Liberty: The American Revolution 1775-83 (2003)

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Designer	Tom Dalgliesh Grant Dalgliesh Mark Kwasny
Artist	Tom Dalgliesh Adrian George
Publisher	Columbia Games
Year Published	2003
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (6 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (1 voter) [poll]
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Category	American Revolutionary War Wargame
Mechanic	Action Point Allowance System Hex-and-Counter Secret Unit Deployment
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Primary Name	Liberty: The American Revolution 1775-83
Alternate Names	Liberty
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Liberty: The American Revolution is a block game, built on the same foundation as Columbia's much-acclaimed Hammer of the Scots. The card play and wintering rules are similar. The map has switched from area movement to a hex-based map with the traditional movement and terrain rules from other classic Columbia games like Wizard Kings. Leaders, infantry, cavalry, and fleets are all represented.

From Columbia's web site:

Liberty is a fast-playing game covering the American Revolution from 1775-1783. British, American, and French forces are included and the role of the Indians and Navies is depicted. The unique problems faced by each side become clear in this playable game.

Nominee for the 2003 Charles S. Roberts awards for Best Pre-World War II Boardgame (Charles S. Roberts Awards).

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Liberty: The American Revolution 1775-83

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Publisher: Columbia Games

Artist: Tom Dalgliesh

Year: 2003

Size: 12.00 x 9.00 x 2.00 inches

2.00 pounds

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Liberty: The American Revolution 1775-83 Basic overview of the game Liberty at Prezcon

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Liberty rules summary

Liberty rules summary that I use to teach the game and to refresh my memory. Incorporates any clarifications from the ConsimWorld forum and from the v1.3 FAQ, dated 11-Aug-2010.

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Corrected streamlined version of the non-random French entry variant.

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2007-09-02

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Japanese 1-page quick reference

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Exp Counters for-Galvez/Bourbon Liberty; see map file here +Old Soldier Magazine for rules

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Traducción al castellano de las reglas	http://www.columbiagames.com/resources/3021/transl...	2011-12-18
English Session Report on Pawnderings	http://pawnderings.blogspot.com/2010/04/patriots-d...	2010-05-05
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Fall%202003/liberty....	2009-09-22
Review in Finnish at Lautapeliopas.fi	http://www.lautapeliopas.fi/peliarvostelut/liberty...	2005-12-27
Vassal mod: ftf or pbem	http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php?op...	2005-05-19
Best & Worst of 2003 on Chris Farrell's website	http://homepage.mac.com/c_farrell/articles/2003.ht...	2004-01-12
A set of optional rules for "Liberty" from the Columbia Games website.	http://www.columbiagames.com/resources/3021/libert...	2004-01-07
GLG's Collection of Variants for Liberty	http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gnichols/glg/libyva...	2003-09-04
Alan Emrich's "Liberty" FAQ page	http://www.alanemrich.com/Games_Archive_pages/Libe...	2003-08-25
Columbia Games - Liberty page	http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoo...	2003-07-02