George Phillies: 13 books

Stalingrad, the 1963 game from Avalon Hill, is the most intensely analyzed board wargame in the history of the wargaming hobby. Stalingrad for Beginners - Basic Tactics presents fundamentals at a level suitable for the novice player. Appearing just in time for the 70th anniversary of the liberation...

Designing Wargames introduces the play and design of classic hex-and-counter board wargames. Written as a textbook, Designing Wargames should appeal to board and computer game designers, board game players, and designers of serious war games for historical and military study. Phillies opens...

For the past decade and a half, the national Libertarian Party has been in decline. Membership and donations have fallen; activism has decreased. In the non-fiction essay Libertarian Renaissance, George Phillies presents a detailed plan, including timelines, recruiting targets, and organization...

Stalingrad, the 1963 game from Avalon Hill, is the most intensely analyzed board wargame in the history of the wargaming hobby. Stalingrad for Beginners - How to Play - presents fundamentals at a level suitable for beginners. Appearing just in time for the 70th anniversary of the liberation...

"Designing Modern Strategy Games" is the definitive book on the design of modern strategy games. "Designing Modern Strategy Games" can also be used as a textbook; it includes more than 100 game design projects. For instructors, an Appendix includes the day-by-day course plans for...

Clan MacDonald is surrounded by enemies. Clan Gunn wants its lands. Mysterious pirates assail its shores. The All-Conquering Generalissimo suspects it of treason. Foreign trade is interrupted by barbarian invasions -- or are they blue-skinned demons? Angus Valentine Macdonald, seventh child...

Second Edition! This, the Second Edition of Phillies and Vasel's Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design, delivers interviews with leading board game designers, artists, manufacturers, sellers, and users. From Costikyan to Nestel, from Besinque to Garfield to Seyfarth, Modern Perspectives in Game...

Since 1941, the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F) has supported fannish activities across America and around the world. One of those activities is our annual short story contest. In honor of this, our 75th anniversary, we present the winning stories from our 2015 contest. Our stories include classic...

Every four years, the Libertarian party runs a candidate for President. He (though the Libertarian Party's first female Vice Presidential Candidate, Toni Nathan, in 1972 did receive one electoral vote) will raise millions of dollars, campaign from sea to shining sea, put out the Libertarian message,...

Goddard is a world trapped in its non-technological present by brilliant social engineering. Orphaned Amanda Kirasdotr rescues a space traveler, flies on his starship, and wants a starship of her own. That's challenging when the hottest ship on Goddard boasts three masts and a full set of sails. But...

Meet Eclipse. She's twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s also a persona: She flies, reads minds, and is not afraid of necessary violence. She had a bit of a problem with...

Amazon warriors against musketeer hordes!The Holy Musketeers have found another continent to loot. The opposition? The primitive natives have no muskets and no cannon. Their cowardly men send their women to fight.The people of The One World face invaders with incomprehensible weapons...

Massive space battles! Hand-to-hand combat! Politics! Hot babes with guns!Minutegirls... Nice young women who just want some good clean fun with power armor, plenty of high explosives, and a few cute Minuteboys.It's 2174. From the hills of American Manchuria to the depths of Outer...