Mark came over for some one-on-one gaming back on the 28th. The main thing up for the day was to try out his Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles set. Neither one of us had ‘studied’ ahead of time, so we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Back on the 26th, I managed to get Mark and Jason over for a three-player day. We tried out Mark’s copy of Versailles 1919 (Mark and I have a trial game of it on Vassal which is still on-going). It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bit ago Mark and I cycled back to Great War Commander with the final Mons scenario from the British expansion. After attacking last time, I had the British as they defend a large sanatorium where the battalion HQ is.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finally trying out U.S. Civil War, Mark and I went back to the “ZOC-bond” series to try out Normandy ’44. For the first time out, we did the seven-turn mini game, and I had the invading Allies. Unfortunately, after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Patch and I finished up in Budapest, it was time for another between-games bout of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Cynoscephalae from Expansion #1. Somewhat unexpectedly, the Romans have a unit of elephants,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year, I had an itch to try out “The Admiral’s Game” campaign, especially as re-done by Jeremy Gray and Dale McKee, and reported on in “Day of the Eagle Comes Early” on ADB’s forum. So, I wrote up a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain’s Log #43 had a very interesting idea for the main story and associated SFB scenario. The premise is that the Romulans tested Federation neutral zone defenses in two groups. One was a single War Bird which got chased down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, while talking about smaller games, I introduced Mark to the old Dwarfstar microgame line, which is largely available for free print-and-play, which also makes them good for Vassal play. We ended up trying the one game I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on the 30th, Mark came over for some face-to-face gaming. The headline item was Atlantic Chase, which Mark had gotten just a little bit ago and wanted to try out. Considering the physical presentation of the game, I wanted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my knife fight with Demon finished, we immediately went to a second SE:4X game on the small two-player map (which is, amazingly, still bigger than the previous game. This time we used all the base set regular and advanced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…