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 Grumble Jones Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsGuild Wars 2 is now a couple years old, and coming out with their first expansion. Since the game has always been ‘pay once, no subscription’, they’ve decided to make a slightly limited version of the base game free, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I had another between-bigger-games round of C&C:A Tuesday night. This time was the first Battle of Mantinea from Expansion #6. It’s a large battle with a large number of units and going to 8 banners, and both sides[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I figured it was time to go back to North Africa for my next ASL game with Patch, and started looking at the Hollow Legions scenarios, which it appears he has largely not played. The first one of the set,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang (me, Dave, Mark, Jason) over for some Space Empires 4X yesterday. We contemplated various advanced rules and optional rules, but stuck with the same set as last time: Basic rules plus Merchant Pipelines and Heavy Terrain. After[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another year, another Bloodstone module. By 1987, the Forgotten Realms had become a TSR property, but the original box set was still a month away when H3 The Bloodstone Wars was printed, so the back cover got the soon-to-be-familiar gold[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fifth FR-series book not only returned to the geography of the Realms, but returned to presenting an area that had already gotten a boost from the rest of the line. It was also a return to “The North” of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the ninth in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having finally finished off our SFB game, Patch and I did our usual round of C&C:A between big games tonight. This time was the Battle of Amphipolis from Expansion #6. This one is different. The Athenians get points for running[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Patch and I decided to turn back to SFB a little while ago, finishing off a project that our group had been stuck on for a while (more on that in a bit).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The year after Bloodstone Pass came out, H2 The Mines of Bloodstone came out. One thing had changed: This was a direct sequel to the former module, and there were definitely going to be more after this (whether they knew[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…