One of the things on Mark and I’s to-do list for a while now is to try out the Battalion Combat Series from MMP/The Gamers. The scale is an interesting choice, and more importantly for me, the fact that North[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Last December, Mark and I got going on a large project that is going to take us a while: Playing a modified version of the SFB Admiral’s Game campaign from Advanced Missions. Once sorting out the basics was done, we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After failing to rescue some hostages, Patch and I went to our between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients, with the Battle of Pydna from Expansion #1. Unfortunately, I forgot to record a log of the bulk of the second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my second game of Space Empires 4X with Demon over Discord, I got involved in a four-player game, which stalled out for a while (it’s still unfinished), and I got talked into a second four-player game as a replacement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last December, Mark and I started a game of Versailles, 1919 on Vassal as part of the preparations for trying it out in a FtF multiplayer day. We got about halfway through before that, and then finished up the second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally had another FtF day on the 20th. Sadly, a last second cancellation left us at three people: me, Dave, and Jason. First up was Root, which I’d gotten for Christmas. I nearly got to try it out well over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last December, Patch and I kicked off the group’s SFB adventures for Y161 with an early historical scenario featuring USS Kongo in its five year mission under Captain Kosnett (last seen here in “Coming of the Meteor“, and is now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The aftermath for “The Liberation of Tulle” mentions there were a few major buildings the Germans still held at the end of the day; among them was L’Ecole Normale, which made me say, ‘I know that name…’. And indeed, scenario[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our adventure in Hatten, Patch and I did our usual between-big-games set of Commands & Colors: Ancients, and up this time was the Battle of Magnesia from Expansion #1. A river cuts off some of one side of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of Mark and I’s long-deferred projects (there are many) is getting back into the GCACW series. We finally did so around last Thanksgiving, playing the first two scenarios of All Green Alike, the First Battle of Bull Run section[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…