Knowing when to cut and run is a great skill to have, because
there's nothing like continuing to invest in sunk cost projects.
Given a recent opportunity to cut my losses on the many in-draft
articles here on this site, I naturally decided to double...
Teaching game for JC. He got pretty good card
draws, and trounced me 56 to 39! He seemed to enjoy it
and may get a copy for himself to play during an upcoming
family visit.
(Game started March 10, 2025.)
I've been doing a bit of spreadsheet programming lately.
Both in terms of creating programs within spreadsheets,
and programmatically creating spreadsheets, specifically
on Google Drive. I'm paying for a Workspace account...
High Frontier with Politics and Terawatts! I had Nasrida, opponent
B612 Foundation.
Quick start with Core + 0 + 1 then 5 cycles. We both got out GW thrusters and
freighters. AW was able to promote to a TW thruster, which was pretty cool.
I took an...
This game went from really bad to almost good.
Another solitaire game, which went 7 rounds for 51 points.
Inspired by some discussion on the forums, I used an
Explore token for the first time in several years. I had
started with a Military strategy...
and I played Cadet Scenario #4 which intrroduces the
Energy Allocation Form, albeit in a reduced capacity.
I took the Klingons, JC the Federation to protect the
stranded Freighter Dakota. The game went 3 turns, with
the Federation making a successful...
Back to GBOH with my usual opponent, this time for Hoplite,
a new title for me, and probably the last title I will purchase
in this series. In fact I'm considering selling half of my
existing titles, and may only keep Hoplite and War Galley. I
like...
Another couple of Star Fleet Battles games, Scenarios 2 & 3 from
the Cadet Manual. This Cadet manual is working really well for us.
It's a programmed instruction, with just enough rules in each
scenario to demonstrate an important mechanic in game...
My usual HF opponent is on for a 5 cycle game of Core and
Module 0. We're going to try and bust this one out, so that
we can do 6 and 7 cycle games in a timely manner.
While we ended up getting a late start, around 2 pm, I had
the game already set...
Back at JC's for more Star Fleet Battles. This time we went for
the Cadet Manual programmed instruction, arguably where we should
have started in the first place. However, I think our first game
with Captain's Basic was probably correct, as it exposed...
Almost a 6 round win, 47 points. The opening
hand was all brown cards, which are not that easy
to acquire, so most of those went into the discard.
I also had a Galactic Federation, which is the card
awarding points to Developments. That seemed like...
This game went 7 rounds for 59 points. I didn't really
have any notable strategy. Not much to say with "meh"
games. The main win here is not going 8 rounds.
I don't really know how to learn this game, by which I
mean I don't understand a way to systematically...
Two games today, HFD Games Long Cruel Woman: the Attack
on Fire Base Mary Ann, and Star Realms.
I am slowly working my way through the HFD Games Vietnam
catalog, and Long Cruel Woman is on my Wargame Aspirations
for 2025 list.
My usual opponent really...
This was another great competitive game. I really enjoy
how the patent system works competitively, it's so much better
than how it works in the solitaire game.
My stack started out really crap, and I made the commitment
to just get something out there...
Another round of family games. We started with Risk: Lord
of the Rings edition, which wasn't too bad. It was a team
game with me and the dad dude as the Good Guys, and Stubabes
& Son as the Bad Guys. We got about 6 or 7 turns in, then
Stubabes won...
A choose your own adventure type game. Moderately interesting.
The idea is to find one's lost brother who has disappeared on
Mont Blanc while looking for lost Nazi treasure. Sort of a
stereotypical storyline, but it works well enough here.
Apparently...