Patch came over today, and we took the chance to use my French and Allied Minor counters in anger for the first time. (I’ve had Croix de Guerre for over 15 years by this point, and I’ve played with both nationalities[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Boardgaming
Around the middle of last year, Patch and I played a couple FtF games of “Siesta Time” from Festung Budapest, only to realize late in the day, we had gotten the directions ninety degrees off. So we decided to play[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over yesterday, and we played a game of Flying Colors. Mark had played it once before with Jason, so he picked the second scenario (Cape Henry) to introduce me to the system. I decided to stick Mark with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I both like DASL, and always mean to play more of the big hex scenarios than we do. Combined with my efforts to actually play more of the early scenarios, we ended up looking over the set from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our short (very short!) foray back to Valor of the Guards, Patch and I decided to switch back to the western front, and try J137 “No Mercy in Burcy” from Journal 9, which I had just gotten, most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had a couple people over for gaming on Saturday. Dave was busy with work, so it was just me, Mark and Jason trying out Space Empires 4X. We went with the straight basic rules and the straight 3-player setup. Personally,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With all the time we were starting to put into Festung Budapest, I mentioned to Patch that maybe we should look at doing more VotG scenarios. Patch immediately mentioned the very odd VotG23 “Heroes of the Soviet Union” from Journal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I continued our playthrough of Festung Budapest scenarios on Vassal with FB3 “Furor Hungaricus”, a combined Hungarian/German counterattack on Soviet positions on the outskirts of the city. We’re mostly doing these FtF, but Vassal has some nice tools[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch had already played the rest of the scenarios in Beyond Valor, so I decided to continue my tour of the early core modules with Paratrooper. Patch has already played all of them, but I’ve only played two of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After letting things slide for a while, I arranged for a group gaming day this Sunday. Only Patch and Jason could make it over, and Dave managed to start coming down with what I had a week earlier, so there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…