Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group

Shameless and Impudent Lords: The Rout of Ludford Bridge, 1459 – Onside Report

Recently I have been working on several game ideas based on my interest in The Wars of the Roses. It has something to do with being semi-retired. Why a boardgame? My game is a prototype for a boardgame about The Wars of the Roses. And at this point should mention Kingmaker, both the 1974 and […]

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Crystal Chaos – onside report Trevor Duguid Farrant

Four player version with assistance from Dave Boundy, Jon Casey and Mukul Patel This is a mini-version of a show game that I first ran on 16th October 1994 at SELWG. I wanted to put together a full set of rules as opposed to the umpire set, which had much contained in my head. I […]

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Board games: The politics of play

This is a review of a radio broadcast and a musing on the ideas it deals with. Review The radio broadcast was on the BBC World Service and is part of the series: The Cultural Frontline. The episode: Board games: The politics of play It starts by looking at the boardgame Pandemic, and its happenstance […]

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