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 BootsOkay, I normally don’t do this, but it’s just too tempting: As you may have noticed, I really like Paradox’s grand strategy titles. I mean, I’ve even started writing a series of reviews of them, that I hope will manage[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the first review here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas After Europa Universalis II, Paradox Interactive stuck with what they had proven that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over for gaming on Sunday. Well, Patch and Jason at any rate (and Dave lives here…); Mark couldn’t make it. The day kind of snuck up on me, and I didn’t have any real plans set. Dave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, the last short ASL scenario was shorter than I expected, and so Patch and I were back for another CC:A scenario from Truceless War. This time, Hannibal’s Camp was up, which is certainly unusual. It’s the first time we’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch mentioned recently that he wanted to see the Americans in action again. I figured since we were still wanting to do some DASL, and I’ve been trying to go through more of the early scenarios, there should be something[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For me, 1997 represents a high water mark in computer gaming. Some of this is an accident of circumstance, where I had a fair amount of free time and money, and a roommate who shared my interests. But, for me,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“…and that’s it. This is the latest ASL scenario I’ve finished.” And so Patch gets a good die roll to end our current game the day after I said that. One last weekly post: A little while back, Patch and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, with a very long ASL game, and then another one that we needed to continue when that was done, it’s been a while since Patch and I have done any CC:A. So, tonight we played the battle of Hipparcritae[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over today, and we took the chance to use my French and Allied Minor counters in anger for the first time. (I’ve had Croix de Guerre for over 15 years by this point, and I’ve played with both nationalities[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Around the middle of last year, Patch and I played a couple FtF games of “Siesta Time” from Festung Budapest, only to realize late in the day, we had gotten the directions ninety degrees off. So we decided to play[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…