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 BootsCrossposted from the Design and Effect blog on GameSquad. I haven’t read nearly as much on medieval warfare as I might like, but what I do know is that for all the protestations of martial valor, and the romanticism of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Mark over yesterday. We had planned this to be a play through of the 3rd Crusade in Onward Christian Soldiers (which I haven’t played yet, so I’d like to try it), but he had an urge to play Commands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Cross-posted with WoW_Muradin because I’m too primitive to have an editor that’ll post this to both.) Well, WoW went to v3.0 yesterday. It’s different. I don’t remember the Burning Crusade engine being quite so big of a shock, character-wise. Hunters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little while back, I got in the new edition of Successors. Generally, it’s a four-player game, and we currently have four in the regular group. But, Jason tends to get busy between teaching duties and working on his advanced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Y155, an Orion “Horde” attacked and destroyed Federation outpost K4. This was a prelude to a massive smuggling operation in which weapons and contraband purchased from the Klingons were smuggled into Federation space. The three usual suspects (me, Patch,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Mark over yesterday for some gaming. First, he showed me game I hadn’t heard of, Cowboys, and we did a really fast two gunmen shootout (maybe 45 minutes including absorbing the really short rulebook?). Anyway, it seems to have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s heeere…. My copy of Successors just showed up today from GMT. I thought the game looked really interesting when Avalon Hill first published it over a decade ago, and now I actually have a copy. Physically, it looks very[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Patch, Mark, and Jason over for wargaming again yesterday. I was a little surprised when Soldier Kings came up as an idea last time. We’re a bit uncertain on the balance, as it seems too easy for Britain to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Went up to a wargame club in Oakland today. Found out about it through BGG, and gave it a try. Not hard to get to, and in a very nice game store (they have a second floor for all the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Mark, Patch, and Jason over again for gaming yesterday. This time it was Conquest of Paradise, a kind of simple civ-game set in Polynesia. While we’d read the rules ahead of time, that was about it for preparation. So,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…