Bright, warm, sunny, extremely still day. The surf would be glass if I were surfing. It was flat yesterday, so probably no loss today. And today is game day.

This is the third session of the Silver Bayonet full campaign: Operation Long Reach, with...

Time to continue The Dreamchaser with my usual heroic collaborator JL.

The following are notes which I took during the play for each games, into my Bishop Fox Moleskine notebook. The handwriting was then processed with OCR via ChatGPT. I have cleaned...

Labor Day Lord of the Rings! My usual collaborator and I finally found time after a very busy close of summer to continue The Dreamchaser. After four consecutive one-shots, we got stymied by The Thing in the Depth a couple of months ago, mainly because...

Our second session of the Silver Bayonet full campaign, Scenario 11, Operation Long Reach. I did not get a picture of the full map this session, just pictures of the bottom of Turn 7 so that we’ll be able to set it up for the next session, which is...

It’s a restless day. I’ve had a nasty cold the last few days of the current week, which has thrown me off my game for everything. A pity as the Monday was stellar, particularly for being a first day back from a week of travel. Between plane and airport...

We’re back after it, this time to finish up the first cycle of plays with Scenario 11, Operation Long Reach, the full campaign of 39 turns.

As usual I played FWA, opponent as usual taking the PAVN. ARVN is really outnumbered at the start, with forces...

Fourth of July #250! And for me a great day to spend with my usual LotR collaborator JL. He’s been traveling a lot, so it’s been a while since played.

First attempt: First thing we noticed about this quest is that the first stage only requires 4 progress...

PRC got their clock cleaned, not winning any points at all. Taipei is well-defended, and clearing operations went very poorly. While I’m very sure I did not play very well, it wasn’t even close, to the extent that the scenario doesn’t look even remotely...

Game 1.

The usual learning game, stumble through set up and rules. From 1979, the usual mix of bland counters and players aid with the garishness of the map did not lend itself to motivated entry. However, the rules are pretty easy to read, not overly...

Learning game which consisted mostly of stumbling around the counters and rules.

And we missed a lot of rules, even though it was a learning game with the simplest scenario.

We’ll get it back out later.

Disaster strikes! A horrible game, with horrible card draws and a Military strategy which never got off the ground. It took 8 rounds to get to 56 points. Sad. This was one of those games where “doing everything right” ended up in disaster.

The upshot...

An early morning game as I did not feel like getting deeply involved in programming this morning. The AI/Agent can suck down great gobs of time, and it can be difficult to keep work appropriately limited.

Games, however, have a start and a stop. Game...

Got a couple of games in this afternoon. I have been doing pretty well on scores and was hoping to increase my win rate. Sadly, this game was almost bad, and had I not gone for that single point card, it would have gone 8 rounds instead of the 50 points...

This was a win in 2 ways: I 56 points in 6 rounds, but even more important, I locked in a crazy combo: Replicant Robots following by Colony Convoy. That let me put down 2 Trendsetters on Turn 5 for total cost of 3 cards.

I need to look for more of...

Arab Israeli Wars, 49 years old now, and I believe I bought the game in high school. Interestingly, this would have been about 5 years after I bought PanzerBlitz. Since JC seems to be turning into a regular wargame opponent, and has cultural interest...