Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsReview crossposted from VGG. The ideas for the 4X genre of games appear pretty early in computer history, with the early ‘70s computer-moderated play-by-mail game StarWeb. A number of games (that I don’t know much about, other than their existence)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. Sins of a Solar Empire is an interesting hybrid game: It is pretty much a pure RTS game that is centered around delivering the feel of a space 4X game. Since I got it a mere[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. Sword of the Stars is a space ‘4X’ game; that is, you start with a fledgling empire in the great unknown, and explore, colonize, negotiate, and eventually conquer your way to victory. In the main, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over for gaming on Saturday. While we’ve generally been managing the group meetings, this is the first time Mark and I have gotten together for a game since last September (yikes! that long?). There’s a large number of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest monthly gaming group day was yesterday. Managed to get four of us together for another stab at Republic of Rome. It would really help if Valley Games had managed a good rulebook instead of an almost-decent one. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the group over this Saturday, we were going to make another try at 5-player Republic of Rome. Sadly, Zjonni wrote in that morning and cancelled; his allergies had been running riot all night, and he was in no shape[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The Coalition turn left Kzinti space in a real mess. There were plenty of lightly-defended targets, but at the same time, the Hegemony Navy was not in the best of shape itself. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and Patch made it over on Sunday, and we had our first SFB game for nearly a year. (And that one was nearly a year after the previous one. We either need to get more of the rest of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. [See Part 1.] The two F5s took the blast on the #2 shields without taking internals, but the E4J was hit on the weak #3, and took 7 internals (after blowing a battery)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. I started Turn 3 with a fair amount of confidence. Both halves of Turn 2 went well for me, and short of Belirahc slipping a large force into the capital, I was pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…