Still Red Dawn (A Review of Fortress America)

[Editors note: The following is a dual review, featuring opinions from our in-house war gamer @spielemitkinder, and the thematic space-loving @Futurewolfie.  Make sure to read both opinions to get a better overall picture of the game!] 

Wolverines!  It is America’s most desperate hour.  Beleaguered on three fronts, these United States struggle against an unthinkable invasion of the land of mom, apple pie, rock ‘n roll, and freedom.  Forget the TSA, high taxes, and Obamacare.  Lady Liberty’s very way of life threatens to vanish in the pages of history.  Will hordes of barbaric invaders sweep unopposed from sea to shining sea?  Or will guerrilla citizen-soldiers rise up through hill and dale to help their reeling army stem the tide until America’s massive lasers can blow the enemy back to the motherland, proving we really are the Home of the Brave?

Napoleon Complex (A Review of War & Peace)

"I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword." ~ Napoleon

It is said that the only man in history to have more works written about him than Napoleon is Jesus.  Appropriately enough for his God-sized ego, his times will forever be named after the little emperor who seized opportunity from turmoil and changed history forever through blood and steel.  An untold number of games have also covered the wars and battles of this era.  Recently, Worthington Games has offered a new title of grand, epic strategy covering the entire period from 1805 to Waterloo.  Will history repeat itself?  Choose your side to reenact this period which witnessed some of the greatest and most terrible military campaigns of all time.