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 BootsAfter Patch and I finished up in Budapest, it was time for another between-games bout of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Cynoscephalae from Expansion #1. Somewhat unexpectedly, the Romans have a unit of elephants,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year, I had an itch to try out “The Admiral’s Game” campaign, especially as re-done by Jeremy Gray and Dale McKee, and reported on in “Day of the Eagle Comes Early” on ADB’s forum. So, I wrote up a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain’s Log #43 had a very interesting idea for the main story and associated SFB scenario. The premise is that the Romulans tested Federation neutral zone defenses in two groups. One was a single War Bird which got chased down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, while talking about smaller games, I introduced Mark to the old Dwarfstar microgame line, which is largely available for free print-and-play, which also makes them good for Vassal play. We ended up trying the one game I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on the 30th, Mark came over for some face-to-face gaming. The headline item was Atlantic Chase, which Mark had gotten just a little bit ago and wanted to try out. Considering the physical presentation of the game, I wanted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my knife fight with Demon finished, we immediately went to a second SE:4X game on the small two-player map (which is, amazingly, still bigger than the previous game. This time we used all the base set regular and advanced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally had another day of face-to-face gaming back on the 17th (I’ve been bad about cat-herding lately). And while Patch couldn’t make it, everyone else did, so we had four for a day of some shorter games. Up first was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our adventure in the desert, it was time for Patch and I to return to Budapest one last time. (Well, final return to Buda; I hope to talk him into “End Station Budapest”, which takes place in the other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up The Lone Grey Wolf, Mark and I cycled to Great War Commander, picking up with the third Mons scenario from the British expansion. I had the attacking Germans again, as they try to take a hill, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little bit ago, I got onto the Space Empires Discord server. The main person behind it (d_demon) is definitely a fan, and I have no idea just how many games he’s been involved in over Discord. Shortly after my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…