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We The People (boardgame)
''We the People'' is a board wargame about the American Revolution, published by Avalon Hill in 1993 in games, 1993 and designed by Mark Herman (game designer), Mark Herman. ''We the People'' was the first wargame to use cards as the primary way to control the pace and tempo of play, with a strong element of fog of war through the hidden card information. This started a new genre of wargames that have emphasized competitive play and a strong historical narrative. Influence The card-driven and point-to-point system pioneered by Mark Herman (game designer), Mark Herman in ''We the People'' has been implemented in a number of subsequent games, including ''For the People (board game), For the People'' which was a sequel. GMT Games has produced a number of games implementing this system, including ''The Napoleonic Wars (board game), The Napoleonic Wars'', ''Here I Stand (board game), Here I Stand'', ''Virgin Queen (board game), Virgin Queen'', ''Twilight Struggle'', and upcoming ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Herman (game Designer)
Mark Herman (born 1954) is an American game designer known for his contributions to wargames and historical strategy games. With a career spanning more than five decades, Herman is regarded as a pioneer in the genre, particularly for his innovations in card-driven games (CDGs), which blend narrative and strategy through card-based mechanics. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954, he was the first child of businessman Nathaniel Herman and homemaker Joan Herman. He graduated in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in history from Stony Brook University, and in 1997 with a master's degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. He was a senior partner for Booz Allen. He was an adjunct professor teaching military strategy and analytic methods for Georgetown University (1998-2009) and Columbia University (2014-2019), and lectured for the U.S. Naval War College, and the University of Maryland. Wargame designer Herman began playing wargames at age 12, and at tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Napoleonic Wars (board Game)
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Avalon Hill Games
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American Revolutionary War Board Wargames
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Casus Belli (magazine)
''Casus Belli'' is a French magazine about role-playing games, published in different formats since 1980. It contains news, reviews, interviews, features, and role-playing game materials. The magazine was published by Excelsior Publications until 1999, by Arkana Press in 2000–2006, and by Casus Belli Presse in 2010–2011, and has been published by Black Book Éditions since 2011. Since 2020, it also has the online video companion ''Casus TV'', which is produced in collaboration with ''Tric Trac''. History ''Casus Belli'' has been released in different forms since 1980, originally under editor-in-chief François Marcela-Froideval and published by Excelsior Publications; for its first few issues, it was a short, black-and-white publication, before changing to a larger format printed in color. In this incarnation, it became the leading role-playing game magazine on the French market. The artists working on this edition included the cartoonist Tignous. The magazine ended public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army during the American Revolutionary War, British Army. The conflict was fought in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The war's outcome seemed uncertain for most of the war. However, Washington and the Continental Army's decisive victory in the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 led King George III and the Kingdom of Great Britain to negotiate an end to the war in the Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris two years later, in 1783, in which the British monarchy acknowledged the independence of the Thirteen Colonies, leading to the establishment of the United States as an independent and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Struggle
''Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945–1989'' is a board game for two players, published by GMT Games in 2005. Players are the United States and Soviet Union contesting each other's influence on the world map by using cards that correspond to historical events. The first game designed by Ananda Gupta and Jason Matthews, they intended it to be a quick-playing alternative to more complex card-driven wargames. It achieved critical acclaim for its well-integrated theme, accessibility and introduction of Eurogame elements. After being voted the number one game on BoardGameGeek from December 2010 to January 2016 (eventually dethroned by Pandemic (board game), ''Pandemic Legacy''), it has been called "the best board game on the planet". ''Twilight Struggle'' is played competitively and was unofficially adapted for play-by-email and live online play. GMT released a ''Deluxe Edition'' in 2009, as well as a ''Collector's Edition'' as part of the crowdfunding campaign for the game's offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Queen (board Game)
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor The House of Tudor ( ) was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of Kingdom of England, England from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd, a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois. The Tudor monarchs ruled .... Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her mother was executed, and Elizabeth was declared royal bastard, illegitimate. Henry Third Succession Act 1543, restored her to the line of succession when she was 10. After Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward VI ruled until his own death in 1553, bequeathing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here I Stand (board Game)
''Here I Stand'' is a board wargame first published by GMT Games in 2006. Description ''Here I Stand'' is a card-based wargame in which players struggle for religious and political influence over early 16th century Europe during the Reformation. It can be played by up to 6 players, who represent the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, England, France, The Papacy, and The Protestants. The game begins in 1517 and ends in 1555, taking up to 9 turns to play each representing about 4 years of history. The game is played in "impulses", with each player, one after the other, playing a single card during their impulse. Each card has a number on it indication the number of "command points" it grants the player, as well as text of a specific event, and generally players choose to either use the command points or to enact the event but not both. Command points are used to execute various military, political, religious, or exploratory actions such as moving armies or fleets, besieging a for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GMT Games
GMT Games is a California-based wargaming publisher founded in 1990. The company has become well known for graphically attractive games that range from "monster games" of many maps and counters, to quite simple games suitable for introducing new players to wargaming. They also produce card games and family games. The current management and creative team includes Tony Curtis, Rodger MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, and Andy Lewis. History GMT's name comes from the first name initials of founders Gene Billingsley, Mike Crane, and Terry Shrum. Crane and Shrum later left GMT and founded the Fresno Gaming Association. In the 1990s GMT pioneered a pre-order system called "Project 500" or "P500", where customers pre-order a title and production does not begin until a set minimum of orders had been reached. This system has been adopted by other wargame publishers. GMT was successful during the 1990s, when other war game publishers were failing, which has been credited in part to their innovati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division. Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, and board games based upon historical events. History The Avalon Game Company Avalon Hill was started in 1952 outside Baltimore in Catonsville, Maryland, by Charles S. Roberts under the name of "The Avalon Game Company" for the publication of his game '' Tactics''. It is considered the first of a new type of war game, consisting of a self-contained printed map, pieces, rules and box designed for the mass-market. Other war games published over the prior half-century, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The People (board Game)
For the People may refer to: Television * ''For the People'' (1965 TV series), 1965 American TV series * ''For the People'' (2002 TV series), 2002 American TV series * ''For the People'' (2018 TV series), 2018 American TV series Politics, law, government *For the People (Georgia), a political party in Georgia *For the People (Slovakia), a political party in Slovakia *For the People Act of 2019, a bill of the 116th U.S. Congress *"For The People", a slogan used by the Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign Other uses * ''For the People'' (Boot Camp Clik album), 1997 *For the People (Jerome Cooper album), 1980 *For the People (Dropkick Murphys album), 2025 * ''For the People'' (KVNU radio program), 2006 American radio program See also * * By the People (other) * Of the people, by the people, for the people, popular phrase from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address * "4 the people" (KARK), slogan of KARK-TV, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA *''4 the People'', a 2004 Indian Malayalam- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
