Settlers-vs.-Indians Board Game Rankles Tribes

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 15 April 2010 | Eric Tucker

[edpc]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – One player racks up points by defeating Native American tribal leaders, the other by snuffing out settlements of English colonists. Capture Boston or Plymouth Colony? Victory is yours.

That's the gist of "King Philip's War," a board game based on a bloody and violent clash of the same name between colonists and Indian tribes in 17th-century New England, and developed by a company partly owned by former major league pitcher Curt Schilling.

[edpc]

Doesn't fit in with PC American history. No doubt Schilling's support of conservatives weighs in somewhere along the line.

[bgill]

Shhh, don’t tell the Hispanics about Mexican Train dominoes.

[dmz]

I wonder if the Japanese are upset by Avalon Hill’s Midway board game.

Or maybe the unreconstructed among us are upset by Avalon Hill’s various Gettysburg games.

[edpc]

Sorry......the secret's already out. From Wiki......

The World Champion of Trains is currently Hector Garcia.

[MrB]

Is it historically accurate?
Yes? Then STHU.

[Bruinator]

Hey at least it gives them a second chance to win.

[bgill]

Hector Garcia - yikes, lol.

[rhombus]

Aren’t you a big fan of King Phillip’s War? Or was that the Seven Years War that you wanted to go back and visit?

[olepap]

Looks like a cool boardgame. Interesting, low unit density. King Philips War

[Conan the Librarian]

I pre-ordered it!

I have been waiting for this to come out for quite a while. At least since I read ‘Mayflower’ by Philbrick.

MMP games does a great job. I have quite a number of their titles and plan on buying more.

[NavyCanDo]

It still does not beat the Fort Apache I had as a kid and all the plastic Indians, Cowboys, wagons, horses, and Teepee’s. Had hours and hours of playtime with those.

[Conan the Librarian]

For more info (and purchasing data too). go to:

http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/viewGame.php?id=71

More that order, the faster we’ll get it.

[Conan the Librarian]

Richard Berg’s Terrible Swift Sword.

[SamuraiScot]

It still does not beat the Fort Apache I had as a kid and all the plastic Indians

Thanks for the reminder! It was my older brother's set, and a bit beat-up by the time I came along, but we loved it. (He was born in 1950.)

[NappyOne]

I tell you true. The Kraut in me is still incensed by Avalon Hill including General MdAuliffe’s rude response to the very polite NAZI request for the surrender of Bastogne.

The NappyOne

[dmz]

I tell you true. The Kraut in me is still incensed by Avalon Hill including General MdAuliffe’s rude response to the very polite NAZI request for the surrender of Bastogne.

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NUTS!!!!!!!!

How do you like me now?

[NappyOne]

heh.. had a copy of AH, Battle of the Bulge back in 1965. Good times...

To answer your question, sir, I would say you are a true-blue American.

This American is not so sure that is a complement any more.

The NappyOne

[NavyCanDo]

My favorites were the Civil War plastic soldiers and the Revolution War plastic soldiers I got from comic book ads in the late 1960s. You know, get 100 soldiers for 1.49 and wait 29 weeks for delivery.

http://www.tomheroes.com/Comic%20Ads/toy%20ads/toy_soldiers_civil_war.htm

http://popsbasement.com/Comic%20book%20item%20pages/cb021revolutiona.html

Oh and The Sub, which I never got, but looking at a photo of one, I am sorry I did not save up 6.98 from my 25 cent a week allowance for one of these babys

Polaris Nucleuer Sub for 6.98

http://www.tomheroes.com/Comic%20Ads/classic%20ads/polarissub.htm

and a photo of it.

http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2007/06/the_real_698_po/

[dmz]

This American is not so sure that is a complement any more.

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For the large majority, I believe it still is.

[Yorlik803]

I was able to obtain a AH copy of Russian Campaign. Mint, still in the plastic.
I am offened because the Russians won. Not that I am a Nazi, but I dig the uniforms.