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 BootsThe 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…
Got the gang over for gaming yesterday. Had five people total, and ended up playing Blackbeard. Had the usual painful beginning as setup is fiddly, and there’s lots of different things to do, all of which work a bit differently.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog at BGG. As I mentioned earlier, I got the new 16-page updated version of Scenario 603 (keep in mind the original is three pages). I had actually been well aware of it, and had done[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. One of the basic principles of Federation & Empire is the ‘supply grid’. This is a network of bases that provide supply to all friendly units in range. In the General War era[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. I’ve been contemplating soloing my way as far as I can through the third General War scenario in the F&E rulebook. It would give me experience with the mid-war, which I really don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…