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 GamerI’ve been fairly involved with Final Fantasy XIV lately and it is time to review what’s happened over the last several months. Smudge has been holding me down and making sure I get side content done, but I’ve also snuck[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the seventh in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Stellaris. See the previous reviews here: Stellaris: Paradox Among the Stars Leviathans: There Be Dragons Here! Utopia: No Place Among the Stars Synthetic Dawn: Synthetic Intelligence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing off a game of France ’40 Mark and I recently an SFB scenario, which featured far from expert play, but certainly taught some good lessons. We went with “The Derelict” from Module S2, as the more interesting looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing off our carrier experiment, Patch and I went to our between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was Silarus, the final Sparticate scenario from Expansion #2, fighting against Crassus. Pompey is coming up from behind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on the 25th (day before Memorial Day), I had a couple people over for FtF gaming. Patch was originally scheduled to attend, but couldn’t make it, leaving me, Dave, Mark, and Jason to try out Ancient Civilizations of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the twelfth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Crusader Kings II. See the previous reviews here: Crusader Kings II: The Second Crusade The Old Gods: That Old-Time Religion Sons of Abraham: A Little of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up the latest adventure in Hatten, Patch and I turned to Star Fleet Battles. For our look into Y163, we went with “The First Carrier”, which is the demo scenario for the Kzinti DDV. They started fielding tactical[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our refresher course in C&C: Medieval, Mark and I went back to the Simonitch ZOC-bond games, and tried out France ’40. It’s two scenarios and a conjoined one, and we did the Sickle Cut scenario, which starts on May[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over last Sunday for a long-overdue day of FtF gaming. It was my choice, and there were a number of good possibilities, but I stuck with my original provisional plan of introducing him to Advanced Squad Leader, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fourteenth 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…