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...