Inside GMT 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 GamerMark came over today, and we tried out No Question of Surrender, which I’ve had for more than a year now, and Mark just received in a recent MMP sale. I originally preordered it to try out the new Grand[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I have been wanting to do more with the French lately, and still want to see more of the good ol’ American 666, so we decided upon trying OA24 “Buying Time” from Out of the Attic 2, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had the gang over yesterday for a second go a Space Empires 4X. Jason couldn’t make it, so it was me, Mark, Dave and Patch. The latter two hadn’t played before, so there was some explanations, rules reading, and tiny[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the third 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 After Hearts of Iron, Paradox turned its[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, 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…