After Patch retook Hill 772, we went back to an interstitial Commands & Colors: Ancients game. Up this time was River Sabis from Expansion #2. Caesar gets ambushed by a Belgic tribe while setting up camp. The Romans are a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After fighting it out before Troy, Mark and I decided to try out the second Microgame, Chitin I. It’s a fragment of a larger project that was never finished, and sounds to me like kind of like a proto-Civilization (computer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After trying out the strike cruiser, Patch and I looked at scenarios from ASL Journal #16. While we were interested in the Capriquet scenarios, the boards weren’t in VASL yet. We ended up with a North Africa scenario with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our tour in World War I, Mark and I decided to return to Chariots of Fire, and he wanted to go to the final scenario, on the plains in front of Troy. This is one of two scenarios that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the thirteenth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Crusader Kings II. See the previous reviews here: Crusader Kings II: The Second Crusade The Old Gods: That Old-Time Religion Sons of Abraham: A Little of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After 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…
