Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsYesterday was planned to either be Soldier Kings or a historical SFB scenario. None of us could really get a fourth, so SFB. However, Mark had to call Saturday morning and inform me that he had come down with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and Mark and I got together yesterday for some boardgaming fun. Instead of the normal SFB, we played Soldier Kings. It’s a simple multiplayer game of the Seven Years War that I’d gotten for cheap some time ago. As[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally got to have a game with and again after way too long. We played a general SFB scenario, Probing the WYN Cluster, where one of the surrounding major powers sends in a fleet and the WYNs try to beat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Minions of the Fickle Muse continues to be busy. I’ll need to write up last weekend’s as well as this weekend’s activities at some point soon. Yesterday though, I managed some good old fashioned, sit-down-at-the-table wargaming. I’ve been eyeing various[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Barrikady, Stalingrad, November 9, 1942: the Sixth Army was being bled white admist the ruins. The rifle strength of whole companies was often reduced to little more than a squad in an attempt to take a single house. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was originally posted to my LiveJournal blog while the game was ongoing; I then posted the rest of it in replies to that post. I’ve reconstructed it here. Pointe-du-Hoc, France, 6 June 1944: Confusion had brought only nine of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Y148, two E4 frigates were escorting a convoy when they were attacked by an Orion Light Raider. Patch and I just started playing this scenario from CL8 on-line tonight, with me as the Orion pirate. It’s certainly interesting. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arch Duke Fikrohn and King Rakhzan were alarmed. The political structure of the Empire relied on playing one count against another to keep the dukes from gaining too much power. If Larkhan was able to put his (presumably loyal) son[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Klingons dispatched an F5S scout-frigate to the ringed gas giant Wyskoon to see if the Hydrans had set up a base there. The frigate launched probe drones toward the planet, but departed (to avoid contact with a Hydran patrol)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, after a long gap, we finally had another face-to-face SFB session yesterday. We’re up to Y143, which is when the Federation and Klingons introduce their command cruisers, so this was intended to show them off. The general idea was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…