I picked up the Heroes of Might and Magic V bundle in a GoG deal recently, and tried it out to see how the new ‘post 3DO’ games are. First gripe: Each expansion is a separate program with its own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m on my usual trip down south to see my parents, and hopefully get in some wargaming with my dad. After some discussion, he decided to try out the GCACW series. We went with the fourth scenario in Stonewall in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I did another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients this Tuesday, with the Battle of Tanagra from Expansion #6 being the subject (though there were no walls to fall). Both armies are roughly equal, with the Spartans perhaps[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the eighth 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…
Trion (the company behind the English version of ArcheAge) can’t seem to catch a break. They were having lots of network latency on the servers (enough so that they ended up with overlapping properties because of server confusion!), so they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Patch and I regularly game online, and we decided to have another SFB outing a little while ago. I’ve been going for a ‘historical order’ system, to see how things evolve, and we’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I returned to Commands & Colors: Ancients Tuesday night, with the Battle of Mycale, from Expansion #6. It’s a very unusual scenario, with a river running straight through the center row of the board, with hills on one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Me and Smudge (especially her) have been looking at War in the North since it was announced. The initial reviews of buggyness were disappointing, and the fact that it just seemed to disappear from view after release. But, it’s been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was originally going to be a completely different essay, but I’ve realized it’s past time to tighten up my definitions some, so I’m not continuing having to stop and figure out/explain pieces of my foundation just so I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I are still continuing through ArcheAge. One disappointment is that the number of dungeons seems to be pretty small. We’re currently level 33+, and have only seen one (for level 20) so far. At least we had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…