Had the gang over for a game of Successors on July 15th. Or tried to; Mark was in no shape for driving, so it was down to me, Jason, and Dave. This is one of the four-player games I’m always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Crusader Kings II. See the original review here: Crusader Kings II: The Second Crusade With the release of The Republic, Paradox’s CK team mentioned that they had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over back on July 6th for one of our two-player days. It had been my ‘pick’, and I went for trying out my just-stickered copy of of Commands & Colors: Medieval. I’d gone through the rules, and had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, Smudge and I have beaten my estimated FF XIV schedule. Kind of. I figured we’d finish off post-Stormblood content about a month after Shadowbringers came out. We actually beat that by a couple of weeks, finishing off in mid-July.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over on June 24th for another round of Pursuit of Glory. Everything went better this time, with Jason getting through traffic somewhat better, and both of us in good practice with the rules and early game events. We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on June 22nd, Mark came over for some gaming. The main goal was to get some familiarity with the GCACW series again, and looking through the scenarios in Battle Above the Clouds, Mark found “Ringold Gap”. It’s a two-day[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the third in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Victoria II. See the previous reviews here: Victoria II: Same But Different A House Divided: Limited Expansion Just about a year after A House Divided came[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up “Far From Home“, Patch and I did our usual scenario from Commands & Colors: Ancients at the beginning of June. Up this time was the Battle of the Hellespont, the first of the Successor battles from Expansion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up “In Sight of the Volga“, Martin and I arranged a second game. This time we went to the For King and Country set, and picked scenario 100, “Regalbuto Ridge”, which originally appeared in ASL Annual ’89 as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For my next ASL game with Patch, I ended up looking at the earliest scenario I had available, which is set in the Spanish Civil War (this is actually our second scenario set there, though this one is even earlier[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…