The latest between-other-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients with Patch was the Battle of Arausio from Expansion #2. Historically, this was a major defeat for Rome, and the scenario gives them one less card, less cavalry, and the barbarians[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Had Mark and Jason over over for a game of Versailles, 1919 back on the 22nd. Dave was available, so we had four, and Mark and I were eager to try it with a full player count. We had concerns[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up in Tulle, Mark and I went back to Paratrooper, and scenario 17, “Lost Opportunities”. It’s D-Day, and the Germans are trying to retake Ste.-Mère-Église from 505th Parachute Regiment. They have six turns to take five buildings on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I cycled around to Great War Commander again in February, with scenario 21, “Gurkhas at the Chapelle”, from the BEF expansion. This is in March 1915, so we got to see the standing barrage rules in action. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I got back to ASL at the end of January, and went for the first Winter Offensive scenario, “French Toast and Bacon”. Early in the Battle of the Bulge, a small German force tries to seize a river[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things on Mark and I’s to-do list for a while now is to try out the Battalion Combat Series from MMP/The Gamers. The scale is an interesting choice, and more importantly for me, the fact that North[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last December, Mark and I got going on a large project that is going to take us a while: Playing a modified version of the SFB Admiral’s Game campaign from Advanced Missions. Once sorting out the basics was done, we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After failing to rescue some hostages, Patch and I went to our between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients, with the Battle of Pydna from Expansion #1. Unfortunately, I forgot to record a log of the bulk of the second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my second game of Space Empires 4X with Demon over Discord, I got involved in a four-player game, which stalled out for a while (it’s still unfinished), and I got talked into a second four-player game as a replacement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last December, Mark and I started a game of Versailles, 1919 on Vassal as part of the preparations for trying it out in a FtF multiplayer day. We got about halfway through before that, and then finished up the second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…