Crown of Ruin

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Column  Dragon's Augury
Title  Review: War in the Ice
Book Type  Review: Other
Genre  Generic
Setting  Generic
Series 
GURPS Traveller
System  Board Game

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Review of SPI's game of limited war for control of Antarctica. "While WITI is certainly fun, the players become exhausted from the demands the game system makes on them..."


This article is contained in The Dragon #35.

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