Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerHad everyone (me, Dave, Mark, Jason, and Patch) over last Sunday for gaming. Up to bat was my new copy of Empire Builder: Europe (i.e., the new edition of Eurorails). I have a long history with the ‘crayon rails’ series,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up with Centurion, Mark and I decided to try out the Avalon Hill WWI dogfight game Knights of the Air. It’s sub-genre that’s always had a steady number of releases, and I generally like a bit more than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
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…