Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerPatch and I’s latest ASL fight revisited Action Pack 8, with “Happy Valley”, an early armor clash between the Americans and Germans (with a couple Italians thrown in) during the race to Tunis in November 1942. It’s not DTO, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I have fallen into a bunch of fairly regular Vassal sessions over the past few months. Our primary slot has been our learning sessions with Operation Dauntless, and we had a few weeks of three-day weekends, so I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The last step before diving into armor in the Operation Dauntless tutorial series is “Let the Shells Fly”. It is recommended to play it twice, with the second play incorporating the Friction Fire rules; I was hesitant at first, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As mentioned last time, Mark and I are working our way through the Operation Dauntless tutorial scenarios. The third one is fairly simple and very quick, while the fourth one got into one of the rules sections that really had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up To the Square, Martin proposed a scenario from Journal #8. It features board 12, and more notably, the marketplace there is not only not SSRed out of existence, but is likely to be a central part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the last few weeks, Mark and I have been getting together on Vassal and going through the tutorial scenarios for Operation Dauntless. The first two are (largely) on a supplement card which makes it easy to reference as you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After invading Crete in Tavronitis Bridge, Tracey went and did it all over again with “Bofors Bashing”. This is a companion scenario that originally appeared in Annual ’89, and was reprinted in For King and Country, depicting the main glider[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our short firefight in the snow, Patch and I did our usual between-games set of Commands & Colors: Ancients in the first two weeks of April. This time was Ipsus from Expansion #1. This is basically the end of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I finally got around to revisiting Action Pack #3 recently, which has a number of inventive scenarios around the collapse of the Italian 8th Army in Russia. “Village of the Damned” has seven Italian squads and two and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing off yet another epic ASL struggle in Budapest, Patch and I did our usual two rounds in Commands & Colors: Ancients in the first half of March This time is a somewhat speculative battle (more so than normal,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…