Had Jason over yesterday for our first one-on-one game in a while. I decided to introduce him to the Grand Tactical System with the intro scenario of Strike-Counter Strike in this year’s issue of Briefings (and at this rate, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Mark’s suggestion for our next Sunday game was more GCACW, and after looking over various suggestions, I picked a scenario from the recent reprint of On To Richmond, dealing with part of the Seven Days’ Battles. This one deals with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After my failure in Hatten, Patch and I did our standard between-big-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Sucro from Expansion #3. Pompey gets another crack at Sertorius, with a slightly smaller army,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Unhorsing Patch, we went to the next Hatten in Flames scenario. Both sides are preparing for a new attack on the morning of Jan 10. The Germans get going first, and attack into the teeth of American resistance. A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Sunday, we got the main gang over to try out Space Corp. Mark and I had tried it before, which helped confirm that it was likely the group would like it (we were right), and gave a leg up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Mark and I’s regular tour of WWI battles, we went over to The Great War as they have one not covered by Great War Commander. The Battle of Loos is broken up into five scenarios, and we tried the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back at the end of June, Mark and I got to playing the first region of the second year of our SFB campaign. The available fights are two base battles and three open space ones, and we started with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At long last, the new version of the F&E Vassal module is out! You can download it from ADB here: http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/F&E-2.1.zip Please save the zip package to where you keep your modules, and then extract everything. The extensions will then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally had a day of FtF gaming on Sunday. It’s been about half a year, with half the time wasted to me procrastinating, and the other half with me having projects that either chewed up weekends, or I was afraid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch took a while to come up with a setup for our next Hatten game (and I didn’t do much better), so we returned to Commands & Colors: Ancients, with another Expansion #3 battle. Pompey has caught two of Sertorius’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…