After the Incident at Morkedia, Patch and I did our usual round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the start of Spartacus’ slave revolt, with a battle at the foot of Mt Vesuvius from Expansion #2. Spartacus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I took over maintenance of the Pursuit of Glory module ages ago, because I had a lot of trouble with it wanting to use shift-commands, which caused me to keep firing off commands while typing in the chat box. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our latest fight in Hatten, Patch and I turned to SFB for our next main fight. Patch settled on an unusual fight with the Jindarians as our next scenario. In “Incident at Morkedia”, a Jindarian caravan does a rare[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I’s latest Saturday game was the full campaign of Salerno ’43. Since my earlier play of the short game, I’d been wondering what the full campaign would play like, and so when we got back to the ZOC-bond[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had everyone over last week for a FtF session. The main idea was to go through a couple of recent smaller acquisitions we hadn’t tried yet. So, first up was Greed Quest, which I got last year as part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our GCACW game, Mark and I turned to one of the old Microgames. I’ve had my copy of Invasion of the Air Eaters for decades, and I’ve cut all the counters, but I never got around to doing more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over on the 27th for all-too-rare FtF gaming during our off week. Up this time was SJG’s old Battlesuit pocket box game, which both of us got in the reprint version a couple years ago. I had it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Jason over yesterday for our first one-on-one game in a while. I decided to introduce him to the Grand Tactical System with the intro scenario of Strike-Counter Strike in this year’s issue of Briefings (and at this rate, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark’s suggestion for our next Sunday game was more GCACW, and after looking over various suggestions, I picked a scenario from the recent reprint of On To Richmond, dealing with part of the Seven Days’ Battles. This one deals with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my failure in Hatten, Patch and I did our standard between-big-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Sucro from Expansion #3. Pompey gets another crack at Sertorius, with a slightly smaller army,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…