After finishing off a first lesson with OBA, Mark and I turned to the classic Squad Leader scenario “The Hedgehog of Piepsk” (as updated for ASL). The last time I played the scenario was with my dad in the early[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Back in November, Patch and I went back to C&C:A after our latest SFB adventure. Up this time was the Battle of Aquae Sextiae from Expansion #2. This is the climatic battle of The First Man in Rome, so the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got Salerno ’43 for Christmas, and I got to try it out that Friday when Jason came over. It’s a nicely compact game, with a smaller board than normal for GMT, and a single sheet of oversized counters. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over for the first time in way too long right after Christmas, and we got in a FtF game of ASL. Out of a few different possibilities, Patch stuck with “Counterattack at Carentan” from the second Winter Offensive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on Christmas day, Mark came over for some company, and a good day of gaming. We had kicked around the idea of a quick SFB duel, but didn’t actually get that far. Instead, we turned our first attention to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had another group game back on the 18th, this time for Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea, the last four-player game that hasn’t hit the table since the break. Mark brought his set over, and me, Jason, and Dave sat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in September, Mark and I tried out Compass Games’ series of games that started with No Peace Without Spain. I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to Compass (sorry folks), but I did hear about that game, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I was down visiting my parents, I did a lot of gaming with my Dad. As has been usual with us lately, most of that was in Stellaris (we got some testing of the new 3.6 patch in), but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in August Patch and I played the next Y161 scenario, “…And Settle Their Hash”. A Kzinti squadron is performing drone bombardment when a Klingon squadron arrives to spoil the fun. The Klingon ships are much heavier, but with 18[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over on Sunday for some FtF gaming, and he brought over Last Hundred Yards again. He’d recently been in something of a rules argument that got him fairly heated, so this was a surprise, but he wanted to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…