Muster: raise the banners from strength to strength

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Designers: Florent Baudry, Adrien Fenouillet | Publisher: IELLO Full disclosure: I didn’t really play with toy soldiers as a kid, despite having two brothers. I didn’t think much of this until I saw T

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