I love it. This is the first game that has cemented in my head, for the first time, why you put infantry in column or line, or the positives and negatives of square formation etc. A simple, fun system with easily digestible but subtle lessons and insight.

Casaubon (Middlemarch).

I've ordered Neither God nor King, so am interested in your impression.

Thanks for replying. I guess it's the old problem of the gap between authorial intent and reader response.

BTW, I regret using 'veneer' in my original post which did a disservice to your art. I hope to play again to see if my sense of detachment changes. Still, delighted to see the game's success.

An unlucky chit pull.

As a side-note from the UK (this is tiny compared to tariffs), since Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech I cancelled my P500s and have switched to games only from European companies. I’m sorry for good US firms but words matter and many of us are disinvesting until you kick the buggers out.

Right. I'd better read some Pynchon. Thanks for this fascinating lecture.

Christ. Is that the first sighting of a Nigel Farage meeple?

This game is...?

The game that has persuaded my hex-and-counter averse gaming partner to try more hex-and-counter. And as an introductory primer for why you put infantry in column or line, or the positives and negatives of square formation etc, it does a better job than the behemoths of the genre.

Mates of Farage?

Bruce Springsteen and the Wall Street Band.