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Favorite Tabletop Games Kickstarters of the Month (June 2013)
I’ve spent a month tracking my favorite projects and looking for new fun stuff on Kickstarter’s Tabletop Games section. Of the five projects I wrote about in May, four have been succesfully-funded to...
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On The Workbench: Perry Miniatures American Civil War in 28mm
About a year ago I got back into gaming the American Civil War. My first miniatures wargaming experience back in the 1980s was with 15mm ACW played with the Fire & Fury rules. I wound up stepping...
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Retro Gaming The 70s & 80s: Dungeon Dwellers
I was already a fairly experienced D&D gamer by the time I encountered the Heritage Dungeon Dwellers series of miniatures and game sets in the early 1980s. Aside from playing creative games...
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Flames of War: Fielding the Grenadierkompanie
I got the Flames of War Open Fire! set this past Christmas and I’m finally getting around to painting-up all the stuff that comes packed in the box. At under $70 online, this big package is a real...
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Flames of War: Fielding Easy Company
I’m not unique in being a World War II gamer and a big fan of HBO’s Band of Brothers miniseries from 2001. I also finally got around to reading Stephen Ambrose’s same-titled book on which the series...
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Flames of War: Fielding the P-47 Thunderbolt
The P-47 Thunderbolt was a big, heavy, expensive and deadly plane with .50-cal machine guns and a bomb payload of 2500 pounds. Rushed into development and production near the dawn of World War II,...
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Flames of War: Fielding the Sd. Kfz. 7/1 Anti-Aircraft Gun
Wars are filled with big, heavy equipment, and the 8-ton German Sd.Kfz. 7 served as the longtime workhorse throughout World War II. Short for the Sonderkraftfahrzeug (German for “special purpose...
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Flames of War: Foy 1945 Scenario
With a big full day of Flames of War gaming coming up at Metropolitan Wargamers on July 20th a few of us got together for a practice game this past weekend. There’s a renewed interest in FOW at the...
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Favorite Kickstarters of the Month (July 2013)
Kickstarter can be a weird, volatile environment. Some projects come and go with little fanfare while others soar into the stratosphere with backer support. There can be all manner of highs, lows and...
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Military Terrain Making in World War II
In the opening pages of the recently-released and well-reviewed final book of his World War II “Liberation Trilogy,” The Guns At Last Light: The War In Western Europe, 1944-1945, author Rick Atkinson...
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