Games / between the lines

THE FIRST TOTAL WAR GAME WAS THE BREAKOUT HIT THAT CREATIVE ASSEMBLY NEEDED TO FREE ITSELF FROM ITS WORK-FOR-HIRE SITUATIONSHIP WITH ELECTRONIC ARTS. SINCE THEN THE SERIES HAS GONE FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, COVERING EVERYTHING FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS TO SKAVEN AND UNDEAD LORDS

The team get schooled on the epic Total War series

General Orders: Sengoku Jidai is the latest game from design duo Trevor Benjamin and David Thompson. Their series General Orders is a streamlined worker placement system that delivers the feel of a wa

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

Born in 1959 in south-west France, Serge Charles Jean Laget was one of the first French board game designers to make a real impact on the modern hobby. His 1984 bluffing and negotiation game Le Gang d

The celebrated historian explains why he’s taking to the stage with a Maxim gun on his new live tour