Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron 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 GamerThis is identified as one of the influences on Harry Potter, and it’s easy to see parallels with the start of that series. That said, the influence is less about Platform 9 3/4, and more for the initial characters. We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paradox’s latest game has been out for a week, and I’m actually going to go through my thoughts. It’ll be years before I get formally reviewing it. It might also be that long before I’m past ‘first impressions’. First off,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 1988, Osprey did a four-part series on the Nineteenth Century British Army by Michael Barthorp. I’ve only read part three, but I can say that it does stand well on its own. This volume covers from after the Crimean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is an older Osprey Men at Arms book, and has a few characteristics related to a 1977 release. First, it is something of a light guide to the history of the Mutiny. This would be better in an Essential[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the sixteenth 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…
The introduction to this book is interesting, as we find there is something of a path to this second book that leads through another book on to another. Essentially, Wrede wrote a sequel, then wrote a book in between (this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan’s, name is best remembered with the cardigan sweater. The person will forever be known as the man who led the Charge of the Light Brigade. At the time, he was already well known, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We begin in Jerusalem, where fights break out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre over whether Orthodox or Catholic priests had priority for their rituals when both versions of the calculation of Easter fell on the same day in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Aubrey/Maturin novel takes does a good job getting the balls back in the air. We start with Aubrey temporarily in command of a frigate watching Toulon as part of the Mediterranean blockade. Ordered back to Gibraltar, on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book two of The Expanse has the same outline structure. Bad things happen, a man becomes very single-focused obsessed with finding a missing person, he runs into James Holden, mayhem ensues. Structurally, it is different. We do change viewpoint characters,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…