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Previously I had mentioned BrettSpielWelt as a great way to play boardgames online.  I neglected to talk about all the other forms of online gaming out there.  This time I’d like to talk about VASSAL.  VASSAL is a Java engine-based system for building, and playing board and card games.

As of this writing VASSAL is at version 3.1.14, is available for Windows, OSX, Linux, and has approaching 800 game modules.  While early games ported in to Vassal often included scans of the mapboard and pieces, newer versions use high resolution files and custom graphics.  Games are often now ported with the permission of the publishers: most notably GMT Games allows and supports many of their games for online play using Vassal.

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If you love Eurogames and are not familiar with BrettSpielWelt than you should be.   BrettSpielWelt (or BSW) is a free online portal and application for playing many of the most popular board and card games available today.  It can be intimidating at first because BSW is primarily in German, but people of all languages populate the site and help and translations abound.

BSW covers game from the very popular Carcassonne (Game, BGG , BSW) or Settlers of Catan (Game, BGG, BSW), to games popular with more dedicated boardgame enthusiasts like Power Grid (Game, BGG, BSW) and Imperial (Game, BGG, BSW).

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