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Entries Tagged as 'WW1'

East is East and West is West

November 12th, 2008 · 12 Comments · AGEOD, WW1, Wargames

Quick question for AgeOD, a studio whose games I’ve championed for the last few years:
Why in the name of Mercator would you do a wargame with the continent of Europe as the centerpiece and have the map turned 70 degrees? I thought I could deal with this since a) I’m not a moron, and (b) [...]

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AGEod’s World War One: La Grand Guerre

August 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · AGEOD, Preview, WW1

The most interesting strategy news out of Leipzig is that AGEod is doing a World War I strategy game.
From the press release:
“World War One : La Grande Guerre 14-18” (WW1) is an historical grand strategy game, turn based, using an original engine specially developed for AGEOD by Lucas Cammisa (Calvinus) according to a Philippe Thibaut [...]

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World War I and Game Design

April 16th, 2007 · 12 Comments · Design, History, WW1

My homeland is going through another spasm of celebration of its grand nation building moment. For Canada, this isn’t the 1867 Confederation or even the completion of the transcontinental railway that linked East and West. Instead, the First World War is oft cited as the point when a Dominion with no independent foreign policy took [...]

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