Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAfter finishing up our latest ASL game, Patch and I spend a couple weeks with our usual between-games round of Commands & Colors: Ancients. This time was the Battle of Paraitacene from Expansion #1. Both sides have a core of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the thirteenth 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…
Patch was wanting to see some regular American squads (as opposed to Elite 667 or 747s) in action for our next ASL game, so I looked through the new Yanks collection, and found 185 “Not Out of the Woods Yet”,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jason came over on August 11th to try out Commands & Colors: Medieval. He’d been the biggest promoter of CC:A in our group when it was new, so I wanted him to get to try out the new game. Somewhat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A while back, I got contacted by Tracey Love on BGG for a teaching game of ASL. He’s played the Starter Kits, and was in the middle of making the leap to the full system. This was an interesting experience[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch came over on July 28 for a little FtF gaming. First up was a game of Sekigahara, which we don’t do too often, but Patch always enjoys. By circumstance of how Patch set up the board, he had Ishida,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over for a game of Successors on July 15th. Or tried to; Mark was in no shape for driving, so it was down to me, Jason, and Dave. This is one of the four-player games I’m always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Crusader Kings II. See the original review here: Crusader Kings II: The Second Crusade With the release of The Republic, Paradox’s CK team mentioned that they had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark came over back on July 6th for one of our two-player days. It had been my ‘pick’, and I went for trying out my just-stickered copy of of Commands & Colors: Medieval. I’d gone through the rules, and had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, Smudge and I have beaten my estimated FF XIV schedule. Kind of. I figured we’d finish off post-Stormblood content about a month after Shadowbringers came out. We actually beat that by a couple of weeks, finishing off in mid-July.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…