Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The beta testing of the new Vassal module for F&E is finally starting to wrap up. Bel and I have been working on doing setups for all the major scenarios, and I’ve found[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Patch and I just finished off another round of Up Front through Vassal on Tuesday (took three weeks, two of which were short sessions). We went for the next scenario in line, F “The Infantry’s Iron Fist”, which features an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Bel surprised me by cancelling a number of smaller hulls across all three empires on his turn. The Klingons are struggling with a massive cripple backlog, but there was spare money left in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. While the Kzinti are having a hard time, with the Klingons having occupied the planet in 1105, they still hold the neutral zone planet in 1506, and the Hydrans were still disrupting three[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I did our irregular ‘between bigger games’ set of Commands & Colors: Ancients last night, with the fastest scenario I’ve seen: Phyle 404 BC from Expansion #6. Set after the Pelopennsian War, Athenian exiles attack a Spartan camp[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The financial strain on the Federation is already showing this turn, as the reduction in economy combined with the number of repairs exhausted the reserves, and there was no money left to send[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I returned to ‘regular’ ASL for our next game. I forget our actual decision process, but I think Patch was wanting to see the Italians again. I remembered Few Returned, an action pack of Italian scenarios, most dealing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. And with turn 3 this truly becomes the Four Powers War as the Lyrans attack the Kzinti in support of the Fourth Klingo-Kzinti War. Thankfully, the Lyran border with the Kzinti is in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest FtF gaming day was plagued with uncertainty as to who would be attending, with possibilities ranging from three to five (which implies fairly different sets of games). Eventually, we ended up with four this Sunday, and we went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I’m down south with my parent’s for vacation, it’s time to do some gaming with my dad again. Given a choice, he went with a return to the GCACW series that I introduced him to last year, and we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…