After testing out a Kzinti carrier, Patch and I cycled back to ASL, and picked a scenario from this year’s ASL Journal #15. Scenario J256 “Mortal Wounding” is, I think, the only official scenario outside of Operation Veritable that features[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After finishing off a game of France ’40 Mark and I recently an SFB scenario, which featured far from expert play, but certainly taught some good lessons. We went with “The Derelict” from Module S2, as the more interesting looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing off our carrier experiment, Patch and I went to our between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was Silarus, the final Sparticate scenario from Expansion #2, fighting against Crassus. Pompey is coming up from behind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on the 25th (day before Memorial Day), I had a couple people over for FtF gaming. Patch was originally scheduled to attend, but couldn’t make it, leaving me, Dave, Mark, and Jason to try out Ancient Civilizations of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up the latest adventure in Hatten, Patch and I turned to Star Fleet Battles. For our look into Y163, we went with “The First Carrier”, which is the demo scenario for the Kzinti DDV. They started fielding tactical[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our refresher course in C&C: Medieval, Mark and I went back to the Simonitch ZOC-bond games, and tried out France ’40. It’s two scenarios and a conjoined one, and we did the Sickle Cut scenario, which starts on May[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over last Sunday for a long-overdue day of FtF gaming. It was my choice, and there were a number of good possibilities, but I stuck with my original provisional plan of introducing him to Advanced Squad Leader, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Jackpot Jones’ untimely death, Patch and I did our usual pair of games of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Camalatrum, near the end of Spartacus’ rebellion. Both sides have separate detachments on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our time in sunny southern France, Patch and I returned to Hatten, where there’s snow on the ground, and not that many Flames. I took the defending Americans, and regretted it, as I didn’t see any great way to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After trying A Most Dangerous Time, Mark and I turned our attention to the recent Rebel Fury from GMT. We picked the Wilderness scenario, since that’s always been an interesting battle, and I’ve tended to gravitate to it for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…