No Retreat! French Front: Learning to Play Video
https://youtu.be/4hyEFGvPh1Y Designed by Carl Paradis and published by GMT Games,…
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Invaders from Dimension X: Playthrough Video
Invaders from Dimension X is the first part of the…
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Sticks & Stones: Playthrough Video
Sticks and Stones: Platoon Level Combat in World War IV…
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Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944 – Component Overview Video
Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944 is a two player game…
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The Shores of Tripoli: Component Overview Video
The Shores of Tripoli is a 1-2 player game set…
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3 cool things about…Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea
Everyone everywhere should have a shelf of ‘I love that,…
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Diagonal Move Monthly Update: November 2020
As I belatedly (yes, late again) look back over the…
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Three Cool Things About: Meltwater
Meltwater, from designer Erin Lee Escobedo and published by Hollandspiele…
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Winter Thunder: PnP vs Retail
I'm a huge fan of Print and Play wargames. Regular…
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Sticks and Stones: Unboxing
Sticks and Stones is a 2 Player tactical hex and…
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Meltwater: Unboxing Video
Meltwater is a 2 player strategy game designed by Erin…
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Guilford, Saratoga, Brandywine Tri Pack (GMT Games): Component Overview Video
There's a lot of stuff inside GMT's Battles of the…
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Interview: Tom Russell, Co-founder of Hollandspiele and Designer of Irish Gauge.
Tom Russell, co-founder of independent publisher Hollandspiele, joins Diagonal Move…
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Three Cool things about…Blood Before Richmond: Gaines’s Mill
During the last week I have been getting to grips…
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Diagonal Move Monthly Update: September 2020
Time for another (belated) monthly update! And…September was relatively quiet…
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Winter Thunder (Battle of the Bulge) – Overview/How to Play Video
Winter Thunder is the second in my series of playthrough…
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Learning Peloponnesian War – Video
Peloponnesian War, designed by Mark Herman and published by GMT…
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The Battle for Ramadi: Playthrough Video
I'm a huge fan of PnP wargames. I may have…
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The Joy of Print & Play
I'm a huge fan of Print & Play games. They…
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COIN Series
Interview: Volko Ruhnke, creator of the COIN series
This week, Volko Ruhnke, designer of Nevsky, Labyrinth: The War…
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No Retreat! French & Polish Fronts – A Quick Look Video
No Retreat! The French & Polish Front is a 2-player,…
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Battle Hymn Vol 1 – System Overview/How to Play
Is it me or are there just not enough, game…
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Interview: Brian Train, Designer of Colonial Twilight and Brief Border Wars
Brian Train, designer of A Distant Plain, Colonial Twilight, and…
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Battle Hymn Vol 1 – Gettysburg Campaign AAR
Battle Hymn Vol 1 is a hex and counter simulation…
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Battle Hymn Vol 1 – Quick Look Video
Battle Hymn Vol 1 landed on my doorstep the other…
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So you want to design a board game?
During a recent interview with Hermann Luttman, the creator of…
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Interview: Hermann Luttmann, designer of Dawn of the Zeds & At Any Cost
Hermann Luttmann, designer of At Any Cost, Attack of the…
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Attack of the 50 Foot Colossi – Quick Look Video
Regular visitors to the website may have noticed I am…
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Attack of the 50 Foot Colossi: Session Report (Turns 9-12)
Welcome to the last in our series of session reports…
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Attack of the 50 Foot Colossi – Session Report (Turns 5 – 8)
Welcome to the third in our series of session reports…
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Attack of the 50 Foot Colossi – Session Report (Turns 1 – 4)
Welcome to the second in our series of session reports…
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Attack of the 50 Foot Colossi – Session Report (Intro)
Lurking away in one corner of the Hex and Counter…
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Session Report – Cataclysm: A Second World War (Turn 3)
Cataclysm Turn 3 – 1945 -46 An introduction to Cataclysm…
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Session Report – Cataclysm: A Second World War (Turn 2)
Cataclysm: Turn 2 – 1943 -44 For an Introduction to…
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Session Report – Cataclysm: A Second World War (Turn 1)
For an Introduction to Cataclysm: A Second World War, please…
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Session Report – Cataclysm: A Second World War (Introduction)
Prior to the advent of Covid-19 related social distancing, Saturday…
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Interview: Scott Moore, designer of This War Without an Enemy
This War Without an Enemy designer, Scott Moore joins Diagonal…
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Cuba Libre
Cuba Libre, designed by Jeff Grossman and Volko Ruhnke, puts…
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