After the latest Budapest adventure, Patch and I decided to try a desert scenario from the latest Action Pack. From the Land Down Under has an interesting spread of scenarios including a desert one, and one for Hatten in Flames.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I have to say this one is all my fault. I’m the local enabler, and after seeing an interesting ‘full game’ report on GMT Insider for Gallipoli, 1915, I talked it up to Mark, who preordered a copy. In due[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had originally thought to do a day of smaller, shorter games for our first multiplayer day after the lockdown, but Patch had to cancel, leaving us with three people for the day, and we went for one of our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing “Taking the Left Tit“, Martin proposed trying a scenario from the recent Swedish Volunteers pack. I had kind of planned to delay until the MMP-style counters got into VASL, but agreed, and went with one of Martin’s proposals:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To round out the face-to-face set, Mark came over on the third for a day of gaming. The first thing up on the docket was trying Sun of York; Mark had tried it solo, and liked it enough that he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over for the first time I’ve seen him face-to-face in probably a year and a half on Sat Jun 26. He drives quite a ways to get here, and I’ve always been impressed by his dedication to get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During May, Mark and I did a second test of a Vassal module for Necromancer. We stuck with the standard scenario (we need to try the conversion scenario someday), but used many of the optional rules: a conversion point allowance,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone here at my place has been vaccinated, and through the wait period for full effectiveness. So, face-to-face gaming is starting up again. On June 5th, Jason came over for the afternoon, and he introduced me to The Last Hundred[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looking for small, simple, ASL scenarios to give Mark a chance to concentrate on the general flow and maneuvering a few squads, I came across a tiny scenario from Rivers to the Reich. It was originally Squad Leader/GI scenario 302[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I got to the second Mons scenario from the British Expeditionary Force expansion for Great War Commander in April, this time with Mark as the British defenders. They’re defending a canal in front of the village of Nimy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…