My last Advanced Squad Leader game with Patch finished up very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that I’m not going to bother with the normal detailed maps. There’s not a lot to show anyway. Imagine a featureless 33×30 hex plain,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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My latest ASL defeat by Patch was just about finished up, so we decided to do another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients tonight. This time was the Battle of Sepeia, a very strange Expansion #6 battle between the Spartans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had another get together, and game of Space Empires 4X this last Saturday. Mark paid for pizza to be delivered so lunch would be short, and we got through twelve economic turns this time. There was a little debate on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the scenarios in Out of the Attic 2 gave me an immediate ‘I’ve got to see this‘ reaction. OA25 features a defense with a combined French-British-American force in 1942 Tunisia. Patch and I initially slotted it for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I had our regular between ASL games bout of Commands & Colors: Ancients tonight. This time was the battle of Thyreatis in 545 BC. It’s a very unusual battle from Expansion 6. First of all, both sides are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been entirely too long since our group has managed any Star Fleet Battles, so Patch and I started a game on-line a while ago. Our current play-date is concurrent with the short Gorn-Federation War, so we used the excuse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark made it over last Saturday for a little FtF time. It was his pick, and he wanted to try out Frederick the Great, which both of us have been interested in since we started seeing some interesting reviews of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After something of a dearth of FtF wargaming lately, Mark made it over this last Saturday, and I finally got a chance to test-drive Crown of Roses. It’s a card-driven block game on the Wars of the Roses that technically[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the latest ASL game done, Patch and I went for another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Since we polished off the last of the Truceless War scenarios last time, and several of the Expansion #1 scenarios were modified[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having spent a little time away, Patch and I went back to working our way through all the Festung Budapest scenarios. This time we went with “Red Banner Days” from Journal 10, which actually happens slightly before “Siesta Time” (and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
