After finishing “Taking the Left Tit“, Martin proposed trying a scenario from the recent Swedish Volunteers pack. I had kind of planned to delay until the MMP-style counters got into VASL, but agreed, and went with one of Martin’s proposals:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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To round out the face-to-face set, Mark came over on the third for a day of gaming. The first thing up on the docket was trying Sun of York; Mark had tried it solo, and liked it enough that he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over for the first time I’ve seen him face-to-face in probably a year and a half on Sat Jun 26. He drives quite a ways to get here, and I’ve always been impressed by his dedication to get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During May, Mark and I did a second test of a Vassal module for Necromancer. We stuck with the standard scenario (we need to try the conversion scenario someday), but used many of the optional rules: a conversion point allowance,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone here at my place has been vaccinated, and through the wait period for full effectiveness. So, face-to-face gaming is starting up again. On June 5th, Jason came over for the afternoon, and he introduced me to The Last Hundred[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looking for small, simple, ASL scenarios to give Mark a chance to concentrate on the general flow and maneuvering a few squads, I came across a tiny scenario from Rivers to the Reich. It was originally Squad Leader/GI scenario 302[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I got to the second Mons scenario from the British Expeditionary Force expansion for Great War Commander in April, this time with Mark as the British defenders. They’re defending a canal in front of the village of Nimy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I’s latest ‘between bigger games’ round of C&C:A was the third of the ‘early barbarian’ scenarios from Expansion #2 at the end of April. The Battle of Clastidium gives the Gauls a bigger army (12 to 8), the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I returned to Budapest for our latest ASL game. We’re approaching the end of the set, and dealing with the final desperate days for the Axis defenders. In fact, this one is something of a direct sequel to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark got me a copy of Necromancer for Christmas, so I put together a Vassal module, and we tested that back in March. (I plan on releasing it after one more test session.) As one of the old SJG pocket-box[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…