The death of the Alpini HQ staff meant it was time for Patch and I to play another set of Commands & Colors: Ancients games. Up this time was the Battle of Mount Garganus from Expansion #2. This is Spartacus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After our latest SFB battle, Patch and I returned to ASL, and thinking to get some time with the Italians in, went to the fourth scenario in the Few Returned pack (since updated in Hollow Legions as #274-282 & 287-289).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I have been playing a heavily rewritten form of “The Admiral’s Game” campaign from Advanced Missions. This is based on a version played on the SFB forums… nearly two decades ago. I’ve thought about those old campaigns a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had a FtF game of Space Corp on Sunday. Mark and Jason came over to join me and Dave to make a four-player day of it. We started out with the Planeteers era to make sure we had time to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over this last Saturday so we could celebrate getting our own leader counters in Twilight of the Reich. It’ll be a bit before the boards show up in VASL, so FtF was the answer. Only the first two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of course, there’s always a few things I miss in any major release. I put out an emergency fix for some trouble with the AP reinforcement card right after getting 2.0 out, and then there were a couple of setup[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…