What this is about, including full list. Long time readers will know that I extensively covered Roman games in my first ever feature series, one that did not take nine months to write because life was better then and I wrote more quickly and I played more games. The epilogue to that group of essays […]

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What this is about, including full list. Genghis Khan was dude who, 700 years ago, totally ravaged China, and who, we were told, 2 hours ago, totally ravaged Oshman’s Sporting Goods. So Sid Meier had to make him and his furry hat one of the iconic Civs in his classic game. The Mongols did, after […]

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What this is about, including full list. If Civilization has an iconic image that everyone has seen (and, let’s face it, it has many) it is the sneering face of Gandhi warning us to behave ourselves because his words are BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. There is a universal cognitive dissonance in seeing the face of […]

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What this is about, including full list. The Greeks are the Ur-culture for us in the West. Though our religious traditions are putatively Middle Eastern, our understandings of man’s relationship with other men, with nature, with society, and with the divine are very Greek. This shouldn’t be surprising, since even those Middle Eastern religious traditions […]

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What this is about, including full list. What most gamers know about German history fits into a spasm of madness between 1933 and 1945. Though it goes too far to call this decade-plus a fluke (Nazism and the revanchism it embraced had a strong cultural and historical background, not unique to Germany), the horrible excesses […]

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