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Category: patton’s best

Armoured Commander: A Short Overview

brad March 24, 2016 patton's best / Avalon Hill2 Comments

Since my last update of a Patton’s Best playthrough, I’ve been hearing a lot about a video game called Armoured Commander. AC is basically a PC version of Patton’s Best with some interesting little differences. The game was apparently built using a programming language called Python along with a library …

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Patton’s Best – The Ballad of the Spring Chicken – Part Two

brad March 18, 2016 Solitaire / patton's best / Avalon Hill6 Comments

Way back in December 2014, I wrote an AAR based on a play of Avalon Hill’s 1987 classic Patton’s Best, designed by Bruce C. Shelley (one of the designers of B-17 Queen of the Skies, who would later go on to even bigger things with computer games like Civilization and …

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Patton’s Best – Ballad of the Spring Chicken

brad December 23, 2014 WW2 / Victory Games / patton's bestLeave a comment

In 1981, Avalon Hill released the beloved B-17:  Queen of the Skies, a solitaire game that put players in the shoes of a B-17 bomber crew trying to fight its way through the war just one mission at a time. The player would go through each mission, rolling dice and …

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