{"id":185,"date":"2024-01-27T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicdigitalhistory.dissgea.unipd.it\/?p=185"},"modified":"2024-01-28T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T12:56:36","slug":"border-reivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicdigitalhistory.dissgea.unipd.it\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Border Reivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

History Through Board Games<\/h1>\n

Studying history is a vital thing for all but most people find it boring. What about playing a game? At first it may seem irrelevant, but there is a historical incident and background behind some games we play. It is possible to have fun and learn new things about historical events through these games. Boarder Reivers<\/strong> is one of them. GMT Games<\/a> published this game. It shows the border conflicts between England<\/strong> and Scotland<\/strong> during the 16th<\/sup> century<\/strong>. This review will discuss the historical events, mechanics, communication <\/strong>with the theme <\/strong>and companion book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An overall review of the Game Border Reivers<\/h2>\n

This game has two versions: solo and multiplayer<\/strong>. The main focus is on the multi-player version with up to six players. Each player represents a March. Each March is the head of one of the six major families of the border: Grey, Fenwick, Dacres, Maxwell, Kerr and Hume<\/strong>. The map is the Anglo-Scottish<\/strong> border region. The goal is to gain and increase the wealth, fame and pride of your clan. In successful combats you may gain VPs, livestock and score more in debatable areas. It has three turns which divided to seasonal segments.<\/p>\n

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Historical back ground<\/h3>\n

Learning history behind the game you play is unique but we don\u2019t know how accurate is the game we play with the real incidents. Fortunately Border Reivers has an accurate representation of the historical events and also some details like Livestock, changing of season, battles the map with its borders<\/strong>. In reality people could not count on crops until the harvest so they had to take care of livestock but sometimes their neighbors stole them it was not just this, one day they had everything but the other day all the things they had would have been destroyed because of these battles. These attacks and battles were planned with some border families to steal livestock .<\/p>\n

The game represents this in an effective way. In this case, there are meeples in the shape of livestock so, as much as you gain you get wealthier.<\/p>\n

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Historically, England and Scotland brought the system of March Law<\/strong> which divided the borders into east, west<\/strong> and middle<\/strong> with a warden for each of these territories they meant to bring peace but these families were in conflict with each other. Also in the game that we have six families.\u00a0 Players build defense towers, castles, and build walls around their farmhouses. They should get ready for the battles: battles of Flodden Field and Solway Moss, Henry VIII\u2019s Rough Wooing to try and force a marriage alliance, Mary Queen of Scots\u2019 tour of the Scottish borders, and the Catholic Rising of the North. To read more click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The map illustrates the borders and regions in a good way.<\/p>\n

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