Finally had another FtF day on the 20th. Sadly, a last second cancellation left us at three people: me, Dave, and Jason. First up was Root, which I’d gotten for Christmas. I nearly got to try it out well over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Boardgaming
Last December, Patch and I kicked off the group’s SFB adventures for Y161 with an early historical scenario featuring USS Kongo in its five year mission under Captain Kosnett (last seen here in “Coming of the Meteor“, and is now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The aftermath for “The Liberation of Tulle” mentions there were a few major buildings the Germans still held at the end of the day; among them was L’Ecole Normale, which made me say, ‘I know that name…’. And indeed, scenario[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our adventure in Hatten, Patch and I did our usual between-big-games set of Commands & Colors: Ancients, and up this time was the Battle of Magnesia from Expansion #1. A river cuts off some of one side of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of Mark and I’s long-deferred projects (there are many) is getting back into the GCACW series. We finally did so around last Thanksgiving, playing the first two scenarios of All Green Alike, the First Battle of Bull Run section[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While looking over shorter, simpler, ASL scenarios for me and Mark to go through, I came across the Partisan set (now in Armies of Oblivion), and we went for the first of those (we’ll need to get back to them;[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a part of Mark and I’s cycle of lighter game playing, we went back to GEV last November, and tried out the scenario “The Train”. I don’t think it held enough interest for me to try it back in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Patch and I’s journey through Budapest finally over, we’ve started in on the scenarios from Hatten in Flames (wait, isn’t that a World in Flames expansion?). It’s a nice mini-HASL set, though I’m disappointed that there’s footnotes to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After “Absolut Markajarvi“, Martin and I returned to the early Yanks scenarios for our next PBeM game. Both of us had slowdowns (I’ll admit to having more consistent ones), so the game took far longer than it should have, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over on the 9th for a FtF two-player day. It was his pick, which naturally meant Last Hundred Yards. This is still my second session with it, but it generally impressed me as much this time as it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…