Guns of August (Adanac Command Studies/Matrix Games) is a rare example of how to capture the seemingly uncapturable. Making a good game about World War I requires a design that forces the player to accept stasis on some fronts as a matter of course. It means creating rules that limit how much progress the player [...]
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Thoughts on Harpoon
November 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Design, Matrix, Review
Larry Bond’s Harpoon – Commander’s Edition is everything it is supposed to be. It’s the same Harpoon that I fell in love with almost twenty years ago. It has all the scenarios that I played repeatedly from both sides, plus the EC 2003 scenarios that I missed. And there’s a Western Pacific Battleset with some [...]
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It’s Back
November 21st, 2007 · Comments Off · Matrix, Wargames
In their continuing effort to revamp, revisit and release every great old wargame from the past, Matrix Games has announced the arrival of Larry Bond’s Harpoon – Commander’s Edition. This isn’t the realistic and ugly Harpoon 2 and 3, it’s the classic Harpoon design with a few new bells and whistles. Harpoon was the first [...]
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Advanced Tactics
June 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Matrix, Preview, WW2
Matrix Games has announced a new “turn-based strategy masterpiece”. Their words, not mine. Advanced Tactics WW2 is a wargame from Dutch gaming outfit VR Designs. It is based on their freeware wargame People’s Tactics, available on their website. Judging from the screenshots, seems to have both theater and regional combat. Operational Art of War III [...]
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Commander: Europe at War – Early Moments
June 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Matrix, Slitherine, WW2
I’ve mentioned Clash of Steel (no relation) a few times before. For me, it epitomizes the perfect light wargame. Units arrive, you place them, and then you run across a hex map of Europe killing Nazis. Commander: Europe at War is better. It’s not perfect, by any means, but I’m pleasantly surprised. Matrix Games has [...]
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Indie Publishing Drama Take Three
March 26th, 2007 · Comments Off · Industry, Matrix, Shrapnel
Via Tacticular Cancer. After leaving Shrapnel Games last month in a confusing he said/she said over the completion/termination of 82nd Airborne, Boku Strategy Games has signed on with Shrapnel arch rival Matrix Games. Boku is the maker of the Horse and Musket series – great 18th century warfare games in dire need of a spit [...]
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