Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis is the third in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous reviews here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fantastic Point of View Wealth of Nations: National Trade During development of Wealth of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry Tudor is a familiar name to students of English history, especially the military side of it. Henry VII is actually a less familiar figure, despite being the same person. So, a book on Henry VII’s reign seemed like a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Vatta’s War finally gets to the ‘war’. Things take a very violent turn at the start, and everything follows on for that. We get a little bit of the opposing viewpoint near the beginning, but nothing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The French and Indian War gets enough attention that I wasn’t sure I was in need of a book just on that part of the Seven Years War. Boy, was I wrong. Narratively, the focus is around events over several[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been on my to-read/to-get list long enough that I don’t remember just how it got there. Certainly in the period when I was looking a lot more at early Europe. It isn’t quite the book I’d been expecting,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous review here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fantastic Point of View After taking a look at the New World in Conquest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On one hand, this somewhat typical fare: Moon is the ultimate outsider; his family killed while he was young, and his entire life has been spent bouncing from settlement to settlement trying, and failing to fit in. After having given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is among the very best epic fantasy stories out there. I wouldn’t have ever thought there’d be a sequel, but now that there is, a two-hundred page follow-on to the original does seem like a sensible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frederick II of Prussia is considered one of the great generals of history (which is why we usually just call him ‘Frederick the Great’), so a book looking at his military achievements is an excellent subject. Of course, it’s not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been… wow, a decade? Since I read Master and Commander. So, yes, I can say that you don’t need any detailed knowledge of the first book before reading this. In fact, while the climax of the first book gets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…