Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. As the war drags into its third year, Klingon occupation of Kzinti space earns a VP (actually, 0.1 comes from a province disrupted by the Lyrans). The grand total of 5.6 VP earned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The Romulan economy continues to pick up steam with the last bit of on board survey, and some Federation provinces. However, the Klingon economy shrank by ~27 EP, to put the total Coaltion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the last couple of weeks Patch and I played a couple Commands & Colors: Ancients games of the Munychia scenario from Expansion #6. Set right after the Phyle scenario, the Athenians surprise the Spartan-supported oligarchs and drive off their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Patch and I recently finished off this Captain’s Log scenario from the early Four Powers War that also serves as a bit of a sequel to the “Where Wisdom Fails” mini-campaign we played[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was over Saturday for our first ASL game in a while. We’d decided to try J173 “Assault on Baerendorf” from the new Journal since it fit in our available time, and used one of the ‘vertical’ boards (1a). The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Despite the Hydran pull-out last turn, and my attempts to pick off the garrisons, they still held a bit of Lyran territory to generate another 0.3 VP. Construction was fairly normal, though even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over for some FtF gaming yesterday; he showed me the basics of the Operational Combat System with the first few turns of Reluctant Enemies. Mark and Jason have played some OCS, but apparently haven’t done much with RE,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Economically, turn 13 was fairly good. The Kzintis earned 94 EP, greater than their base economy of 93. This is kind of inevitable, as the slow expansion off off-map territories drives up income,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The beginning of Y159 is when the terms of the Treaty of Smarba kick in, requiring me to start delivering D6s and F5s to the Romulans. Since these are activated out of mothball[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a number of delays, partially due to January cold season in the household, we had a few people over for gaming today. Namely, Mark and Patch came over, and Baron joined in with Dave and I for a five-player[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…