Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsSmudge and I finished Act 1 of HoT last Tuesday. The story is continuing to be good, though it’s switched tracks again, and is only giving tiny snippets of had been the primary focus through the end of Season 2.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Despite the Hydran pull-out last turn, and my attempts to pick off the garrisons, they still held a bit of Lyran territory to generate another 0.3 VP. Construction was fairly normal, though even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I recently finished off the Season 2 storyline in Guild Wars 2. Overall, I think they did a better job than with the original story, though it’s still by no means perfect. Also, there was a final bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over for some FtF gaming yesterday; he showed me the basics of the Operational Combat System with the first few turns of Reluctant Enemies. Mark and Jason have played some OCS, but apparently haven’t done much with RE,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Economically, turn 13 was fairly good. The Kzintis earned 94 EP, greater than their base economy of 93. This is kind of inevitable, as the slow expansion off off-map territories drives up income,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The beginning of Y159 is when the terms of the Treaty of Smarba kick in, requiring me to start delivering D6s and F5s to the Romulans. Since these are activated out of mothball[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a number of delays, partially due to January cold season in the household, we had a few people over for gaming today. Namely, Mark and Patch came over, and Baron joined in with Dave and I for a five-player[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The beta testing of the new Vassal module for F&E is finally starting to wrap up. Bel and I have been working on doing setups for all the major scenarios, and I’ve found[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I just finished off another round of Up Front through Vassal on Tuesday (took three weeks, two of which were short sessions). We went for the next scenario in line, F “The Infantry’s Iron Fist”, which features an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Bel surprised me by cancelling a number of smaller hulls across all three empires on his turn. The Klingons are struggling with a massive cripple backlog, but there was spare money left in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…