For the one-year anniversary episode of Fortified Niche, the pod-lads sit down to talk about the most amazing pieces of game design they encountered over the 365 days of podcasting about indie wargames. Did your favorite game make the cut?

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The pod crew don leather jackets and load sawn-off shotguns to test out This is Not a Test, a post-nuclear skirmish wargame from Worlds End Publishing!

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Time to give those Frenchies/Brits/Colonials a proper thrashing in Muskets & Tomahawks second edition from Studio Tomahawk!

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Open up your HiRealMeetBobBeFrank app and swipe right on that mercenary contract in Reality's Edge by Joseph McGuire and published by Osprey. But don't forget to update your antivirus or someone may hack your knife!

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Attention, all Nicheneers! Steel your nerves as our fortified duo faces the challenges of Pulp Alley - set by Phipps and Daughter themselves! Will this spell doom for our rebellious reviewers? Will they prevail - and keep their two fists? Only on today's episode of Fortified Niche!

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Both summer heat and the Covid pox tried to stop the lads from reviewing Infamy, Infamy!, an excellent large skirmish game by TooFatLardies for refighting the wars between Rome and the Gauls, the British, etc.! 

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The podcasters command their unstoppable hordes of T-55As in Cold War Commander 2nd Edition, a fairly groggy game of modern warfare that actually plays really smoothly! 

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After drawing the Fortified Niche card, Player 1 selects a regiment of podcasters to carry out Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, a rank-and-flank game where mercenary crossbowmen are shooting at unit of clone spearmen. 

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The world's greatest detective gets nailed with an RPG as we play Batman Miniature Game, a good skirmish game featuring DC Comics' finest street-level heroes, villains, and mooks. 

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Loyalty clashes with intrigue as House Podcast rallies the troops for A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game, the rank-and-flank game based on the books, not the TV series, that has a lot of tricks up its sleeves. 

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