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Modern Naval Battles
''Modern Naval Battles'' is a board game published in 1989 by 3W. Contents ''Modern Naval Battles'' is a game in which players use cards to sink each other's ships. Reception Brian Walker reviewed ''Modern Naval Battles'' for '' Games International'' magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and stated that "the game is quite fun to play and inevitably provokes lots of whinges and vindictiveness from those types who don't know any better. However, it lacks that certain something which made ''Enemy In Sight'' such a joy." The '' Chicago Tribune'' said that "Modern Naval Battles is a simple, playable card game designed for quick play but surprisingly subtle." Reviews *''Casus Belli A (; ) is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war. A ''casus belli'' involves direct offenses or threats against the nation declaring the war, whereas a ' involves offenses or threats against its ally—usually one b ...'' #62 References {{reflist 3W games Board games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3W (company)
World Wide Wargames, or 3W, was a wargame company founded in 1977 (as UKW, UK Wargamer) by Keith Poulter.The Wargamer Issue 9, page 10 History 3W Inc, also known as World Wide Wargames, was a wargame company that began publishing in 1977. Originally launched in England, the company moved later to California. In addition to producing boxed wargames, 3W published the magazine '' The Wargamer''. TSR published the magazine ''Strategy & Tactics'' from 1983 – 1987 and then sold the rights to 3W, who published the magazine from #112 (June, 1987) to #139; after 3W's Keith Poulter got out of the business, ''Strategy & Tactics'' was sold to Decision Games. Diverse Talents, Inc., the publishers of ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer'', ''Fire and Movement'', and ''Battleplan'' magazines, was bought by World Wide Wargames, Inc. on June 1, 1988. Hobbyist magazine publisher Diverse Talents Inc. (DTI) published a third iteration of ''Space Gamer'', and after that ownership of DTI passed on to 3W wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games International
''Computer Games Magazine'' was a monthly computer and console gaming print magazine, founded in October 1988 as the United Kingdom publication ''Games International''. During its history, it was known variously as ''Strategy Plus'' (October 1990, Issue 1) and ''Computer Games Strategy Plus'', but changed its name to ''Computer Games Magazine'' after its purchase by theGlobe.com. By April 2007, it held the record for the second-longest-running print magazine dedicated exclusively to computer games, behind ''Computer Gaming World''. In 1998 and 2000, it was the United States' third-largest magazine in this field. History The magazine's original editor-in-chief, Brian Walker, sold ''Strategy Plus'' to the United States retail chain Chips & Bits in 1991. Based in Vermont and owned by Tina and Yale Brozen, Chips & Bits retitled ''Strategy Plus'' to ''Computer Games Strategy Plus'' after the purchase. Its circulation rose to around 130,000 monthly copies by the mid-1990s. By 1998, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casus Belli (magazine)
''Casus Belli'' is a French magazine about role-playing games, published in different formats since 1980. It contains news, reviews, interviews, features, and role-playing game materials. The magazine was published by Excelsior Publications until 1999, by Arkana Press in 2000–2006, and by Casus Belli Presse in 2010–2011, and has been published by Black Book Éditions since 2011. Since 2020, it also has the online video companion ''Casus TV'', which is produced in collaboration with ''Tric Trac''. History ''Casus Belli'' has been released in different forms since 1980, originally under editor-in-chief François Marcela-Froideval and published by Excelsior Publications; for its first few issues, it was a short, black-and-white publication, before changing to a larger format printed in color. In this incarnation, it became the leading role-playing game magazine on the French market. The artists working on this edition included the cartoonist Tignous. The magazine ended publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3W Games
3W or 3-W may refer to: *3W (company), or World Wide Wargames, a wargame company founded in 1977 *3rd meridian west, a longitude coordinate *OK-3W; see Oklahoma State Highway 3 *ZPG-3W, a model of N class blimp *SLC-3W, a designation for Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 *TBM-3W, a model of Grumman TBF Avenger *AD-3W, a model of Douglas A-1 Skyraider *3W, a fictional place appearing in " Dark Water" and " Death in Heaven": episodes of the science-fiction show ''Doctor Who'' See also * * *WWW (other) *W3 (other) *3 (other) 3 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 3, three, or III may also refer to: * AD 3, the third year of the AD era * 3 BC, the third year before the AD era * March, the third month Books * '' Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 ... * W (other) [Baidu] |
