Friday 10 May 2019

It is Battles time, again







Well,

the new issue if Battles, issue #13 to be exact, is coming next month. Game will be Solferino 1859 (from Vae Victis) in a new edition (oh well it is the trend of the day, second editions). Articles will be as usual aplenty, two of them mine. Here is a quick run down of the components provided by the publisher:

• Reviews: Montelimar: The Anvil Of Fate, Holland'44, Helsinki 1918, Mike Force, Radetzky's March, Albuera 1811, At Any Cost: Metz 1870, The Battle Of Blenheim 1704, '65, D-Day At Iwo Jima, Nemesis, Fortress Sevastopol...

• Back to: Empire Of The Sun, War Of The Suns...

• History: A Memory Of Many Solferinos

• Most Wanted: The designers talk about their coming games, Root...

• General articles by Charles Vasey, Elias Nordling, Tom Russel, Philip Sabin...And more... 132 pages!

IT sounds quite packed. I am looking forward to Metz (now that it is more difficult to get hold of it, I am getting interested!), and Blenheim. Not very impressed by the word 'root'... 

I know Battles has never been published with a steady schedule, but the reviews are usually (if we except the crap David Hughes writes...) top notch, on average better than Vae Victis' (the other French wargaming magazine) average. 

This is not to say that Vae Victis is bad, or that their reviews are bad, just that I found Battles one usually deeper. 

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