Patch and I finally got back to Festung Budapest for our latest ASL game. FB has a lot of unusual scenarios, and that’s definitely true here, as there’s a four-hexrow overlap in the opposing setup areas, and anyone who sets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Given how much trouble I ran into with my (unfocused) offensives, I faced the Alliance half of the turn with a fair amount of trepidation. The good news is any fighting would be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. I’ve been meaning to get some more PBeM gaming in this year, and at the time I happened to be in a real F&E mood, a new player asked for a teaching game[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our next game, Tom and I ended up with a small scenario from the new Yanks (and originally from The General), 195 “Rocket’s Red Glare”. The SS are defending the board three village against a large number of American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over on Saturday for some gaming, but only Dave was available, so we did a bunch of small three-player games. First up was Enemy in Sight, which is my favorite of the descendants of Naval War (given the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I did our usual pair of Commands & Colors: Ancients games between bigger things recently. This time was the Battle of Cronium from the second bonus pack from GMT. Set during the Tyrany of Dionysius the Elder of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having fallen into playing a couple scenarios from a set of four SL-conversions/tournament scenarios in ASL Annual ’96, I arranged for a third and advertised for a game of the last one in the set, A96 “In Rommel’s Wake”, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While looking over some of my recent ASL purchases, Patch was struck by some of the scenarios in AP8 featuring the 36th Infantry Division in Italy. So, for our next game we went with “Gabriel’s Horn”, which features a chunk[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the time I finished Panzer Graveyard with Tom Arnold, I was engaged in a (currently delayed) game from a set of four in Annual 96 that were rereleases from SL. I proposed “Last Defense Line” from that set, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over on Sunday, and we played some Sekigahara. He’d played once before, and enjoyed it more than enough to request it again. I had Tokugawa the first game, and kept up a fairly aggressive strategy the entire game.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…