Patch and I’s latest round of Commands & Colors: Ancients depicts the Battle of Leuctra where the Theban commander massed all his best infantry on his left to face the elite Spartan units on that flank and smash them. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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ASL Journal 12 features a number of interesting scenarios, one of which reuses part of the Journal 2 Kakazu Ridge HASL map for an action in Syria. After our latest game, Patch and I were kicking around ideas for DTO[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thanks to taking out a number of Federation planets on my turn, the overall Alliance economy was down 30 EP. 17 points of the Kzinti budget were stuck in the Barony (the Federation had been forced to deliver them there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another set of ten spells for my GURPS Dungeons & Sorcery project (note that I changed the name slightly recently to make it clearer that this isn’t meant to be a direct plug-in to GURPS Dungeon Fantasy or the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Overall, the Coalition economy took a hit from the loss of all the captured planets in Hydran space and some captured provinces, but the fact that the Romulans are still exploring their own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our latest between-other-games bit of Commands & Colors Ancients, Patch and I played a couple rounds of a tiny little scenario from Expansion #6: Tegyra. Instead of the normal 5-7 banner range, this one only goes to three banners,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I finally got back to Festung Budapest for our latest ASL game. FB has a lot of unusual scenarios, and that’s definitely true here, as there’s a four-hexrow overlap in the opposing setup areas, and anyone who sets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Given how much trouble I ran into with my (unfocused) offensives, I faced the Alliance half of the turn with a fair amount of trepidation. The good news is any fighting would be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. I’ve been meaning to get some more PBeM gaming in this year, and at the time I happened to be in a real F&E mood, a new player asked for a teaching game[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our next game, Tom and I ended up with a small scenario from the new Yanks (and originally from The General), 195 “Rocket’s Red Glare”. The SS are defending the board three village against a large number of American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
