Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAfter way too long, Mark and I returned to (C&C) The Great War, with the second scenario on the Battle of Loos. This is supposed to be the main attack, and the German trench setup is more compact, with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second role playing game published was Tunnels & Trolls. Ever since, it has led a small independent existence, doing it’s own thing. T&T quickly went through editions early on, ending with 5th in 1979, and then seventh came out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fifth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Hearts of Iron IV. See the previous reviews here: Hearts of Iron IV: Heart of Production Together For Victory: Commonwealth of Iron Death or Dishonor: Heart[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…And I’m back already to talk about patch 7.3 for Final Fantasy XIV. Of course, some of what I’m looking forward to is still to come in 7.31 and 7.35. That’s really my biggest disappointments right there. No new Deep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a round of SFB, Mark and I went back to Compass Games’ No Peace Without Spain series for our Sunday games; in fact, we tried out the original game. It was our first time with this particular one, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fifteenth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous reviews here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fantastic Point of View Wealth of Nations: National Trade Res Publica: A Tradition of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year, Mark and I got The Little Land from Compass’ Company Scale System. It’s an offshoot of MMP’s Grand Tactical Series, and we’ve been wanting to see how it compares, though the initial Pacific island fighting titles don’t appeal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And now for the sixteenth set of Dungeons & Sorcery spells. I finally get around to presenting the (long) writeups for Polymorph Other and Polymorph Self. Emotion (SC) Enchantment, Somatic, Verbal, Area (Fixed) 108 points Casting Time: 4 seconds Casting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our regular round of Commands & Colors: Ancients between bigger games, Patch and I ended following “Mortal Wounding” with the first scenario of Expansion #4, the Battle of Tigranocerta. We’re still on red-block Romans, but Tigranes gets four Heavy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After testing out a Kzinti carrier, Patch and I cycled back to ASL, and picked a scenario from this year’s ASL Journal #15. Scenario J256 “Mortal Wounding” is, I think, the only official scenario outside of Operation Veritable that features[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…