Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerPatch and I played the Battle of Olpae from Commands & Colors: Ancients Expansion #6 last night. The Spartans have a notably better force on-board, but the Athenians have four units and a leader who can pop out of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a while since I’ve said much about ArcheAge here. Some of that is my usual habit of wandering away after a little bit, even while Smudge continues on. And that did happen here, but…. Both Smudge and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis III. See the previous review here: Europa Universalis III: A Whole New World While Paradox planned for two expansions to Europa Universalis III, they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I wiped our broken saves a few days ago, and gave War in the North a second try. The good news is that we had no bugs and got through the end of the game last night. However,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark missed gaming on Sunday, but has gotten better, and came over for some long-overdue 2-player gaming. Trying to decide what to do the night before, we gravitated to the GCACW series, and then to Mark’s just-punched copy of Battle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over for one last game day of 2014 yesterday. We were scheduled for a five-player game of Advanced Civilization, but Mark was down with the flu. Normally, this would also strand Jason, who gets a ride from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Way, way back when, New World Computing released King’s Bounty; a game where you were a hero leading a band of hired mecenaries doing quests for the king. You visited towns to hire more men (there were a bunch of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossposted from the SFU blog on BGG. [See Part 1.] Patch and I did the second scenario of the UL2 mini-campaign this Tuesday. I knew, going in, that this was going to be bad. It wasn’t until I started looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked up the Heroes of Might and Magic V bundle in a GoG deal recently, and tried it out to see how the new ‘post 3DO’ games are. First gripe: Each expansion is a separate program with its own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m on my usual trip down south to see my parents, and hopefully get in some wargaming with my dad. After some discussion, he decided to try out the GCACW series. We went with the fourth scenario in Stonewall in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…