Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAfter my quick defeat in “Armored Car Savikurki“, we went for another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. This time, it’s Alexander the Great’s final battle, Hydaspes from Expansion #1. The river is at one edge of the board, squeezing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on March 24th, we finally got a group day together. Better yet, it’s looking like this is the start of a much more regular schedule of FtF gaming for me; something that has been seriously lacking for the last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Hearts of Iron III. See the previous review here: Hearts of Iron III: One Plus Two Equals Three A year after the previous expansion, Paradox announced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I decided to go back to the Finns for our next ASL game, which led to us selecting 162 “Armored Car Savikurki” from Hakkaa Päälle. During the Winter War, a small group of Finnish troops (4 squads), aided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In my efforts to finally play all the original Beyond Valor scenarios for ASL, I’ve had two attempts on scenario 5, In Sight of the Volga. As is popular for the system, it’s a Stalingrad scenario. This one takes place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I’s latest between-games set of Commands & Colors: Ancients continues through the career of Alexander the Great. This time the Battle of Jaxartes River from Expansion #1 was up. It’s unusual in several respects: First, the Scythian force[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our last ASL game wrapped up, Patch and I got going on a round Space Empires 4X, while it was still fresh from our December FtF session. We went with the Large 2-player scenario, with no advanced rules, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the eleventh in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I are still going strong on FF XIV, and the last three months has been spent with various tasks, but we’re spending more and more time on the storyline, and are about ready to transition into Stormblood. Overall,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch did our usual between-big-projects game of C&C: Ancients recently. This time out it was one of Alexander the Great’s big victories: the Battle of Gaugamela from Expansion #1. The Persians definitely have a bigger army, and have two heavy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…