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Musings about history, board games and history in board games. Blog: http://cliosboardgames.wordpress.com
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Clio's Board Games @cliosboardgames.bsky.social · Oct 27
I played my first game of #PathsOfGlory @tdraicer.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social with @thebrdgmschronicle.bsky.social on Rally the Troops!
Here's how it went (thread, obviously)
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Box art for @fortcircle.bsky.social's upcoming "Peace 1905". I love this.
February 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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ICYMI: I made an immersive playlist for #ImperialStruggle (@jasondcmatthews.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social)!
Immersive Imperial Struggle Playlist (Board Game Playlists, #2)
You love board games. You probably also like music. Let’s combine the two into an immersive playlist for Imperial Struggle (Ananda Gupta/Jason Matthews, GMT Games). Have it gently play in the backg…
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January 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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I made an immersive playlist for #ImperialStruggle (@jasondcmatthews.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social)!
Immersive Imperial Struggle Playlist (Board Game Playlists, #2)
You love board games. You probably also like music. Let’s combine the two into an immersive playlist for Imperial Struggle (Ananda Gupta/Jason Matthews, GMT Games). Have it gently play in the backg…
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January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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The passports of the investigators in Eldritch Horror are all dated January 14, 1926... reason enough for us to play it 100 years (and a few days) later!
January 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026: The Berlin Airlift. Supply Berlin with fuel, food, spare parts, and medicine, keep Berliner morale up, and confront Soviet interference!
Read more:
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January 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026: Night Witches. Confront the Nazi war machine as the all-women 588th Night Bomber Regiment… and make it back safely! (@beyondsolitaire.bsky.social @djackthompson.bsky.social)
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January 22, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026: Lenin’s Legacy, a tense power struggle for party, army, and the future of the Soviet Union (@gmtgames.bsky.social). Read more:
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January 21, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026 (hopefully): Hammer and Sickle, a political-military-economic treatment of the Russian Civil War! (@alexknight.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social)
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January 20, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026: Peace 1905, a delicate balancing act of peace, national interest, and face-saving (@writegameread.bsky.social @fortcircle.bsky.social). Read more:
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January 19, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Me on Saturday evening:
Sorting my carefully clipped Unconditional Surrender! (@gmtgames.bsky.social) counters into trays while listening to 18th century tunes.
Me on Monday morning when the colleagues ask about the weekend:
"Oh, I did regular things. Things that normal people do." *sweats*
The game materials of Unconditional surrender are spread out on a table. Counters are neatly sorted into a tray. Next to the tray stands a glass of seven-year old rum, served on the rocks. A cat is hovering in the foreground.
January 17, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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ICYMI: These are the historical board games to whose release I am looking forward to most this year!
What are yours?
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Most Anticipated Historical Board Games, 2026
Happy new year, everybody! I hope it will bring you much joy. I also hope it will bring you board games (which is basically the same thing). The question is, however: Which games? – Here are a few …
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January 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026: 1848: The Springtime of Peoples, fusing tried-and-true CDG mechanics with the woefully undergamed revolutions of 1848 (@selujzasilef.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social). Read more:
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January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board game releases of 2026: Neither King Nor God, a game full of clever tactical choices to project power from your court to Europe in the Early Modern era (@soundofdrumsgames.bsky.social). Read more:
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January 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Among my most anticipated historical board games to be released in 2026: Triumvir, a game of power politics in the late Roman Republic (@markherman54.bsky.social gengelstein.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social). Read more: cliosboardgames.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/m...
January 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Here are my most anticipated historical board games to be released in 2026!
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Most Anticipated Historical Board Games, 2026
Happy new year, everybody! I hope it will bring you much joy. I also hope it will bring you board games (which is basically the same thing). The question is, however: Which games? – Here are a few …
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January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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We look today at how The Boardgames Chronicle fared in 2025 - some very interesting insights and discoveries to be shared. Enjoy the article!
LINK: theboardgameschronicle.com/2026/01/11/t...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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#OTD 250 years ago, Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published. Its impact on the American Revolution is second only to the Declaration of Independence. Read more about both documents and the political philosophy embodied in them here:
“Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!” (American Revolution, #2)
Why did the American colonists of the 1770s rebel against their British motherland? As we’ve seen in the first post of this series, they did not suffer from particularly bad material circumstances …
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January 10, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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We have exciting news of our 2026 convention dates, including the all-new SDHistNorth in the Twin Cities July 11-12!

Jan. 31: SDHist Winter Quarters 2026
June 27: SDHist AmRevCon 2026
July 11-12: SDHistCon North 2026
November 6-9: SDHistCon Summit 2026

Details: sdhist.com/save-the-dat...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Rock Hard 1977 - Ear Candy - Coming in August 2026 via @whovian223.bsky.social dudetakeyourturn.ca/2026/01/06/r...
Rock Hard 1977 – Ear Candy – Coming in August 2026
This isn’t exactly “news,” because designer Jackie Fox has been talking about it for a while on Boardgame Geek. But hearing more detail (including a relative release date, which m…
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January 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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@deviriberia.bsky.social Happy new year, Team Devir! I'm preparing a post about 2026 historical board game releases and would like to include your intriguing Berlin 1960. Could you answer a few questions about the game - or get me in touch with someone who can? Thank you!
January 8, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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#OTD 150 years ago, Konrad Adenauer died. Read my assessment of his chancellorship through the lens of #WirSindDasVolk! (@peersylvester.bsky.social) here:
Konrad Adenauer (Chancellor Ratings, #3)
You know the drill: We’re assessing a (democratic) leader, illustrated with a single board game! Today’s subject is another German chancellor – Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the Federal …
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January 5, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Following example of fellow content creators like @playersaidblog.bsky.social, @whovian223.bsky.social or @cliosboardgames.bsky.social I am looking back at 2025 with regards to games played. All of this using great @bgstatsapp.bsky.social! Enjoy!
Link: theboardgameschronicle.com/2026/01/04/t...
January 4, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Big game today of Imperial Elegy from @vucasimulations.bsky.social back where it began at the club years ago. At the full player count, the game ran 10 hours and ended with the Ottomans, Russia and Austria-Hungary annihilating France, the UK and Germany at the outset of the Great War.
January 4, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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#OTD 70 years ago, Joseph Wirth died. His short tenure as chancellor of the #Weimar Republic had seen the diplomatic breakthrough of Rapallo and his forceful denouncement of the republic's right-wing enemies, but was marred by the inability to secure a broad democratic majority for the government.
January 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Preparing for the new year by watching the best film ever made.
The final shootout in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
December 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM