Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsAfter “Absolut Markajarvi“, Martin and I returned to the early Yanks scenarios for our next PBeM game. Both of us had slowdowns (I’ll admit to having more consistent ones), so the game took far longer than it should have, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over on the 9th for a FtF two-player day. It was his pick, which naturally meant Last Hundred Yards. This is still my second session with it, but it generally impressed me as much this time as it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over for some one-on-one gaming back on the 28th. The main thing up for the day was to try out his Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles set. Neither one of us had ‘studied’ ahead of time, so we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back on the 26th, I managed to get Mark and Jason over for a three-player day. We tried out Mark’s copy of Versailles 1919 (Mark and I have a trial game of it on Vassal which is still on-going). It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bit ago Mark and I cycled back to Great War Commander with the final Mons scenario from the British expansion. After attacking last time, I had the British as they defend a large sanatorium where the battalion HQ is.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finally trying out U.S. Civil War, Mark and I went back to the “ZOC-bond” series to try out Normandy ’44. For the first time out, we did the seven-turn mini game, and I had the invading Allies. Unfortunately, after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Patch and I finished up in Budapest, it was time for another between-games bout of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Cynoscephalae from Expansion #1. Somewhat unexpectedly, the Romans have a unit of elephants,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last year, I had an itch to try out “The Admiral’s Game” campaign, especially as re-done by Jeremy Gray and Dale McKee, and reported on in “Day of the Eagle Comes Early” on ADB’s forum. So, I wrote up a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain’s Log #43 had a very interesting idea for the main story and associated SFB scenario. The premise is that the Romulans tested Federation neutral zone defenses in two groups. One was a single War Bird which got chased down[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, while talking about smaller games, I introduced Mark to the old Dwarfstar microgame line, which is largely available for free print-and-play, which also makes them good for Vassal play. We ended up trying the one game I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…