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Perhaps the best game for beginners — and cheap too!" Several issues later, Turnbull added, "this is perhaps the best 'simple' game of all, with 'clean' play mechanics, a small number of units, straightforward rules and interesting play." In the same issue,
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are both "rigid" and "sticky": a unit moving adjacent to an enemy unit must stop there. Combat is mandatory, and units thus engaged cannot move away from each other except as a result of combat.
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