Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Patch and I regularly game online, and we decided to have another SFB outing a little while ago. I’ve been going for a ‘historical order’ system, to see how things evolve, and we’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Patch and I returned to Commands & Colors: Ancients Tuesday night, with the Battle of Mycale, from Expansion #6. It’s a very unusual scenario, with a river running straight through the center row of the board, with hills on one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Got the gang together again (finally) for some gaming yesterday. There was four of us (me, Dave, Mark and Jason), so we went with another round of Space Empires 4X. I managed to talk everyone into adding in the merchant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I returned to ASL and Budapest recently with the eighth (our tenth, after playing FB18 and 19) Festung Budapest scenario, “For Want of Crust or Crumb”. It’s an odd one. The Germans are trying to resupply the city[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over yesterday (the five regulars) for a game of Dominant Species. This was our first five-player game, and the first time Mark had played the game. We handed out random animals, and ended up with: Mark–Mammals, Jason—Reptiles,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I went through our usual round of CC:A recently, doing the revised Battle of Plataea from Expansion #6. (I think we’ve played this FtF before, but I’m not sure if it was 1 or 2 rounds, and it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was over yesterday, and I introduced him to the Great Campaigns of the Civil War series with the same scenario I played against Mark in May (that long? yeesh), Kernstown. I had contemplated going for scenario 2 in Stonewall[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was back to the desert for our next ASL adventure, and Patch and I decided to go for scenario 37, “Khamsin”, from West of Alamein. Having just been the attacking Soviets in Festung Budapest, I had the defending Brits[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch made it over for some FtF gaming yesterday. I was a little shocked that he’s feeling a little burnt out on ASL. But he seems okay since he was wanting to play Up Front, which he got a copy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. One thing that has been on the back burner for the last couple years is the proposed version 2.0 Vassal Module for F&E. In addition to just not doing much with F&E lately,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…