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What’s It Like to Kickstart Your Own Boardgame? An Interview with ‘BrewHouse’ Creator Douglas Salloum
Many of us dream of bringing our own gaming creations to market. But as this banker-turned-brewer can attest, the upfront investment in time and money…
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Jonathan Kay
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Come for the Wargaming. Stay for the Component Storage
A complete and compact (if possibly obsessive-seeming) organization system for Advanced Squad Leader components
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Jonathan Kay

March 2024

Riding the Rails with 18xx: Five Suggested Games to Get You Started—and Take You from Beginner to Expert
18xx games vary widely in complexity. And the many choices on offer can be confusing. These recommendations will allow new players to master the basics…
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Jonathan Kay
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December 2023

July 2023

A Week of Gaming at Tennessee Maneuvers, 2023
Featuring 1822, 1835, Ark Nova, Zombicide, Ra, Border Reivers, Advanced Squad Leader, and more.
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Jonathan Kay
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April 2023

Using 3-D Printing Technology to Custom-Produce Space-Efficient Counter Storage Solutions for the Advanced Squad Leader Game System
House the entire ASL counter mix—for every nation—using just three assorter boxes within a single Raaco RAA136242 unit? Yes, it’s possible. Here’s how.
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Jonathan Kay
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October 2022

Thoughts on ASL Oktoberfest 2022 in Cleveland: Time for a new ASLOK format… and hotel?
Mini Tournaments at ASLOK should be on a 36-hour cycle Another ASLOK has come and gone. I’m now back from Cleveland after five fun days of gaming at the…
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Jonathan Kay

September 2022

Getting Back Into Action at Toronto Area Boardgame Society: Downforce, Terraforming Mars, Let’s Make a Bus Route, and Pendragon: The Fall of…
It’s been a long time since I’ve attended one of the quarterly TABS meet-ups. In fact, I’m not sure how many there’ve even been since COVID started. For…
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Jonathan Kay

August 2022

March 2022

No pasarán: HazMo11 and the Spanish Civil War in Advanced Squad Leader
The Spanish Civil War was, in human terms, an epic clash of arms: Almost 300,000 combatants are thought to have been killed, as well as more than…
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Jonathan Kay

November 2021

A Chart to Help You Play High Frontier (4th ed.)
(It's not as complicated as it looks)
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Jonathan Kay

July 2021

Getting Board in Tennessee
A week of Advanced Squad Leader, Pax Renaissance, Pax Pamir, Pax Viking, Terraforming Mars, Teotihuacan, and more
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Jonathan Kay
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