Dyson’s Dodecahedron 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 BootsNote: this post largely cribbed from comments on videogamegeek…. After losing as Rjak, I thought I’d play another game of Master of Magic as a default one-realm mage. In this case, I took Tauron, with 10 Chaos spell books and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Medieval-style fantasy has long had a strong hold on the imagination. It didn’t take long for fantasy to become a popular genre in computer games either. As various board wargame-derivative designs evolved during the ’80s, a fairly distinct genre that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: This post largely cribbed from posts on videogamegeek…. I’ve been a fan of Master of Magic since I discovered it maybe a decade ago (long after it was originally published). It’s great game, with some nice options. It does,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An approximate pattern for 4X games in general is to start out with a single base/settlement, move out, find valuable terrain and claim it with further bases, solidify borders to keep others away from the valuable bits you’ve found, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I returned to ASL and Budapest recently with the eighth (our tenth, after playing FB18 and 19) Festung Budapest scenario, “For Want of Crust or Crumb”. It’s an odd one. The Germans are trying to resupply the city[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been playing a fair amount of the old city-builder game Pharoah: Gold recently. (Bought it on sale at GoG at the beginning of the month.) And I’ve been pondering why. I have played SimCity. I have a copy of SimCity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over yesterday (the five regulars) for a game of Dominant Species. This was our first five-player game, and the first time Mark had played the game. We handed out random animals, and ended up with: Mark–Mammals, Jason—Reptiles,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I went through our usual round of CC:A recently, doing the revised Battle of Plataea from Expansion #6. (I think we’ve played this FtF before, but I’m not sure if it was 1 or 2 rounds, and it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch was over yesterday, and I introduced him to the Great Campaigns of the Civil War series with the same scenario I played against Mark in May (that long? yeesh), Kernstown. I had contemplated going for scenario 2 in Stonewall[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the seventh in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…