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 SFU blog on BGG. The carnage from the Coalition Turn 4 offensives caused several difficult choices for me. Kzinti income is down to 2/3rds normal (and down 11 just from last turn), while Hydran income dropped 25[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Sunday, we got the gang together again for a learning session of Here I Stand. I’ve been eager to try this out since I got my copy of the second printing, so I was certainly eager. We had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the sites I’m a long-time member of is Board Game Geek. It’s a site for people who like board games to look up information, talk to other people, post reviews and tips, and talk about how the session[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Jason over for a game on Monday. Yes, Monday—he teaches, and right now he’s got a free month, but weekdays are easier for him than weekends. So I took Monday off and we played Pursuit of Glory. Jason decided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review crossposted from VGG. Initially released in 1989, Gold of the Americas was released at the height of SSG’s run as a major strategy computer game developer. Today, it is little remembered next to their signature classics like Warlords and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. I’m sorry for the long delay in posting here, but things have been going on! Belirahc sent forces into both Alliance capitals, and those fights really dragged on. After 131 Vassal logs for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review 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…