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 BootsI’ve been playing a fair amount of the old city-builder game Pharoah: Gold recently. (Bought it on sale at GoG at the beginning of the month.) And I’ve been pondering why. I have played SimCity. I have a copy of SimCity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over yesterday (the five regulars) for a game of Dominant Species. This was our first five-player game, and the first time Mark had played the game. We handed out random animals, and ended up with: Mark–Mammals, Jason—Reptiles,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I went through our usual round of CC:A recently, doing the revised Battle of Plataea from Expansion #6. (I think we’ve played this FtF before, but I’m not sure if it was 1 or 2 rounds, and it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was over yesterday, and I introduced him to the Great Campaigns of the Civil War series with the same scenario I played against Mark in May (that long? yeesh), Kernstown. I had contemplated going for scenario 2 in Stonewall[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the seventh 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…
It was back to the desert for our next ASL adventure, and Patch and I decided to go for scenario 37, “Khamsin”, from West of Alamein. Having just been the attacking Soviets in Festung Budapest, I had the defending Brits[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch made it over for some FtF gaming yesterday. I was a little shocked that he’s feeling a little burnt out on ASL. But he seems okay since he was wanting to play Up Front, which he got a copy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. One thing that has been on the back burner for the last couple years is the proposed version 2.0 Vassal Module for F&E. In addition to just not doing much with F&E lately,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I headed back to Budapest after our second desert adventure, reaching the end of January 1945 with FB7 “The Terror of the Castle”. Having been the defense the last two games, I took the attacking Soviets, and while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I did our usual between rounds of ASL game of C&C:A tonight. This time was the Battle of Himera from Expansion 1. It’s a little unusual, with an Syracusan MC+leader (Eumachus) starting adjacent to the Carthaginian camp, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…