Paolo Mori and Francesco Sirocchi’s Battalion: War of the Ancients caught my eye not because it’s a modern reworking of the duo’s 15-year-old Pocket Battles, but because it’s operating in a gray area that calls to my affinity for mass battle miniatures games while requiring none of the commitment of such an endeavor. This is…
Undaunted: Stalingrad is a powerful experience. It takes Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson’s acclaimed system and marries it to a campaign format that is engrossing and transcendent. The battle of Stalingrad is captured with such purpose and intimacy that I felt as if I was wandering through an HBO miniseries immersed in dramatic action. I’ve…
My relationship with Martin Wallace is shaky. His designs tend to be sophisticated works of deft subtlety, consistently marred by a single flaw or maladroit quality which undermines the whole. Take A Few Acres of Snow; this was a wonderful meld of deck-building and war-game set in one of the most interesting conflicts of North…
Player Elimination 