I can’t remember how Patch and I decided upon our next scenario, probably we looked through the latest Journal (Journal 7) for something interesting. We actually ended up posting separate threads around the same time, so the beginning is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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When I first saw the scenario “Ad Hoc at Beaurains”, I was fascinated by it. Four full boards, sixteen turns. It should be massive, but the number of actual units is actually small, and no units begin on the board[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over yesterday, and we played the fourth scenario from Festung Budapest: “HKL 259”. It’s a fairly small, seven-turn scenario on the southern portion of the NW map (as opposed to the northern portion that the first three deal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[Last Date: Sep 16] CG I is a relatively short campaign, running only eight days. I’m still somewhat embarrassed that I only made it through two. I actually do not remember the campaign in any real detail. I just remember[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[Previous Date: Sep 15 N] After the partially successful night assault, Patch naturally immediately went on the offensive again the next date. I’d been struggling with having enough troops to go around the entire time, and this Date was no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
[Previous Date: Sep 15] Two of the VotG campaigns begin on the same day (differing in scope), and both are pretty obviously set up for the Russians to do a night counter-attack after the first day (thanks to some bonuses).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having familiarized ourselves with the general special rules for VotG, Patch and I started the smallest of the Campaign Games included in August 2008…: After a week or two off for our respective setups, Patch and I started VotG CGI[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once we both had Valor of the Guards, Patch and I decided to try out the set by playing one of the smaller of the fantastic number of stand-alone scenarios it has. We wanted to try a Stalingrad CG, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the time we finished off the Primosole Bridge campaign, Valor of the Guards had come out, and we wanted to try our hands at that. But before going into something else complicated, we decided to play a regular scenario[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I advertised on GameSquad for a PBEM game of ASL, I ended up taking on two new games. True to my distractible nature, I let the second one get buried under other things at one point, and dropped the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…