Having finished up a big game, Patch and I did another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients, this time being the Battle of Nemea from Expansion #6. After some of the more interesting battles we’ve been doing, this is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG Somewhat to my surprise, after Patch and I finished up “Arctic Crossroads” he suggested an SFB game. He wanted smaller ships, and something other than Klingons, so I looked to a Kzinti-Lyran fight[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got a sudden call from Patch on Saturday, saying that he was in the area, and didn’t have anything to do during the day. So, he came on over, and we started figuring out what to play. Quickly settling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG Just as Patch and I were gearing up for an SFB battle in Y159, I got Captain’s Log #42, which featured a scenario set in Y158. Mark and I found time to give[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, Tom Arnold contacted me interested in playing an ASL game over Vassal. We ended up going for a scenario from the just-rereleased Yanks. I ended up taking the Germans in this late-’44 scenario set in Aachen (a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally had the group over again for one last game day this Sunday. With four of us, we went for Space Empires 4X, which we’re playing just often enough to mostly remember how it works, but not enough to really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Last year, after running through the first SFB monster scenario, I figured I’d try to run through one of those each ‘game calendar’ year. Recently, Patch and I started up the ‘main’ fight[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG After way too many delays, version 2.0 of the Vassal module for Federation & Empire is officially out, and available for download from ADB. There have been some small fixes over the last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our second go at the East Front System, my dad and I went with “Battle on the Sea of Azov” in Kiev to Rostov, with him taking the Germans again. It had been more than long enough that there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m on my annual Thanksgiving visit with my parents again, and got an early start on playing games with my dad on Friday. After looking over the possibilities a bit, we went with “The Battle of Sumy” from Barbarossa: Kiev[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…