Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsAfter trying Congress of Vienna, Mark and I decided to try out Renegade Legion: Centurion. I’d been interested in it since it came out in ’89, and got a second edition copy around ’94; I had started priming the miniatures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So after way too long, we finally had a group game day back on the 28th, and we even had a full spread of all five of us. I had been thinking of giving Charioteer a a second try, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over Sunday last week for a long-delayed FtF game. We had decided to go back to Men of Iron, with Jason wanting to get into the Infidel set. After a bit of indecision, we went with the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After going on patrol, Patch and I went to our normal round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. This time was “Plain of Alsace” from Expansion 3. Germanics versus Caesar, with both sides about equal, but the Romans have Julian regions,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Hatten, the next big game with Patch was a round of Star Fleet Battles. None of the Y164 scenarios really appealed, but there’s a number of ships with a Year In Service of Y165, which means there’s already a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the eighth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Stellaris. See the previous reviews here: Stellaris: Paradox Among the Stars Leviathans: There Be Dragons Here! Utopia: No Place Among the Stars Synthetic Dawn: Synthetic Intelligence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paradox’s latest game has been out for a week, and I’m actually going to go through my thoughts. It’ll be years before I get formally reviewing it. It might also be that long before I’m past ‘first impressions’. First off,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the sixteenth 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…
After Getting Out of Hatten, Patch and I did our usual between games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Bibracte, the earliest scenario in Julius Caesar’s career. The Helvetii have a force of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After wrapping up our long, long session of The Little Land, Mark and I decided to try out Congress of Vienna, largely with an eye to introducing it to the full group. With two players, one is France, and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…