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We are a written blog and YouTube Channel that discuss all kinds of great historical games and wargames. Visit the blog at theplayersaid.com and our YouTube Channel at https://youtube.com/@theplayersaid?si=vRe0IU0jJ1142gnF
Our interview with Uwe Walentin designer of Neither King Nor God – Ltd Pilot Edition from Sound of Drums. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/25/i...
Interview with Uwe Walentin Designer of Neither King Nor God – Ltd Pilot Edition from Sound of Drums
Sound of Drums who has made some really great looking games over the past few years including their History of the Ancient Seas Trilogy (HOTAS: HELLAS, HOTAS: DIES IRAE and …
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our interview with Uwe Walentin designer of Neither King Nor God – Ltd Pilot Edition from Sound of Drums. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/25/i...
Grant shares his thoughts on the November 2025 Monthly Update from GMT Games – A New Block Wargame in the Triumph & Tragedy and Conquest & Consequence Family and “Blockbuster Year End Project Updates”! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 2025 Monthly Update from GMT Games – A New Block Wargame in the Triumph & Tragedy and Conquest & Consequence Family and “Blockbuster Year End Project Updates”!
Talk about ending the year with a bang….GMT has outdone themselves with the Update this month as they have announced a very cool looking block wargame that takes parts of 2 of their previous …
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November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Grant shares his thoughts on the November 2025 Monthly Update from GMT Games – A New Block Wargame in the Triumph & Tragedy and Conquest & Consequence Family and “Blockbuster Year End Project Updates”! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/24/n...
Our unboxing video for The French and Indian War Game from The Historical Game Company. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/22/u...
Unboxing Video: The French and Indian War Game from The Historical Game Company
The French and Indian War Game is a strategic dice rolling game of conquest covering the French and Indian War in North America with a British Player and a French Player. Players attempt to conquer…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Our unboxing video for The French and Indian War Game from The Historical Game Company. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/22/u...
Our video review for 85′ Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires from Flying Pig Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/20/v...
Video Review: 85′ Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires from Flying Pig Games
In 2017, we played ’65 when it was released on Kickstarter. This was Volume I in the Squad Battles Series and uses a very interesting Card Driven Game mechanic where the cards are multi-use and are…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our video review for 85′ Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires from Flying Pig Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/20/v...
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Designer Interview | Assault Games | Spiel 2025 | The Players Aid
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November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #55: Common European Home from 1989: Dawn of Freedom from @gmtgames.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/11/18/m...
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #55: Common European Home from 1989: Dawn of Freedom from GMT Games
With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and fra…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #55: Common European Home from 1989: Dawn of Freedom from @gmtgames.bsky.social theplayersaid.com/2025/11/18/m...
These arrived today. 2 great games on the Battle of Stalingrad.
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
These arrived today. 2 great games on the Battle of Stalingrad.
Our interview with Fabrizio Vianello Designer of First Man in Rome – Strategikon Book II: The Civil War and the Fall of the Republic from Thin Red Line Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/17/i...
Interview with Fabrizio Vianello Designer of First Man in Rome – Strategikon Book II: The Civil War and the Fall of the Republic from Thin Red Line Games
If you are a monster wargame fan then you are probably familiar with Thin Red Line Games and the genius behind the madness Fabrizio Vianello. They are a small but passionate publisher and my favori…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our interview with Fabrizio Vianello Designer of First Man in Rome – Strategikon Book II: The Civil War and the Fall of the Republic from Thin Red Line Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/17/i...
Our unboxing video for Bayonet & Musket Series, Volume 1: Banish All Their Fears from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/16/u...
Unboxing Video: Bayonet & Musket Series, Volume 1: Banish All Their Fears from GMT Games
The Bayonet & Musket Battles Series is GMT’s follow-up to the extremely popular Musket & Pike Series, showing the movement of European warfare from tactical systems base…
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November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our unboxing video for Bayonet & Musket Series, Volume 1: Banish All Their Fears from GMT Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/16/u...
Another unboxing video today for the massive and highly anticipated Imperial Elegy: The Road to the Great War 1850-1920 from VUCA Simulations.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Another unboxing video today for the massive and highly anticipated Imperial Elegy: The Road to the Great War 1850-1920 from VUCA Simulations.
Snuck in 1 more quick unboxing video for Traces of Victory from VUCA Simulations.
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Snuck in 1 more quick unboxing video for Traces of Victory from VUCA Simulations.
The postman knocks and I get another game. Siberian Manhunt from Dangerous Games. 2-player asymmetrical hidden movement game where the Soviets are searching for a downed U2 pilot.
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The postman knocks and I get another game. Siberian Manhunt from Dangerous Games. 2-player asymmetrical hidden movement game where the Soviets are searching for a downed U2 pilot.
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Monthly Debrief time from our friends
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Future Classics | Monthly Debrief - S5E9-10 Sept-Oct 2025 | The Players' Aid
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November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Monthly Debrief time from our friends
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Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Prior to watching IU Football on this beautiful Saturday had a chance to do a few unboxing videos for Neither King Nor God Limited Edition from Sound of Drums and Fighters of Europe from Capsicum Games.
Our unboxing video for Sword of Orthodoxy: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 420-1453 from White Dog Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/15/u...
Unboxing Video: Sword of Orthodoxy: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 420-1453 from White Dog Games
Sword of Orthodoxy is a strategic solitaire game of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, simulating its saga from 421 AD until the end of the 15th century – an epic thousand year tale of hero…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Our unboxing video for Sword of Orthodoxy: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 420-1453 from White Dog Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/15/u...
Just look at these beauties from VUCA Simulations. Traces of Victory, Modern Tactics and Imperial Elegy.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just look at these beauties from VUCA Simulations. Traces of Victory, Modern Tactics and Imperial Elegy.
Our solitaire playthrough video for War of 1812 Solitaire Travel Game from Worthington Publishing. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/14/s...
Solitaire Playthrough Video: War of 1812 Solitaire Travel Game from Worthington Publishing
War of 1812 Solitaire Travel Game places the player in command of American forces trying to invade and occupy Canada during the War of 1812. The British AI side defends the empire. Both sides have …
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our solitaire playthrough video for War of 1812 Solitaire Travel Game from Worthington Publishing. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/14/s...
Grant shares his Best 3 Games with…D-Day! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/12/b...
Best 3 Games with…D-Day!
I have been holding off on writing this one for years now so that we could get more plays of wargames focused on the D-Day landings of Operation Overlord. Now, we still haven’t played some of…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Grant shares his Best 3 Games with…D-Day! theplayersaid.com/2025/11/12/b...
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #54: Barbatio from Barbarians at the Gates, The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 – 476 from Compass Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/11/m...
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #54: Barbatio from Barbarians at the Gates, The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 – 476 from Compass...
With this My Favorite Wargame Cards Series, I hope to take a look at a specific card from the various wargames that I have played and share how it is used in the game. I am not a strategist and fra…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My Favorite Wargame Cards – A Look at Individual Cards from My Favorite Games – Card #54: Barbatio from Barbarians at the Gates, The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 – 476 from Compass Games. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/11/m...
Our interview with Christian Blaßmann designer of Echo Team: Spearhead from Black Mask Verlag currently on Gamefound. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/10/i...
Interview with Christian Blaßmann Designer of Echo Team: Spearhead from Black Mask Verlag Currently on Gamefound
While attending SPIEL Essen last month, we came across a new game project that simply looks amazing! Echo Team: Spearhead is a tactical wargame where battles take place in and around urban terrain.…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Our interview with Christian Blaßmann designer of Echo Team: Spearhead from Black Mask Verlag currently on Gamefound. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/10/i...
Our unboxing video for Iwo Jima 1945 from Worthington Publishing. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/09/u...
Unboxing Video: Iwo Jima 1945 from Worthington Publishing
Iwo Jima was the only island assault during the Pacific war that the attacking US forces would suffer worse casualties than the Japanese defenders. On February 19, 1945 the USMC would land 30,000 m…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Our unboxing video for Iwo Jima 1945 from Worthington Publishing. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/09/u...
Our unboxing video for Greek Tragedy: The Greek Civil War 1944-1949 from Blue Panther. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/08/u...
Unboxing Video: Greek Tragedy: The Greek Civil War 1944-1949 from Blue Panther
After the Second World War, Greece became one of the first battlefields between the two super powers – the United States and the Soviet Union – who were wrestling for ideological domination. In 194…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our unboxing video for Greek Tragedy: The Greek Civil War 1944-1949 from Blue Panther. theplayersaid.com/2025/11/08/u...
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Map, and components of the Chinese edition of Partizan, WW2 in Yugoslavia, first published in 2011 by Decision Games. @playersaidblog.bsky.social @desafioaguilas.bsky.social @rexbrynen.bsky.social @sebastianbae.bsky.social @flanker33.bsky.social @guws.bsky.social @huoltoreitti.bsky.social #wargame
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Map, and components of the Chinese edition of Partizan, WW2 in Yugoslavia, first published in 2011 by Decision Games. @playersaidblog.bsky.social @desafioaguilas.bsky.social @rexbrynen.bsky.social @sebastianbae.bsky.social @flanker33.bsky.social @guws.bsky.social @huoltoreitti.bsky.social #wargame