After Jackpot Jones’ untimely death, Patch and I did our usual pair of games of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Camalatrum, near the end of Spartacus’ rebellion. Both sides have separate detachments on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After our time in sunny southern France, Patch and I returned to Hatten, where there’s snow on the ground, and not that many Flames. I took the defending Americans, and regretted it, as I didn’t see any great way to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After trying A Most Dangerous Time, Mark and I turned our attention to the recent Rebel Fury from GMT. We picked the Wilderness scenario, since that’s always been an interesting battle, and I’ve tended to gravitate to it for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the failed defense in southern France, Patch and I did our between games round of Commands & Colors Ancients. We’re in the later part of Spartacus’ rebellion, with the Battle of Bruttium. The Romans have a nice wall, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To celebrate the release of the first expansion to C&C: Medieval, Mark and I returned to the game. Of course, the new Vassal module wasn’t out yet, so we ended up playing one of the original scenarios. Namely, the third[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After fleeing in an F5C, Patch and I returned to ASL, with a scenario from Journal #14. It’s part of the Italian offensive into France in 1940. It didn’t get far, but it did generate this scenario. I had the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With other opportunities having passed it by, I decided to try soloing “My Brother, My Enemy” for SFB from Module S2 during the holidays. It’s an interesting situation that had caught my eye when I first went through S2. Mind-controlling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally had people over for a group day last Sunday. Unfortunately, that was also a drama-filled day, so it was just me, Mark and Jason active for gaming. We started off with Too Many Kobolds, a small game I just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After way too long, I finally had some FtF gaming on Thursday. Jason came over for another session of The Last Hundred Yards. Jason was generally sticking with the early materials, and we did replay a scenario I’ve played before.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Demonlord, Mark and I made a long-overdue return to Flying Colors. We went to an early battle (Seven Years War) from the Deluxe set, which meant ginning up some new counters, as the Vassal module still hasn’t incorporated those.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…