To the delight of the kids, I have made playing board games a part of their home school curriculum. Each school day before lunch, A and I (and sometimes V with help) play a 30 minute session of a historically oriented board game. The idea is to have the kids involved in some way in the history that we're covering in class. V is too young at the moment to get a whole lot out of most of the games we're playing, but it's been a great success for A who is now old enough to play and appreciate pretty much all of the titles in my collection. Here we're playing our first completed game of "Hellenes" with A controlling the Peloponnesian League against my Delian League. This first game took almost two weeks to play in half hour increments which gave us a lot of time to go over the history and geography of the Peloponnesian war. We even did a little review of the Greek gods that are involved in a small way in the game. I ended up winning it largely because A confronted Athens directly rather than by first promoting revolts in my outlying allied city-states, as Sparta had done historically. In our second game, which lasted only two sessions, we played the same sides. Unfortunately for me, I raised taxes too early and A had four of my allied city-states in revolt by the end of the second year of play, ending up with a decisive victory - a good thing since he's happier that way. Way to go A!