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Anything But a One! Adventures in Historical Miniature Wargaming

Episode 115 New Rules and Preventing Cheese Moves with Sam Mustafa

April 02, 2026 • Tom Castanos, Richard Martinez, Ray Winstead • Season 5 • Episode 115

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We have likely all done it but we mostly hate moves in games that are not the "spirit of the rules" but are not expressly forbidden. Game designer Sam Mustafa joins us the talk about that, asymmetrical units, and his forthcoming game Scourge of Princes!

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Sam's reading list

Paul Lockhart, Denmark and the Thirty Years War

Keith Roberts, Cromwell's War Machine: the New Model Army

Trevor Royle, Civil War: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Peter Young, Edgehill 1642.

Peter Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

Malcolm Wanklyn, A Military History of the English Civil War

Anton van der Lem, Revolt in the Netherlands: the Eighty Years War

David Blackmore, Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower 1642-1765

Christopher Scott, Edgehill: the Battle Reinterpreted

Christine Shaw, The Italian Wars 1494-1559

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