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EP14 The Game of War

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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Age of Empires

War gaming was something that helped deepen and ample, fied and accelerated my enjoyment and interest in history. My dad would spend a nights relaxing after he got home from work by painting little figurines of the scot's gray cavalry am at waterloo. And i don't think he ever got round to actually war gam ing them. He just really enjoyed the cathosis of painting these tiny miniatures. From their he then, you know, sort of a age of empires, i think came out in 19 97 or 19 98. Age of empires was really one of the first, sort of very accessible historical games. It told the story of a gengis khan, am of a

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