdict, Dispatcher, and Management. The Nieuchess review is at the 5-minute mark.
	Game: Urban Battle Publisher: Forsage Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/21/2025 8:06:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	2 Games Which Make Me Feel Like a Kid at Christmas! Urban Battle and Urban Battle Junior – Board Game Preview "...fun and challenging and perfect for a quick afternoon gaming session...". Rick Martin takes a look at this pre-release tank battle game (and its junior version), of which he feels the "...scenarios in both games are very well thought out and fun."
	Game: American Revolution series Series: American Revolution Series Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/19/2025 1:04:00 PM Poster: Doug Holt	Mentioned In Dispatches S14 E7 ~ GMT’s Battles of the American Revolution series Armchair Dragoons hosts an interesting audio podcast to discuss "...GMT’s long-running Battles of the American Revolution series...". (Page down to see the podcast link)
	Game: The Battle of Khalkhin Gol Publisher: Princeps Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/18/2025 6:25:00 AM Poster: The Boardgames Chronicle	Interview with Vukasin Nisavic, designer of The Battle of Khalkhin Gol by Princeps Games In below material we shall talk about The Battle of Khalkhin Gol, one of the less known episodes of WWII, which had dramatic consequences long-term. Please enjoy the interview with designer, Vukasin Nisavic!
	Game: Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan, 1941-1945 (Second Edition) Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/18/2025 6:22:00 AM Poster: The Boardgames Chronicle	Pacific War – Video Review Let us present today a Video Review for fantastic game by Mark Herman - Pacific War. Recent reprint by GMT Games really brings that game to the top quality level. Enjoy the material!
	Game: Here I Stand Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/17/2025 8:49:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	How to Win as the Ottomans in Here I Stand "The Ottomans! Straightforward gameplay, huge armies, and the always-popular piracy make them a power like no other." Clio, in Inside GMT Games, offers some excellent insights on how this flank power "...can easily get to 25 VP just by doing their two favorite activities..."!
	Game: Brandywine Series: Battles of the American Revolution Series Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/16/2025 7:02:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Battle of Brandywine Creek - Gmt after action report (video) Caledonian reviews the situation after the British won a victory.
	Game: Normandy '44 Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/16/2025 7:00:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	NORMANDY 44 - Mark Simonitch -GMT José MD Bernal discusses strategy and mechanics in this illustrated review. Be sure to use page translation to convert the text from Spanish to your language.
	Game: Wreck of the B.S.M. Pandora Publisher: SPI Game Type: Magazine Date: 3/15/2025 7:56:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Let's Play Wreck Of The BSM Pandora (video) In his 2nd play, Blue Botic loses most of his crew but manages to restart the ship.
	Game: 30 Years War Publisher: Decision Games Game Type: Magazine Date: 3/15/2025 7:47:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Cyberboard Gamebox Module for 30 Years War Flavio Etzio has added a Cyberboard gamebox for Decision Games’ 30 Years War game. You will need to be a registered user at Boardgamegeek to download this file. Cyberboard is a Windows game engine, created by Dale Larson, for building and playing online adaptations of board games and war games via Play By EMail (PBEM). The files that are created/used for each individual game title are known as 'Gameboxes'. Cyberboard is very popular amongst wargamers for PBEM. Compared to the other PBEM game engines, creating Cyberboard 'gameboxes' is more involved than for ZunTzu, but less technical than for Vassal.
	Game: Civil War Game 1863 Publisher: Parker Brothers Game Type: Board Date: 3/15/2025 7:14:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Civil War Game 1863 (1961) Board Game Michail from the Board Game Guys describes components, setup, and game play. The game is recommended for ”… families looking for an educational game, and casual gamers who enjoy light to moderate strategy.”
	Game: Moscow '41: The Road to Moscow, July - December 1941 Series: Barbarossa Trilogy: Leningrad '41, Moscow '41 and Kiev '41 Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/12/2025 2:55:00 PM Poster: Doug Holt	Moscow '41: Video Premiere - Kickstarter Launched VentoNuovo Games has an Air Module premiere video for the Moscow Expansion. Kickstarter has launched!
	Game: Moscow '41: The Road to Moscow, July - December 1941 Series: Barbarossa Trilogy: Leningrad '41, Moscow '41 and Kiev '41 Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/12/2025 8:11:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	MOSCOW '41: A story from a(nother) convention VentoNuovo Games offers more background as they close in on the Kickstarter launch!
	Game: Fields of Fire Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/10/2025 9:43:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Fields of Fire Deluxe AAR "Much to my delight this deluxe edition has not only a rewritten rule book with plenty of examples of play but also two Field Manuals to help you learn the basic rules step by step." Armchair Dragoons brings us a fun AAR with this tactical infantry command game. See how the fight proceeds as things go from "1st platoon’s team heads into the marsh and bumbles right into an enemy LMG team who seems to be looking for a good place to set up.", to "...this is where 2nd Platoon's luck runs out.", and then "This will be a tough nut to crack."!
	Game: Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis, 1860-61 Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/9/2025 7:55:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Let’s Play Fort Sumter! Avguardian Gaming plays the computer version as the Secessionists. He starts with a nice intro and covers game description, mechanics and strategy.
	Game: Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 Series: Great Battles of the American Civil War Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/9/2025 7:00:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Interview with Bill Byrne Developer for Great Battles of the American Civil War Volume VIII Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh from GMT Games Grant Kleinhenz from The Players’ Aid, interviews Bill Byrne who develops games in the Great Battles of the American Civil War series for GMT Games. The interview includes a behind the scenes look at game design and development and a detailed discussion of new design features.
	Game: Omaha Beach Publisher: Rand Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/9/2025 Poster: Pat L.	D-Day Board game reviews of Bill’s collection of some very old war games! Avalon Hill D-Day (video) Bill Molyneaux, war game designer, compares games related to D-Day in his collection. Games covered include: D-Day from Avalon Hill (original and 1991 versions), Omaha Beach from Rand, Caen from Excalibre, and Destination Normandy and June ’44 from DDH.
	Game: Moscow '41: The Road to Moscow, July - December 1941 Series: Barbarossa Trilogy: Leningrad '41, Moscow '41 and Kiev '41 Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/8/2025 3:57:00 PM Poster: Doug Holt	Moscow '41: Expansion on the way VentoNuovo Games brings more details about the upcoming expansion and Kickstarter!
	Game: Swashbuckler Publisher: Yaquinto Game Type: Board Date: 3/8/2025 7:33:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Swashbuckler First Look (video) David Lent, aka The Centurion, unboxes this tactical sword-fighting game from 1980. You, too can be Errol Flynn!
	Game: Where There is Discord: War in the South Atlantic Publisher: Fifth Column Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/8/2025 7:28:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Falklands - Where There Is Discord Board Game Sapper Joe compliments a war game publisher’s generosity.
	Game: Bismarck Publisher: Avalon Hill Game Type: Board Date: 3/8/2025 7:25:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	VASSAL Module for Bismarck Here is a module for Bismarck from Avalon Hill courtesy of jw62. VASSAL is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. A growing list of game Modules is available at the VASSAL web site and at web sites for some game publishers. Players can play solitaire off-line, play live on the Internet or play by email. Vassal runs on all platforms, and is free, open-source software.
	Game: Old School Tactical Vol IV Series: Old School Tactical Publisher: Flying Pig Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/7/2025 8:22:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Old School Tactical Volume 4: Italian Theater 1943-45 by Flying Pig Games "The Soaring Swine have, and rightly so, a reputation for beautiful and huge, not just large, wargames." Robert Peterson, in A Wargamers Needful Things, takes a first look at this Old School Tactical series game. His inner "detail" guy is also "...very happy to see that they included one of the more successful Italian pieces of armor: the Semovente."
	Game: Fields of Fire Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/5/2025 8:42:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition News "Fields of Fire Deluxe Edition is finally here!" Andrew Stead, in Inside GMT Games, covers some of the cool things coming available with this project. Check it out!
	Game: Blitz in the East Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/5/2025 8:05:00 AM Poster: Seek Out and Play	Scorched Earth Expansion for Blitz in the East In this short video, we unbox the Scorched Earth Expansion for Blitz in the East by Vento Nuovo Games. The video covers the components found in the game, the Scorched Earth card, the Final Restoration Phase which is new for Blitz in the East. And two historic and two what-if scenarios, the latter based on the Balkans Campaign never occurring.
	Game: Chancellorsville (1st Edition) Publisher: Avalon Hill Game Type: Board Date: 3/5/2025 Poster: Pat L.	In Memoriam: Revisiting the Avalon Hill Classics, Part II (game inventory) Joseph J. Scoleri III posted this complete inventory and physical description of the box contents for Avalon Hill’s vintage war games from the 1950’s and 1960’s.
	Game: Moscow '41: The Road to Moscow, July - December 1941 Series: Barbarossa Trilogy: Leningrad '41, Moscow '41 and Kiev '41 Publisher: VentoNuovo Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/3/2025 9:19:00 AM Poster: Doug Holt	Moscow '41 Expansion - VVS' catastrophe during Barbarossa's opening VentoNuovo Games is working on a fascinating expansion for the Barbarossa Trilogy series, with a Kickstarter coming soon. See what's up!
	Game: All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-1918 Series: COIN Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/2/2025 7:51:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	The Beautiful Boards of Wargaming! Grant Kleinhenz from the Players’ Aid did a series of articles celebrating games with beautiful components. This is a deep dive into the map board graphics with plenty of illustrations that show how the map ties in with game mechanics. Scroll to the bottom to see related links for this game and other games in the Beautiful Boards series.
	Game: A Time for Trumpets: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 Publisher: GMT Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/2/2025 7:32:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Interview with Bruno Sinigaglio Designer of A Time for Trumpets Grant Kleinhenz from The Players’ Aid conducts a thorough interview covering game mechanics. Mr. Sinagalio has a long history working as a designer of Battle of the Bulge games.
	Game: Battle for Stalingrad Publisher: SPI Game Type: Board Date: 3/1/2025 7:19:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	A tribute to game designer John Hill Dana Lombardy posted this tribute to game designer John Hill. Mr Hill designed several games including: Squad Leader, Johnny Reb, Across a Deadly Field, Jerusalem!, Battle for Hue, Battle for Stalingrad, and Eastern Front Tank Leader.
	Game: Where There is Discord: War in the South Atlantic Publisher: Fifth Column Games Game Type: Board Date: 3/1/2025 7:07:00 AM Poster: Pat L.	Review: Where There Is Discord from Fifth Column Games – “The Empire Strikes Back” Alexander Klein has mixed feelings for a game he loves. See why in this illustrated review. The game covers naval engagements during the Falklands War, a rare topic for war games.

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