Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis 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…
After seeing the SturmTiger in action, Patch and I returned to Hatten, with a morning American assault to retake the town. They get 4.5 turns to take a building and make sure there’s no GO Germans in four others. After[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After way too long, Mark and I returned to (C&C) The Great War, with the second scenario on the Battle of Loos. This is supposed to be the main attack, and the German trench setup is more compact, with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second role playing game published was Tunnels & Trolls. Ever since, it has led a small independent existence, doing it’s own thing. T&T quickly went through editions early on, ending with 5th in 1979, and then seventh came out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fifth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Hearts of Iron IV. See the previous reviews here: Hearts of Iron IV: Heart of Production Together For Victory: Commonwealth of Iron Death or Dishonor: Heart[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…And I’m back already to talk about patch 7.3 for Final Fantasy XIV. Of course, some of what I’m looking forward to is still to come in 7.31 and 7.35. That’s really my biggest disappointments right there. No new Deep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…