Alexander has started a new video series on our YouTube Channel called From Cover to Cover where he reads a few books on a subject and then pairs that with a discussion of the book while covering a few games also on the subject. In this first entry in the series, he takes a look at The Reformation and reads Patrick Collinson’s The Reformation and then talks about Here I Stand: Wars of the Reformation 1517-1555 500th Anniversary Edition from GMT Games and Virgin Queen: Wars of Religion 1559-1598 from GMT Games.
-Grant
The Players' Aid 
Excellent first video in what I hope will be a very robust and successful series! Thank you!
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Not that Alexander reads the blog… 🙄 but I enjoyed this video and hope he continues more book vs game conversations like this. Personally I’m not so interested in the book, but I’m very interested to to hear how the book sparked many memories of the game.
My questions to Alexander (if he were on the blog 😉) would be 1) do the games require an understanding of religious jargon to better understand play? 2) Do you feel having read the book you’ve now got a better understanding of the game subject matter?
Lastly, I love historical games that allow “what if” rather than just a historical replay — and I think Alexander is the same (basing that on him loves Unconditional Surrender:WW2 in Europe). My third question to “imaginary blogger Alexander” would be 3) Did the book raise new ‘what if’ questions about history while reading the book? And if so, would you try and explore them in HIS?
(Eg. WW2. Learning about Hitlers motivations… what if he didn’t declare war on USA, how would the European campaign play out. Then play Triumph & Tragedy you can almost explore that by not declaring war on England.) hope that last question makes sense.
Great video. Although Grant you were obviously missed. ☺️
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