No Man's Land - historical board games' position between entertainment and education (Topic Discussion) | Tabletop Games Blog Historical board games occupy an awkward space in our hobby. They are usually not designed to teach history in any formal sense, and they are also not entertaining in the sense of being fun. These gam...

Historical board games occupy an awkward space between education and entertainment. In this article, I want to explore this in more detail.
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