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!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAfter 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…
After a round of SFB, Mark and I went back to Compass Games’ No Peace Without Spain series for our Sunday games; in fact, we tried out the original game. It was our first time with this particular one, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year, Mark and I got The Little Land from Compass’ Company Scale System. It’s an offshoot of MMP’s Grand Tactical Series, and we’ve been wanting to see how it compares, though the initial Pacific island fighting titles don’t appeal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our regular round of Commands & Colors: Ancients between bigger games, Patch and I ended following “Mortal Wounding” with the first scenario of Expansion #4, the Battle of Tigranocerta. We’re still on red-block Romans, but Tigranes gets four Heavy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…