I possibly erronously understood that one of my brothers had an interest in the history of the US Civil War. As a bit of a prank, and possibly an aid for more historical reading, I gave him the latest edition of Simonich’s US Civil War GMT game. He...
November has been a hard month so far—no games at all until I was able to find some time with Josh C to get Heights of Courage on the table. The SCS game system is turning into a favorite of mine after three plays, but Josh has not played any hex-and...
Fields of Fire is on my list of games to play in 2025. Specifically, “play” as in the first scenario from the Vietnam campaign. Due to the intricacy of the system, I’ve decided to work through the tutorial scenarios first, as started with Platoon...
Had a nice visit with one of my usual opponents for Star Realms, and we put his copy of Frontiers on the table. Neither of us had played in quite a while.
I went first, and the first few rounds seemed pretty average, than he got a great run of low...
Chores are done for the Saturday, it’s been raining out there, which cut off a long walk, so, time for a Jump Drive.
As usual, the goal is a 6 turn win, which is 50 points or more by turn 6. This is not that easy to accomplish. My current win rate...
At the moment, I’m waiting on a service call return for the work VPN, which is not connecting this morning. Time to get in a 10 minute game of Jump Drive.
For this game, I went with a Blue strategy using an Explore token. It didn’t work, and I needed...
It’s Sunday afternoon, I’ve done some great walks today, time to wrap up the weekend starting with a fast game of Jump Drive. I’m catching up with the Absolutely Aces count which is currently at 116 plays.
This game went really well. I went with Galactic...
It’s been a busy summer, not much in the way of games. But there is a bit of slack in our schedules, so what better time than now to visit the east front and see what’s going on?
As it turns out, 11 Pz has been mauled and retreating south to safety...
I’ve been waiting all morning for a plumber to show up to fix the hot water side of the kitchen sink faucet. As it turns out, the original person can’t come, so while waiting for hopefully someone else to come in the afternoon, I thought I’d try to...
It’s been a while, time to play some Jump Drive. I was hoping to get several plays in a row to see if I could improve my scoring stats, but as I write this up I’ve been called back from furlough at work (for the third time), and really have to put...
After a 9 month hiatus, I’m back in gear for Lord of The Rings LCG. It’s been a busy year. Q1 had a bunch of life chores such as taxes amd many other necessary but completely forgettable tasks.
Playing Intruders in Chetwood cooperatively we beat it...
My usual collaborator and I met up again to take another crack at The Dread Realm, hoping to complete Angmar Awakened so we can progress to Dream Chaser. Our previous session was a complete disaster, but we had hogher hopes for this session after tuning...
My usual card-game colleague and I took another couple of cracks at The Dread Realm. It’s been a couple of months, and we forget which deck we were using. As a result, he went with one of my pre-built dwarf decks, and I used a Beorn deck he built for...
Games for the kids to play. Astoundingly, mom won both games. Which is great!
Not my favorite sort of game, but it’s good to have the kids involved in something which doesn’t have a screen. Not much else to say.
The Dread Realm… another round of Lord of the Rings, the living card game from Fantasy Flight Games!
JL and I got tired because Carn Dum kicked our ass so many times so we decided to jump into the drug realm without realizing that it was the third...
My usual opponent stopped by for some Avalon Hill Vintage game action. We do this once or twice a year, haul out the old school stuff.
Game 2.
We played the Showdown 1 with Scout, little Ernie, Doc Holliday, and Quiet Man. Despite some initial action...