Had Jason over on Sunday for some overdue FtF gaming. After some back-and-forth, we ended up with the new(is) BCS magazine game Danger Forward. Arrangements happened a bit last minute, so I was hurriedly clipping counters the day before (didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After trying out Chitin I, Mark and I decided to get back to the ZOC-bond system and do the short scenario for Italy ’43, “Crossing the Volturno”. This is a seven turn scenario (compared to the 32-turn full game), and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had 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…
