"Bloody Steppes of Crimea " Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Aug 2018 10:16 p.m. PST |
"As promised this review stands at the opposite end of the scale to my previous one on The War of the Worlds. This package from the Polish company, Strategemata, presents the three famous battles of the Crimean War and harks back in several ways to earlier products of the heyday of hex and counter simulations. In part I was fascinated by the rarity with which this conflict has been gamed. My first gaming encounter with this period was many years ago with GDW's Crimea [pub. 1975], a largely strategic game, but with an odd, and not altogether satisfactory, substrata to fight these individual battles. However, my best experience was with SPI's Quad Crimean Battles [pub. 1978] containing four folio sized maps to fight all three of the battles offered by Strategemata, plus Tchernaya River. I have to say that I played these battles repeatedly, as like all SPI's Quad games they were presented with a simple basic set of rules with a few minor additions to reflect small individual elements of each battle…."
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| Cacique Caribe | 29 Aug 2018 1:21 p.m. PST |
I had no idea that side of the Black Sea was this gorgeous. Dan
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| Tango01 | 30 Aug 2018 12:38 p.m. PST |
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