The Levy & Campaign team presents an option to jump more quickly into the action in Volume I or Volume II of the Series. Feedback welcome! …
NEVSKY and ALMORAVID Quickstart Scenarios
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A New Wargamer’s Insights and Impressions from Nevsky: Teutons and Rus in Collision, 1240-1242
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Below is an article featuring Nevsky insights and first impressions from first time player and InsideGMT contributor David Wiley of Cardboard Clash. You can also find this article on David’s blog. Enjoy! -Rachel
Nevsky: Scenario Balance and Strategy
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The designer gives us a close look at the shorter scenarios in Volume I of the Levy & Campaign Series, with advice for competitive play plus possible adjustments to even the odds in one of them. A detailed look at how the game works appears in five parts starting with Part 1 here.
Nevsky: Pleskau 1240 Strategy Discussion
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Last weekend I was at the GMT Weekend at the Warehouse gathering and Gene was kind enough to give me an open copy of Nevsky. To set the stage, I am friends with the designer, so if I did not like the game I would never post anything. If I liked the game I would have tweeted out some happy words. But if I really like the game, I write a strategy analysis.
Nevsky: Crusade on Novgorod Replay – Part 5
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With our fifth and final report, we proceed into the second 40 days of summer, 1240. Gavrilo has chased the Teuton Hermann into the previously captured stronghold of Izborsk and will now attempt to winkle him out. You can find the earlier articles in this series of closeups on game play in Nevsky—Teutons and Rus in Collision here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
Nevsky: Crusade on Novgorod Replay – Part 4
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We continue in Part 4 with a close-up look at battle in Nevsky—Teutons and Rus in Collision and the Levy & Campaign system, as the Russian Lord Gavrilo advances to challenge the Teutonic invader. You can find this series of articles’ Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.
Nevsky: Crusade on Novgorod Replay – Part 3
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Continuing our detailed exposition of gameplay in Nevsky—Teutons and Rus in Collision. Part 3 covers storming an enemy garrison—including our first closeup look at the nature of forces and fortifications in the Levy & Campaign system. Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Note: All images below are playtest images, not final art.
We are within the Campaign portion of the 40-Day game turn. The Teutons have their final Command Activation, which will be Hermann, currently Besieging the Russian border Fort of Izborsk.
Hermann issues the final Teutonic Commands of the first 40 days.
Nevsky: Crusade on Novgorod Replay – Part 2
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We continue here with Volko’s detailed explanation of gameplay in Nevsky—Teutons and Rus in Collision on his homemade playtest set. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 covers how the Russian and Teuton sides plan their campaigns and then how their medieval lords move materiel and men to war.
Nevsky: Crusade on Novgorod Replay – Part 1
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Nevsky: Teutons and Rus in Collision is the first volume in Volko’s intended Levy & Campaign Series covering various medieval and perhaps other pre-industrial conflicts at the operational level. Readers have asked for a closer look at the mechanics in the new series, so we answer that call to arms here with the first installment from Volko of Nevsky gameplay, blow by blow, from the volume’s full-length scenario, “Crusade on Novgorod”. … (Note that all art shown here is playtest not final, and all particulars discussed remain provisional as development and testing continue.)
Plantagenet – War of the Roses Replay by Christophe Correia, Part 3
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Below you will find Part 2 in a Plantagenet replay series from Cristophe Correia originally published on The Boardgames Chronicle blog. You can read Parts 1 and 2 here and here. Enjoy! -Rachel