Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerSince Surprise Package is a fairly quick scenario and has an interesting matchup, Patch decided to go for turning it around and playing it again, and he tried taking the USS Kublai out for a spin. My opening speed was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the one fight on the border in Y162 it was time to advance the campaign clock to Y163. I think both sides will end up with nearly everything available in a second campaign round, and there’s two of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up in Hatten, Patch and I swung around to Star Fleet Battles, moving to Y165. He looked over the scenarios, and picked the Klingons in “Surprise Package”. The original version of the scenario (back in Captain’s Log #1)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After defending central Italy, Mark and I moved over to Star Fleet Battles to get in a Y164 scenario, “Foxes in the Henhouse”. While it’s in Captain’s Log, it’s generally the scenario to show off the light monitor from R11.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had Jason over this last Sunday. Plans vibrated back and forth, so we ended up not quite as prepared as we could have been. At any rate, we ended up playing Last Hundred Yards. Jason had been working with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Facing 2:1 odds, but only about 4:3 by BPV, Star Fleet decides to try to put at least one Klingon ship out of action (possibly an E4, with proxes), and then leave, hopefully without taking more damage than can be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I summarized… over two years ago, I’ve taking out my frustrations over not having an opponent to keep up with a Star Fleet Battles campaign by soloing one by myself. Part of the point is to exercise the ruleset[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Patch managed to take back Hatten again, we went to the usual between-bigger-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients, this time with a scenario from Expansion #2. Sotium features an interesting mix of scattered terrain, and both sides are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our dogfight excursion, Mark and I returned to BCS, in the form of Danger Forward, the game included with the new Battalion S3 magazine. Having played BCS once, I found the magazine of limited use, as much of it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Patch retook a hill in North Africa, we returned to Hatten in Flames. Up this time was the final scenario of the set, “Fahrenheit 352”, featuring an American attack on the village and a couple Flam Hetzers. I decided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…