Ended up with something of a surprise gaming session with Jason and Mark this Saturday. After a little debate, we settled on a game of GMT’s Blackbeard, which hasn’t gotten to the table in quite a while. We went for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Had most of the regulars over on Saturday for our regular FtF gaming (Patch missed out by being ill; get better Patch!), going for Dominant Species this time. We did our usual method of handing out the animals randomly, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. As the war drags into its third year, Klingon occupation of Kzinti space earns a VP (actually, 0.1 comes from a province disrupted by the Lyrans). The grand total of 5.6 VP earned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted 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…
