Inside GMT Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsCrossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. The Romulan economy continues to pick up steam with the last bit of on board survey, and some Federation provinces. However, the Klingon economy shrank by ~27 EP, to put the total Coaltion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the last couple of weeks Patch and I played a couple Commands & Colors: Ancients games of the Munychia scenario from Expansion #6. Set right after the Phyle scenario, the Athenians surprise the Spartan-supported oligarchs and drive off their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Patch and I recently finished off this Captain’s Log scenario from the early Four Powers War that also serves as a bit of a sequel to the “Where Wisdom Fails” mini-campaign we played[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I finished off Act 2 of Heart of Thorns last week, and then spent a while exploring the rest of the Auric Basin. It’s a lot more accessible than Verdant Brink, so we got further faster, though we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was over Saturday for our first ASL game in a while. We’d decided to try J173 “Assault on Baerendorf” from the new Journal since it fit in our available time, and used one of the ‘vertical’ boards (1a). The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I finished Act 1 of HoT last Tuesday. The story is continuing to be good, though it’s switched tracks again, and is only giving tiny snippets of had been the primary focus through the end of Season 2.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Despite the Hydran pull-out last turn, and my attempts to pick off the garrisons, they still held a bit of Lyran territory to generate another 0.3 VP. Construction was fairly normal, though even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I recently finished off the Season 2 storyline in Guild Wars 2. Overall, I think they did a better job than with the original story, though it’s still by no means perfect. Also, there was a final bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over for some FtF gaming yesterday; he showed me the basics of the Operational Combat System with the first few turns of Reluctant Enemies. Mark and Jason have played some OCS, but apparently haven’t done much with RE,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. Economically, turn 13 was fairly good. The Kzintis earned 94 EP, greater than their base economy of 93. This is kind of inevitable, as the slow expansion off off-map territories drives up income,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…