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Title: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on September 26, 2018, 09:20:38 AM
Not my table, but a great pic

https://twitter.com/Venthrac/status/1044939038103392256
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Post by: bbmike on September 26, 2018, 09:21:32 AM
Hey, I just received some of those counter trays!  :bigthumb:
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Post by: mirth on September 28, 2018, 10:09:39 AM
This is hawt

https://twitter.com/Adam_Clark_/status/1043635744571641857
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Post by: bob48 on September 28, 2018, 10:16:10 AM
That looks very good!
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Post by: bayonetbrant on September 28, 2018, 10:34:30 AM
"we haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner. Sorry!"
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Post by: bayonetbrant on September 28, 2018, 10:38:28 AM
dang...  the whole thing is out there

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Post by: mirth on September 28, 2018, 10:40:32 AM
Sweet
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Post by: BanzaiCat on September 28, 2018, 05:18:58 PM
Bought an unpunched copy of Light Division for $25.

I eyed this title MANY times back in the old game store I used to frequent in the late 80s. Kept wanting to buy it, but never did. Saw it for cheap on Amazon while I was about to get Ukraine '43, but I figured this would be easier to get into. I already have Holland '44 with me and haven't had time to mess with it yet, so I should probably wait on U'43.

(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/imagepage/img/0cJsep0NbiyizjN6-i50mLkS6VU=/fit-in/900x600/filters:no_upscale()/pic199210.jpg)

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Post by: bbmike on September 28, 2018, 05:44:39 PM
Wait, didn't you have a poll somewhere around here on what buy next?  :D
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Post by: Cyrano on September 28, 2018, 11:57:57 PM
Wrapped up -- two weeks late -- my 206th Anniversary Bordino replays (C&C:N).

Now having hard at Shako's 1806 for an ACD review.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on September 30, 2018, 11:50:07 AM
So many things...

(http://i.imgur.com/hXXYBzch.jpg) (https://imgur.com/hXXYBzc)

(http://i.imgur.com/tLikaE8h.jpg) (https://imgur.com/tLikaE8)

(http://i.imgur.com/NZsG55ah.jpg) (https://imgur.com/NZsG55a)

(http://i.imgur.com/8Ixn0ORh.jpg) (https://imgur.com/8Ixn0OR)
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Post by: bob48 on September 30, 2018, 11:53:19 AM
Looks good, Doug - have you had chance to play it yet?

I've been really impressed by the stuff from Hexasim.
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Post by: panzerde on September 30, 2018, 12:08:29 PM
Looks good, Doug - have you had chance to play it yet?

I've been really impressed by the stuff from Hexasim.

Still punching and clipping. It looks like the system is pretty similar to ATO's Lilliburlero (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/64142/lilliburlero-battle-boyne-july-1690), which I love. The maps look really nice. Hoping to get a crack at it today.
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Post by: panzerde on September 30, 2018, 12:12:06 PM
Oh yeah, this too:

(http://i.imgur.com/TFvEUy0h.png) (https://imgur.com/TFvEUy0)
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Post by: bbmike on September 30, 2018, 02:40:31 PM
So many things...

...

(http://i.imgur.com/tLikaE8h.jpg) (https://imgur.com/tLikaE8)
...

Nice dice tower!  :bigthumb:
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Post by: BanzaiCat on September 30, 2018, 06:59:19 PM
Wait, didn't you have a poll somewhere around here on what buy next?  :D

Yeah and it still is at the top of my list. Meanwhile, this came too.

(https://52f4e29a8321344e30ae-0f55c9129972ac85d6b1f4e703468e6b.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/products/pictures/178333.jpg)

While U'43 is at the top, I gotta think in terms of my current living situation. I can't exactly drag out a huge-map hex-and-counter wargame and do it in one sitting. :(
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Post by: bayonetbrant on September 30, 2018, 07:09:01 PM
Yeah and it still is at the top of my list. Meanwhile, this came too.

(https://52f4e29a8321344e30ae-0f55c9129972ac85d6b1f4e703468e6b.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/products/pictures/178333.jpg)

I would sooooo love to give that one a whirl with you
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Post by: BanzaiCat on September 30, 2018, 07:13:34 PM
You've been wanting it? Me too, for a while now, but it was always stupidly priced.

I think GMT is selling it for $35 right now (https://www.gmtgames.com/p-236-blackbeard-the-golden-age-of-piracy-2nd-printing.aspx), which isn't bad at all.
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Post by: mirth on September 30, 2018, 07:34:06 PM
So you just bought two games, neither of which were in your poll of what to buy next? And you have the nerve to call me a game whore...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 30, 2018, 07:52:02 PM
When cleaning out my email the other day, I found my secret Santa gift from 2017 which is a$50 gift card for GMT. That'll cover Blackbeard on sale plus shipping. Now if I can just get the damn website to recognize my password.

"Thanks" to BC for pointing out the sale, you schmuck...
 :whistle:
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Post by: bbmike on September 30, 2018, 08:20:31 PM
So you just bought two games, neither of which were in your poll of what to buy next? And you have the nerve to call me a game whore...

 :ROFL:
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Post by: BanzaiCat on September 30, 2018, 08:29:40 PM
Game whoreness is like a storm. You never know which way the winds will blow.

I wasn't expecting to see either of these recent acquisitions on sale. (Yep, there's another one I haven't said anything about yet. Oh, and two more I got today, both on sale.)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on October 08, 2018, 12:20:14 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/L6KripM.jpg)

I'm graduating from ASLSK to full ASL.

Beyond Valor has 13.5 sheets of counters.  My forearms are going to be the size of Popeye's when I'm done clipping all those corners.
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Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2018, 12:21:26 PM
...don't let Vance see that - he'll have a heart attack!
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 12:24:00 PM
...don't let Vance see that - he'll have a heart attack!

He's probably curled up in a ball, sobbing.
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Post by: bayonetbrant on October 08, 2018, 12:41:03 PM
He's probably curled up in a ball


don't those have rounded corners?
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 12:43:52 PM
He's probably curled up in a ball


don't those have rounded corners?

he's totally screwed.
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Post by: trailrunner on October 08, 2018, 01:29:39 PM
...don't let Vance see that - he'll have a heart attack!

I don't know who Vance is, but I guess he doesn't like clipped counters?  Or ASL?
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Post by: bayonetbrant on October 08, 2018, 01:40:06 PM
...don't let Vance see that - he'll have a heart attack!

I don't know who Vance is, but I guess he doesn't like clipped counters?  Or ASL?


Vance = Barthheart
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2018, 01:46:43 PM
He's they guy on the left.

(http://www.aarcentral.com/pics2/pic3213197.png)
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Post by: trailrunner on October 08, 2018, 01:53:32 PM
He's they guy on the left.

(http://www.aarcentral.com/pics2/pic3213197.png)

 
Aha.  One meme is worth a thousand words.
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Post by: Cyrano on October 08, 2018, 02:05:02 PM
 :2funny:
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 02:18:55 PM
Vance = Barthheart

aka Filthy Canuck Hippie
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Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2018, 02:27:14 PM
Yeah, but he's our Filthy Canuck Hippie
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 03:34:13 PM
Sorry, I wasn't trying to edit your post. Was trying to quote it, but I'm on my phone.

I probably shouldn't have admin powers :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2018, 03:52:15 PM
You need a drink.
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Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2018, 03:54:09 PM
Let me get one for myself as well...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 04:03:42 PM
You need a drink.

Waaaay ahead of ya
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Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2018, 04:12:13 PM
You need a drink.

Waaaay ahead of ya

 :bigthumb:
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Post by: trailrunner on October 08, 2018, 04:21:28 PM
Sorry, I wasn't trying to edit your post. Was trying to quote it, but I'm on my phone.

I probably shouldn't have admin powers :P

Oh geez.  The inmates are running the asylum.  Now you tell me.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on October 08, 2018, 04:25:09 PM
(http://www.okmoviequotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3-Apocalypse-Now-quotes.gif)

Youse all are degenerates.  :tickedoff:

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Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2018, 04:26:23 PM
^^You mean.............you didn't know?

..........another one who missed the small print and the warning notices................
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 04:27:36 PM
Sorry, I wasn't trying to edit your post. Was trying to quote it, but I'm on my phone.

I probably shouldn't have admin powers :P

Oh geez.  The inmates are running the asylum.  Now you tell me.

You wanna be an admin? Please say, "Yes".
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on October 08, 2018, 04:39:39 PM
You wanna be an admin? Please say, "Yes".

I'm not qualified.  I'm too sober.
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Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2018, 04:40:03 PM
Ha!
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2018, 04:49:58 PM
You wanna be an admin? Please say, "Yes".

I'm not qualified.  I'm too sober.
Well played.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on October 08, 2018, 06:27:57 PM
(https://d3d7qmccklvqbw.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/when-you-tell-me-you-are-just-having-one-drink-funny-meme-picture.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2018, 06:43:45 PM
Off to find a glass of Buchanan's Deluxe.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 09, 2018, 08:17:05 AM
Like you're going off on safari for months to find one...methinks it's but mere steps away. ;)
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Post by: bbmike on October 09, 2018, 08:57:10 AM
If giant, alien cats do not intervene I will fight The Battle of Albuera 1811. It just arrived from White Dog Games and is almost ready to go. This one is touted as the first entry in their "A Lines of Battle Game" series. I like White Dog Games stuff so far and I look forward to trying this!

(http://www.aarcentral.com/pics2/IMG_3364.jpg)

(http://www.aarcentral.com/pics2/IMG_3368.jpg)
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Post by: bob48 on October 09, 2018, 08:59:57 AM
Interesting map.
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Post by: Cyrano on October 09, 2018, 09:45:07 AM
It's an interesting design that I've not yet had a chance to poke at.

I don't know about Mike's copy, but mine had one of the wilder odors I've ever had from a game...something in the counter-making process I imagine.

The layout is inspired by Simmons' two classics "Bonaparte at Marengo" and "Napoleon's Triumph" with irregularly-shaped spaces formed of "approaches" that are used to regulate movement and combat and allow for terrain.

As I say, I haven't had a chance to go at it and I'm interested to hear your thoughts, Mike.
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Post by: bbmike on October 09, 2018, 10:39:50 AM
I think it is the counters that cause the odor. Don't Tread on Me was the same way.
The area "approaches" concept looks interesting.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on October 09, 2018, 11:41:35 AM
I set it up, but we didn't end up playing it. We'll give it another try soon.

Like Hollandspiele, White Dog uses Blue Panther for print on demand. The inks haven't really cured when they ship the games so they tend to be pretty pungent.
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Post by: Pinetree on November 15, 2018, 11:40:34 PM
Play from a little drinkers with a wargaming problem con I attended in Sydney a few weeks ago:

Crusader scenario from DAK2. This was a learning game for all of us, we kept it set up for the whole weekend and subbed in and out while playing other games:
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/large/img/oRj44JCv040Vv3Y_FSPOI8h-Z0U=/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:no_upscale()/pic4353021.jpg)

Upfront. My first time playing this, it was great fun:
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/large/img/XZ4i0kTD_HUezPz9m7IUPt_EzXc=/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:no_upscale()/pic4353197.jpg)

Triumph and Tragedy. Our late night,boozy game. We'd just started the war when we ran out of booze time (Fingers added for effect):
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/large/img/o8yIX7JTYwtn1fNANckCRUeO6Wg=/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:no_upscale()/pic4354251.jpg)

Maori Wars. Pretty easy mechanics and lots of chaos (finger for scale):
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/large/img/pFue3VjT5ncGkc_ANp_mtuXkLnQ=/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:no_upscale()/pic4355939.jpg)

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Post by: Cyrano on November 15, 2018, 11:55:00 PM
Straight brilliant!
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2018, 02:51:07 AM
Straight brilliant!

+1
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Post by: Bison on March 07, 2019, 10:43:37 PM
Played six person game of Bolt Action this evening.  Eastern Front 1941 scenario. Germans held the objectives at the end. Most interesting unit on the table was a Soviet Army dog mine anti-tank team.
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Post by: chemkid on March 15, 2019, 10:24:22 AM
After my retirement party on March 30th with an entire pig and beer - I can put stuff back on my gaming table.  Probably going to set up Mansions of Madness and play it with my wife as the first game up.

you don't share... do you?!  :2funny:

(https://www.mightytraveliers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/asterix-obelix-franz%c3%b6sischer-comic.jpeg)

...have fun, enjoy your retirement (... soon.) - お疲れ様です!!
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 15, 2019, 12:07:44 PM
The Dark Sands: War in North Africa (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sands-North-Africa-1940-42/dp/B07LGF5T64) looks intriguing as heck. Unfortunately my game table is too small to handle it.

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Post by: bob48 on March 15, 2019, 12:19:36 PM
Same here! I've been following it and it does look great, but its too big for my table :-(
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Post by: mirth on March 15, 2019, 12:21:09 PM
Dark Sands is on my list.

And I just order the France 1940 Expansion for Panzer  :idiot2:
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Post by: bob48 on March 15, 2019, 12:21:35 PM
:-(
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 15, 2019, 12:51:14 PM


And I just order the France 1940 Expansion for Panzer  :idiot2:

I wish I could get into it, but it's so expensive.

Does it (and MBT) lend themselves to solo play?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 15, 2019, 01:06:00 PM
I wouldn't consider them solo friendly
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 15, 2019, 01:22:39 PM
Didn't think so. Shame, they look great.
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Post by: mirth on March 16, 2019, 05:17:30 AM
Apparently, I was wrong about solo play in Panzer. The France 1940 Expansion (the one I just ordered) has a section for solitaire rules:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2146864/out-box-glimpse-solo-rules

https://rockymountainnavy.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/solo-wargame-solitaire-rules-in-panzer-expansion-nr-4-france-1940-gmtgames-2018/

Problem is, you need the base game to play the expansion.
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2019, 08:04:09 AM
Good to know- I'd thought of buying the France expansion during the last sale. I do have the base game.
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Post by: mirth on March 16, 2019, 08:18:20 AM
Miniature Market has it for $44 with a $6 shipping option.

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/gmt1817.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o1&scid=scplpGMT1817&sc_intid=GMT1817&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq9-ntNGG4QIV0lqGCh1CsATTEAkYASABEgLebPD_BwE
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 16, 2019, 10:49:04 AM
Not bad...$50 there compared to $69.99 on Amazon with Prime.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 16, 2019, 10:50:40 AM
Actually, never mind. That's the France 1940 expansion. Currently the base game is $150. Price gougers!
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2019, 01:16:06 PM
Miniature Market has it for $44 with a $6 shipping option.

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/gmt1817.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o1&scid=scplpGMT1817&sc_intid=GMT1817&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq9-ntNGG4QIV0lqGCh1CsATTEAkYASABEgLebPD_BwE

aaaaand that was that.  (https://i.gifer.com/E1v7.gif)

Thanks a lot...
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Post by: bob48 on March 16, 2019, 02:32:24 PM
I'm so tempted by Holland '44. I assume there is a Vassal mod for it
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2019, 03:03:19 PM
I'm so tempted by Holland '44. I assume there is a Vassal mod for it

http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Holland_%2744:_Operation_Market-Garden

 :)
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Post by: bob48 on March 16, 2019, 03:09:35 PM
 ;D Not sure if I should thank you or curse you!  :bigthumb:
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2019, 03:28:35 PM
Just passing Mirth's enablings forward...  ;)
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Post by: mirth on March 16, 2019, 03:30:02 PM
 :bigthumb:
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on March 16, 2019, 05:03:14 PM
I kickstarted DVG's Warfighter WWII Pacific and it showed up in the mail yesterday.  Haven't had a chance to do much other than have a quick look through all the cards in the base set (I also added a bunch of extra decks for the base game but haven't opened any of those yet).   Hopefully I'll get a chance to get to it on Monday or Tuesday.
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Post by: bbmike on March 16, 2019, 05:13:01 PM
I kickstarted DVG's Warfighter WWII Pacific and it showed up in the mail yesterday.  Haven't had a chance to do much other than have a quick look through all the cards in the base set (I also added a bunch of extra decks for the base game but haven't opened any of those yet).   Hopefully I'll get a chance to get to it on Monday or Tuesday.

I should be getting that soon too. I can't wait to play it.  :bigthumb:
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Post by: BanzaiCat on March 16, 2019, 07:45:45 PM
I received a copy of it as well, along with a butt-ton of expansion card packs. I haven't had time to even open it yet. My son just got here late last night so maybe he'd be interested in giving it a spin though I doubt it - he's not much of a gamer. :(
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on March 17, 2019, 12:21:28 AM
I'd recommend going through your order and double checking that you received everything.  I'm missing one deck short from my order (US Airborne), missing one deckbox divider,  and have some cards from the core set that didn't print correctly.
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Post by: mirth on March 19, 2019, 01:27:19 PM
Miniature Market has it for $44 with a $6 shipping option.

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/gmt1817.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o1&scid=scplpGMT1817&sc_intid=GMT1817&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq9-ntNGG4QIV0lqGCh1CsATTEAkYASABEgLebPD_BwE (https://www.miniaturemarket.com/gmt1817.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o1&scid=scplpGMT1817&sc_intid=GMT1817&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq9-ntNGG4QIV0lqGCh1CsATTEAkYASABEgLebPD_BwE)

aaaaand that was that.  (https://i.gifer.com/E1v7.gif)

Thanks a lot...

got a tracking update on my copy. Should be here Friday. Not bad since I chose the "slow" shipping option.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 19, 2019, 03:03:45 PM
I trying to decide between Path of Glory or Empire of the Sun to delve into next. Empire of the Sun has a solo-gamer option and there is a decent variant for Path of Glory. The real purpose it to work through the rules to teach a friend and of course justify the expense.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2019, 03:04:27 PM
Empire of the Sun...Do it!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 19, 2019, 03:17:03 PM
I am leaning in that direction, but I recently read some World War I books and visited the museum.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on March 19, 2019, 04:01:10 PM
I just didn’t jive with the Empire rules and game play. Looks great and rules are straightforward... but just didn’t click....
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Post by: mirth on March 19, 2019, 04:01:52 PM
I just didn’t jive with the Empire rules and game play. Looks great and rules are straightforward... but just didn’t click....

commie
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on March 19, 2019, 04:03:54 PM
Cards don’t belong in real man war games.  :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2019, 04:06:48 PM
Cards don’t belong in real man war games.  :P

I don't disagree with that. The proliferation of card mechanics in war games is disappointing.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 19, 2019, 04:08:13 PM
I tend to agree with that, but there again, I'm an old traditionalist.

...with emphasis on the 'old'  :'(
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on March 19, 2019, 05:26:20 PM
Cards don’t belong in real man war games.  :P

Huh, I don't know about that. We should look for some real men and ask them.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on March 19, 2019, 05:27:45 PM
Cards don’t belong in real man war games.  :P

Huh, I don't know about that. We should look for some real men and ask them.

They're easy to find... they build their own gaming tables....  :hehe:
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on March 19, 2019, 06:20:02 PM
I finally finished painting up my mid-late war stuff for Tanks (still got all the desert stuff to do) so we decided to have a quick bash.  Soviets attacking a German bunker.


Soviet initial moves.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7810/40457305793_5870d2f67f_h.jpg)





German initial moves

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7816/32481014507_b729dabb8d_h.jpg)



The StuG and the PzKw IV took on the SU-85 and lost.  They both brewed up on ammo explosion crits.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7926/47422919751_c1056dd3c8_h.jpg)



The SU-152 tried to stay hidden in hopes of being able to get close and rock the bunker with some HE but it wasn't to be.  It lost a track while crossing between cover and the Jadgpanther made short work of it after that.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7860/32481014227_1485ef17c0_h.jpg)



The Jagdpanther was absolutely deadly in this game, knocking out 3 of the 5 Soviet units and taking only slight damage in return.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7814/32481014337_56a350aa78_h.jpg)


The IS-2 tried taking on the Jadgpanther and a Panther G at the same time.  It knocked the Panther out in a few hits but got hammered by the return fire and died early.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7848/40457305823_fdea2a8902_h.jpg)


German victory with the Pagdpanther barely damaged and the bunker untouched.  StuG, Panther, and PzKw IV dead.  Soviets lost all 5 vehicles.  SU-85, SU-152, T-34-85 x 2, and IS-2.

 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 19, 2019, 06:21:08 PM
Looks great!  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 19, 2019, 06:26:18 PM
I enjoy playing  card driven wargames. The GMT games are well designed and cover a wide range of wars .  More importantly they don’t require a huge table and can be completed in a long game session or two.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 19, 2019, 06:30:43 PM
Nice table SDR!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2019, 06:32:15 PM
I enjoy playing  card driven wargames. The GMT games are well designed and cover a wide range of wars .  More importantly they don’t require a huge table and can be completed in a long game session or two.

Stick with your Wheat Orgies :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 19, 2019, 06:36:50 PM
I enjoy playing  card driven wargames. The GMT games are well designed and cover a wide range of wars .  More importantly they don’t require a huge table and can be completed in a long game session or two.

Stick with your Wheat Orgies :P

Uh...what the best brand of tofu hot dog?  :nerd:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2019, 07:25:41 PM
I enjoy playing  card driven wargames. The GMT games are well designed and cover a wide range of wars .  More importantly they don’t require a huge table and can be completed in a long game session or two.

Stick with your Wheat Orgies :P

Uh...what the best brand of tofu hot dog?  :nerd:

LightLife Smartdogs :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 19, 2019, 09:01:00 PM
Uh...what the best brand of tofu hot dog?  :nerd:

LightLife Smartdogs :P




Trick question - they all suck
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2019, 11:06:10 AM
Uh...what the best brand of tofu hot dog?  :nerd:

LightLife Smartdogs :P


Trick question - they all suck


you suck
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2019, 11:09:03 AM
My copy of the France 1940 Panzer expansion arrives today!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 21, 2019, 11:15:42 AM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on March 21, 2019, 11:16:01 AM
Does it go on top of the pile or at the bottom?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 21, 2019, 11:19:30 AM
I should think that the ones on the bottom of the pile are in serious danger of being crushed by the weight of the ones above  >:D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2019, 11:32:39 AM
I should think that the ones on the bottom of the pile are in serious danger of being crushed by the weight of the ones above  >:D

I have to keep shifting them around :P


Fedex just notified me that it was delivered!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on March 21, 2019, 11:34:20 AM
What's your address?  :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2019, 11:35:28 AM
What's your address?  :whistle:

Nice try ;)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on March 21, 2019, 11:39:45 AM
 >:D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 21, 2019, 12:12:18 PM
What's your address?  :whistle:

Nice try ;)

...but no free games..................
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 21, 2019, 06:45:48 PM
I'd REALLY like to pull the trigger on U-BOOT The Board Game, but damn, it's $120 on Amazon. :(
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2019, 06:51:52 PM
I'd REALLY like to pull the trigger on U-BOOT The Board Game, but damn, it's $120 on Amazon. :(

Waiting for it to drop to $119.99?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 21, 2019, 07:11:51 PM
No. I need to be really careful over the next few months. I just added a pool to my mortgage.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on March 21, 2019, 07:17:13 PM
Like that's going to stop you from buying more games.  ::)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 21, 2019, 07:19:52 PM
No, but I need to be careful with the credit cards.

I'd put a lot on one back when I moved everyone in February. My credit rating dropped like a rock but should go back up now that I've almost paid it off. It dropped much further than I thought it would, compared to when they took the house off my credit report.

I'm paranoid about using the credit cards now. The P500s I've backed, I'm not worried about because I know they won't hit before I move into the new place.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 23, 2019, 04:35:20 PM
hawt


(https://i.imgur.com/5UazMUX.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 23, 2019, 04:41:17 PM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 23, 2019, 06:09:55 PM
Turns out I don't own the Panzer base game. Or if I do, I don't know which pile it's in  :idiot2:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 23, 2019, 06:35:04 PM
Time for a stock check one thinks!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on March 23, 2019, 06:37:17 PM
Mine just showed up today as well.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 23, 2019, 06:38:33 PM
Or if I do, I don't know which pile it's in  :idiot2:


I vote this one
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 23, 2019, 06:39:32 PM
It's a real possibility.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 23, 2019, 07:10:03 PM
I thought we all developed Smaug-like senses and knew immediately if any of our games had been moved or was missing.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 23, 2019, 07:14:19 PM
It's a little out of control here. I need to do an inventory.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 23, 2019, 07:21:09 PM
Time for a stock check one thinks!

What a good idea!

Why didn't I think of that?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 23, 2019, 07:59:46 PM
Time for a stock check one thinks!

What a good idea!

Why didn't I think of that?

I hope you don't think I read everything you post :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 23, 2019, 10:48:17 PM
Turns out I don't own the Panzer base game. Or if I do, I don't know which pile it's in  :idiot2:

Fine let me know when your ready to mail Panzer France to me. I’ll get you my address.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 24, 2019, 08:31:23 AM
Time for a stock check one thinks!

What a good idea!

Why didn't I think of that?

I hope you don't think I read everything you post :P

I should hope not. You have more important things to do - like sorting out your games collection, or maybe even taking the shrink off of 'em  >:D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on March 24, 2019, 08:54:14 AM
I'm going to clip counters for At Any Cost today ;)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on March 24, 2019, 08:56:03 AM
I'm going to clip counters for At Any Cost today ;)

 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 24, 2019, 09:07:38 AM
I'm going to clip counters for At Any Cost today ;)

I've done all mine, and had it on the table several times, although only played smaller scenarios as of yet. It really is an excellent game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 25, 2019, 07:35:55 AM
I put SpaceCorp by GMT on my table yesterday; was glad I did. The solo game's rules are a fast read and getting through the first (Mariners) era is just as quick. So much so that I need to go back through the manual to be sure I didn't miss anything.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on March 25, 2019, 12:17:38 PM
I was looking at Space Corp... but my game budget was taking a beating at the time.
Hope to pick up a copy at Origins.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on April 14, 2019, 02:04:48 PM
The Dark Valley game yesterday. This thing is a proper beast. The mounted maps are gorgeous!


(https://i.imgur.com/h9GQZEJ.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/fZYDZrT.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/xKUag0T.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/e8XAXkd.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/9FY8dCS.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/m0WDq2r.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 15, 2019, 09:21:42 AM
Yum!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on April 15, 2019, 11:46:21 AM
Dang, that's a lot of counters needing to be clipped. 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on April 15, 2019, 11:57:09 AM
Dang, that's a lot of counters needing to be clipped.

Five sheets worth.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 15, 2019, 04:49:52 PM
What?!? No cards to sleeve? Travesty.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 15, 2019, 06:14:21 PM
Do you sleeve your cards, Bison? I never got into that,  not because I disagree but because I just don't see a need unless the game is played all the time.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 15, 2019, 08:48:12 PM
As a general rule of thumb I do.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on April 15, 2019, 10:41:41 PM
There are charts to laminate
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on April 15, 2019, 10:55:46 PM
There are charts to laminate

"Conan! What is good in life?"

"To laminate charts, to clip your corners, and to hear the lamentations of Vance!"
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 16, 2019, 04:42:52 AM
Amen, brother.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on April 16, 2019, 08:59:14 AM
"Conan! What is good in life?"

"To laminate charts, to clip your corners, and to hear the lamentations of Vance!"

Yes. That is good.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 16, 2019, 11:00:42 AM
We have heard the lamentations of Vance since the oceans drank Atlantis...

;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 20, 2019, 12:14:35 AM
I think I’m on the hook to teach a game to some kids tomorrow and I’m feeling like an area control game. So I’ll either be teaching them El Grande or Kemet. Or since they all have played some MtG, I’ll break out the cube and teach them how to draft and build decks from a seemingly random pool of cards.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2019, 07:01:26 AM
That makes me want to did my cards out. Its been a while since I played.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 20, 2019, 08:21:44 AM
That makes me want to did my cards out. Its been a while since I played.

Break them out, make some tea, and play some cards with the  missus. Try a few games of Winston draft. It’s a wonderful way to play.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/winston-draft-2005-03-25
The article is not the best description but it gives you the general idea. There are some good videos on YouTube demonstrating Winston drafting. The best part is as long as you have a small collection of generally equal numbers of cards for each color-you have all the card pool you’ll ever need.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2019, 08:34:13 AM
Nice one! Thanks, Bison, I'll give that a try. :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 20, 2019, 08:44:59 AM
I hope you give it a try. Despite the hate and the justified criticism of expense, MtG is a brilliant game. I played a four player game of commander last night with the kids and my wife. Good times. Typical results dog pile on dad until he’s knocked out of the game. My vampire deck was performing exquisitely until the board wipes and round after round of attrition took their toil.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2019, 10:02:00 AM
I think its a pity that the game gets such a lot of hate from some gamers. At its core, it really is a good game despite the fact that it can cost a lot if you go down the collectors road, but that applies for many other game systems as well.

I look at a lot of the, in some cases, very expensive board games out there, especially 'none wargame' ones (no names, no pack drill), the cost of which would by you more than enough cards for hours of play. Some of the deck builders pack actually represent good value, its only when you look at older editions that you see the price escalate, some time by quite an amount, and obviously targeted at collectors.

We have around 1000 cards, none of which are later than maybe the 8th edition, and going back to 'Portal' and early stuff. One of the great things about MtG is that the core rules have, as far as I'm aware, stayed pretty stable over the years, and all the cards we have in our modest collection are compatible, regardless of the edition to which they belong.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 20, 2019, 10:25:22 AM
I would love to play with your collection. I really enjoy the art and mechanics of the older blocks. My cube is 720 common cards mostly from 2002 onward. Really inexpensive. And I’m constantly researching how to change it. If I decide to replace a card, the cost is most likely about 10 cents. My next big update I’m considering is replacing 40 of the multi-color cards with another 8 cards of each of the primary colors. Total cost will be maybe...maybe $5. So there are very cost effective means of playing the game. A bulk lot of a 1000 cards can be purchased for less than $20. The best cards in the game? No. A great cheap collection to play?  Yes. And a cube of a 1000 cards results in millions of variations of card combinations. Get bored with the same cards? A few dollars on a deck builders toolkit or another bulk lot and you have new variety.

The cost is really associated with collectors and players investing in older or format specific power cards. IMO the increasing use of net decking is driving up prices for specific cards in constructed formats like legacy, modern, and standard. It’s also starting to effect prices on Commander and pauper format “staples.” It’s unfortunate but as you said high cost exists in many gaming hobbies. Try buying an out of print ASL module. The expense is there too.

Anyway I could drone on about how to play MtG on the cheap or my favorite formats....
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 20, 2019, 10:27:24 AM
Bison, PM your mailing address
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 20, 2019, 10:28:19 AM
Yes, Bawb, I've still got an envelope here for you, too


 :doh:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2019, 10:39:01 AM
Oh?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2019, 10:47:37 AM
Bison, we actually started a with small 80 card set that was given away with a PC game - 'Majesty' I think it was. We liked it so much that we then brought what was the current started set - edition 5 If memory serves.

We periodically added a few booster packs and then a couple of 'Fat Packs', which used to include a magazine and was quite good value for money. We also picked up the boxed 'Battle Royale' set in a sale somewhere and that added a lot of stuff to what we already had. Not purchased anything for a while, although I keep looking at what comes out.

I need to get Mrs B playing again!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 20, 2019, 11:21:25 AM
My tactic is to just put the cards on the table, brew a pot of coffee, and then announce I’ve setup the game as requested! Usually results in and eye roll and a “what the hell are you talking about?”...I feign amnesia...and then the game gets played.  It’s a technique and hasn’t resulted in too many head lumps or a divorce...yet.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 20, 2019, 11:25:21 AM
Good idea! I 'll hide any large cooking implements before I try it though....................... :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2019, 04:16:55 PM
Loot from yesterday's trip to the FLGS.


(https://i.imgur.com/xiO8W33.jpg)


The kids each picked a game (5-Minute Marvel & Gonuts for Donuts). The Starfinder Beginner box was on my list and just released. I grabbed Mille Bornes to play with the kids (it's a game I loved playing as a kid).


Thunder Alley is not at all the type of thing I normally buy,  but I've played it and it's pretty good. The shop had it for $25 new and that's a very good price. At least $10-15 below what you could find from even the discount outfits.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 21, 2019, 05:41:16 PM
Paizo makes some of the best beginner boxes.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2019, 05:53:20 PM
Paizo makes some of the best beginner boxes.

Word.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on April 21, 2019, 07:58:36 PM
I got in a game of Mega Civilization yesterday at a local game store. There were 9 of us in total, playing on the Western half of the board with an advanced start. Normally you start with one guy on the map and that's it. In this case, everyone started with 5 cities, multiple units and a set of 4 technologies. I was the Minoans (Iberia, the Celts, Carthage, Rome, Egypt, Hellas, Assyria and the Hatti are the other 8 civs on the western board). I think they would be a bit more interesting to play from the very beginning, but I was absolutely hemmed in with the advanced start. I really enjoyed it, though. The trading is interesting, I like the use of the same tokens to represent both units and currency in your treasury. In all, it took about 7 hours to play.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 21, 2019, 08:03:41 PM
I got in a game of Mega Civilization yesterday at a local game store. There were 9 of us in total, playing on the Western half of the board with an advanced start. Normally you start with one guy on the map and that's it. In this case, everyone started with 5 cities, multiple units and a set of 4 technologies. I was the Minoans (Iberia, the Celts, Carthage, Rome, Egypt, Hellas, Assyria and the Hatti are the other 8 civs on the western board). I think they would be a bit more interesting to play from the very beginning, but I was absolutely hemmed in with the advanced start. I really enjoyed it, though. The trading is interesting, I like the use of the same tokens to represent both units and currency in your treasury. In all, it took about 7 hours to play.


that sounds like a ton of fun
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on April 21, 2019, 08:18:26 PM
I got in a game of Mega Civilization yesterday at a local game store. There were 9 of us in total, playing on the Western half of the board with an advanced start. Normally you start with one guy on the map and that's it. In this case, everyone started with 5 cities, multiple units and a set of 4 technologies. I was the Minoans (Iberia, the Celts, Carthage, Rome, Egypt, Hellas, Assyria and the Hatti are the other 8 civs on the western board). I think they would be a bit more interesting to play from the very beginning, but I was absolutely hemmed in with the advanced start. I really enjoyed it, though. The trading is interesting, I like the use of the same tokens to represent both units and currency in your treasury. In all, it took about 7 hours to play.


that sounds like a ton of fun

I would absolutely play it again. Of course, I'm curious about the full 18 player game, but even with this it covered two separate 6 foot long tables as well as a couple of side tables.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: chemkid on May 03, 2019, 07:09:56 AM
hi there, again... :)

i'm preparing to get axis empires' totaler krieg setup. in vassal, though. don't have the space and wonder if anyone here played the vassal module before it hit the updated/expanded ruleset? it's like i have the 10.65 version(for totaler krieg - ETO only) loaded and ready to go - any thoughts? i have the box and unpunched counters, even the errata counters from DG but like i said... no space. wish me luck.

anyhow, that's what is on my table, at the moment... :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 03, 2019, 11:56:18 AM
After my SpaceCorp AAR, I put Hitler's Reich (another GMT game) on my table, but the rules were a PIA. I posted to FB about my issues and Mark, the designer of HItler's Reich, was very helpful in pointing me to some resources for figuring things out. Meanwhile I put another of Mark's creations, Rebel Raiders On The High Seas, on my table, but it's not set up so I might just jump back to Hitler's Reich.

I've also got DG's Khe Sahn '68 (a solo game) that I've been leafing through, and y'all got me wanting to do something on Big Trouble In Little China instead.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on May 04, 2019, 07:22:16 PM
Vietnam Rumor of War from Compass Games has arrived!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 05, 2019, 06:28:42 AM
I'll be interested to know how it plays.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on May 05, 2019, 06:33:40 AM
He’d have to actually open and play it for us to find that out.....
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on May 05, 2019, 08:16:40 AM
He’d have to actually open and play it for us to find that out.....

Hey, it's not like I'm BC! But it will be pretty much Gloomhaven and Cataclysm until Origins.  :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on May 10, 2019, 03:59:45 PM
Hoping to play Heores of Land, Air & Sea again tonight. I love this game. It's equal parts Heroes of Might & Magic : The Board Game and simple yet fun 4X game. I like it so much that I've ordered both of the big box expansions. I may have a problem.  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2019, 04:22:34 PM
Hoping to play Heores of Land, Air & Sea again tonight. I love this game. It's equal parts Heroes of Might & Magic : The Board Game and simple yet fun 4X game. I like it so much that I've ordered both of the big box expansions. I may have a problem.  ;D


sounds like you need to write up a review for us :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on May 11, 2019, 08:03:43 PM
Hoping to play Heores of Land, Air & Sea again tonight. I love this game. It's equal parts Heroes of Might & Magic : The Board Game and simple yet fun 4X game. I like it so much that I've ordered both of the big box expansions. I may have a problem.  ;D


sounds like you need to write up a review for us :)

Sometime after I finally get to punch out the expansions...and then play them... ;D   Obviously, this ain't hitting the table this weekend, but Tsukuyumi : Full Moon Down is about to. It has a batshit crazy backstory, but it seems like an interesting Dudes on a Map game design.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on May 12, 2019, 10:43:14 AM
I’ve been spliting my limited gaming time between clipping ASL counters and teaching my daughters how to build MtG decks. I want to get Empire of the Sun to the table but I fear that is a few months always...:(
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 12, 2019, 11:45:49 AM
Picket Duty, 2nd Edition.

After considering it, I'd decided that a game that's on rails isn't necessarily a bad thing. Arguments could certainly be made on either side of the game coin about how much meaningful decisions make up your chosen games. Some are more so than others. I initially reviewed Picket Duty (1st ed.) over at the other site and was less than pleased with the game. I've also derided Target For Today and B-29 (I'd started a B-29 AAR over at that same site and just couldn't continue it because it was boring the hell out of me).

That's a discussion for another thread, probably. But I'd thought narrative-generating games are good if you approach them expecting exactly that. If you approach a game like this thinking you're going to make a lot of choices and not roll on a ton of tables, you're going to be as disappointed as I was.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 31, 2019, 10:51:12 AM
I took the plunge and ordered SHAEF from PSC as it was on sale again.  I also added in a copy of Tenkatoitsu so I could get above the $100 free shipping threshold because I'm a financial genius!  Spend and extra $60 to save $8 in shipping.  If anyone needs and investment advice, just ask.

(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/imagepagezoom/img/CwKT-01oxg9JCY6Ee7-bjnzVOTk=/fit-in/1200x900/filters:no_upscale()/pic4469635.jpg)


(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/imagepagezoom/img/C1jGgOO9rmJsor4mmDuB4wlMc7E=/fit-in/1200x900/filters:no_upscale()/pic3347335.jpg)

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 04, 2019, 07:46:40 PM
I was supposed to play Holland '44 today but got stood up!  Stood up by a nerd, oh the humanity!

Oh well, it was to be my first time playing so I decided to solo a few turns as I'm not that comfortable with the rules having only played Normandy '44 a few times and never this one or Ardennes.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48003605858_5f113ecac8_h.jpg)


Landings on all 3 drops zones went off with barely a hitch (one scattered unit amongst the 101st.  Why can't I ever roll like this against a human opponent?)


XXX Corps blasted through the German lines with the help of air and artillery but quickly got jammed up on the road. (Germans got all their traffic jam makers out)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48003605853_4813aa2edc_h.jpg)



The Red Devils pushed for the bridge in Arnhem and set up a perimeter around their drop zones.  Got into some rough fights with the SS and took casualties.  The Germans blew the rail bridge and Frost stopped just short of the north end of Arnhem bridge.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48003678141_80fb0fa7dc_h.jpg)



The 82nd tried to rush the bridge at Nijmegen but were stopped short by Kampfgruppe Henkle.  THey were able to take the Grave bridge intact but took heavy casualties securing the town.  The Germans blew 3 bridges along the Maas-Waal Canal but the 82nd managed to find one still intact.  Lots of Germans from the 406th came pouring out of the Reichswald forest to rush Groosebeek heights and the landing zones there.  Doesn't look like the 82nd has enough there to stop an overrun.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48003678156_da863bec6d_h.jpg)



Eindhoven looks like the biggest headache.  The 101st are spread all over the map with strong German forces coming in from the west.   Took the bridge at Son.  Just have to hold it and clear the city of Einhoven until XXX Corps show up.

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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 04, 2019, 08:26:41 PM
Who turns that down?!
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 04, 2019, 08:30:20 PM
My mounted maps for Holland 44 arrived today. They bokoo solid.
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Post by: mirth on June 04, 2019, 08:40:48 PM
Mounted maps are the bomb-schnizzle
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Post by: bbmike on June 04, 2019, 08:47:02 PM
Call of Cthulhu AND Holland '44 on the same table. My kind of gamer.  :bigthumb:
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Post by: Bison on June 04, 2019, 09:27:38 PM
Holland 44 is a solid game. Hoping to get in a game of ASL this weekend. Otherwise, the kids and I have some MtG deck building lined up and picking up our D&D campaign.
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Post by: Bison on June 07, 2019, 11:39:54 AM
The oldest decided she is DMing a new campaign...time to roll up a character. I’m thinking rogue or sorcerer.
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Post by: Martok on June 07, 2019, 11:10:13 PM
The oldest decided she is DMing a new campaign...time to roll up a character. I’m thinking rogue or sorcerer.

I think Bison just went to the top of the list for Dad of the Year.  :bigthumb: 

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Post by: Bison on June 08, 2019, 06:22:27 PM
I opted to make a cleric. Someone needs to keep the rest of the party alive. I’m deciding whether or not to repay my daughter and ask at every encounter...”can I make it a pet?”
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 08, 2019, 07:34:45 PM
I’m deciding whether or not to repay my daughter and ask at every encounter...”can I make it a pet?”

Should have rolled a Druid.
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Post by: mirth on June 10, 2019, 09:31:52 AM
Just ordered this

https://www.gamekastle.com/online/index.php?m=product&p=115728

Pretty good WWII skirmisih rules. My group played a game with them last week.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on June 10, 2019, 09:14:15 PM
Just go down the ASL rabbit hole Alice....
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 10, 2019, 09:18:44 PM
I have some (minimal) standards
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Post by: Bison on June 10, 2019, 09:20:24 PM
Clearly not if you don’t even own an ASLSK.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 10, 2019, 10:05:39 PM
Clearly not if you don’t even own an ASLSK.

It's true. I am not the whore that you are.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Cyrano on June 10, 2019, 11:32:42 PM
I own three of the ASLSKs, but, right now, the pull of "Black Powder 2", particularly given the whole Waterloo big game getting set up in Glasgow, is becoming very mighty indeed.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on June 11, 2019, 07:42:37 PM
I’ve considered both Hail Caesar and Black Powder but I simply cannot even imagine having the time to paint the number of minis needed to play.
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 11, 2019, 08:14:09 PM
Tell me about it.  I've got about 40 ships left to paint for Cruel Seas, 25 or so desert front tanks for Tanks!/Flames of War, and a whole lot of minis for Descent and AvP.  Never seem to ever make progress as I'm always buying more stuff.  (and now I really want to buy the samurai armies from Warlord games for Pike & Shotte but use them for a minis based version of Tenkatoitsu.)

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Post by: Bison on June 11, 2019, 09:41:22 PM
I have four armies for DBA and a good hundred D&D minis to paint. The pile of lead and plastic just gets bigger.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on June 12, 2019, 07:33:16 AM
I had a pretty good load of Amazon credit from surveys so I bought Tiny Epic Defenders to play with my son until it's time to move. I tried to read the rules to VPG's Barbarossa too, but too much going on to be able to focus on a board game this weekend. Hopefully this week.
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Post by: Yskonyn on June 12, 2019, 11:15:29 AM
Finally started 1985: Under an Iron Sky!

And my Battletech campaign has started! Woot!
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Post by: Barthheart on June 12, 2019, 03:01:16 PM
Finally started 1985: Under an Iron Sky!
....

Pics or it didn’t happen!  :D
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Post by: Bison on June 14, 2019, 08:23:45 AM
I was going to start a learning play through of Empire of the Sun last night but my current gaming table is too small for the map. I’m relegated to a small 36”X36” card table at the moment. The map is around 38” so it hung over the edges of the table with no room for the player aid cards. I need to get a slightly larger table and just pull out the card table as a side table when necessary for some extra space for things like player aid cards or counter trays.
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Post by: mirth on June 28, 2019, 12:22:07 PM
I'll be adding this to the pile on Sunday

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sands-North-Africa-1940-42/dp/B07LGF5T64
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Post by: Bison on June 28, 2019, 06:50:36 PM
I'll be adding this to the pile on Sunday

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sands-North-Africa-1940-42/dp/B07LGF5T64

Thankfully it’ll remain unplayed for the foreseeable future. :P
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 28, 2019, 07:06:52 PM
I'll be adding this to the pile on Sunday

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sands-North-Africa-1940-42/dp/B07LGF5T64

Thankfully it’ll remain unplayed for the foreseeable future. :P

Like most of my multiplayer games of late, my own copy of Dark Sands remains hermetically sealed for freshness.
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Post by: bbmike on June 28, 2019, 07:28:28 PM
Finally getting Warfighter WWII Pacific to the table.

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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on June 28, 2019, 10:19:51 PM
The oldest’s campaign ended tonight in a hilarious party wipe. I rolled two natural “1”s in consecutive death saving throws. The youngest died while looting my corpse.And the wife’s paladin died from a couple of fire bolts cast by the evil necromancer. 
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Post by: Martok on June 29, 2019, 01:55:01 AM
Ha!  Is this her first TPK, or is she already an experienced "killer"?  :D 
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Post by: bayonetbrant on June 29, 2019, 08:18:24 AM
The oldest’s campaign ended tonight in a hilarious party wipe. I rolled two natural “1”s in consecutive death saving throws. The youngest died while looting my corpse.And the wife’s paladin died from a couple of fire bolts cast by the evil necromancer.


Sounds like she's ready to GM Paranoia!  :hehe:
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Post by: Bison on June 29, 2019, 09:13:35 AM
Ha!  Is this her first TPK, or is she already an experienced "killer"?  :D

Yes it was.She was really trying hard not to kill the party but after I spectacularly failed my death saves -the outcome was clear  Sadly the adventure was a premade one from the DM Guild label as a 1st level adventure. The final boss was a necromancer with 78 hit points (12d8 HIt Dice) and access to level three spells. Basically a 9 to 10 level magic user.

I knew something wicked this way comes when the very first encounter was 6 skeletons and 3 zombies...😳
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on June 29, 2019, 09:21:22 AM
The oldest’s campaign ended tonight in a hilarious party wipe. I rolled two natural “1”s in consecutive death saving throws. The youngest died while looting my corpse.And the wife’s paladin died from a couple of fire bolts cast by the evil necromancer.


Sounds like she's ready to GM Paranoia!  :hehe:

I don’t think the wife would play. She was less than thrilled to have spent six hours playing only to die...I so want to break out OD&D to demonstrate the truly lethal era of D&D.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 30, 2019, 07:15:33 PM
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Post by: Bison on June 30, 2019, 10:54:45 PM
I like how this thread for Mirth has literally regressed to just putting a game box on the table. Close enough to be played for me,
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 30, 2019, 11:01:25 PM
I do play them occasionally.
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Post by: Bison on June 30, 2019, 11:03:11 PM
Me too. Mostly I just look at them and day dream.
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Post by: mirth on June 30, 2019, 11:15:19 PM
Made progress clipping At Any Cost


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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 03, 2019, 12:54:21 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/nG9h0HB.jpg)

 :bigthumb:

Me too. Haven't had a chance to play it yet. Okay, okay, yes, I'm a game whore. More of a game charlatan as I've had no time to give any of them attention, lately.

I realized I have no games covering the North African campaign, but now I do.

Going to finally get some games to the table this weekend. With everything going on I totally forgot about Friday being a workday, but my boss fortunately let me put in for a vacation day so I'm good.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 01:32:01 PM
I’ve painted several minis over the last couple of days. A handful of Kobolds for the new campaign. A gnome sorcerer for the daughter to use but I practiced a new technique to paint white. White is a pain in the ass to paint with decent shading. A vampire and finished some older minis that had been sitting around needing a few final details touched up.

The plan is to break out the air brush and black prime a couple of 15mm armies for DBA. Most likely the Roman and Carthaginians to do some Punic War battles.
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Post by: mirth on July 03, 2019, 01:41:44 PM
The plan is to break out the air brush and black prime a couple of 15mm armies for DBA. Most likely the Roman and Carthaginians to do some Punic War battles.

 :rockon:
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 01:54:43 PM
It’ll be interesting painting 15mm less detail but going for a good 3’ look. A new process for me. Plus painting some elephant and horse units will be an interesting challenge.
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Post by: mirth on July 03, 2019, 01:58:53 PM
It’ll be interesting painting 15mm less detail but going for a good 3’ look. A new process for me. Plus painting some elephant and horse units will be an interesting challenge.

Yeah, don't get carried away with too much detail on the 15s. Even if someone picks up a stand and gives it a close look, most of us don't see so good anymore.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 02:17:26 PM
If I don’t wear my reading glasses, the level of detail decreases dramatically. At that point it’s just colors and shapes!😬
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 03:40:35 PM
Hmm...I might have to rectify a mini option in my Roman army eventually. I have some ancient British to replicate an axillary formation but I think there are better options. Time to check out the Essex website.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:02:43 PM
Unfortunately, my eye's don't let me paint anymore, unless its a door.but, I always found that 15mm (and, back in the day, I painted a LOT of 15mm figures) that its the best scale that you can add enough detail to make 'em look good, but you don't have to put in as much work as you do for something like 28mm figs. OK, I know that sounds obvious..........I also painted a mass of WH40K stuff, and whilst you can be a bit skimpy with the rank-and-file, you tend to put a lot of work into the 'personality' figures. I think that 15mm is a good balance scale-wise, and its easy to fit on reasonable size tables and generally looks good without too much hard work.

The last stuff I painted in 15mm was an ACW Union Division - 3 Brigades each of 4 regiments, plus some arty, a couple of cav regiments, supply wagons and a Reb brigade to supplement my buddies Confederate army. The figs were from a mixtures of manufactures to add plenty of variety, but a large proportion were by Old Glory, a company that are based not far from where I live.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 04:06:37 PM
The gnome I just painted was essentially 15mm. Sure it had details...sort of but at that scale you need a single hair brush an optometrist tools to see and paint them.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:08:05 PM
,,yeah, but only for the eyeballs............
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 04:16:32 PM
I don’t even paint eyes on my 28 mm. Most of the eyes I’ve seen and I’ve painted looked tacky. A little dark shading and three feet away at the gaming table and the faces look great.
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Post by: mirth on July 03, 2019, 04:17:29 PM
I don’t even paint eyes on my 28 mm. Most of the eyes I’ve seen and I’ve painted looked tacky. A little dark shading and three feet away at the gaming table and the faves look great.

that's the way to go
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:19:44 PM
I still have my Dwarf Bloodbowl team here somewhere; they may well be the last thing I ever painted. They not only have eyeballs, but fingernails as well! Not sure if my digicam can get decent clear closeups, but I'll try and if they come out, post 'em here.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 04:25:10 PM
Finger nails! Bob your the man. I don’t think I have the patience for that sort of detail. I slap some skinnish color on the hands do a bit of shading and highlighting.  I’m trying to worry less about details and more about cranking out the quantity of decent table ready minis.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:33:12 PM
I honestly used to put in much more detail than I needed to, the reason being that I found that I enjoyed the painting as much as I enjoyed the gaming, and being able to produce some well detailed figures gave me a lot of satisfaction.

Eventually, I had to sell all my 40K stuff, and the collector who brought the whole lot said that he classed some of the figures as being painted to 'Professional. standard, which really gave my ego a boost. I actually miss being able to paint, as it really is relaxing and quite therapeutic. I really like using acrylic paints and inks and got some good results once you master the techniques.

Then you look at the stuff in White Dwarf mag and realise just how poor your painting is compared to real professionals!
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 04:35:44 PM
I love the painting part of it too. Some figures get loved more with detail than others. Ultimately I have a pile of metal and plastic and rules that are useless without the minis. So that drives my decisions a lot too about details and where I focus.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:42:01 PM
We had a firm rule in the little group of buddies i played with, that you were not allowed to play with figures that were unpainted. I was going to add that we still have a rule that we cannot play with un-clipped counters, but for one thing it would just upset Vance, and for another thing it wouldn't be true :-)
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Post by: panzerde on July 03, 2019, 04:44:24 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

That drove me to 2mm...which I've proceeded to over paint and therefore never finish...
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Post by: mirth on July 03, 2019, 04:45:20 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

my brother...
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Post by: panzerde on July 03, 2019, 04:48:04 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

my brother...

I am SO tempted to buy a bunch of 6mm and send them all off to Sri Lanka for painting.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:48:41 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

That drove me to 2mm...which I've proceeded to over paint and therefore never finish...

I kept meaning to ask what became of that 2mm stuff - it looked very promising from what I saw of it.
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Post by: panzerde on July 03, 2019, 04:53:12 PM

I kept meaning to ask what became of that 2mm stuff - it looked very promising from what I saw of it.

It is. I just need to get my head around being okay with the minimal painting style I see others doing. I also really need to figure out a better place to set up a permanent painting station.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:54:44 PM
With good lighting!
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 04:56:13 PM
I paint in the dark makes worrying about the details less stressful. 😁
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 04:57:19 PM
LOL  Bison - do you draft your MtG decks that way?
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 04:58:25 PM
Usually but I also wear sun glasses. Speaking of which I’m going to the M2020 release this weekend.
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Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 05:00:10 PM
Excellent = I'll be interested to hear about that in due course. So, you could come back with a few additions to the collection..........
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 03, 2019, 05:01:25 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

That drove me to 2mm...which I've proceeded to over paint and therefore never finish...

I'm finally getting over the perfectionist hurdle.  Still working on my Cruel Seas stuff but I've gotten to the point where I'll just slap paint on, do a bit of shading and weathering and call it good enough for the table.

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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 05:02:26 PM
Excellent = I'll be interested to hear about that in due course. So, you could come back with a few additions to the collection..........

Lots of angels! So I’m happy.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 05:04:55 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

That drove me to 2mm...which I've proceeded to over paint and therefore never finish...

I'm finally getting over the perfectionist hurdle.  Still working on my Cruel Seas stuff but I've gotten to the point where I'll just slap paint on, do a bit of shading and weathering and call it good enough for the table.

Most people are Mirth. They don’t care. They just want to play with toys.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 03, 2019, 05:08:23 PM
Excellent = I'll be interested to hear about that in due course. So, you could come back with a few additions to the collection..........

Lots of angels! So I’m happy.

Some vert nice cards there from what i've seen on the WotC site,
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 03, 2019, 05:11:13 PM
I envy those who enjoy painting. I never could enjoy it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to not paint things to a level beyond what the game needs, and too impatient to paint an entire army that way. I always felt like the painting was getting between me and the game.

That drove me to 2mm...which I've proceeded to over paint and therefore never finish...

I'm finally getting over the perfectionist hurdle.  Still working on my Cruel Seas stuff but I've gotten to the point where I'll just slap paint on, do a bit of shading and weathering and call it good enough for the table.

Most people are Mirth. They don’t care. They just want to play with toys.

I care though.  It's odd.  I think because I spend most of my time looking at the models up close through magnifying glasses that I worry over minor mistakes.  I also tend to use very muted colour palettes and shades that are subtle.  When the models are out on the table and viewed from 2 feet away, they just look like a uniform blob.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 05:15:35 PM
I care too but it can also cause stress. What really need to buy is the Vallejo Model color case. I use the Game color line which is great but I think too bright for historical minis.
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Post by: panzerde on July 03, 2019, 05:23:06 PM

I care though.  It's odd.  I think because I spend most of my time looking at the models up close through magnifying glasses that I worry over minor mistakes.  I also tend to use very muted colour palettes and shades that are subtle.  When the models are out on the table and viewed from 2 feet away, they just look like a uniform blob.

This, exactly.
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Post by: Bison on July 03, 2019, 06:51:49 PM
I’m breaking out 1775 to get my America is awesome gaming on this 4th of July weekend.
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Post by: bob48 on July 04, 2019, 05:57:52 AM
Oh aye - A Happy 4th of July America! :bigthumb:
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Post by: bayonetbrant on July 04, 2019, 08:05:09 AM
Oh aye - A Happy 4th of July America! :bigthumb:


Thanks!  Treason Day is quite popular around here :)
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Post by: bob48 on July 04, 2019, 11:40:47 AM
Quite right too.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 04, 2019, 07:50:44 PM
Played two games of Flash Point last night with my kids and daughter's boyfriend.

Today playing SpaceCorp with them. Might get to Black Orchestra later.

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Post by: bbmike on July 04, 2019, 08:04:51 PM
Rocketship meeples? Reekles???
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Post by: Cyrano on July 04, 2019, 08:10:39 PM
Mockets.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 04, 2019, 08:16:08 PM
Got those from Print n Play Games to replace the wooden cubes. Much more thematic.
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Post by: bbmike on July 04, 2019, 08:24:54 PM
I like Print n Play Games. I've ordered custom game boards from them and they turned out great.  :bigthumb:
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Post by: Bison on July 07, 2019, 07:39:17 PM
Toss up for family game night. Either a four player game of MtG Commander or roll up new characters for D&D. Although I think a game of Kemet might be fun too.
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Post by: mirth on July 07, 2019, 08:24:49 PM
Toss up for family game night. Either a four player game of MtG Commander or roll up new characters for D&D. Although I think a game of Kemet might be fun too.

I vote for Agricola.
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Post by: Bison on July 07, 2019, 11:29:46 PM
We should have played Agricola. We just finished...mostly..a four player commander game. We had to call it at 1030 because I need to get up for work. I think it would have taken another 45 minutes to finish. A great format and lots of fun but it can take awhile to play a game.
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Post by: trailrunner on July 08, 2019, 07:35:27 PM
Sorting and clipping ASL SK4 counters.

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Post by: mirth on July 08, 2019, 08:02:48 PM
Hawt  :bigthumb:
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Post by: Bison on July 18, 2019, 07:14:54 PM
I really need to order a copy of ASLSK 4.
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Post by: mirth on July 18, 2019, 07:52:01 PM
I really need to order a copy of ASLSK 4.

And one of those fancy counter clippers.
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Post by: trailrunner on July 18, 2019, 08:42:11 PM
I really need to order a copy of ASLSK 4.

Yes, you do!  Especially since the SKs frequently sell out.

I've clipped the counters and now I'm organizing them.  I've read through the rules and got a feel for the major new additions, which are concealment, banzai charges, and what happens to Japanese troops when they fail an MC (they don't break, they ELR reduce).  I've heard that with the jungle, there aren't many good LOSs, resulting in more CC.  No T-34s shooting at Panthers with APCR from 15 hexes away.  Looks like fun.  My local club's game day is next weekend and I will try to get a game going.
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Post by: Staggerwing on July 18, 2019, 08:48:21 PM
Yes, you do!  Especially since the SKs frequently sell out.

No chit! a few weeks ago I had the first three SKs in my Coolstuff basket (back when I grabbed a copy of U-Boot) in the AM and when I went to check out that afternoon SK3 was all gone! And that's the one I really wanted!  >:(  >:(  >:(

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Post by: Bison on July 19, 2019, 12:19:35 AM
I really need to order a copy of ASLSK 4.

And one of those fancy counter clippers.

I have the counter clipper.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2019, 12:22:58 AM
I really need to order a copy of ASLSK 4.

And one of those fancy counter clippers.

I have the counter clipper.


I always liked you  :bigthumb:
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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 19, 2019, 08:42:59 PM
Probably will be spending all weekend getting the house in order. Boxes and crap everywhere, where it doesn't belong. Got to move the rest of my stuff out of the father-in-law's house, too.

Though I did just order Star Wars: Outer Rim. Because I have a disease. I console myself by the fact that it only cost me $16 thanks to credits from surveys and such, and the fact that I also will be going over to the storage unit this weekend to sort through what's over there and decide what to keep, what to give away (review copies), and what to sell (for firesale prices). Some of these I just can't part with, like my TOI collection and my older stuff (RIchtoven's War, Carrier, Tokyo Express, etc.). But we shall see.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 20, 2019, 10:21:12 AM
Are you going to give your friends a chance to buy before putting it on the market?

I can do that. I had done it over at GH before I moved last year but nobody bit.
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Post by: bbmike on July 20, 2019, 10:32:33 AM
Are you going to give your friends a chance to buy before putting it on the market?

I can do that. I had done it over at GH before I moved last year but nobody bit.

Hey! Didn't I get Victory in the Pacific out of that?  :waiting:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 20, 2019, 10:35:32 AM
He promised to ship me his copy of Attack! back in 2016 :peace:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 20, 2019, 10:43:44 AM
Are you going to give your friends a chance to buy before putting it on the market?

I can do that. I had done it over at GH before I moved last year but nobody bit.

Hey! Didn't I get Victory in the Pacific out of that?  :waiting:

Ah yes you did. Should have said "only a few bit."

He promised to ship me his copy of Attack! back in 2016 :peace:

I've not seen it turn up yet. I hope I haven't lost anything. Or my wife didn't toss anything that wasn't packed.bill look for it in the storage unit when I have time.

Meanwhile I do have those six Millenium Wars games with your address on them. That'll go out by 2022 or so.  :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 30, 2019, 06:04:27 PM
I'm experiencing buyer's remorse.  This thing costs twice as much as the base set and its length is half with width of the playing area.



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651241_c29da37458_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651511_2f391c616b_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 30, 2019, 06:17:05 PM
But it looks awesome!  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 30, 2019, 06:44:38 PM
Crash it into the Death Star!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 30, 2019, 06:55:39 PM
 :o :o :o

Holy hell, SDR. That thing is awesome!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 30, 2019, 09:01:55 PM
How many points to get it on the table?!?  :o
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 30, 2019, 09:33:36 PM
How many points to get it on the table?!?  :o


All of them
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 30, 2019, 09:39:34 PM
How many points to get it on the table?!?  :o

220 for the cheapest version.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Cyrano on July 30, 2019, 10:33:38 PM
I'm experiencing buyer's remorse.  This thing costs twice as much as the base set and its length is half with width of the playing area.



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651241_c29da37458_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651511_2f391c616b_h.jpg)

The same impulse drives battalion-level Napoleonics gamers to want to do Wagram, viz.:  "surely if this wee game was good, a gigantic game would be GRAND!"
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on July 31, 2019, 02:12:41 AM
I'm experiencing buyer's remorse.  This thing costs twice as much as the base set and its length is half with width of the playing area.



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651241_c29da37458_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651511_2f391c616b_h.jpg)

Buyer's remorse or not, I think we're all kinda jealous of you right now.  That's frickin' sweet!! 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 31, 2019, 07:39:54 AM
Oh I say, old chap. What a whopper!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 31, 2019, 07:51:14 AM
That thing should technically be able to pummel any Rebel ship in a matter of seconds. There must be some kind of balancing rules associated with it. Otherwise I'm guessing the Rebel player will need to swarm it and pray for a miracle!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2019, 09:22:31 AM
I think we all know how to take down a SSD


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 31, 2019, 09:49:10 AM
No balancing so far. I think the majority of kills the SSD will suffer will be self-inflicted from flying off the map edge.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 31, 2019, 10:05:31 AM
No balancing so far. I think the majority of kills the SSD will suffer will be self-inflicted from flying off the map edge.

And I thought the Tantive IV was a beast to manage on the table. Different system, but still.

I think we all know how to take down a SSD




That always bugged me. A ship that size and they don't have auxiliary controls in another part of the ship somewhere? It was cool as hell to see it crash but old man nerd rage.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2019, 10:07:26 AM
That was the least of my criticisms of RotJ. At least Lucas is honest about how he made those movies for 10 year olds.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 31, 2019, 11:50:10 AM
he made those movies for 10 year olds.

I resemble that remark
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on July 31, 2019, 12:36:15 PM
That was the least of my criticisms of RotJ. At least Lucas is honest about how he made those movies for 10 year olds.

Hey!  I'll have you know I was 6 when it came out. 

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2019, 12:45:41 PM
That was the least of my criticisms of RotJ. At least Lucas is honest about how he made those movies for 10 year olds.

Hey!  I'll have you know I was 6 when it came out.

You probably struggled with the nuances then.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on July 31, 2019, 11:08:38 PM
I'm experiencing buyer's remorse.  This thing costs twice as much as the base set and its length is half with width of the playing area.



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651241_c29da37458_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48417651511_2f391c616b_h.jpg)

That is bad. ass. I would get a table especially to put it on display, and have the Imperial March on constant loop.  I would take it to the office and walk around carrying it, making engine rumble noises, staring at people and saying "I find your lack of faith disturbing..."
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 01, 2019, 11:59:08 AM
I plan to light the bridge on fire and then crash it into the belly of the fattest guy at work.  I hear you get free lunch if you get sent to HR.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on August 01, 2019, 12:04:49 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 01, 2019, 08:51:53 PM
That thing should technically be able to pummel any Rebel ship in a matter of seconds. There must be some kind of balancing rules associated with it. Otherwise I'm guessing the Rebel player will need to swarm it and pray for a miracle!

Next set of expansions announced.  Looks like they've added a massive Rebel ship to counter the Super Star Destroyer.  I think these ships are from the Rebels cartoon?  Not a fan of the art style for either.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/8/1/a-new-age-of-battle/
 (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/8/1/a-new-age-of-battle/)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 01, 2019, 09:24:22 PM
I'm glad I got out of all that. I'm trying to sell my Feldherr MAXI case full of Star Wars X-Wing minis and no takers yet on Facebook.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 02, 2019, 12:19:36 AM
FFG really shot themselves in the foot with the cash grab that was X-Wing 2.0.  The community shrivelled up to a mere shadow of itself overnight.  I've been trying to unload my collection as well but no takers in almost 2 years.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 02, 2019, 07:31:40 AM
I guess if anything I can keep them for decoration. They ARE pretty awesome-looking.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on August 03, 2019, 11:40:29 PM
That thing should technically be able to pummel any Rebel ship in a matter of seconds. There must be some kind of balancing rules associated with it. Otherwise I'm guessing the Rebel player will need to swarm it and pray for a miracle!

Next set of expansions announced.  Looks like they've added a massive Rebel ship to counter the Super Star Destroyer.  I think these ships are from the Rebels cartoon?  Not a fan of the art style for either.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/8/1/a-new-age-of-battle/
 (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/8/1/a-new-age-of-battle/)

For the New Republic's super-capital ship, I'd have preferred to see the Viscount-class "Star Defender" from the now-defunct ( >:( ) expanded universe.  Sigh. 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 04, 2019, 12:13:31 AM
For the New Republic's super-capital ship, I'd have preferred to see the Viscount-class "Star Defender" from the now-defunct ( >:( ) expanded universe.  Sigh.



Not bad, I'd never heard of either the Star Defender nor of this other Imperial monstrosity.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on August 09, 2019, 06:15:40 PM
Hoping to break out An Infamous Traffic, a lighthearted romp about different noble families trying to sell the most  opium in China while cutting one another off at the knees. It's a Cole Wehrle game, and I've rapidly become a very big fan of his. Speaking of his games, I also want to get Pax Pamir played again. Loving that game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 09, 2019, 06:22:15 PM
Hoping to play some Star Wars Outer Rim and maybe some Legendary Encounters: Alien this weekend.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on August 09, 2019, 08:37:23 PM
Let me know how Outer Rim plays.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 22, 2019, 11:32:57 AM
Outer Rim is pretty awesome, bbmike. Especially with solo play. It's got a lot of pieces to it so it's a bit fiddly when it comes to organization, but otherwise it's a terrific game. I played Lando Calrissian against an AI-controlled Han Solo. Big mistake! Han has movement bonuses and it was damned hard to keep up with him. The AI beat me, 10 to 5 (first one to 10 Fame wins). I gotta try it again soon with a different AI opponent.

Right now, I have an Amazon box on my desk at home, with my new graphics card (an XFX Radeon RX 570) and a copy of Roll Player, which I've wanted for a while (well, the graphics card too!). With rehearsals though I've had not even ten minutes' of time to myself at home so I've not had a chance to crack open my desktop case and load this bad boy in there. I probably won't have a chance until Friday to finally test it out. First world problems, I know. I'm just anxious at having invested a bit of cash in this thing which I rarely do (at least, not that much).

Roll Player, I really want to give it a try this weekend. Outer Rim too.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on August 28, 2019, 08:01:05 PM
I've actually got a game on National Park on my table.  My daughters gave it to me so that we can play it when we spend the weekend in a cabin this Fall, so I'm getting familiar with it now.

(http://)

This game arrived earlier this week.  An impulse buy.  Kernstown is one civil war battle I don't know much about, even though the battlefield is about an hour away from my home.  I think the bike shop (now closed) where I bought one of my bikes is right next to the battlefield, and one of the guys who used to hang out in the shop was a re-enactor.  After I play the game I'll walk the battlefield, although I think that development was encroaching.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Cyrano on August 28, 2019, 09:23:31 PM
Hoping to break out An Infamous Traffic, a lighthearted romp about different noble families trying to sell the most  opium in China while cutting one another off at the knees. It's a Cole Wehrle game, and I've rapidly become a very big fan of his. Speaking of his games, I also want to get Pax Pamir played again. Loving that game.

Right on all counts.  Pax Pamir 2 is beyond argument the best produced game I've encountered this year, and, in fact, many a year.  Still working to get my head around its subtleties, though.

His "John Company" is really, really good too.  Made me want to wear periwig, don a long robe, and issue orders to the EIC.

 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 16, 2019, 09:35:23 AM
I've been on a Compass Games kick lately...bought and played Nightfighter Ace (more parts to the AAR here coming soon; had a busy week/weekend with a show I'm in). I pre-ordered Amerika Bomber: Evil Queen of the Skies (https://www.compassgames.com/preorders/amerika-bomber-evil-queen-of-the-skies.html), which is supposed to release in November.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on September 16, 2019, 07:41:15 PM
I pre-ordered Amerika Bomber: Evil Queen of the Skies (https://www.compassgames.com/preorders/amerika-bomber-evil-queen-of-the-skies.html), which is supposed to release in November.

Holy Frakknuts, I don't think I've ever heard of and then bought a boardgame all under a minute before just now.  :o
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 16, 2019, 08:51:09 PM
^  :bigthumb:

Gregory M. Smith had talked about it briefly on Facebook some months ago, just playing around with a variant for B-17...but then support was overwhelming enough that Compass said they'd produce it. It was pretty much an insta-order for me, too.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on October 16, 2019, 02:42:37 PM
I'm currently looking at 'The Scheldt Campaign' from Hollandspiele. Its a topic which has held an interest for me for a long time, but rarely covered in game terms.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on November 15, 2019, 04:59:32 PM
Impulse buy, just arrived in the mail.

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics2/IMG_4023.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on November 16, 2019, 01:35:14 PM
I usually like to play a Bulge game in December, but I'm not sure which one I'll choose this year.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 16, 2019, 01:37:16 PM
Ardennes '44 is definitely the one that stands out to me :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on November 17, 2019, 09:19:22 PM
latest arrival

(https://i.imgur.com/TX331eX.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: rickbill on November 17, 2019, 10:22:04 PM
Red Storm ...

[follow up] disappointing ... radar signature has zero impact? ... so what is the purpose of the F117 scenario?  ... no damage rating difference (F-16 = A-10 = B52) ...

a lot of time and dice-rolling for vanilla GAME with an air war theme ... and come now just HOW MUCH of a Viper homer can you be in a game design before the developer and BETA testers don't
call you out on it?
Add some advanced rules to handle those issues and right a radar detection / radar track AI into the VASSAL/BGA/TTS GAP and it gets back on my table ... until then ... probably not
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on November 18, 2019, 06:41:01 AM
Just got in Interceptor Ace.

Normally I make it a rule to never remove the shrink-wrap from my games so as to ensure their freshness for decades to come but this game cam with some extra counter stickers taped to the box and I knew they would get lost or ruined if I just left them there on the outside so I had to crack 'er open...


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 18, 2019, 06:47:30 AM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 18, 2019, 07:34:47 AM
Just got in Interceptor Ace.

Normally I make it a rule to never remove the shrink-wrap from my games so as to ensure their freshness for decades to come but this game cam with some extra counter stickers taped to the box and I knew they would get lost or ruined if I just left them there on the outside so I had to crack 'er open...

I received my copy last Thursday. The designer said on FB that they included double the stickers in case you mess any of them up. I did one on a blank counter but didn't like the look of it so I didn't bother with the others. I'm going to wait and see if game play demands their inclusion.

When you open the box there's an Errata sheet, which wasn't generating a lot of confidence (Nightfighter Ace had a few print issues though nothing game-breaking).

Overall though the game looks a lot better than Nightfighter Ace. That map of Europe, there's one like it in Nightfighter Ace but I never bothered with using it as it took up a lot of space to indicate only a few pieces of information, which were not all that difficult to keep track of without it. This one looks useful at least insofar as having spaces for the Combat Deck draw and discard piles.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 18, 2019, 10:22:06 AM
Thanks to Fine Games (and let's be honest, that's mirth's fault), I have Hunt For Red October coming my way this Wednesday. I'm also looking to trade with a guy on BGG for Red Storm Rising, to make a mega-WW3 game of the two. The guy that owns RSR lives near me and is a game developer on top of that, too.

Mainly I'm looking to convert my daughter's boyfriend to wargaming. I've since gotten him BIG into board gaming, but the real test will be to see if he likes wargames, and either of these are light enough I think to be good entry-level games to play at Christmas.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on November 18, 2019, 10:24:56 AM
Thanks to Fine Games (and let's be honest, that's mirth's fault), I have Hunt For Red October coming my way this Wednesday.

 :2funny: :2funny: :2funny:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 18, 2019, 10:28:32 AM
:2funny: :2funny: :2funny:

I knew you'd do that

I also got Princess Ryan's Star Marines and Red God Of War, Operation Mars 1942

PRSM I know isn't the most highly-rated game but I've always wanted a copy of it, and RGOW was pretty cheap and covered an aspect of the Russian Front I don't know much about.

Yeah I'm justifying it however I can, lol. Though I am getting rid of quite a few games.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on November 18, 2019, 10:30:19 AM
Though I am getting rid of quite a few games.

Suuuuuuuuuure  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 18, 2019, 10:30:46 AM
 :sigh: :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on November 18, 2019, 10:31:40 AM
(https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1314070045562_402027.png)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on November 18, 2019, 10:32:35 AM
 :ROFL:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 18, 2019, 10:33:53 AM
Well if Barth is buying my set of Tide of Iron, that's a heck of a stack there.

I'm also planning on giving my daughter's boyfriend several of my unopened/unplayed games. The kid, my daughter said, has bought fifteen games this semester while at college. What a good kid. He'll be a hoarder in no time.

And y'all just jealous.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 18, 2019, 10:46:38 AM
 :2funny:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on November 18, 2019, 10:49:45 AM
Well if Barth is buying my set of Tide of Iron, that's a heck of a stack there.

I'm also planning on giving my daughter's boyfriend several of my unopened/unplayed games. The kid, my daughter said, has bought fifteen games this semester while at college. What a good kid. He'll be a hoarder in no time.

And y'all just jealous.

That should get you down into the low 400s
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 18, 2019, 10:50:17 AM
(https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1314070045562_402027.png)

I'm just preparing for retirement!  :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 06, 2019, 08:55:06 PM
Currently have Atlantic Storm: Admiral's Edition on my table, from Lock 'n Load.

It's basically a trick-taking card game with the Battle of the Atlantic as a wrapper.

I tried the solo game as the Germans earlier today, and the Allies wiped the floor with me. After they were up 30-0 in VPs after winning three hands in a row I gave up. I'm not convinced this was a fun time but want to put some more time into it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: chemkid on December 10, 2019, 11:31:14 AM
hi there! finally i'm able to give this thread a shot... again?!  :-X

anyhooow, bitter woods (designer edition from compass games) is laid out and ready to rumble - i mean, it's this season, right?! 8)

i found a pretty recent (last year's summer) playthrough on YT and was once more surprised by it's simplicity! a solid games with good rules and very good solo playability!

here's the link if someone's into bulge madness for cold winter days:

https://invidio.us/channel/UCJybIFyqWNfKoVlWFRFfDJw



cheers and have a nice xmas season!  :)
chem!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on December 22, 2019, 12:00:16 AM
My copy of Coral Sea, 2nd ed arrived this morning.  Missing one data sheet but not a biggie as I found a better version on the FB page.  (bad luck though.  My last two game purchases both had parts missing).

Read through the rules and it seems like it'll be a really fun game.  Reminds me of a board game version of WitP: AE.  The components are a bit on the chintzy side .  The manual is decent but could use more illustrated examples.  the charts and tables that come with the game are not so great.  Lots of pertinent info is missing from them.  Thankfully there are some great 3rd party ones available on the FB page and BGG.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 22, 2019, 08:47:39 AM
Looks great to me.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 22, 2019, 11:01:24 AM
I unexpectedly received a $100 Amazon card at the office holiday party. Suggestions for spending it? I was about to purchase the Panzer base game when Amazon thoughtfully pointed out that I previously bought it. So now I have to start checking game stacks for that.  :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: ojsdad on December 22, 2019, 11:41:22 AM
I unexpectedly received a $100 Amazon card at the office holiday party. Suggestions for spending it? I was about to purchase the Panzer base game when Amazon thoughtfully pointed out that I previously bought it. So now I have to start checking game stacks for that.  :D

Maybe some shelves to better organize what you have to avoid purchasing what you already have   :biggrin:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 22, 2019, 11:44:50 AM
You might be on to something.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on December 22, 2019, 11:50:59 AM
You might be on to something.


That's just crazy talk

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 22, 2019, 11:51:52 AM
Then think of the cash you can get from selling all those duplicate copies you discover - but don't tell OJ - he may want a commission.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 22, 2019, 12:51:41 PM
When you say "game shelves" are you referring to "shelves for storing games" or did you mean "shelves made out of all the games you still have in shrink wrap"
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 22, 2019, 01:13:51 PM
I unexpectedly received a $100 Amazon card at the office holiday party. Suggestions for spending it? I was about to purchase the Panzer base game when Amazon thoughtfully pointed out that I previously bought it. So now I have to start checking game stacks for that.  :D

Agricola
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 22, 2019, 01:16:16 PM
I unexpectedly received a $100 Amazon card at the office holiday party. Suggestions for spending it? I was about to purchase the Panzer base game when Amazon thoughtfully pointed out that I previously bought it. So now I have to start checking game stacks for that.  :D

Agricola


https://hollandspiele.com/products/agricola-master-of-britain
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 22, 2019, 01:16:33 PM
Agricola
Gesundheit.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on December 22, 2019, 01:22:26 PM
Looks great to me.  :bigthumb:

Might upset the Aussies a bit.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 22, 2019, 01:26:36 PM
Looks great to me.  :bigthumb:

Might upset the Aussies a bit.

I knew Australia was just a legend!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 22, 2019, 02:37:37 PM
The Last Continent - Fourecks.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: ojsdad on December 22, 2019, 03:53:12 PM
Then think of the cash you can get from selling all those duplicate copies you discover - but don't tell OJ - he may want a commission.

Yea,  like my wife would allow me to keep any money I would get from that.   :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on December 22, 2019, 05:22:58 PM
When you say "game shelves" are you referring to "shelves for storing games" or did you mean "shelves made out of all the games you still have in shrink wrap"

Man, if you came up with shelving that looked like game boxes, I 100% guarantee you could sell it on Kickstarter and make a fortune. It's too silly to fail!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 22, 2019, 05:49:08 PM
How about game boxes that look like shelving?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 22, 2019, 08:31:41 PM
How about game boxes that look like shelving?

Overheard: "Dear, I just bought some more shelves for the den. It will help things look more tidy."
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 23, 2019, 01:21:06 PM
Now you're talking - I think we're on a winner here, Stagger.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 23, 2019, 01:27:33 PM
Two words: frying pan
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 23, 2019, 01:47:40 PM
Christmas truce!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 23, 2019, 04:41:19 PM
I unexpectedly received a $100 Amazon card at the office holiday party. Suggestions for spending it? I was about to purchase the Panzer base game when Amazon thoughtfully pointed out that I previously bought it. So now I have to start checking game stacks for that.  :D

I opted for Stalingrad '42
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 23, 2019, 05:13:30 PM
Good choice  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 24, 2019, 02:28:17 PM
I unexpectedly received a $100 Amazon card at the office holiday party. Suggestions for spending it? I was about to purchase the Panzer base game when Amazon thoughtfully pointed out that I previously bought it. So now I have to start checking game stacks for that.  :D

I opted for Stalingrad '42

 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: ojsdad on December 24, 2019, 03:16:24 PM
Tomorrow, my table will be filled with food!!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on December 25, 2019, 02:06:14 AM
Tomorrow, my table will be filled with food!!

I initially misread that as "blood".  I was worried for a moment there.  :P 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 25, 2019, 07:56:18 AM
I initially misread that as "blood".


Qapla'!
(https://media.tenor.com/images/d6d3dc196821bd7ec3148ce2599e8958/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 25, 2019, 10:09:08 AM
Hope you clean that up after you!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on December 29, 2019, 09:19:51 PM
We played a 4-player game of Star Trek Ascendancy today.  It was my first chance to try out the Andorians.  Unfortunately I ran into to bad luck in the early going and the systems near my homeworld were crap.  The Cardassians had some great luck with their start but then ran into a Borg transwarp conduit and decided to poke it.  Cube popped out and that tied them up for several turns as they desperately threw suicide attacks at it in order to slow it down enough for them to build up a fleet big enough to take it on.  They managed to destroy it in defence of their homeworld but then went and poked the conduit AGAIN!  Out popped a 2nd cube...

The Klingons tried to make a beeline for be but ran into several deadend systems which prevented us from linking up.  They instead headed off against the Federation and Cardassians.  Those two bought the Klingons off with favourable trade deals and the Klingons contented themselves with hanging back and building up their fleets.

The Federation also had bad luck with their systems early on and ran into a bunch of dangerous phenomena.  They were able to exploit this and generate a ton of research studying them which they used to develop a lot of tech.

I was finally able to unlock some good systems and start to build my infrastructure and tech up. Never did get to use any of the Andorian’s spiffy abilities though. 

Things finally came to a head and the Klingons attacked the Cardassians with some massive fleets....and got spanked pretty hard for it as killing two Borg cubes gave the Cardassians a bunch of tech which beefed up their weapons and shields. 

Seeing as how the Cardies were weakened by the fighting, I launched my own attacks and drove pretty deep into their territory.  The Feds then allied with them and started threatening me so I had to pull back.  It looked like it’d be a 2vs2 fight with the Klingons and I teaming up  but then he backstabbed me for no reason other than to get one research token (he was on his 5th gin and sofa by this point...).  He also committed genocide and scorched one of my planets because “[he] just wanted to see how the tech worked”.   I was far ahead in weapons tech at this point so I destroyed his fleets as punishment but that left me open to a push by the Federation.  They tried a soft approach in hopes of wooing my systems away from me and over to their side but muffed the roll. 

I had an open run at Earth next turn and Kronos after that but the Cardassians had amassed enough culture to ascend and become dominant and won the game.

Fun times.  Very swingy,  lots of hilariously poor decisions (some aided by gin) and a generally good time.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 29, 2019, 09:42:43 PM
^That makes me want to play Federation Commander or Federation Space again.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: ojsdad on December 30, 2019, 05:11:41 PM
^That makes me want to play Federation Commander or Federation Space again.

So, FS is strategic and operational level and FC is tactical level. Is that correct.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 30, 2019, 05:18:04 PM
Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2019, 06:01:05 PM
My company funded Christmas present arrived today


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENEe3GzXUAAPA7i?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 30, 2019, 06:12:13 PM
Punched, clipped and sorted yet?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2019, 06:14:55 PM
Might start clipping it tonight. Not a lot of counters and GMT thoughtfully included a counter tray.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 30, 2019, 06:17:46 PM
Very handy having a tray included. I have a couple of spares if you get stuck :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 30, 2019, 06:26:45 PM
Is GMT including counter trays in all of their games now?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2019, 06:34:26 PM
Not sure. I think this is the first time I've come across a tray included. It's a nice touch.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 30, 2019, 06:37:25 PM
I well remember the old SPI games where the 'box' was actually a huge counter tray. Bloody awkward size they were, too.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2019, 06:45:32 PM
For Barth


(https://i.imgur.com/bog1ZPS.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 30, 2019, 06:46:21 PM
My copy of Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah had two counter trays in it. I hope it's the new norm.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 30, 2019, 07:31:43 PM
For Barth


(https://i.imgur.com/bog1ZPS.jpg)

The one on the left only has IV FKs to give while the other has VIII.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2019, 07:34:25 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/7XuPYJXaF1CBAmbwQQ/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: ojsdad on December 30, 2019, 09:16:15 PM
Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.

I have Federation & Empire.  I noticed on Wargame Vault that for F&E there is a 2010 edition. 

Also, on TTS, there is a workshop download for Federation Commander. 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on December 30, 2019, 09:21:33 PM

I have been tempted by F&E for 40 years. It seems really fiddly, though.

Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: ojsdad on December 30, 2019, 09:35:31 PM

I have been tempted by F&E for 40 years. It seems really fiddly, though.

Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.

Here, let me help melt your resistance.  Only $20.

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/127724/Federation--Empire-2010-Rulebook?manufacturers_id=3528
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 30, 2019, 09:37:53 PM

I have been tempted by F&E for 40 years. It seems really fiddly, though.

Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.

I have it and plan to tackle it post retirement.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on December 30, 2019, 09:45:49 PM

I have been tempted by F&E for 40 years. It seems really fiddly, though.

Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.

I’ve owned F&E for 40 years and it is fiddly.... but also a really cool strategic level Star Trek game. But I don’t play with all the expansions, WAY too much added for little gain IMHO.
2010 is the latest rule set.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 31, 2019, 10:07:53 AM
I don't think I've ever even considered looking at the expansions.  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on January 02, 2020, 10:40:37 AM
Got to play this guy over the holiday break:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/255516/brave-little-belgium

After 3 plays, I do think it is a nice game in its own right. Nothing incredibly deep, but just enough guts there to be a very fun game. The play time is very short, truly less than an hour. Not intimidating for non-wargamers as I also played this with someone who primarily is into euros. Chit pull is one of my favorite mechanics so I do enjoy that as well.

Overall a nice game, will have to play a bit more before passing a final verdict but definitely worth the purchase if you are looking for playability.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on January 03, 2020, 01:34:15 AM
We played a 4-player game of Star Trek Ascendancy today.  It was my first chance to try out the Andorians.  Unfortunately I ran into to bad luck in the early going and the systems near my homeworld were crap.  The Cardassians had some great luck with their start but then ran into a Borg transwarp conduit and decided to poke it.  Cube popped out and that tied them up for several turns as they desperately threw suicide attacks at it in order to slow it down enough for them to build up a fleet big enough to take it on.  They managed to destroy it in defence of their homeworld but then went and poked the conduit AGAIN!  Out popped a 2nd cube...

The Klingons tried to make a beeline for be but ran into several deadend systems which prevented us from linking up.  They instead headed off against the Federation and Cardassians.  Those two bought the Klingons off with favourable trade deals and the Klingons contented themselves with hanging back and building up their fleets.

The Federation also had bad luck with their systems early on and ran into a bunch of dangerous phenomena.  They were able to exploit this and generate a ton of research studying them which they used to develop a lot of tech.

I was finally able to unlock some good systems and start to build my infrastructure and tech up. Never did get to use any of the Andorian’s spiffy abilities though. 

Things finally came to a head and the Klingons attacked the Cardassians with some massive fleets....and got spanked pretty hard for it as killing two Borg cubes gave the Cardassians a bunch of tech which beefed up their weapons and shields. 

Seeing as how the Cardies were weakened by the fighting, I launched my own attacks and drove pretty deep into their territory.  The Feds then allied with them and started threatening me so I had to pull back.  It looked like it’d be a 2vs2 fight with the Klingons and I teaming up  but then he backstabbed me for no reason other than to get one research token (he was on his 5th gin and sofa by this point...).  He also committed genocide and scorched one of my planets because “[he] just wanted to see how the tech worked”.   I was far ahead in weapons tech at this point so I destroyed his fleets as punishment but that left me open to a push by the Federation.  They tried a soft approach in hopes of wooing my systems away from me and over to their side but muffed the roll. 

I had an open run at Earth next turn and Kronos after that but the Cardassians had amassed enough culture to ascend and become dominant and won the game.

Fun times.  Very swingy,  lots of hilariously poor decisions (some aided by gin) and a generally good time.

Damn.  That indeed looks & sounds like a hell of a good time.  :bigthumb:  Color me jealous! 




I have been tempted by F&E for 40 years. It seems really fiddly, though.

Correct, but really Federation & Empire is the true strategic game. Federation Space was a lighter version of F&E that didn't do as well. The rules were broken and never fixed.

I’ve owned F&E for 40 years and it is fiddly.... but also a really cool strategic level Star Trek game. But I don’t play with all the expansions, WAY too much added for little gain IMHO.
2010 is the latest rule set.


I've heard about Federation & Empire for years now, but I've never played.  :( 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 11:07:36 AM
My first game purchase of 2020

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246873/konigsberg-soviet-attack-east-prussia-1945
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 10, 2020, 12:04:50 PM
My first game purchase of 2020

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246873/konigsberg-soviet-attack-east-prussia-1945 (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246873/konigsberg-soviet-attack-east-prussia-1945)


did you justify all the stuff you got on sale at CompassCon as just pulling your 2020 purchases ahead in the schedule?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 12:08:57 PM
I justified those purchases because they were 50% off and no shipping. And I limited myself to three games.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 10, 2020, 12:17:30 PM
Where'd you buy it from to get a deal like that?

Not that I should be allowed to know such things...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on February 10, 2020, 12:18:40 PM
Where'd you buy it from to get a deal like that?

Not that I should be allowed to know such things...

Why? Have you bought your third game of the year already?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 10, 2020, 12:21:44 PM
Actually, no. I've "bought" two, though both were pre-orders I submitted last year. Amerika Bomber and The Hunted both charged at the end of last month. Amerika Bomber arrived, but The Hunted, I've heard nothing about shipping yet.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 10, 2020, 12:26:24 PM
Where'd you buy it from to get a deal like that?


le sigh....


My first game purchase of 2020

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246873/konigsberg-soviet-attack-east-prussia-1945 (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246873/konigsberg-soviet-attack-east-prussia-1945)


did you justify all the stuff you got on sale at CompassCon as just pulling your 2020 purchases ahead in the schedule?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on February 10, 2020, 12:28:02 PM
Actually, no. I've "bought" two, though both were pre-orders I submitted last year. Amerika Bomber and The Hunted both charged at the end of last month. Amerika Bomber arrived, but The Hunted, I've heard nothing about shipping yet.

One more to go!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 12:31:17 PM
Where'd you buy it from to get a deal like that?

Not that I should be allowed to know such things...

I went to the Con in Cromwell, CT. Both years they've run it, they have done 50% off everything in stock. The warehouse is nearby so they keep bringing in games as needed.

The Con is a great event and the sale is a big incentive for me to keep going back. I plan for dropping between $150-$200 while I'm there.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 10, 2020, 01:18:46 PM
Thanks, mirth. I realized that almost as soon as I asked it.

BB's smartass reply notwithstanding. :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 10, 2020, 01:19:39 PM
BB's smartass reply notwithstanding. :P


just one of the many services I offer  :nerd:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 10, 2020, 01:41:31 PM


This.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2020, 05:30:41 PM
I went to the Con in Cromwell, CT. Both years they've run it, they have done 50% off everything in stock. The warehouse is nearby so they keep bringing in games as needed.

The Con is a great event and the sale is a big incentive for me to keep going back. I plan for dropping between $150-$200 while I'm there.

It was in freaking Cromwell??  :(

Damnit. I used to live there a long time ago and it's still only about 3/4 hour away from me now. Do they hold it there every year?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 05:33:30 PM
It's been there both years they've held it. Afaik, they plan on being there again next year. The hotel isn't great, but the venue space works out well for them.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2020, 05:39:40 PM
I'll have to try and plan ahead. Do they start it on Friday?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 05:59:45 PM
Yes. Nov 6-9 this year

https://www.compassgames.com/expo2019-overview
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2020, 07:11:37 PM
I'll put in for the time off soon.

I can catch a few hours there during the day on Friday. Is it bad form if I just hover near some of games in session rather than actually sign up to sit in on any? I find it hard enough to learn a game quietly on my own, never mind in front of a bunch of other people where my ADD can really shine.  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 07:25:25 PM
It's pretty casual and people are usually open to answering questions or indulging bystanders.

The cool thing is that you are often interacting directly with the designers.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2020, 07:40:54 PM
Looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 07:46:49 PM
See you there! ACD East!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on February 10, 2020, 09:27:55 PM
I went to the Con in Cromwell, CT. Both years they've run it, they have done 50% off everything in stock. The warehouse is nearby so they keep bringing in games as needed.

The Con is a great event and the sale is a big incentive for me to keep going back. I plan for dropping between $150-$200 while I'm there.

It was in freaking Cromwell??  :(

Damnit. I used to live there a long time ago and it's still only about 3/4 hour away from me now. Do they hold it there every year?


Cromwell? You called?

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2020, 09:32:10 PM
 ;D


You just go back to playing with those new army models of yours, Ollie!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2020, 10:15:40 PM
Roundheads...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 11, 2020, 06:18:21 AM
No need to be so cavalier about it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 11, 2020, 06:41:46 AM
Can we not restore this thread to its original intent?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 11, 2020, 06:55:54 AM
Yes, quite right. My apologies.

I blame Doug.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 11, 2020, 07:40:49 AM
(it was a bad restoration joke, but can still blame Doug)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 11, 2020, 07:44:26 AM
Yes, lets just blame Doug out of general principle. I assume you mean the restoration of 1660?

Nice try, but no cigar.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on February 11, 2020, 09:09:57 AM
Oh, sure, you could have a 400 year-old republic at this point but instead decided to push the reset button on the Stuarts, but it's MY fault that I had a stroke and fell off my horse.


You know what? You deserve the Welsh!

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 11, 2020, 09:13:17 AM
Does anyone really deserve the Welsh, though?

Not the sheep, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 11, 2020, 09:38:40 AM
Oh, sure, you could have a 400 year-old republic at this point but instead decided to push the reset button on the Stuarts, but it's MY fault that I had a stroke and fell off my horse.


You know what? You deserve the Welsh!

Oh come now; no one deserves that.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on February 11, 2020, 10:10:07 PM
There are times I think some of you missed your calling as comedians.  Or at least comedy writers.  :ROFL: 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 12, 2020, 06:51:15 AM
I blame Monty Python.....and Spike Milligan!

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 12, 2020, 07:38:32 AM
I blame Monty Python as well...my stepfather tried SO hard to keep me from watching it when I was a wee lad but he failed miserably. I don't know if he was proud I watched it anyway or highly concerned for my mental well-being...well, I think we all know the answer to that one...

I also blame Danger Mouse and the Zucker brothers to a large extent.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 12, 2020, 07:45:29 AM
<Hush.... I hear coconut shells approaching>
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 12, 2020, 07:48:31 AM
You mean this?

https://www.amazon.com/Monty-Python-Horse-Action-Figure/dp/B002EJ3SMC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=monty+python+coconut+shells&qid=1581511685&sr=8-1

Don't think I'm not tempted...LOL
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 12, 2020, 07:51:22 AM
No Kidding?

Why am I not surprised.

Question - how much does a coconut cost?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 12, 2020, 07:59:37 AM
Question - how much does a coconut cost?

Depends on how far it has to migrate. The further it's migrated, the more it costs.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 12, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
So the African ones are right out of the question :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 12, 2020, 08:49:57 AM
Depends on where you are. European swallows are probably more appealing to you to help the coconuts migrate as you'd get them faster than African swallows. For us in the States, it's the same whether it's European or African swallows.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 12, 2020, 09:26:09 AM
.....................pssst!

Wanna buy some genuine Monty Python coconut shells, guv.

Know what i mean, wink wink, nudge nudge...........................

boocoo  dollah!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on February 12, 2020, 12:23:55 PM
Sigh. Let me try to get this thread back on track. Here's what's on my table right now (headed to the 'fridge next):

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics2/IMG_4158.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on February 12, 2020, 12:56:31 PM
I approve of this message.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 12, 2020, 01:55:11 PM
that one on the left looks familiar :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on February 12, 2020, 02:09:40 PM
that one on the left looks familiar :)

First time I've spotted it in the wild.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 17, 2020, 10:23:15 AM
My second game purchase of 2020


(https://i.imgur.com/oguGlt3.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/327R3QD.jpg)


(https://i.imgur.com/0AYRZTw.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 17, 2020, 10:31:37 AM
Nice.

That Hinge of Fate issue - I think that's the one with my Luftwaffe Field Divisions article.  :bigthumb:

If I remember right.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 17, 2020, 10:37:09 AM
That Hinge of Fate issue - I think that's the one with my Luftwaffe Field Divisions article.  :bigthumb:

Well look at that, so it is. Maybe I can get a refund :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 17, 2020, 10:52:53 AM
Just rip out those pages...problem solved!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on February 17, 2020, 10:56:58 AM
It's very cool that you have an article in it. I bought it on a lark this weekend. Was checking out a new game shop in the area and was surprised to see it on the rack.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on February 23, 2020, 07:25:43 PM
We played a quick 2-player matchup of Sails of Glory this afternoon.  2 ships vs 2.  Americans vs. Brits on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.  Probably the strangest game of Sails I've yet to play.  I played as the Royal Navy.  I split my force in two in the hopes of enveloping the lead Yank ship and pounding her into matchsticks with broadsides on both flanks.  It didn't pan out that way.  There were only 3 broadsides fired in the entire game and the rest devolved into close range musketry and boarding actions.


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49576604746_c40fd10f24_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49576096388_5ca1f8dfb3_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49576605016_fb4a9c990e_h.jpg)




Yankee ships.  Almost zero hull damage yet both crews are gone.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49576096363_3053338e10_h.jpg)


The Brits aren't in much better shape.  The Leopard struck after losing the last of her crew but the Polyphemus won the day.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49576096383_1caae96d8d_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on February 25, 2020, 11:20:11 PM
Sails of Glory always looks good in the table but I traded my ships and Sythe for the entire C&C Napoleonic set.

I’m not sure why but just didn’t enjoy it as much as Wings of Glory and even that I really only enjoyed the WW1 plane battles.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Cyrano on March 11, 2020, 11:22:34 AM
Sails of Glory always looks good in the table but I traded my ships and Sythe for the entire C&C Napoleonic set.

I’m not sure why but just didn’t enjoy it as much as Wings of Glory and even that I really only enjoyed the WW1 plane battles.

C&C:N OR wee ships??!!??

...wait...wait...cognitive dissonance at maximum...

AAAAAAAAAAAGH
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 11, 2020, 11:28:44 AM
I figured Cyrano would just be breathing heavy in the corner after all those pics were posted... :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 21, 2020, 03:00:59 PM
We celebrated the fact that our betters have decreed that we may be let out in small packs as long as we remain appropriately muzzled by playing TANKS: Modern.  My buddy finally finished painting up his Yanks, Rooskies, and East Germanz so we had a straight up tank on tank bash.  5 Russian T-64s, 3 East German T-72s and 2 East German T-62s vs 5 'Murican M1 Abrams and 2 M60s.  I played the Russians.  Pretty good bash.  I used zero finesse and just bum rushed the 3 M1s that were facing my platoon.  They popped 4 of my 5 tanks but Communist ardour prevailed and I knocked all three Abrams out.  The M60s did a number on the East German T-72s on the other side of the map but the lowly T-62s punched above their weight and took down 1 Abrams and M60.  The remaining two Yankees mentioned something about the better part of valour and scarpered.

Good times


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49920751462_08294d6920_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 21, 2020, 03:10:38 PM
those models look niiiiice
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 21, 2020, 03:16:54 PM
Looks awesome  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 21, 2020, 04:56:20 PM
What scale are those tanks?

I still have World at War 85 on the table. Currently scenario 4 is going ahead.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 21, 2020, 05:09:10 PM
On the table - 'Antiatem 1862'
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 21, 2020, 05:09:26 PM
15mm
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Cyrano on May 21, 2020, 05:50:43 PM
They should be available in good quantities for cheap for a little bit.

Word is Battlefront is ditching the whole line to switch over to its WoT.  Dims my hopes for seeing cool modern models for TTS.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on June 20, 2020, 10:07:48 PM
Learning Great Campaigns of the American Civil War from MMP. Enjoying it so far and it looks great on the table.

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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 20, 2020, 10:45:49 PM
Learning Great Campaigns of the American Civil War from MMP. Enjoying it so far and it looks great on the table.

Ardwulf is playing one of those games in a video series on YouTube with Pat Mullen.

Check out the Wargame Network tab on our front page and you can see as YouTube channel listed there
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on June 21, 2020, 09:25:36 AM
Learning Great Campaigns of the American Civil War from MMP. Enjoying it so far and it looks great on the table.

Ardwulf is playing one of those games in a video series on YouTube with Pat Mullen.

Check out the Wargame Network tab on our front page and you can see as YouTube channel listed there

Yeah I've been following along as I have time to watch them. Ardwulf of is one of the reasons I bought my first game in the series.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on June 23, 2020, 10:39:42 AM
Learning Great Campaigns of the American Civil War from MMP. Enjoying it so far and it looks great on the table.


This series is by far my favorite campaign system, great for PBEM as well.  Have Pipe Creek and the Maryland campaigns going through email right now, just got Atlanta is Ours in the mail a couple weeks ago and been chugging through my first play of it solo.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 25, 2020, 06:16:55 PM
I had some friends over for a 4-player session of Core Space.  Each player had a team of 3 crew as well as an elite cop.  The scenario took place on Titan Station.  The cops got wind that illegal bio-weapons experiments were taking place there and that a criminal gang had taken over de-facto control.  The Purge (the evil Borg/Cylon style machine intelligence species) was attacking the station in order to secure the weapon.  Orders were to set the station's reactor to go critical.  Extra money if you could break into the crime leader's stache and loot it and even more money if you could secure a sample of the bio-weapon for the black market (of course you'd have to arrange an accident for your cop liaison). 

The game started off well with all 4 players staying out of each other's way instead of backstabbing one another.  Most of the gangsters went down in the first two firefights (and the event card had the 2nd in command of the gang try to murder the leader in order to take over for herself so that sorted out the gang problem).  Then the Purge showed up and bodies started to pile up.  One of the guys royally screwed over another player by welding all the doors shut and trapping his entire crew inside a room with a bunch of murder-bots).   I was able to make it to the reactor but had trouble getting it to go critical (flubbed a lot of rolls).  Finally managed it but then the Purge cut into the station's hull right behind me and started pouring into the corridor and I  got eviscerated. 

Two of the players turned on each other and shot each other up to the point where neither was going to make it off the station before it blew so the one guy who never managed to secure any loot nor complete any objectives "won" by being the only one to make it back to his ship before everything went kaboom!

 Good times!



Infestation room behind a murderbot.
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One of my team and his cop buddy finally make it to the reactor
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Bodies start piling up as the backstabbing begins
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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 25, 2020, 06:30:40 PM
It's always "that guy" who ends up winning isn't it?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 25, 2020, 07:52:12 PM
Lingering in the rear.  Best way to avoid a bullet it seems.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on June 26, 2020, 06:52:54 AM
That looks like a lot of fun  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on June 26, 2020, 09:29:30 PM
This counts as "on my table" right?  Just need to make my way through the rules and clip 8 sheets of counters....

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on June 26, 2020, 10:42:10 PM
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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on June 27, 2020, 10:40:59 AM
Pic isn't showing 😕

Should be working now. For whatever reason Im not having any luck embedding images.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on June 27, 2020, 10:44:20 AM
It's our crappy forum software and our drunken IT people that causes that.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on June 27, 2020, 10:45:15 AM
It's our crappy forum software and our drunken users that causes that.

ftfy
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on June 27, 2020, 11:07:28 AM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on June 27, 2020, 11:15:44 AM
Front Toward Enemy

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I've just realised the map is laid out with East at the top - so I need to change it qround...but you get the gist - US team has to get past the NVA. Hard to see how this'll work!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on June 27, 2020, 11:20:19 AM
That looks like fun.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on June 27, 2020, 11:24:33 AM
That looks like fun.  :bigthumb:
Aye - looking forward to it
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on June 27, 2020, 11:31:34 AM
There is a copy of this game on BGG GeekMarket for $33US. (http://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/HideEyes.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on June 27, 2020, 11:46:09 AM
I don't remember what I paid - but it was defo more than that. Probs double  :tickedoff:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 01, 2020, 11:37:42 AM
That looks like fun.  :bigthumb:
Aye - looking forward to it
I'm finding it hard to get into this. It's been on the table since last weekend and I haven't touched it.
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Trouble is, the mission seems like it's going to be pretty boring. It's 12 truns and yet I can't see how you'd run 12 turns out of it. I've got to get from the right hand side to the left. I've got 5 movement points, 9 if I use double time, I have to get past a considerable NVA unit...the NVA officer can activate all surrounding squads.

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It's just a starting scenario - I can skip it...I don't really want to though. But I wish their intro mission was a bit more inspiring. A bigger map to give some scope with additional forces.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 01, 2020, 11:43:16 AM
I could be missing something but it doesn't look boring to me. Looks like those guys are in for a hell of fight if they are to make it all the way across the map with those enemy forces moving in.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 01, 2020, 05:46:18 PM
It just seems once sided and not "a battle". I'm not going to be able to avoid the NVA - that's fine. I want a fight. But I've got 2 US units and a leader against 6 NVA units, a leader and an MG unit.

Kind of seems like it'll be over in turn one or two.

Having said that, the game mechanics could make casualties light.

I'll play it through and report back.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 01, 2020, 05:57:49 PM
Sounds like a good training scenario, few units, get the basics of moving and fighting down before adding more chrome into the mix.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 02, 2020, 01:24:16 AM
Yeah I know  :'(

I'm probably "not into it" because I've been watching videos of OST III  :doh:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 02, 2020, 08:34:42 AM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 02, 2020, 08:37:52 AM
 :o
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 02, 2020, 08:40:01 AM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:

Sad really.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on July 02, 2020, 11:27:12 AM
Trying to learn Last Blitzkrieg, slow but getting it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 02, 2020, 11:46:09 AM
Looks good!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 02, 2020, 12:00:06 PM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:
Maybe use the time to clip some counters  :ROFL: :bringit:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 02, 2020, 02:28:37 PM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:
Maybe use the time to clip some counters  :ROFL: :bringit:

🖕
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 02, 2020, 03:08:47 PM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:
Did you ever get The War: Europe 1939-1945 from Compass Games onto your table?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 02, 2020, 03:12:11 PM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:
Did you ever get The War: Europe 1939-1945 from Compass Games onto your table?
Yep... that’s in the running for next up....
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on July 02, 2020, 08:13:43 PM
Spent about seven hours playing ASL on VASL today.  I blew off my evening run because I wanted to finish the game.  It was a pretty simple scenario, but a bit on the long side.  Russians vs Germans in Finland.  My opponent had hot dice with the attacks, but I was rolling low to survive the morale checks.  I barely squeaked out a win for the Russians.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on July 02, 2020, 08:48:14 PM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:

Randomly choose three games and figure out a way to mash them together.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on July 02, 2020, 09:00:09 PM
How about a combo of American Megafauna, Agricola, and ASL Starter Kit#3?

You can defend your crops from rampaging mastodons with your Panzer II.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 02, 2020, 09:01:59 PM
How about a combo of American Megafauna, Agricola, and ASL Starter Kit#3?

Something BC will be unboxing soon
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 02, 2020, 09:04:44 PM
What's on my table? Nothing! I can't decide what to play next so now it sits empty....  :tickedoff:

If you arent using it then can I borrow it? Mine has to be cleared off for meal times and guarded against curious 4 year olds so nothing gets to stay up.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Arctic Blast on July 02, 2020, 09:10:51 PM
How about a combo of American Megafauna, Agricola, and ASL Starter Kit#3?

You can defend your crops from rampaging mastodons with your Panzer II.

Dude, put that on Kickstarter and you'll have half a mil by the end of the weekend!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 02, 2020, 09:15:03 PM
That's sad because it's true.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on July 07, 2020, 09:42:49 AM
4th of July just wouldn't feel right if I hadn't watched Gettysburg for the 5000th time.  Freshly pumped up, I decided to setup and have another go at Last Chance for Victory.  I ran a game of this over quarantine that got deep into the 2nd day before I called it.  That was my first game of it though and I was playing particularly slow, lots of rulebook browsing. Since then I've played the entire 2nd day's scenario, and also Early's Washington campaign of the same LoB series and got through both in just a couple days. So, I'm hopeful that this won't have to consume table space for longer than a week or two. 

My first play of this was loosely 'historical'. What I'm really itching to do this time is swing Ewell's Corps back around behind the town on either the night of the 1st, or morning of the 2nd (have to see how the commands/orders go), and form him on Hill's right flank where you would normally see 1st Corps lined up at.  Then, see how an attack on the Union left looks with some depth behind it. Last game Ewell took an absolute beating while trying to drive 11th Corps from their position north of the town, so I'll need him to do better this time if he's going to be of significant help on the 2nd day.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2020, 01:49:15 PM
Let us know how it goes
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 08, 2020, 03:31:24 AM
I've figured out why this scenario seemed boring. I couldn't put my finger on it - but there's a few things...

Just thought I'd list the things as I played the first scenario (which actually turned out to be fun - I ended up backtracking and using the paths to try and circumvent the NVA I encountered - after a quick couple of assaults with limited results - which seemed pretty realistic.

I realise 3 of the 4 things listed above are personal preferences and come from my experience of other games I've played.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 10, 2020, 03:47:47 PM
More GCACW, the dance of cavalry units as one attempts to screen and the other tries to delay Franklin's Corps

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on July 10, 2020, 04:58:54 PM
More GCACW, the dance of cavalry units as one attempts to screen and the other tries to delay Franklin's Corps


Such a great system.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 10, 2020, 05:04:34 PM
At a great Compass price.  :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on July 10, 2020, 06:21:10 PM
At a great Compass price.  :P


If you mean GCACW it's at an even better MMP price!

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 10, 2020, 08:12:51 PM
I did mean MPP. I have Compass on my mind because Commands & Colors Tricorne arrived.  8) And, well, their prices too.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 10, 2020, 08:48:03 PM
Compass does a live video every week and the one they did yesterday stated they go with U.S.-based producers, which is why their prices are higher. Wish I could remember more of that, but I've had a few jello shots tonight.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2020, 08:55:23 PM
Compass' pricing is okay. To me, the disparity comes with the overall quality of game components at the price level. Compass is behind GMT quality-wise imho.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 10, 2020, 09:34:48 PM
Compass' pricing is okay. To me, the disparity comes with the overall quality of game components at the price level. Compass is behind GMT quality-wise imho.

Pricing hurts!  I've got Stellar Horizons coming next Monday or Tuesday.  It's the most expensive board game I've bought by a fair margin (miniatures based games are another matter....as are the evil FFG games with a million and one expansions.)

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2020, 09:38:59 PM
Compass' pricing is okay. To me, the disparity comes with the overall quality of game components at the price level. Compass is behind GMT quality-wise imho.

Pricing hurts!  I've got Stellar Horizons coming next Monday or Tuesday.  It's the most expensive board game I've bought by a fair margin (miniatures based games are another matter....as are the evil FFG games with a million and one expansions.)

FFG's model/pricing is ridiculous. The MSRPs for Compass are on the higher side. I've bought several games at their convention when everything in stock is 50% off. I can handle that discount.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 10, 2020, 09:44:28 PM
At a great Compass price.  :P


If you mean GCACW it's at an even better MMP price!

Yeah Roads to Gettysburg II was a steep price but there was alot of content in that box!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 10, 2020, 09:56:44 PM
Yeah  FFG's pricing/expansion scheme is nuts but I still threw a tonne of money at them.  I do have to say that  they do have the best quality components by far.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2020, 10:01:46 PM
Yeah  FFG's pricing/expansion scheme is nuts but I still threw a tonne of money at them.  I do have to say that  they do have the best quality components by far.

The games look great and I have been close to buying several times. The cost is what keeps me away.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 11, 2020, 02:05:08 PM
I'm going back to this bad boy.

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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 11, 2020, 02:40:43 PM
I'm going back to this bad boy.

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Is that the solitaire one? I would love to hear some thoughts on it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 11, 2020, 03:10:32 PM
Is that the solitaire one? I would love to hear some thoughts on it.

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?topic=1629.0

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/combat-early-impressions-of-the-game/

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/compass-games-combat-first-look/
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 11, 2020, 03:20:50 PM
 :hehe:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on July 11, 2020, 04:46:52 PM
Eric (Celtic) and I attempted Gloomhaven with just two players (his lil brother wouldn't join us  :( ). We lost (but gained some XP anyways).

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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 11, 2020, 05:50:38 PM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 11, 2020, 06:19:02 PM
Is that the solitaire one? I would love to hear some thoughts on it.

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?topic=1629.0

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/combat-early-impressions-of-the-game/

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/compass-games-combat-first-look/

Thanks Brant.

tent - in a  nutshell,  it's expensive but an absolute gem. It's not just totally solitaire but superbly solitaire too. The solitaire game mechanics are the best I've come across - though I am no prolific boardgamer (with maybe only 20 titles to my name). The components are superb though I would've loved a mounted map.

I will say £135 for a boardgame was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard of. But given what I was looking for (a solitaire, tactical game with single man counters), it hit the nail on the head.

I was very, very wary about spending that amount of money on a board game but I had absolutely no regrets at all. And I'm super happy to get back to it.

Price to content is a question every board gamer has to answer - and I was dubious - but totally won over with this one.

If you've got any specific questions about it, I'd be more than happy to try and answer them for you. This game needs promoting - if not only just to try and put people's minds at ease that for £135 they're getting a good product.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 11, 2020, 10:33:14 PM
Is that the solitaire one? I would love to hear some thoughts on it.

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?topic=1629.0

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/combat-early-impressions-of-the-game/

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/compass-games-combat-first-look/

Thanks, I'm new around here.  ::) What is this mystical place that holds these articles on relevant subjects?  :P :whistle:

Is that the solitaire one? I would love to hear some thoughts on it.

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?topic=1629.0

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/combat-early-impressions-of-the-game/

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/compass-games-combat-first-look/

Thanks Brant.

tent - in a  nutshell,  it's expensive but an absolute gem. It's not just totally solitaire but superbly solitaire too. The solitaire game mechanics are the best I've come across - though I am no prolific boardgamer (with maybe only 20 titles to my name). The components are superb though I would've loved a mounted map.

I will say £135 for a boardgame was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard of. But given what I was looking for (a solitaire, tactical game with single man counters), it hit the nail on the head.

I was very, very wary about spending that amount of money on a board game but I had absolutely no regrets at all. And I'm super happy to get back to it.

Price to content is a question every board gamer has to answer - and I was dubious - but totally won over with this one.

If you've got any specific questions about it, I'd be more than happy to try and answer them for you. This game needs promoting - if not only just to try and put people's minds at ease that for £135 they're getting a good product.

Thanks! Obviously the price is a big hangup but it sounds like a game that would be right up my alley.

A few questions:
 To your knowledge how well has Compass dealt with the Errata, player aid errors, rules questions etc?
 How much replayability is in the game?
 Does it have any kind of "campaign" system where you follow your men from engagement to engagement?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 12, 2020, 03:53:31 AM
The game was exactly what I was looking for. A modern, single man counter, solitaire, small squad game. I put off because of the price but the more I looked around and realised this was likely my only option for that game I was looking for, I gave up and parted with the money.


Rules and Errata
As far as I know there's "living" rules on the Compass website (last I looked anyway). Errata seemed up to date and the designer was present and very active on BGG. I had no problem finding answers to my questions or if there wasn't one there, a reply was quick.

I haven't been back to BGG to check on these rules - but I was going through the rule book yesterday just to refresh my memory and I was very surprised at how everything came flooding back. I think I was ready to play in an hour - and I hadn't been at the game in several months and I've absorbed several other game systems in that time.


Replayability
It seems to be superb to me. The order card pull system, the initiative system, the dummy counters, the WIA card system all looks like it would provide plenty variation even if you played the same scenario over and over.


Campaign System
No. Currently there isn't. I haven't even thought about whether I could implement such a thing.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 12, 2020, 08:15:49 AM
If there's ever a Pacific version I'm in.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 12, 2020, 08:32:11 AM
The game was exactly what I was looking for. A modern, single man counter, solitaire, small squad game. I put off because of the price but the more I looked around and realised this was likely my only option for that game I was looking for, I gave up and parted with the money.


Rules and Errata
As far as I know there's "living" rules on the Compass website (last I looked anyway). Errata seemed up to date and the designer was present and very active on BGG. I had no problem finding answers to my questions or if there wasn't one there, a reply was quick.

I haven't been back to BGG to check on these rules - but I was going through the rule book yesterday just to refresh my memory and I was very surprised at how everything came flooding back. I think I was ready to play in an hour - and I hadn't been at the game in several months and I've absorbed several other game systems in that time.


Replayability
It seems to be superb to me. The order card pull system, the initiative system, the dummy counters, the WIA card system all looks like it would provide plenty variation even if you played the same scenario over and over.


Campaign System
No. Currently there isn't. I haven't even thought about whether I could implement such a thing.

Thanks for the answers!  The temptation of this game is strong....
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 12, 2020, 01:48:07 PM
If there's ever a Pacific version I'm in.  :bigthumb:

That’s being play tested now....
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 12, 2020, 02:13:16 PM
If there's ever a Pacific version I'm in.  :bigthumb:

That’s being play tested now....

(http://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/worship.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 14, 2020, 03:01:19 AM
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50110812101_c72767db73_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jm81AZ) (https://flic.kr/p/2jm81AZ)

Poised and ready.

Attack the Farmhouse
Orders are out 1 team from Able, 1 team from Baker and 2 teams from Charlie - 12 troops in all - are to oust the Germans from their Farmhouse over the course of 12 turns.

It's pretty well defended with up to 26 German soldiers dug in.

I say up to 26 German soldiers because of course when selecting the German soldiers, they are drawn from a cup - and that cup contains 5 dummy counters for each German Team (of which there are 4 - White, Blue, Red and Yellow) - so there are 20 dummy counters in the cup along with 35 actual German soldiers.

It's a cracking variable system. I could effectively have 26 soldiers or 6 soldiers and 20 dummy counters.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 14, 2020, 06:31:07 AM
Nice!  :bigthumb:

Yer making it harder not to get this......  :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 14, 2020, 09:06:19 AM
I'm very excited to get back to it...I have missed it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on July 14, 2020, 12:17:27 PM
Nice!  :bigthumb:

Yer making it harder not to get this......  :P

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1845564899
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 14, 2020, 12:43:35 PM
Nice!  :bigthumb:

Yer making it harder not to get this......  :P

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1845564899

Cool but you still need all the tables and rules.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 14, 2020, 12:49:18 PM
Cool but you still need all the tables and rules.

You can get all that when you buy the game  :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 14, 2020, 01:37:11 PM
Cool but you still need all the tables and rules.

You can get all that when you buy the game  :D

 :applause:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 14, 2020, 08:14:04 PM
Nice!  :bigthumb:

Yer making it harder not to get this......  :P


Same ...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 14, 2020, 10:56:33 PM
My copy of Stellar Horizons arrived yesterday.  I set it up to try to learn the rules in prep for a scheduled 3-player game this weekend.  This thing eats up a lot of table space!  Looks like it could be interesting.  I've played a number of Compass Games before but never owned one.  I'm finding the way they've organized the rule-book to be less than optimal.  The general rules seem to be pretty straightforward but there are quite a number of little modifiers and exceptions for just about every rule and they are spread out all over the place with many just being mentioned almost in passing in the middle of a paragraph.  The lack of an index doesn't help.


Campaign game starting layout.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50114119946_a20736f62b_h.jpg)



Policy tree.  You can change your nation's policy once per decade (game turns=1 year)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50114119851_b65e8f70f0_h.jpg)


Tech tree.  The North Americans have quite a head-start with the Russians close behind.  The Chinese have a few starting techs and everyone else starts at zero.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50114351852_774299c618_h.jpg)


North America play board.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50114371087_a073b48294_h.jpg)


Russia play board
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50113571353_ef887fbbeb_h.jpg)


Japan play board
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50114138771_1a4abba6e7_h.jpg)


Close up of one of the planetary systems. (Mars).  The Russians start with an unmanned research vessel in orbit and the North Americans have a manned mission one year out.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50113552053_263659af4e_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on July 15, 2020, 03:38:06 AM
Holy crap.  This looks like it could rival Twilight Imperium in complexity. 

I am both titillated and terrified by the notion. 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 15, 2020, 06:43:38 AM
Holy crap.  This looks like it could rival Twilight Imperium in complexity.

I'm not sure it's even close.  TI is legendary for a reason
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 09:42:30 AM
That's pretty impressive. Looks like SpaceCorps (GMT) but on steroids.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 15, 2020, 10:15:41 AM
That's pretty impressive. Looks like SpaceCorps (GMT) but on steroids.

I think they were shooting for something a little closer to High Frontier
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 10:17:34 AM
Not familiar with that, but might look into them. However I'm quite happy with SC to be honest. Plus, it has an expansion (Ventures) hopefully coming out this year.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 15, 2020, 10:23:09 AM
Honestly, it doesn’t seem very complex at all.  Nothing like High Frontiers.  If the game had come with some charts listing the DRMs and gameplay steps, it’d be quite easy to follow. 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2020, 10:25:27 AM
Plus, it has an expansion (Ventures) hopefully coming out this year.

We look forward to you unboxing your demo copy.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 10:26:42 AM
Purchase. I'm on the P500 for that one.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2020, 10:32:26 AM
Purchase. I'm on the P500 for that one.


(https://i.gifer.com/3wVF.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 11:51:40 AM
My P500 page is legendary. Now that I have a damn job, I signed back up for a few that I dropped.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on July 15, 2020, 12:01:04 PM
My P500 page is legendary. Now that I have a damn job, I signed back up for a few that I dropped.

You are 'legendary' in our minds, with game purchases!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 12:02:00 PM
Y'all seem to ignore the fact that there's game whores on this site much more whorish than I. Though I do try.  :go-on:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2020, 12:03:56 PM
I signed back up for a few that I dropped.

Who could have foreseen this?  :o
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 15, 2020, 12:04:15 PM
You are, indeed, very trying................. :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 12:05:33 PM
Gee, I wish there were more smartass replies so I can continue to not post pics of what's on my table.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2020, 12:08:32 PM
Gee, I wish there were more smartass replies so I can continue to not post pics of what's on my table.

You complaining about smartass replies seems appropriate.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on July 15, 2020, 12:29:28 PM
I have a solo ASL game set up on my table.  It's set in the early part of Stalingrad.  Lots of units, including flamethrowers, demolition charges, and AFVs crammed into a small map with urban terrain.  Russians get one sniper check per turn, and Germans get a Stuka attack.  Provides a real sense of the Russians having their back against the Volga.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 01:00:11 PM

You complaining about smartass replies seems appropriate.  :bigthumb:

Gasp. Are you saying I'm a smartass?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2020, 01:08:00 PM

You complaining about smartass replies seems appropriate.  :bigthumb:

Gasp. Are you saying I'm a smartass?

Emphasis on the latter half of the word.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 15, 2020, 01:12:47 PM
Ohhkay. No idea what I did but okay.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 15, 2020, 01:16:30 PM
Chidlins!  Chillee thee out, sil voo play
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2020, 01:18:06 PM
Chidlins!  Chillee thee out, sil voo play

Your language skills have improved.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 15, 2020, 03:37:58 PM
More loot arrived.  Got my deluxe map for Paths of Glory, Imperial Struggle, and Undaunted: North Africa.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 16, 2020, 09:10:44 PM
Latest additions


(https://i.imgur.com/Iuao4f9.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 16, 2020, 09:27:55 PM
Played Imperial Struggle today.  Lost as England but that's because France cheated!  (and we didn't catch the mistake until turn 3 and it was too late to reset.)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50120773326_00d0b67095_b.jpg)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50120205958_9aae9fe696_h.jpg)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50120773301_a94310bc27_h.jpg)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50120773291_65ca81ac14_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 16, 2020, 09:29:48 PM
^you really need to sleeve those cards
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on July 16, 2020, 09:31:30 PM
Just waiting on BC's next sale.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 16, 2020, 09:37:13 PM
Just waiting on BC's next sale.

Coming soon to 2020!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 16, 2020, 11:52:24 PM
@Mirth - really interested in your impressions of Fulda Gap
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 17, 2020, 06:53:58 AM
Latest additions


(https://i.imgur.com/Iuao4f9.jpg)
Please hurry and post what Fulda Gap is like  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 17, 2020, 06:56:40 AM
Op Mercury looks good
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on July 17, 2020, 08:59:54 PM
^you really need to sleeve those cards

Not sleeving cards on an expensive game is right up there with leaving fuzzy unkept corners on a counter.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on July 17, 2020, 09:04:30 PM
^you really need to sleeve those cards

Not sleeving cards on an expensive game is right up there with leaving fuzzy unkept corners on a counter.

 :2thumbs:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on July 17, 2020, 09:10:12 PM
One man's unkempt fuzzy is another man's soul patch/flavor saver.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on July 18, 2020, 10:06:02 AM
^you really need to sleeve those cards

Not sleeving cards on an expensive game is right up there with leaving fuzzy unkept corners on a counter.

 :2thumbs:

When did you start clipping counters to clean up the unsightly fuzz and sleeving your cards to protect them from beer spills and Cheeto fingers?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 18, 2020, 10:23:04 AM
^you really need to sleeve those cards

Not sleeving cards on an expensive game is right up there with leaving fuzzy unkept corners on a counter.

 :2thumbs:

When did you start clipping counters to clean up the unsightly fuzz and sleeving your cards to protect them from beer spills and Cheeto fingers?

In Canada, he has to burn games for heat.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 18, 2020, 11:11:16 AM
I thought they generated heat by rubbing maple leaves together?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 18, 2020, 11:56:21 AM
I thought they generated heat by rubbing maple leaves together?

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 19, 2020, 01:34:55 PM
Did some Time of Crisis and decided to try Nemo's War again, published by VPG. This is a very thematic and fun solo game where you step into the shoes of Captain Nemo and command the submarine Nautilus, straight from the pages of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. You get to decide before the game begins, however, how you want to play things; if you want to be a warmonger, you can choose that path. Science? Exploration? Whatever you choose defines the victory conditions, and also how hard the imperial powers come after you. It's been a while so I'm looking forward to re-learning the game.

(https://i.imgur.com/kegazzy.jpg)

It's also kind of sad that the high point of my weekend was finding these awesome plastic condiment cups at Dollar Tree and buying several as they'd make excellent component piece storage during games, or draw cups. Also, getting a sheet of felt at the store to silence my loud a$$ dice tower.

(https://i.imgur.com/J1gY7Yu.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 19, 2020, 02:08:42 PM
I have it but haven't played it yet. I have heard it's a great game.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2020, 02:21:50 PM
Arrived today


(https://www.gmtgames.com/images/product/medium/657.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 19, 2020, 02:24:36 PM
How many does that make now?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2020, 02:27:13 PM
How many does that make now?

Of MBT? Base game plus 3-4 expansions.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 19, 2020, 02:50:02 PM
Ah, too late to get addicted to it then. I still need to play Storming the Gap anyway.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 19, 2020, 07:39:03 PM
How many does that make now?

Of MBT? Base game plus 3-4 expansions.

How do you keep track of all the acronyms.  :2funny:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2020, 07:54:25 PM
How many does that make now?

Of MBT? Base game plus 3-4 expansions.

How do you keep track of all the acronyms.  :2funny:

It's true that reading comprehension is tough for many gamers.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 20, 2020, 07:52:54 AM
How many does that make now?

Of MBT? Base game plus 3-4 expansions.

How do you keep track of all the acronyms.  :2funny:

I think he uses an mnemonic for that.................
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 25, 2020, 11:36:28 AM
Thanks to a recent conversation with Tuna - I have now put this on my table (also my wife is away for the week so I can totally commandeer the dining table in the conservatory  ;D

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50151574031_16f15b1499_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jpHVGT) (https://flic.kr/p/2jpHVGT)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on July 25, 2020, 02:15:24 PM
Such a good game! I need to get this to the table again.  I like the simple but effect way you sorted your counters.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on July 26, 2020, 08:26:32 AM
Thanks to a recent conversation with Tuna - I have now put this on my table (also my wife is away for the week so I can totally commandeer the dining table in the conservatory  ;D



Which tweezers are those? I don't think mine are 'wide' enough
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 26, 2020, 12:08:19 PM
Those are Tamiya tweezers. They weren't wide enough - but I made them wider  :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 26, 2020, 12:44:57 PM
That's stretching a point, innit.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on July 26, 2020, 01:02:20 PM
Those are Tamiya tweezers. They weren't wide enough - but I made them wider  :whistle:

Your brute!!! But now you can't use em for modeling!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on July 26, 2020, 03:14:06 PM
Sure he can- he'll just have to squeeze them a bit harder for the wee bits.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on July 26, 2020, 08:26:57 PM
Sure he can- he'll just have to squeeze them a bit harder for the wee bits.

wee bits are fiddly enough as it is.. squeeze to hard and they go flying!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 26, 2020, 08:30:19 PM
wee bits are fiddly enough as it is.. squeeze to hard and they go flying!

Yeah, but what about the wargame?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on July 27, 2020, 01:49:45 AM
Sure he can- he'll just have to squeeze them a bit harder for the wee bits.

wee bits are fiddly enough as it is.. squeeze to hard and they go flying!
Yeah... You're getting distracted :biggrin:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 12, 2020, 02:35:25 AM
I picked up the Forever War 2015-? expansion  for Labyrinth a few weeks ago and finally had a chance to play it with a friend a few days ago.  It's an OK expansion.  It doesn't really add anything new rules wise to the game but it does require that you have The Awakening expansion as well as the base game in order to play it.  I feel that the event cards in this newest expansion  are a little lacklustre and too generic when compared to those in the base game and first expansion.  We both enjoyed the Trump Tweets cards that had you roll a random tweet and outcome but they were the only real standouts.  We both felt the COIN card was pretty tacky in that it was basically an ad for the GMT COIN games.  We also felt that the game seemed a little bit biased against 45 but that's always going to be a problem with setting a game with a heavy political theme in current day.

We just played the standard scenario but the alternate history version that has Hillary winning the 2016 election looks like it might be interesting.  So-so expansion.  Definitely not as good as Awakening.  I'd wait for a sale before picking it up.

 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on August 12, 2020, 03:47:35 AM
Flying Colors ( GMT Games ) Volume III - Blue Cross White Ensign

going through the "russian trafalgar" versus the Ottomans, Battle of Mount Athos 1807

( also rigging black seas ships and painting oak and iron ships )
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on August 14, 2020, 08:33:48 AM
And then, out of the blue a package gets delivered. Is like christmas as i was expecting it only 2 weeks away ( albeit not going to the table yet )


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on August 14, 2020, 08:41:12 AM
^That's a beautiful game when set up on the table.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on August 14, 2020, 01:24:48 PM
New game just came in, first I've ever played of the series.. beyond excited
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on August 14, 2020, 04:24:52 PM
^^ nice pack of battles.

Never played it but remember seeing some vid of chaps playing it blind ( or maybe was some other from OSG ). they used some wood stands for the counters so the opponent didn't know what was it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on August 14, 2020, 05:34:10 PM
^^ nice pack of battles.

Never played it but remember seeing some vid of chaps playing it blind ( or maybe was some other from OSG ). they used some wood stands for the counters so the opponent didn't know what was it.


The OSG games are absolutely wonderful. I have a bunch of those wooden counter sleds for just that purpose.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: panzerde on August 14, 2020, 05:36:11 PM
And then, out of the blue a package gets delivered. Is like christmas as i was expecting it only 2 weeks away ( albeit not going to the table yet )


I have this and we set it up, played a few turns. We enjoyed it but something else shiny caught our eye and we put it away. We'll have to give it a try when we've completed our run of all the GMT Musket & Pike Battles games.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on August 14, 2020, 08:07:42 PM
something else shiny caught our eye

common 'disease' :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on August 15, 2020, 06:08:08 AM
It certainly is around here  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on August 17, 2020, 07:32:18 PM
A couple of epic games of one of the most horribly balanced and yet fun games of luck with the kids.... Dungeon!

The game could be so much better if wizards would spend three hours of development time rebalancing the classes, giving the cleric some sort of cleric power...same with the thief. As the perpetual player of the thief (damned you color green!), I’d love to experience a level lower than a nerve racking panic exploration of a couple of level three rooms. Despite its glaring flaws...I still love the game all these years later.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 17, 2020, 09:25:56 PM
I bought a copy at one of those pop-up mall stores during one of those after-Christmas don't-wanna-take-it-home sales for something like $8 about 3-4 years ago
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 18, 2020, 12:02:50 AM
Not on the table yet as they just arrived today, but hopefully next week.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50238671063_b2f5bcee74_h.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50239532952_19cdb99fb0_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on August 18, 2020, 12:08:52 AM
Looks like Sherlock consulting detective.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on August 18, 2020, 12:12:44 AM
I bought a copy at one of those pop-up mall stores during one of those after-Christmas don't-wanna-take-it-home sales for something like $8 about 3-4 years ago

I paid $10 or so. We played it 5 or 6 times already in the past few weeks. My boys would play every night if they had their way.

I’m breaking out Talisman to play with the older kids this week. There’s something oddly refreshing about playing simple luck based roll and move type games. Probably the lack of deep thinking that appeals to me.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 18, 2020, 12:40:59 AM
Looks like Sherlock consulting detective.

One player plays as the foil and gets to mess with the detectives.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 27, 2020, 06:29:39 PM
Sheesh...this hasn't been updated in a while.

I was half way through the rules for Fields or Fire 2 and I decided I wanted to play something familiar. I remembered this game - RAF:The Battle of Britain 1940 by Decision Games.

Why this one? The rules were super easy to follow and understand. I can't remember any time I was left in two minds as to what I should be doing. There's a Sequence of Play ( complete one) in the manual and each sequence has a number for the section in the manual it refers to - and everything you need regarding that particular sequence is there - exactly where it should be.

Last time I played this I played the one day training scenario. This time, I'm going for the full Eagle (German) campaign. It says 14 hours in the manual. I'm thinking it might be on my table for a bit longer than that.

Come on RAF - show me what you've got.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50538608017_dd7f9cbe27_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jZVzqD)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on October 28, 2020, 11:31:11 AM
Oh never seen this before.. may have to do some reading up on it, looks great!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on October 28, 2020, 11:36:23 AM
It's a fun game. And very easy to play.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 28, 2020, 02:01:38 PM
I did an AAR on this, can't recall if it is here or on The Other Site or not. It was a very odd result as I won as the Luftwaffe in a handful of rounds. But yes, the game is brilliant.

Right now I have Warp Gate on my table.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on October 28, 2020, 02:37:46 PM
I does look interesting, so it would be nice to have an AAR  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 28, 2020, 03:17:34 PM
Ha. I'll think about it. Maybe take you through a day as I'm paying the full campaign
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 28, 2020, 03:20:54 PM
Oh never seen this before.. may have to do some reading up on it, looks great!
This is a cracking game with fairly light, well written rules that make sense.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 03, 2020, 12:15:13 PM
Just delivered!

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/IMG_4682.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 03, 2020, 12:41:31 PM
ooooh nice  :applause: :bigthumb:

I've got that on pre-order. I wonder when it'll be in stock over here.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 03, 2020, 01:12:10 PM
I see the tweezers are pre-deployed!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 03, 2020, 01:20:24 PM
Indeed. This one may hit the table ASAP. Of course, what I'm really waiting on is The Last Hundred Yards Volume 3: The Solomon Islands. (http://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/worship.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 03, 2020, 02:09:24 PM
Do you have The Last Hundred Yards? Have you played it? I have it but not got it to the table at the mo.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 03, 2020, 02:20:05 PM
I have it but have yet to play it. I'm going to play Airborne first.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 05, 2020, 01:11:33 PM
Clipped and ready to learn.

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/lhya.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 05, 2020, 02:07:45 PM
Nice maps with that game  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 05, 2020, 02:39:19 PM
I'm a little disappointed that the maps in Volume 2 aren't as thick as the ones in the first game but they are nice looking.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 05, 2020, 04:58:06 PM
I'm a little disappointed that the maps in Volume 2 aren't as thick as the ones in the first game but they are nice looking.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 05, 2020, 05:14:38 PM
 :bigthumb:
But they also forgot to include a Fortified Position counter.  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on December 05, 2020, 05:40:04 PM
Just delivered!

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/IMG_4682.jpg)

Interesting.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 06, 2020, 03:17:42 AM
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50666227386_0fc643dc1f_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kccEdA)

It doesn't look like that now Ive started...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50682429901_cb7654d77d_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kdCGEi)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 06, 2020, 08:50:52 AM
That's a nice looking game on the table. Does it really come with all of those d6's?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 06, 2020, 09:06:26 AM
That's a nice looking game on the table. Does it really come with all of those d6's?
No - it came with 5 black and 5 red

And honestly the game is splendid. Looks great - and that is a chunk of board gaming for me - it has to look nice and it really does - but more importantly, it plays fantastic and is really quite fast paced
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 06, 2020, 06:08:43 PM
Is that Solitaire?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 06, 2020, 06:17:56 PM
Is that Solitaire?

(https://media.giphy.com/media/UvwI1X7XkbXq0/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 06, 2020, 07:16:47 PM
 :ROFL:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 06, 2020, 08:28:39 PM
I'm not familiar with the game, so...

It's not like there's a whole thread on it...

Oh, wait.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 07, 2020, 01:18:17 AM
Is that Solitaire?
Yep - and two player if required
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 07, 2020, 07:51:54 AM
Cool.

Sorry bbmike, if the game was mentioned in/on 'Worst Enemy' or elsewhere (besides the thread I just now ran across) I missed it. I'll try to catch up, I really will.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 07, 2020, 07:54:40 AM
Cool

Sorry bbmike, if the game was covered in 'Worst Enemy' or elsewhere (besides the thread I just ran across last night) I missed it. I'll try to catch up- really I will.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 07, 2020, 09:11:54 AM
We weren't trying to give you too hard a time, Stags.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 07, 2020, 09:12:27 AM
We weren't trying to give you too hard a time, Stags.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 07, 2020, 02:59:19 PM
We weren't trying to give you too hard a time, Stags.

No Worries  :)


We weren't trying to give you too hard a time, Stags.

No worries  ;)


... hmm... deja vu...  ???
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 07, 2020, 03:25:31 PM
We weren't trying to give you too hard a time, Stags.
No Worries  :)

We weren't trying to give you too hard a time, Stags.
No worries  ;)

... hmm... deja vu...  ???

(https://media.tenor.com/images/4eb2f65d072dc98231b169e66f8ba2dc/tenor.png)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: SofaKings on December 15, 2020, 09:07:52 PM
Sheesh...this hasn't been updated in a while.

I was half way through the rules for Fields or Fire 2 and I decided I wanted to play something familiar. I remembered this game - RAF:The Battle of Britain 1940 by Decision Games.

Why this one? The rules were super easy to follow and understand. I can't remember any time I was left in two minds as to what I should be doing. There's a Sequence of Play ( complete one) in the manual and each sequence has a number for the section in the manual it refers to - and everything you need regarding that particular sequence is there - exactly where it should be.

Last time I played this I played the one day training scenario. This time, I'm going for the full Eagle (German) campaign. It says 14 hours in the manual. I'm thinking it might be on my table for a bit longer than that.

Come on RAF - show me what you've got.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50538608017_dd7f9cbe27_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jZVzqD)

Just finished "Splendid and the Vile" by Erik Larson and this is up first this weekend!!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 16, 2020, 09:45:00 AM
I put The Barbarossa Campaign (by VPG) on my table finally, to learn. I also have Warp's Edge to play some more of as well.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 16, 2020, 09:50:15 AM
You should give the old SPI/TSR Barbarossa a try, Its actually not a bad game at all.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 16, 2020, 10:20:04 AM
Ha, I had TSR's Barbarossa a few years ago. I think I sold it before the big move - never played it, it was just too big. Division-scale with variable strength counters, if I remember right - way too many counters to deal with. But yeah, the scale fascinated me. Too bad I never gave it a spin.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 16, 2020, 11:13:13 AM
I remember you saying that you had it, but didn't know you had since parted with it. But yes, it is a 2-mapper and did need quite a long playing time. The scale was actually Corps/Army.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 24, 2020, 04:12:42 PM
Very happy! I was able to get a copy of NATO: The Next War in Europe that's punched but unplayed. It's in MUCH better shape than my original copy which is beat all to hell from me playing it constantly back in the day. That'll be next on my table, after I get some Space Infantry played.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 24, 2020, 04:28:36 PM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on December 25, 2020, 05:14:24 PM
Twas a good christmas:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 25, 2020, 05:56:10 PM
Oooh, nice!  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 25, 2020, 06:40:19 PM
Sweet!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 25, 2020, 07:58:08 PM
For me as well. I knew about Beneath the Med (bought it for me to put under the tree, LOL) but the other two were surprises.

I also ordered Last Stand: The Battle for Moscow, 1941-42 by MMP with a gift card. I'm clearing out a bunch of older titles on FB in the CONSIM Marketplace and have traded a few dozen away to local gamers, and have definitely cleared some space in my collection numbers down, but hey, Christmas. I still brought in much fewer than I've gotten rid of in the last two months. I'm trying to convince myself it's OK to keep ordering games if I'm bringing in fewer than I'm getting rid of.  :2funny:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on December 25, 2020, 08:50:41 PM
Sometimes its the little things.  My wife upgraded my wargaming tweezers with a little stocking stuffer suprise!  :nerd:

https://twitter.com/thecommandtent/status/1342647501438988295

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 25, 2020, 10:38:47 PM
That little light is nice - I have one like it. You'll get a lot of good use out of it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 26, 2020, 12:52:33 PM
Why, do you play a lot during power outages?  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 26, 2020, 12:55:44 PM
I need better light in my office. I have a desk lamp that helps but the spotlight on the tweezers has helped a time or two.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 26, 2020, 12:57:55 PM
I need better light in my office. I have a desk lamp that helps but the spotlight on the tweezers has helped a time or two.
I didn't realise the usefulness of it until you mentioned seeing the chits. Of course it's not to do with playing in the dark...it just gives additional light to the counter you're looking at.

That will be on my birthday list.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 26, 2020, 01:00:44 PM
I need to find one with a built in magnifier.  :-[
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 26, 2020, 01:07:07 PM
...and corner clipper...............
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 26, 2020, 02:28:55 PM
... and cat shoo away-er...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 26, 2020, 02:52:36 PM
...and a fifth-of-bourbon-holder...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 26, 2020, 02:59:58 PM
And all this in a handy compact package easily used by a crew of only 3 people wearing appropriate safety gear and surgical supports.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on December 26, 2020, 03:13:06 PM
Why, do you play a lot during power outages?  ;D

I will now    :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 26, 2020, 03:17:51 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 20, 2021, 01:40:30 AM
And - back by popular demand (or at least it won by a vote)...

The U.S. Civil War from GMT

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on January 20, 2021, 01:46:56 AM
Looks good!  :bigthumb: 

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on January 20, 2021, 06:21:21 AM
Crossing the Line

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 20, 2021, 06:42:52 AM
Crossing the Line
If your "table" is a computer screen  :2funny:  ;)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on January 20, 2021, 06:57:29 AM
Aha! I now have the physical copy set up, so 'na na na nana'
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 20, 2021, 07:13:12 AM
Pictures or it never happened  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on January 20, 2021, 07:29:03 AM
Later, I promise :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on January 20, 2021, 08:51:23 AM
Aha! I now have the physical copy set up, so 'na na na nana'

 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 30, 2021, 05:23:36 AM
Two things actually...trying to find some time to get paint onto my A-10

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on January 30, 2021, 08:03:44 AM
Thats a happy looking table there JD.   :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 30, 2021, 08:10:30 AM
Aye - it's busy. Best thing I ever did was building that at the back of the room. Wife's suggestion too! Couldn't believe it
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on January 30, 2021, 08:27:56 AM
Aye - it's busy. Best thing I ever did was building that at the back of the room. Wife's suggestion too! Couldn't believe it

She's a keeper!  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on January 30, 2021, 08:34:12 AM
That's like the time my wife walked into my 'study', looked at my full game shelf, and said, "You need more shelves!".  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 30, 2021, 08:42:14 AM
Well I know she wouldn't do that.

She's already seen under the table at my games and her statement wasn't "We need to get you more storage...otherwise you'll stub yer wee tootsies!"
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on January 30, 2021, 08:42:35 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2021, 08:56:42 AM
;D

Mike just went and bought another house to keep everything in
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Yskonyn on February 03, 2021, 04:02:30 AM
Currently having fun with Marvel Champions. WIll post pictures later.

It's a fun solitaire/co-op card game that really gives you the feeling of a typical thematic superhero fight.
You build up the powers of your hero while trying to keep the Villain from doing too much damage or from scheming to complete his plot. The game is pretty well balanced and most fights end up being nailbiters (but that might be my lack of proficiency with the game).
Once you get to learn the flow of a deck you can bump up the difficulty by playing on expert level and also start building your own decks.

Decks are basically your character. Each comes with character specific cards that you always have to include and then you can round of your deck with non character specific cards depending on what your playstyle is.
Each character is based upon one of the themes: Justice, Aggression, Leadership or Protection. Which all tie into the classic 'roles' we've seen before.

On the surface it seems like an easy, quick playing game, but the mechanics are quite clever once you delve into the details, allowing much customization and tactics to try out.



Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 03, 2021, 09:19:14 AM
I got Marvel Champions for Christmas in 2019. Tried it a couple of times but it didn't do much for me, so I ended up selling it. I'm not much into deck-builders but am slowly appreciating them, just not fast enough to like MC.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on February 19, 2021, 03:03:59 AM
I'm going to give this a go next. The only things I've played remotely like this are DVG's U-Boat Leader (which I wasn't a fan of) and (from the perspective of "kind of" RPG), Queen of the Skies...which I didn't like that much either.

So - we'll see how we go.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 19, 2021, 06:45:52 AM
Good luck with that, JD. I'll be playing 'Crossing the Line' again, and I think my buddy is planning on showing me how to play (on Vassal) the BCS games, specifically, 'The Last Blitzkrieg'.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on February 19, 2021, 07:06:16 AM
Are you free for Crossing the Line on Vassal on Saturday or Sunday? No rugby this weekend.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on February 19, 2021, 09:13:18 AM
I'm going to give this a go next. The only things I've played remotely like this are DVG's U-Boat Leader (which I wasn't a fan of) and (from the perspective of "kind of" RPG), Queen of the Skies...which I didn't like that much either.

So - we'll see how we go.

The Hunters is definitely closer to B-17 Queen of the Skies. If you didn't like B-17 you probably won't like Hunters either... probably... They are much the same game - make a choice, consult a chart, roll a die, rinse lather repeat. It's the story that evolves from these actions that draws people to them.

I've had a copy of B-17 since shortly after it was released and played untold hours of it... back then, but I can't get into it now. The Hunters I've had since it was first published and really enjoyed it and still play from time to time.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 19, 2021, 09:32:14 AM
Are you free for Crossing the Line on Vassal on Saturday or Sunday? No rugby this weekend.

I should be OK for Saturday.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 19, 2021, 11:07:31 AM
I've got NATO Air Commander on my table right now, and it's quite fun despite the Warsaw Pact kicking my butt.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on February 19, 2021, 11:42:09 AM
I've got NATO Air Commander on my table right now, and it's quite fun despite the Warsaw Pact kicking my butt.

They will do that quite often.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on February 21, 2021, 05:04:49 PM
I'm going to give this a go next. The only things I've played remotely like this are DVG's U-Boat Leader (which I wasn't a fan of) and (from the perspective of "kind of" RPG), Queen of the Skies...which I didn't like that much either.

So - we'll see how we go.

The Hunters is definitely closer to B-17 Queen of the Skies. If you didn't like B-17 you probably won't like Hunters either... probably... They are much the same game - make a choice, consult a chart, roll a die, rinse lather repeat. It's the story that evolves from these actions that draws people to them.

I've had a copy of B-17 since shortly after it was released and played untold hours of it... back then, but I can't get into it now. The Hunters I've had since it was first published and really enjoyed it and still play from time to time.
Well I just completed a couple of patrols. One finished with two engagements - a Ship + Escort and a lone ship. 4400t and 3700t.

On the first encounter the Escort detected me (a roll of 10 or better and I rolled 11!!!). I got away from the Escort with a LW to a generic crew member and managed to evade. I did managed to follow the contacts and I didn't get detected and had 2 hits with 2 torps...both dud. Then I got away from the Escort and lost them.

On the second encounter I fired 3x8.8cm deck gun. All hits and sunk the ship.

On the second patrol I only got one encounter - a Ship + Escort. The Escort didn't detect me so I fired two torps and both hit and sunk the ship. This gave some modifiers to the Escort and so they detected me. They scored 3 hits. 1xflooding (with no additional flooding, 2x flooding with an additional flooding and 1xhull damage.

I managed to evade and made it back to port with no further encounters.

The escorts can be very brutal...I was watching those hits coming in with total fear. Also I think I've been pretty unlucky on my patrols. Only 3 engagements from a possible 8 (not including transit areas where encounters are even more remote)

However - enjoying it very much and it's actually pretty fast paced once you've got the sequence down.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on February 21, 2021, 05:12:15 PM
 :bigthumb:

Yes it’s very fast once you get good at it. I was up to doing an entire career in a couple of hours.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 23, 2021, 09:03:09 AM
If you think The Hunters is brutal...you need to try The Hunted. It fills in the remainder of the war from '43 onward (wherever The Hunters leaves off). Surviving a game of The Hunted is a truly rare experience.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on February 23, 2021, 09:38:51 AM
Yeah - I had heard about The Hunted. Almost bought it and decided against until I had played The Hunters
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on March 28, 2021, 12:04:39 PM
This is it...I'm going in

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 28, 2021, 12:58:39 PM
 :bigthumb:

Been trying to get that to the table, but then Solosaurus happened and that was the end of that.

Now I have Combat! to dive into too, eventually. Here's hoping.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on March 28, 2021, 01:03:46 PM
Wouldn't Solosaurus be a reason to get it to the table?  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 28, 2021, 01:17:31 PM
It would normally, but the guy I do the podcast with is not a wargamer. He's reviewed By Stealth and Sea with me, and he has copies of Castle Itter and Pavlov's House now, but other than that he's not too deep into it. And FoF is definitely the deep end.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on March 28, 2021, 01:37:56 PM
What's Solosaurus?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 28, 2021, 01:43:06 PM
A podcast about solo gaming.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 28, 2021, 02:27:23 PM
What's Solosaurus?

Indeed, as Bob says. A guy named Martin, who is a staple in the various solo gaming Facebook groups, and I both took over hosting duties from this podcast last year. We've since recorded and distributed the last eight episodes. We have a ninth but I've not had time to produce it yet (I do all the production side and Martin takes care of keeping the lights on, so to speak). Both Martin and I as well as the previous hosts were all on Episode 68 where we discussed Mage Knight (I discussed Star Trek Frontiers, which is MK in a ST wrapper).

Give us a listen, see what you think. There's been more than a few strategy games in there, though nothing heavy.

https://solosaurus.libsyn.com/
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 09, 2021, 06:09:56 AM
Just arrived today;

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: tuna on April 09, 2021, 06:18:48 AM
Big box huh!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 09, 2021, 06:35:04 AM
No kidding  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 09, 2021, 08:09:21 AM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 09, 2021, 03:52:48 PM
Having had a good read of the downloaded rules over the last few day to get familiar with the system, I was able to jump in tonight and have a couple of playthroughs of the first scenario. All-in-all, not bad at all  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on April 09, 2021, 03:54:48 PM
Glad you like it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 09, 2021, 04:19:17 PM
It still suffers from what I see as the shortcomings of most tac games, and I'll not go into all that as you guys have heard it all from me before; but, I will admit that it has a lot of flavour and is fun to play. I had to clarify a couple of rules and maybe the rulebook could have been laid out better, but I've seen worse.

I like it enough to hope to get a couple of the other games in the series if and when they are back on the shelves again. It does seem as if Airborne and Ghost Front get snapped up very quickly.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on April 09, 2021, 08:25:22 PM
It still suffers from what I see as the shortcomings of most tac games, and I'll not go into all that as you guys have heard it all from me before; but, I will admit that it has a lot of flavour and is fun to play.


You can tell as I think I've missed some of these discussions and this one is on my radar.   :nerd:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on April 09, 2021, 09:31:02 PM
He believes that tactical games should include meeples instead of counters. We've tried to change his mind on many occasions.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 09, 2021, 09:40:34 PM
Currently trying out Shores of Tripoli for the first time.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on April 09, 2021, 10:31:46 PM
He believes that tactical games should include meeples instead of counters. We've tried to change his mind on many occasions.

 :bsmeter:    :biggrin:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 09, 2021, 11:31:20 PM
Currently trying out Shores of Tripoli for the first time.

Great game. Someone ought to review it
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 09, 2021, 11:33:42 PM
Currently trying out Shores of Tripoli for the first time.

Great game. Someone ought to review it

Yeah yeah yeah. I'm not playing it to review for AD since you already did that, smartarse. I'm playing it for the Solosaurus podcast - it's for our next episode.  :biggrin:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 10, 2021, 06:06:55 AM
It still suffers from what I see as the shortcomings of most tac games, and I'll not go into all that as you guys have heard it all from me before; but, I will admit that it has a lot of flavour and is fun to play.


You can tell as I think I've missed some of these discussions and this one is on my radar.   :nerd:

Its something that actually carries over from 'The Other Place' where I used to rant about it. Just a soap-box subject for me.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 10, 2021, 01:38:53 PM
This!

Look out for an 'Unboxing' and, at some point, a review.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on May 10, 2021, 02:18:51 PM
OH! It's out already?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 10, 2021, 02:19:55 PM
Sort of :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 10, 2021, 02:34:22 PM
Nerd club opens next again next week

There will be MESBG and Test of Honour
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 10, 2021, 02:38:22 PM
Excellent, 'geek - you have much gaming to catch up on. Did you add much to your Bolt Action collection?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2021, 02:55:55 PM
OH! It's out already?

it is when you've got the right connections ;)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 10, 2021, 03:01:08 PM
And it is quite magnificent - I'm very much looking forwards to doing a review for y'all :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on May 10, 2021, 03:01:14 PM
OH! It's out already?

it is when you've got the right connections ;)

 :P
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on May 10, 2021, 03:20:56 PM
I need those connections to get me their Pacific game.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 10, 2021, 03:23:58 PM
Excellent, 'geek - you have much gaming to catch up on. Did you add much to your Bolt Action collection?

Nerd club 1 shut down just before first lockdown and I thought that would be it for my social gaming and sold everything

Then a fellow homeless gamer told me about the new club which is a proper gaming centre and after a few games there it became new gaming place - however I was troopless and he’d sold all his because he was a self employed plasterer and needed the cash thru lockdown - so we looked for smaller skirmish games which are the two we play now

However, the makers of test of honour are currently play testing and showing off a very small skirmish game called 0 200 hours - a game of night raids focused on small arms commando raids fictional and real - inspiration from Hollywood including Kelly’s heroes and the guns of navarrone and the pc game commandos has already been put forward - very excited about this
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 10, 2021, 04:18:14 PM
That sounds interesting, let us know how it works out  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 11, 2021, 04:27:58 AM
Ok...I'm not 100% with the rules...probably not even 50% - but I've setup the first scenario with my best understanding.

It's Welcome to Braunschweig. Not alot to do in terms of commands in this one. The Russians are launching an attack and the allies have to hold and inflict some pain.

To that end, most of the soviet units are in MASL posture (march assault) which provides a decent movement rate and attacking ability. Assuming they have movement points left they can attack - 3 MPs left allows them to perform a Hasty Assault and 6 MPs left allows a Prepared Assault. I think I put their artillery in Close Support - again for movement and attack capabilities

For NATO, there are two units in SCR posture (screening). This allows them to create a ZoC 2 hexes from it's hex which slows down advancing units and allows those units to retreat before combat...all handy for lightly armoured recce units. The rest of the hardware is back at Braunschweig waiting for the onslaught. They are Rigid Defence giving good defensive bonuses  - though it does mean it's not allowed to retreat after combat and simply soaks up the punishment. Their artillery is in S&S (shoot & scoot) allowinf support but the ability to bug out if required.

This is a pretty heavy game. As I said, I don't have a full understanding of the rules - particularly the command structure and attachments etc - but I'm looking forward to my first foray into it - and I'll learn as I go. There's nothing really helpful in the way of videos or AARs out there - so I'm pretty much on my own with the help of Fabrizio who is very active on the BGG forums.

I'm toying with the idea of doing a quick AAR as I'm going pretty slow with this anyway - but not committed as yet

So here's the overall area with a close up of the units and AoO.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on May 16, 2021, 11:40:09 AM
No photos but got Memoir 44 to the table for some games with the kids. I really need to teach them to play C&C Napoleonics. I acquired a complete set fully and neatly stickered a couple of years ago in a board game trade.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on May 16, 2021, 05:24:50 PM
No photos but got Memoir 44 to the table for some games with the kids. I really need to teach them to play C&C Napoleonics. I acquired a complete set fully and neatly stickered a couple of years ago in a board game trade.

Thats awesome. After seeing this I broke my copy of M44 out and played with my 5 yr old. We've played half a dozen times now simplifying the rules a bit and just using the section cards and he loves it.  He is just starting to learn to read so I'm excited to work in the tactics cards once he is a bit more comfortable trying to read.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on May 16, 2021, 05:34:35 PM
Memoir is a great introductory wargame for kids. Simple rules, dice are easy to understand and explain, and the big arrows on the cards make the choices easier to make.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on July 26, 2021, 11:38:03 AM
 :dice:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on July 26, 2021, 03:29:26 PM
Nice.  :bigthumb: 

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on July 28, 2021, 10:26:48 PM
We currently have a 2000 piece puzzle on the table. I think it'll be there for a few more weeks if it survives cat and kid attacks.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on July 29, 2021, 02:58:57 AM
I would be mostly worried about the felines.  Things generally seem to be more kid-resistant than cat-resistant. 


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: W8taminute on July 30, 2021, 01:51:12 PM
I would be mostly worried about the felines.  Things generally seem to be more kid-resistant than cat-resistant.

Agreed.  One of my cats trampled a game of Liberty or Death that I had set up on my table a few years ago.  Since then I have learned to close the door to the room where I have a game setup on.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on July 31, 2021, 05:51:15 PM
Cats are jerks. One of them liberated a piece to underneath the bed while the other provided a covering distraction.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on July 31, 2021, 06:02:05 PM
I'm not moving!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on July 31, 2021, 06:36:32 PM
While you are sleeping cats use your wargames to test out plans to take over the world.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on July 31, 2021, 08:45:49 PM
I'm not moving!

Yeah, that's an 'I dare you!' if I ever saw one.


While you are sleeping cats use your wargames to test out plans to take over the world.

Let's hope they started with Campaign for North Africa. If we're lucky we will have gone on to colonize other planets while the cats are still arguing over turn three.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: W8taminute on August 01, 2021, 02:43:53 PM
I'm not moving!

And it looks like your cat defeated the enemy units in one fell swoop of his her tail!   ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on August 01, 2021, 04:00:50 PM
That she did.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 14, 2021, 10:24:42 PM
My friend kickstarted the board game version of Company of Heroes and we finally got round to giving it a try this afternoon.  Really nice production values.  A lot of how the components looked, how you assembled them during gameplay, and how you indicated special abilities/modifiers are very similar to Tide of Iron yet cleaner and easier to manage.

The gameplay had more depth than I was expecting but does have some rules that I personally found a bit odd.  I guess they were trying to evoke the feel of the computer game.  They seemed to work well enough but I found I had to throw out a lot of my preconceptions as to how things should work based on other tactical games in order to come to grips with this one.  The 2 hex range for nearly all weapons and the lack of any sort of overwatch are what gave me the most difficulty.  I also wasn't really a fan of the fact that there aren't really any scenarios with specific objectives.  It's always just a generic skirmish with different maps and factions.

We played two games with me as the Brits and my friend as the Jerries.  Brits managed to pull off two wins.  They seem to be very good at turtling and holding ground.  in the first game, I was able to seize the lion's share of the objective points and then just start throwing up defences and running up the VP total.  My little Bren carrier with 2 flamethrowers pretty much roasted everything in sight.  The Germans really made a mistake in not concentrating fire on it early on.

I wouldn't buy this for myself, but I'll play it again if someone wants to get it out on the table.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378004617_a51a5bb78f_h.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379736150_1319a8d76b_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on August 19, 2021, 04:36:25 PM
I've decided to get World at War '85 on the table again - with a plan to not remove it until I have some of the many, many scenarios under my belt.

And don't ask about the disposition of the US forces...I don't know what I was thinking...well, I do - but I forgot you can't shoot from a hill unless you are at the edge of the hill.

As for the Russians, I know they're split, but a wee detour up north might pin some US forces. It's a risk because they could become out of command and I probably shouldn't have done it - kind of re-learning the rules  :doh:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on August 19, 2021, 05:06:54 PM
It will definitely be some OST for me  :) :) :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on August 19, 2021, 05:12:14 PM
 ;)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 22, 2021, 03:20:46 PM
I managed to pry myself away from Fields of Fire (I really am in love with it) and I opened this up

WWII Commander : Battle of the Bulge

At first - I wasn't sure. It seemed pretty easy - not an awful lot really going on - but now I'm a handful of turns in, it's turning out to be a wee cracker.

Things you have to consider

There's lots more. The game and the rules on the face of it seem very limited and that's true when it comes to modifiers (there's literally 6 modifiers for the attacker and 3 for the defender) - but the choices you have to make - what sector to activate, where to attack, with what, keeping supply open, risk a river crossing attack etc, etc...the game is deceptively deep.

Very much enjoying this first outing. I don't know how much replay it'll have with one player though - that's the only thing. Lots of things happen at set times (no randomisation there) and the only real difference in each game would be the outcome of conflict.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on October 22, 2021, 03:25:14 PM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 23, 2021, 11:09:48 AM
I have London's Burning on one table, and Charlemagne: Master of Europe on another.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 23, 2021, 10:42:43 PM
Not a wargame, but it's been a 7 Wonders weekend.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2021, 10:59:32 PM
Not a wargame, but it's been a 7 Wonders weekend.

that makes for an excellent weekend....

any expansions, or just the base game?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 24, 2021, 10:20:35 AM
Not a wargame, but it's been a 7 Wonders weekend.

that makes for an excellent weekend....

any expansions, or just the base game?

After several plays of just the base game, the expansions will be arriving soon.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 24, 2021, 10:32:12 AM
Cities and the Cities anniversary pack are must-haves

Leaders was crap and should be burned

Babel was a mixed bag: the titular tower was VERY fiddly, but the Grey Projects expansion was pretty good

I own, but have not yet played, Armada

As a two-player implementation, Duel is excellent but I have not yet played any of the expansions to it
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: TTC on November 01, 2021, 09:29:49 PM
On my tables:

Table 1: Compass Games' NATO

Table 2: GMT Men of Iron

Table 3: Thin Red Line Games' Dogs of War
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on November 06, 2021, 05:38:27 PM
Enemy Action Ardennes
It comes with 3 games - German Solo, Allied Solo and 2 player. It cost a fair bit but there's a fair bit there (at least 2 games for me...the German and Allied Solo maps and mechanisms)

This is from a favourite designer of mine...John Butterfield. He created RAF:Battle of Britain 1940

It has a unique mechanic (at least I've never come across it) where when combat occurs, you draw a variable number of chits from a cup - and they determine what the outcome will be. It's odd but I'm looking forward to giving it a go.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 06, 2021, 06:02:08 PM
 :bigthumb:

I'm looking forwards to hear how this game plays.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on November 06, 2021, 09:35:59 PM
:bigthumb:

I'm looking forwards to hear how this game plays.

+1
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: TTC on November 07, 2021, 09:15:39 PM
:bigthumb:

I'm looking forwards to hear how this game plays.

EA: Ardennes?

It's awesome. I've played twice, once as the Germans and once as the Allies. The "AI" is very challenging and logical, but it's the fog of war that makes it so tough.

And the rules look complex, but most of the complexity is really just completeness to account for all of the side cases that can occur in a game like this.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on November 08, 2021, 04:48:03 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDihmu0WYAciS9z?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 08, 2021, 06:28:48 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDihmu0WYAciS9z?format=jpg&name=large)

OK, I'm intrigued....    :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on November 08, 2021, 06:46:48 AM
^^  That does look interesting...

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/3503425/arc-kaisers-last-raider

https://www.ossgames.com/store/folio-no-14-arc-of-the-kaisers-last-raider
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on November 08, 2021, 07:42:46 AM
+1

https://nwswargamingstore.net/shop/ols/products/oss1702

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 08, 2021, 09:10:55 AM
I put together my new base set for Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress. I intended to start painting them last weekend but I instead bought a new puppy. The puppy won't sit still long enough to paint anything (even the puppy, lol). But, it's a Christmas/birthday gift, so he'll not be a permanent resident here.

I have paints, brushes, washes, terrain for bases, and have watched more than enough YouTube videos to have an idea of how to proceed. I'm looking forward to finally having the time to try. Because there's two other core sets and several expansions and character packs to work on too  :groovy: :idiot2:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on November 09, 2021, 02:35:22 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDihmu0WYAciS9z?format=jpg&name=large)

OK, I'm intrigued....    :)

doing a play through :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on November 13, 2021, 04:19:57 AM
Enemy Action Ardennes
It comes with 3 games - German Solo, Allied Solo and 2 player. It cost a fair bit but there's a fair bit there (at least 2 games for me...the German and Allied Solo maps and mechanisms)

This is from a favourite designer of mine...John Butterfield. He created RAF:Battle of Britain 1940

It has a unique mechanic (at least I've never come across it) where when combat occurs, you draw a variable number of chits from a cup - and they determine what the outcome will be. It's odd but I'm looking forward to giving it a go.
This game is very difficult. Or at least I'm finding it as such. Unlike the rules he made for RAF:Battle of Britain 1940, these don't do a great job of pointing you in the right direction. In the RAF game, you could play from the sequence of play because any other rules were referenced. That isn't always true here.

I played a card last night for the Allies which had the Engineer tactic. It was pretty difficult to make out what I should do...it mentioned something like ...if entitled to an improved position... but it took me some time to track down why a unit should be entitled to have an improved position - all because the rule wasn't referenced.

I'm very much enjoying it and it's very thought provoking...an awful lot of thinking, particularly for the Allied AI (counting hexes, working out communication, places where you can put something and then working out the best one - but also from the German side in trying to decide which units to activate, when, which command cards to "throw away" (not use as command cards but use as combat tactics). It's very deep.

Anyway - I'm only on Day 17 but progress (both real and game) is slooooooow  :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on November 13, 2021, 08:11:59 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEBJc1lXIAw2xG5?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 13, 2021, 08:49:09 AM
I'm currently exploring the delights of 'Assault - Red Horizon 41'

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 13, 2021, 08:55:51 AM
:bigthumb:

glad to hear it!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on November 13, 2021, 07:55:41 PM
I forgot to take photos but spent the last couple of days a miniatures convention. Played a couple of games of Black Powder, a variant of Flames of War, Wings of Glory, and spent a lot of time talking to old dudes and browsing the merchants.

I was rather restrained my purchases...sort of...a little bit restrained. Rulebooks for Lion's Rampant, Clash of Spears, and Sharp's Practice (this is getting mailed to me). The boys and I bought some boxes from Perry Miniatures Battle of Agincourt line to build an English and French routines for Lion's Rampant.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 13, 2021, 08:19:54 PM
sounds like fun!  hope you took a lot of pictures :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on November 13, 2021, 08:53:03 PM
No photos but I think there is a future discussion for the podcast regarding the current and future state of historical miniatures wargaming.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 13, 2021, 10:07:13 PM
No photos but I think there is a future discussion for the podcast regarding the current and future state of historical miniatures wargaming.

I'll send you the rest of this season's schedule!  :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on November 14, 2021, 05:10:47 PM
I forgot to mention my role as GM for my boys games of Memoir 44 and Ogre. Memoir 44 is, of course, a great introductory wargame. I had never played Ogre before but they loved it and picked up on the rules very quickly. It ended in an Ogre victory with it having only one secondary gun and level 1 treads left at the end of the game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on November 15, 2021, 03:09:39 AM
That's awesome, Bison!  Glad they enjoyed it.  :bigthumb: 

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on November 22, 2021, 04:39:42 PM
Enemy Action Ardennes
It comes with 3 games - German Solo, Allied Solo and 2 player. It cost a fair bit but there's a fair bit there (at least 2 games for me...the German and Allied Solo maps and mechanisms)

This is from a favourite designer of mine...John Butterfield. He created RAF:Battle of Britain 1940

It has a unique mechanic (at least I've never come across it) where when combat occurs, you draw a variable number of chits from a cup - and they determine what the outcome will be. It's odd but I'm looking forward to giving it a go.
Well - I do have a bulge (puns are welcome)

1SS Panzer Corps is having a hard time against V Corps up north but 47th Panzer Corps are pushing through with 85th Corps and 58th Panzer Corps planning to shore up the flanks (I hope)

I have a plan - but it often gets thwarted by Allied deployments. 1 SS Panzer Corps lack of movement and stiffening defence from 5th Corps is annoying. Also I might have to hold up 47th Panzer Corps until other units get in place - or they could get cut off
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on November 22, 2021, 05:02:02 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cqqssciWL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

My wife and I spent the past weekend in a cabin, so I brought this game with me.  I like the format and had high hopes for some good adventures.  There are 8 missions, and you are supposed to try each one 3 times.  Each mission is supposed to be harder, more or less, than the previous missions.  That's probably good, because I think I won 8 out the first 9 missions.  I lost interest about halfway through and started reading the bocage rules for ASL instead.  It was fun for a while, and the $30 price is about right.  Eventually I will probably finish all the missions and maybe try some different strategies.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on November 23, 2021, 08:14:58 AM
Ah, I got it and "modded" it for usability - made it ring bound with one acetate sheet over every mission map - although have yet to play it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on November 23, 2021, 08:16:43 AM
In the meanwhile been playing and eventually got about writing about it.

https://wargamercoffeebreak.com/2021/11/23/one-evening-in-south-america/ (https://wargamercoffeebreak.com/2021/11/23/one-evening-in-south-america/)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: W8taminute on December 03, 2021, 03:23:02 PM
There is a 1000 piece Boston Redsox puzzle on my man cave table right now.  I did not put it there.  My daughter is working on it.  What this means is that I won't have any board games on my table for a while.   
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 03, 2021, 03:35:03 PM
There is a 1000 piece Boston Redsox puzzle on my man cave table right now.  I did not put it there.  My daughter is working on it.  What this means is that I won't have any board games on my table for a while.


my table has been turned into Giftwrap Central™ as is the holiday custom around here
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 06, 2021, 01:59:37 PM
Hollandspiele loot has arrived.  :hug:

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/IMG_H.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 06, 2021, 02:17:13 PM
I guess you've got a few #UnboxingDays covered, huh?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on December 06, 2021, 08:32:21 PM
Hollandspiele loot has arrived.  :hug:

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/IMG_H.jpg)


 :dreamer:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 07, 2021, 06:41:32 AM
Yummy!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 07, 2021, 07:09:22 AM
I got Reinforcements recently (which is the solo expansion for David Thompson's Undaunted series) - I already had North Africa, so I added Normandy as it's pretty inexpensive. I'd played North Africa and had a lot of fun with it using a solo variant, so I can't wait to see what David and company did with this expansion.

My game table is loaded with Shadows of Brimstone minis and paints, none of which I've had a lot of time to work with. Underneath that table is a blanket which was one of my Bassett's favorite places to hang out/snooze. It's a little tough because we had to put him down two nights ago...he was old and had some issues going on. I'm not much in the mood for painting but am hoping to get remotivated here in the next week or so, as well as get the Reinforcements expansion to the table.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on December 22, 2021, 04:23:54 PM
Just arrived… like 5 mins ago.  :biggrin:

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 22, 2021, 04:27:27 PM
 :bigthumb:

I've been tempted by both of those, but they sounded more like CYOA-type games. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I was not sure about it. Would be happy to hear your thoughts on both.

I know someone else posted about Bismark before, and their analysis made it sound like the game was okay but not great. (Was that Trailrunner? I can't recall.)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 22, 2021, 04:55:55 PM
Don't let Cyrano see those!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 29, 2021, 11:36:00 AM
Just arrived at the front door! (https://www.aarcentral.com/emoti/love2.gif)

(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/IMG_5109.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 29, 2021, 12:07:14 PM
Wow. I didn't know about that at all. Seems as is if the Pacific Theatre is very popular these days. Look forwards to seeing what you think of it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on December 29, 2021, 10:20:55 PM
Just arrived… like 5 mins ago.  :biggrin:

Bismarck Solitaire sounds interesting.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 30, 2021, 03:44:38 AM
Enemy Action:Ardennes
Still going. I have created a bulge but the Allies have rallied and stopped me dead.

It's the 21st December and the Allies now have airpower. This can hobble the German player by having to relinquish his highest Command level card from his hand (which I had to do in fact - it's done if you turn over an Allied Command card and it has the Airpower event).

Also, the Allies have an absolute mountain of scheduled reinforcements coming on the 22nd (highlighted in green)...so I don't think I'm going to get much further but I'll crack on to see how it pans out.

I'm not sure how this game plays out in terms of real life - particularly things like placement of units - but it's been a hoot. Hard work as the automation of the AI, whilst pretty good I have to say, is difficult to master...lots of reading required.

The damage chit pull process is.......interesting. I thought it was going to be great (because it was something new) but really, it can be super wonky. I was attacking one Allied unit with 7 fairly strong German units (6:1 odds if I recall) and I suffered 2 hits to the Allied 0 hits. Sure - dug in troops can have an effect, but things like banking on artillery support aren't really in this game...you can use an Artillery Combat Tactic - but if no chit turns up for artillery being present then you don't get that "shift" that you would on a CRT.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 30, 2021, 06:49:20 AM
'Assault - Red Horizon 41' remains firmly on my table for now, and I'll be adding more to my thread on the games soon(ish).
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on December 30, 2021, 07:55:41 AM
:bigthumb:

I've been tempted by both of those, but they sounded more like CYOA-type games. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I was not sure about it. Would be happy to hear your thoughts on both.

I know someone else posted about Bismark before, and their analysis made it sound like the game was okay but not great. (Was that Trailrunner? I can't recall.)

I did post a short review of Bismark.  And yeah, I thought it was OK, but not great.  I never did finish all the missions before I shelved the game.  But, I've seen a lot of very positive reviews, so my less-than-stellar opinion seems to be an outlier.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 30, 2021, 08:05:05 AM
Don't sell your opinion short, especially when it's less than glowing among a sea of positive reviews. I tend to pay more attention to critical reviews when a game is overwhelmingly approved by the community. I'm just not sure I'm a fan of the format.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on December 30, 2021, 09:34:34 AM
Just arrived… like 5 mins ago.  :biggrin:

Bismarck Solitaire sounds interesting.

It is interesting. And fun, to me. It is very light and don’t expect a lot of depth but it is meant to be played in about 30 minutes.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on December 30, 2021, 09:42:20 AM
… I'm just not sure I'm a fan of the format.

What do you mean by “format”? Physical or game style?
For physical, Lots of people not happy with the “write on the page” idea, but there’s lots of ways around that.

For game style, if you never liked B-17Queen of the Skies, or it’s modern version Target for Today, and games like that then you probably won’t like Bismarck either. I do feel that Bismarck gives you a bit more agency than the others but not much.

These are basically time wasters or something you can play at one end of the couch while yer wife watches her TV shows and you can be in the same room.


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 30, 2021, 09:47:44 AM
No, I do enjoy B-17 and TfT. I thought these were more like a book style, sans large map and counters?

I'd had my eye on this as well as Waterloo Solitaire. I'd prefer a boxed game style though, but it sounds like I'm expecting too much and need to look at this like it's a time waster, as you're saying.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on December 30, 2021, 09:51:59 AM
Well they are “book style” in that they come in books.  :biggrin:

Bismarck has a map but you write on it instead of using counters. It is NOT a read a paragraph and then chose which page to go to style.

You roll to see what the RN is up to then fight if required then move yer ships where you want to. Rinse and repeat.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: trailrunner on December 30, 2021, 12:22:22 PM
I liked the book format.  Graphics were good, and I liked how they brought the history into the format.  It reminded me of something that I would have had when I was young, long before computers and iPads.  I had originally purchased it to keep me busy for a 6 hour train ride (each way), but wound up taking it to a cabin for a weekend instead, and it was perfect for that.  All you need is the book, a pen or pencil, and two dice (or a dice app).  I've read that some people photocopied the book, or made a plexiglass overlay, to preserve the pages, but I just wrote on the book itself. 

My issue with the game is that the British missions (or whatever they were called) were pretty much the same.  As you progressed through the book, the victory conditions got harder because they required the Bismark to stay at sea longer, or get more points, but it was essentially the same set of British responses over and over.  I sort of get that because the British missions were based on history, but I got bored and never did finish all the missions.

Good observation on B-17.  I did not really care for that game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 31, 2021, 12:49:06 PM
Enemy Action:Ardennes
Here's an example of the AI and what you need to work through in order to have the AI work....

This picture shows the AI Command Card. This one is is for the XVIII Airborne Corps. You work down the list in the top half of the card and perform the first action in the list that is applicable. A {G} indicates it's for the German Solo game only, and {A} signifies it's for the Allied Solo game only and the arrows indicate it's for both the Allied and German solo games.

In the case of this card,

There are checks you have to do to see if you can activate a Corps and the reason I can activate the Corps is because of this bold section from section 10 of the manual 10 Allied Activations and Action Cards

If any of the above criteria apply to at least one unit in the formation, conduct the Allied activation sequence for all on-map units in the formation.

At least one of the units is able to receive an IP (Improved Position) so I can activate the units of the Corps.

Once you've worked out that you can activate the Corps, you draw 3 Action Cards which tell you how you can activate them. You go through the Action Cards in numerical order, starting at the lowest number and work up to the highest number. In my case I pulled 3 cards numbered 02, 05 and 06. 02 was Fill the Gap and it did not fit any of the units in the Corps.

However 05 was Major Offensive

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 31, 2021, 01:19:11 PM
The Major Offensive card (pic 1) specifies a situation which fits my units. I do have units which, when moved towards a German unit, will present a greater than 2:1 ratio for attacking.

The Action part of the card tells me how to execute the command. It tells me that other proximate units in the same Army can reinforce the attack - and this allows me to move the units in purple to move into position and support the attack. It also tells me when to break off the attack - in this case if I have equal to or more than 5 steps of units attacking (I have 16 steps) then I break off the attack when I (the Allies) have suffered 2 hits...so I keep pulling chits until - as the Allies - I take two hits.

NOTE - I haven't included the CCB 3A VII - that's because it needs to move out of a German ZoC which costs and additional point and the only way it can move is into woods - which costs 4 MPs for an Armoured or Mechanized unit - so it would simply use all it's MPs to move one hex and couldn't get to the battle - so it stays put.

At the bottom of the card, it does say Protect VP Hex and when you look that up, it says in 10.3 Allied Action Card Terminology
Protect VP Hex
When moving an Allied unit, do not move out of a VP hex within 2 hexes of a German unit or to which a German unit is proximate, if doing so would leave the hex vacant. Do not participate in an attack if in a VP hex occupied by fewer than four steps total.


The units I plan to move (see pic 2) are in VP hexes (highlighted in green) - however due to ZoC (Zones of Control highlighted in red) of Allied units, they will not be able to move to the VP hexes (there is a ZoC north east of the Armoured unit being moved which is why I can move it - I've just cropped it off so you can't see it) - so I can move these Allied units off their VP hexes and commit them to attack the 2nd Panzer of XLVII Corps

By moving these units, I will have a 25:4 or a 6:1 ratio in combat.

I've made that seem simpler than it is - there's a lot of checking and double checking rules to see which situation fits - but the point of my post was to show you that the AI, if worked correctly by the player, can work very well. It's because of this that I have stalled in my progress as the Germans - the AI is either plugging gaps in their lines or attacking - and just enough to make a dent here and there. It really is a superb system - if somewhat complicated.

Anyway - I'm off to play some more  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on December 31, 2021, 02:49:53 PM
Dude, seriously...  why aren't you writing this as a "how to play" or analysis article for the front page?!   :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 31, 2021, 03:19:52 PM
Dude, seriously...  why aren't you writing this as a "how to play" or analysis article for the front page?!   :whistle:
because it's........soooooooooooo.....time.......consuming.

Honestly it's been on my table for over a month. Sure real life and stuff have got in the way - but I'm literally 6 turns in over that period!! Alot of that time is me re-reading rules to check stuff.

I've done AARs before and they are time consuming - this one would be an absolute mare with the photos and the like. Absolute hell.

I did start a document I was going to give you. 2 pages in and I gave up. It was a mess. All over the place, no real structure and I wasn't really explaining things properly.

So sorry - I'm afraid this one stays undocumented. I only wanted to post a snippet of what the game AI played like and I didn't want to start a new thread because I wasn't planning to provide much more - if anything more at all.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on December 31, 2021, 03:33:33 PM
What you have put is really interesting and does give some insight into how the game works.

SLÀINTE MHATH, JD :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 31, 2021, 03:37:27 PM
Agus a charaid
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on December 31, 2021, 04:05:32 PM
The front what now?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 31, 2021, 04:35:26 PM
He said "Good health" and I said "And you friend"
Oh...the front page?  :ROFL:

I've really not helped keep this thread on topic, have I  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mcguire on December 31, 2021, 05:12:18 PM
The front what now?

 :ROFL:

(Oh, ah, what's on my table? Uh, lessee, I started the introductory Lasalle 2 scenario using Hazdrubal's very attractive Table Top Simulator module. I'm up to about turn 6, the French are taking a beating, I've screwed up the rules a lot, and I accidentally deleted a French artillery unit. But it still look very much like what I'd think a Napoleonic battlefield would look like (with disappearing artillery units). Great fun!)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on January 24, 2022, 02:26:31 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJy-3KcXwAkW9af?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 25, 2022, 08:10:03 AM
Currently I'm working through Days of Ire (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192802/days-ire-budapest-1956) for the next episode of the podcast.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 25, 2022, 03:45:45 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJy-3KcXwAkW9af?format=jpg&name=large)
You should probably say what the game is  :whistle:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on January 26, 2022, 05:13:23 AM
You should probably say what the game is  :whistle:

The Dark Summer ( GMT Games ) aka. the only Normandy campaign operational I will ever need ( for various reasons ).

but in the meanwhile I ended playing it and threw a game we like playing here in the household.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ-BEI2X0AEMUQj?format=jpg)

This War Without an Enemy https://www.nutspublishing.com/eshop/wargames-en/this-war-without-an-enemy-en


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on January 26, 2022, 09:01:10 AM
You should probably say what the game is  :whistle:

The Dark Summer ( GMT Games ) aka. the only Normandy campaign operational I will ever need ( for various reasons ).

Aah - I have that - so  :bigthumb:

Care to elaborate?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 26, 2022, 11:26:41 AM
After checking out Days of Ire, I've now put Longstreet Attacks: The Second Day at Gettysburg (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/158816/longstreet-attacks-second-day-gettysburg) on my table.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: perfischer on January 26, 2022, 01:19:28 PM
Since it arrived a couple of weeks ago, 1985: Sacred Oil has been on my table, and it's going to stay there for a while. It's big, it's time-consuming, yes, but it's also fantastic. Playing solo.

Per
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 26, 2022, 02:28:36 PM
Since it arrived a couple of weeks ago, 1985: Sacred Oil has been on my table, and it's going to stay there for a while. It's big, it's time-consuming, yes, but it's also fantastic. Playing solo.

Per

it looks both (1) good, and (2) huuuuuuuge
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on January 27, 2022, 08:35:53 AM
Care to elaborate?

Well, it simulates the Normandy campaign up to the breakout in a very elegant and uncomplicated form and does away with stuff that a "army commander" would not be dealing with. Zooms out nicely from the "battalions upon battalions minutiae" of other products.
It can be played to a satisfactory conclusion in a long afternoon. Despite a list of exclusions the rules are robust and easy to catch up at start or after a while not having played it.
WW2 not being my cup of tea and definitely not a operational level aficionado, it is the only game I'll have on that particular operation.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 27, 2022, 09:19:57 AM
I've almost grabbed The Dark Summer a few times, but I already have the 'designer signature edition' of France 1944 from Compass. I was going to give that a go before I get another Normandy game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 27, 2022, 10:06:19 AM
I was going to give that a go before I get another Normandy game.

(http://armchairdragoons.com/gifs/liar.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 27, 2022, 05:01:42 PM
(huffs defensively) I am most certainly not!   8)

I made a decision to play all my games before I buy any new ones. Review copies are fine, but I haven't had any of those in a while. So, I should be busy through 2034.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: mcguire on January 27, 2022, 05:03:59 PM
(huffs defensively) I am most certainly not!   8)

I made a decision to play all my games before I buy any new ones. Review copies are fine, but I haven't had any of those in a while. So, I should be busy through 2034.

But by 2023, nothing published today will be new. What's your policy on buying old games?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 28, 2022, 08:34:46 AM
BC HR Policy #23-A
Buying Old Games

"OLD" games are defined as any game BC does not have...yet.

:)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on January 28, 2022, 08:41:13 AM
 :2funny:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on January 28, 2022, 03:14:56 PM
BC HR Policy #23-A
Buying Old Games

"OLD" games are defined as any game BC does not have...yet.

:)

There is an HR policy I can get behind!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on February 02, 2022, 01:45:36 PM
I didn't get The Last Hundred Yards to the table. Instead, I pulled this bad boy out.

Lets get attached to wee counters and cry when Sgt Taylor gets wounded!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on February 09, 2022, 05:14:35 PM
One of these days I might get Combat!, i've heard divergent opinions which is usually a sign of an interesting system.

Other than that and following the purchase of 3 new titles from VaeVictis ( posted below for visual cue )...


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK_dq76WUAUGvq-?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK_ejlKWUAYD4nq?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK_f23LXwAEUKd5?format=jpg&name=small)


... I set myself to setup each one of them to check for problems.
Yesterday spent a nightmarish time with Champs de Bataille, which proposes to be a DBM adaptation using hex and counter but found some issues with counters colours and troops types availabilities. Everything is playable, just feels odd, but then it is the first installation of the revamped game system.

Today we ( me and daughter ) got to go through Avec Inifini Regret III setup and it looks splendid. I never ever be short than amazed at the glorious illustrations that VaeVictis, Hexasim, Acies Edizioni, Europa Simulazioni, etc put on their games. Every single unit is a "miniature" in its own right.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLL1qErXwAUEUVO?format=jpg&name=large)


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on February 09, 2022, 06:25:49 PM
Definitely agree with you about the Hexasim games.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on February 09, 2022, 07:08:45 PM
Those are some nice looking games.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on February 10, 2022, 02:11:36 AM
One of these days I might get Combat!, i've heard divergent opinions which is usually a sign of an interesting system.
It definitely throws a loop in there now and again that makes you wonder.

Example - I had a German soldier pull an Aimed Fire order - and the order had a G next to it meaning if there was an Allied unit within 4 hexes and the German unit passed a Troop Quality Check, it got a Grenade command instead of an Aimed Fire command. There was an Allied unit within 4 hexes and he did pass his TQC - so he got a grenade order.

Good right?

Only the Allied unit within 4 hexes of it had a Sprint order meaning the German's grenade was going to be ineffective - the Allied unit would be 7 hexes away by the time the grenade went off. It didn't make sense to me since I knew the Allied unit was going to Sprint and knew the better option was the Aimed Fire order for the German unit.

But then I thought - he doesn't know the Allied unit is going to sprint out the area...he just knows there's an Allied unit there. So because I have all the information, I think the order makes no sense - but it does actually make total sense.

I had another order assigned to a Sniper in a building - it was Hide. Again...not particularly sensible...but he could be a bit of a yellow belly...or maybe he was hiding to try and lure the Allied unit closer.

All these things that "make no sense" actually often can be explained away by just forgetting what the Allies are doing and think about the order purely from the German perspective and also just thinking real world...

Honestly, I think it's a superb system. Yes, for the cost the components aren't great (the maps creases really show (white) and I've not had it out for ages) and the rules are pretty poor and you definitely need the latest set  - from BGG, not Compass Games (though I've even heard there's an issue or two with them). Also the designer is very active on the BGG forums...even for this system...not just on the Volume II forums.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on February 10, 2022, 03:37:26 AM

Honestly, I think it's a superb system

Thank you, I understand what you meant. I do try to visualize the battle unfolding in real time and not just a game of stuff moving in sequence so a lot of weird rules for some can make sense for others.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Hethwill on March 19, 2022, 11:59:22 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOOJrG9XsA4ii8r?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on March 19, 2022, 01:50:00 PM
^ Is there a Neubaufahrzeug unit counter?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 19, 2022, 03:18:03 PM
Double size?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 19, 2022, 07:20:59 PM
The boys and I played some Memoir 44. Fighting from cover is not a tactic they have embraced yet. They are more fix bayonets and charge tacticians. :D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 19, 2022, 07:21:32 PM
The boys and I played some Memoir 44. Fighting from cover is not a tactic they have embraced yet. They are more fix bayonets and charge tacticians. :D

get 'em playing something from Braveheart
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on March 19, 2022, 10:34:11 PM
Double size?

And made of mild cardboard...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on March 20, 2022, 06:55:35 AM
Not heavier than 400gsm.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on March 21, 2022, 03:10:38 AM
The boys and I played some Memoir 44. Fighting from cover is not a tactic they have embraced yet. They are more fix bayonets and charge tacticians. :D

get 'em playing something from Braveheart

Well, we are also into Ogre right now which is basically Braveheart...without the Scots and English...and no swords...ok it's nothing like Braveheart.

We won the base game and a big ol' expansion box at a gaming convention several months ago. It's a good simple game for the boys. I enjoy it well enough. The real bonus is it has all the trappings of a traditional wargame with the attack, defense, and movement factors, and a snazzy odds table. So it'll pay dividends in the future.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 21, 2022, 08:58:41 AM
I clipped and re-organized the Ambush! and Move Out! game boxes - I'm actually surprised they both look accurate, inventory-wise. I sold my original copies some time ago before I moved and regretted it greatly. Now I only need the Silver Star and Purple Heart expansions...which cost hundreds of dollars, so no chance there. :( I'm reaching out to a few folks on BGG to see if anyone wants to trade.

I went through my copy of Battle Hymn as well, which looks complete. Both of these games are in very good shape - better than mine. I think I played Ambush! and Battle Hymn so much that the counters were starting to fade.

Now, I have Save Afghanistan, Comrade! on my table - a solo game where the player controls Soviet forces, trying to maintain order in Afghanistan during their occupation.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 08, 2022, 04:15:16 PM
This has been brought back to my attention - so it's out
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 08, 2022, 04:41:03 PM
Excellent, JD  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 08, 2022, 04:53:47 PM
I have Built For War on my game table at the moment. In this one, you build a tank for your major country during WW2 ('major' in that it's the US, UK, Soviet Union, or Germany), and then fight with them. I had to order an AI deck separately to play it solo, but it wasn't too expensive. And man, the cover art looks just like Panzer Blitz.

(https://media.miniaturemarket.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/i/mib1036_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 08, 2022, 05:00:56 PM
I thought the cover art looked familiar
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 08, 2022, 05:10:47 PM
A warning to everyone not in the know (as I wasn't)...don't leave your games out in the sun.

I used to play my games on the dining table in the conservatory. I didn't realise the sun would have such an impact in such a short space of time (maybe a week - possibly two).

The top is my mounted board that I was playing on...the bottom is the paper map which was safely stored away in the box.

In the flesh, it's alot more stark than it appears in the photo. If you look carefully at the top map, you can see yellow squares in the white hexes where a unit counter was...same with the forests etc...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 08, 2022, 05:24:29 PM
Ouch!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 08, 2022, 09:24:09 PM
The boys and I are heading to a small wargame miniatures convention tomorrow. So nothing on my table but we are going to see a bunch of games on a table and hopefully roll a few dice and move some minis around. Otherwise, I have been informed that, and I quote, "Dad, you know they sell minis and games there. We can buy one and just use their tables to play." Well played, son, well played.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 09, 2022, 02:52:48 AM
A young padawan...he's been well schooled
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 09, 2022, 07:46:01 AM
All set up
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on April 09, 2022, 07:55:07 AM
All set up

 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 10, 2022, 01:52:52 AM
A good day of miniatures gaming was had with the boys at the convention.  We got in a game of Circus Maximus (chariot racing), Wings of Glory WW1, and Arena Games Gladiatorial Combat. I was hoping to play some Red Bloody Skies and Victory at Sea but did not get a chance to do so.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 10, 2022, 07:08:26 AM
Sounds like you guys had fun  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on April 10, 2022, 11:28:16 AM
A good day of miniatures gaming was had with the boys at the convention.  We got in a game of Circus Maximus (chariot racing), Wings of Glory WW1, and Arena Games Gladiatorial Combat. I was hoping to play some Red Bloody Skies and Victory at Sea but did not get a chance to do so.

That sounds great. Looking forward to one day taking my son to a minis convention.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 12, 2022, 11:58:02 AM
I really need to take more photos when I go to miniature conventions. But I did take one a photo of the gladiator arena I thought some may find of interest.

The coolest part of the whole setup is the gentlemen who ran the game also made all of the game pieces. He 3D printed the Colosseum and all of the gladiator miniatures for the game. It was really cool and made me reconsider the possibility of 3D printing for gaming.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on April 13, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
The sand texture on the colosseum walls is really good. Did he get that using some kind of multi spatter effect or did he actually adhere a layer of fine varied  color sand to the pieces?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on April 13, 2022, 06:57:28 AM
I'm still very much into H&M and also 'Assault - Red Horizon 41'. At present, I'm helping to test the Air Support and OBA rules for the games first expansion.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 13, 2022, 11:03:41 PM
The sand texture on the colosseum walls is really good. Did he get that using some kind of multi spatter effect or did he actually adhere a layer of fine varied  color sand to the pieces?

Honestly, I am not sure how he textured the walls. Each section of the wall was about 6 inches. I really liked the mosaic art he painted on the walls.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on April 13, 2022, 11:35:50 PM
You can get textured spray paints for this
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on April 14, 2022, 06:42:27 AM
^ I remember using some 'splatter' spray paints years ago that would give you a texture but they were monochromatic. Are there also ones now that get the multicolored effect shown in those wall segments?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on April 14, 2022, 11:46:53 AM
You can use stuff like Citadel's Agrellan Earth and Armageddon Dust to get multicoloured texture effects.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on April 14, 2022, 02:17:37 PM
Krylon makes stone textured spray paints and it comes natural and brighter colors. I am sure other counties have something similar if Krylon is not availible.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on April 17, 2022, 03:42:33 PM
I set up Enemy Coast Ahead: The Doolittle Raid in remembrance of the 80th anniversary.  I've just finished the planning segment of the game and it's not off to a good start.  Lots of security leaks even before Task Force-16 is set to leave port (and it's delayed).

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 17, 2022, 05:54:11 PM
It's the PM turn of the second day (18th September)

30 Corps is south of Eindoven
101st has a decent Premier but lost the bridge at Son
82nd is under pressure from the 406th Div near Groesbeek and the bridge at Nijmegen is going to be a tough nut to crack
The 1st Airborne are holding the perimeter but Frost is battered. Help is coming in but it might be too late

Very exciting
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on April 17, 2022, 05:57:20 PM
Do those blocks come with the game or did you add them?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 17, 2022, 05:58:33 PM
I bought a load of different colours...helps with "book keeping"
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on April 17, 2022, 06:10:08 PM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 19, 2022, 05:16:17 PM
Pic 1
30 Corps have taken Eindhoven and are waiting at the Son for the bridge to be built
The 101st have secured what they could and have also created a buffer between any approaching Germans and Hell's Highway going forward to the bridge at Grave
We're also making decent ground up the right flank - but the Germans have fortified the bridges across the Eindhovensche Canal

Pic 2
The 82nd have secured the Grave bridge and the bridges over the Mass Waal Canal. They've also secured the rail bridge at Nijmegen but there's a touch couple of units (doubled in defence) holding onto Nijmegen
Out of all the airborne outfits, they seem to have the least resources - though I think they get a load of reinforcements from Turn 6 (though they could be delayed due to weather die modifiers making it more likely to be overcast (and no airborne units being dropped)

Pic 3
As happened in real life, the British are getting squeezed into Oosterbeek. Frost took a battering but 1st Bn 1 Para managed to get through and bolster his defence.

All rather exciting. Made some mistakes with the rules, but overall, I think I've kept it relatively clean.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on April 19, 2022, 08:23:53 PM
Looks like its shaping up to be a great game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 20, 2022, 01:58:11 AM
I have to say it's really very exciting.

I've been lucky with Traffic Markers. On the first turn, the Germans get to put down 2 and thereafter they get to put down 1...and every time I've placed a traffic marker, I've been able to remove 1 so there's never been more than 2 on there. In the last turn I laid number 6 which I promptly laid up near Eindhoven - and then rolled a 6 to remove it. So 30 Corps haven't really been slowed down much.

I may not be playing it right in certain areas - but - it's my game  ;D

I'm definitely going to have another game of this before it's packed away. Maybe afterwards I'll get one of the other 'xx games I've got to the table
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on April 25, 2022, 04:15:24 PM
So - I have made some mistakes. Little things - but I think defo things that could've changed the course of the battle as is - from both perspectives actually.

As the Germans, I think I've been a bit lack lustre in understanding I should be looking to blockade Hell's Highway. Things like in the second pic, I eventually worked out the German Engineer unit could get to Grave and prevent a crossing for a period of time. I overlooked that option because I'd forgotten about the 1/3rd 1/2 movement values for Engineer units.

Again in the second pic, I have a an strong Armour unit heading up to support the Engineers. They aren't crossing - just preventing a crossing.

I've also forgot at times about the no armour shift out of woods...the 1st Airborne suffered that one. Same with no doubling of armour in cities (and towns?).

Also - more importantly for the Allies, I've been reluctant to engage. Particularly with 30 Corps...but also with the 1st Airborne and the 82nd at Nijmegen...so they've taken a bit of a battering because German pressure just keeps building. I've not been engaging on 2:1 odds which - actually - aren't horrible. Not great and you want more, but 2:1 can work in your favour.

Anyway - here's the situation on turn 7 - September 19th (PM)

The time line states the German 107th attacks the Son crossing. I've actually got it heading to Grave.

30 Corps are over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son and the crossing at Veghel and heading towards Grave. I've also made ground over the Zuid Wilhems Canal (after I remembered about making crossings over canals using tactical movement).

The 82nd have shrunk it's perimeter to take account of stronger holding positions. They've also grabbed the bridge at Nijmegen...using 2:1 odds. They are being squeezed mind. Also they have an Issue at Grave but one unit is holding out until 30 Corp arrive to assist.

As for the 1st Airborne. They really are being squeezed. There were no air drops the last two turns (the entirety of September 19th) due to cloud. So they're desperately holding space for the 1st Polish Brigade in the hope they turn up on September 20th. They will be able to land in DZ-X and LZ-Y (seemingly according to the rules) which is why I've made my perimeter bigger than I'm comfortable with. Landing in trees and town hexes is bad. Clear being best and Polder next best.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 07, 2022, 10:04:20 PM
Three of us tried out BOIS: Origins today.  It's basically a Civ-type game where the players start out as a species of predator ape.  We played with Homo sapiens, the Neanderthals, and Homo floresiensis in our game.  There are also options to play with non humans species like cephalopod people and Triffids but we went with the standard game. 

The Sapiens player took an early lead in brain development, adding vocabulary and free will which allowed him to retain more ideas and inventions than the other players.  He quickly expanded his knowledge of fire use and was able to spread out from Zimbabwe into the rest of Africa, parts of the Middle East, and even Southern Europe.

The Neanderthals (me) got cut off from much of the rest of the world by re-glaciation and had to be content with hanging around in Northern Europe.  We managed to figure out pointy sticks but not how to effectively use them in combat.  The game swung back and forth in the early stages with the Sapiens player spreading all over the map due of his development of navigation and effective use of animals for mounts.  The Neanderthals were trapped but developed a high degreed of immunity from disease due to various practices such as burying the dead and child swaddling.  This did end up helping them ride out some catastrophic diseases like tuberculosis that ravaged the other two players.  The Hobbits were the first to spread into North America but they never did manage to fully develop their cognitive functions and so had a weak culture.  He easily fell prey to the Sapiens player.  Once the Sapiens player developed monotheism and converted to Islam (very rough event that utter destroyed the civilization that he had managed to build up until that point), he was able to spread his religion via fire and sword and pretty much ran away with the game.  I did try to stop him later on by limiting the power of religion through various acts of the Enlightenment but he was just too powerful by that point.

Very interesting title.  There are just so many options available to choose from that it's easy to get brain lock.  It's also frustrating than in any given game, you're only going to see a small number of ideas, inventions, and events so that you can't rely on any single strategy to win.  Looking forward to playing again.

If you're a fan of Civ type games, this one's worth a look.  The rulebook makes it seem very overwhelming but once you start playing, the actions are actually pretty intuitive and easy to pick up.

The game also wins a prize for worst box art I've seen in ages.

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So many delightful events to enjoy!
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And friendly ways to interact with your neighbours.
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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on May 08, 2022, 12:03:43 AM
Good lord SDR that game looks intense!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 08, 2022, 03:19:18 AM
The way the rulebook was written made it difficult to learn but after going through it a couple of times and watching a few Let's Play videos, it started to click.  The mechanics are actually pretty simple, there's just a lot of iconography to decipher and a lot of choices available each turn.  Fun game.  It's the third in the trilogy and I like it the best, I think.  BIOS: Megafauna is also quite fun and educational as well.  I don't enjoy BIOS: Genesis as much.  The idea is interesting (assemble the building blocks of life, try to create single called organisms and have them survive long enough to mutate into multicellular organisms) but the gameplay relies far too much on random chance.  There's a ton of cool science presented in the game and I get that the designer's intent was to present the formation of life as very chaotic and based largely on chance, but it doesn't translate into compelling game play, IMO. 

I do think it's neat that you can play all 3 games in sequence as a campaign and take your sea sponge from Genesis into Megafauna, evolve it into a cephalopod capable of language  and then bring that into Origins and yes it to destroy all the naked apes for the Cthulhu gods.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 08, 2022, 09:27:08 AM
It's turn 9 (the morning of September 20th)

30 Corps have reached Grave.

As soon as they cross at Grave, the 82nd will be in supply and able to get back to attacking and pushing back...though currently they have created the necessary buffer through Nijmegen.

The 1st Airborne have actually crossed the ferry south of Osterbeek. They are taking a chance doing this...the units across are vulnerable. The perimeter at Oosterbeek is collapsing each turn and the Germans are bringing in more artillery.

I mustn't let the Germans cut my supply off. I've got the 101st keeping a buffer along Hell's Highway between Son and Uden.

12 Corps and 8 Corps are protecting the lower left and right flanks.

11 Arm Div has crossed the canal (Zuid-Willems Canal?) in force and heading for their objectives (Overloon and Venray)

The flanks are very thinly defended and I'm aware there are alot of German reinforcements heading in over the next 5 turns (to September 22nd)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 08, 2022, 12:12:55 PM
Nice work, JD!  :rockon:

I have Nemesis on my table currently, though I am awaiting some mini-card sleeves before proceeding. I probably won't have time to play until next weekend, though, if I'm lucky. :(

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 08, 2022, 12:23:47 PM
Thanks.

I think I've played the German's s well as I could've. I tried to break through at the bottom of Hell's Highway - but as the Allies, I knew I had to keep a presence there - so I quickly started to move the German up to between Son and Grave.

I might have been able to better deal with the British - possibly. But again, They had a good perimeter that held - so I'm not sure.

There was one thing that I realised quite a way in I perhaps should've been doing more of - attacking at 2-1 odds. Not great, but can get a decent enough result. Especially trying to move the British out of Arnhem before they reinforced with another battalion. Now they're in there like a tick! Defence value of 20 (10 doubled due to being in a city) - so the Germans could've handled that better.

But I also didn't do that with the Allies - which perhaps allowed Germans to build forces when I could've chipped away.

Overall as a two player game, I think I've played it as fair from both sides as I could've.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 08, 2022, 04:18:15 PM
We ended up playing BIOS: Origins again today.  2 player game this time.  It ended quite differently than our first game.  In this iteration, the Neanderthals developed nuclear weapons and, tired of the constant proselytizing about Hobbit Jesus by the Homo floresienses, turned their wee cities into ash.

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The nasty little Hobbitses tried pushing the idea of Abolitionism and Natural Law (in order to remove the political realm from scoring as I was leading in that area) but a few more nuclear fires settled their hash. They did succeed in removing politics from end game scoring but the chaos and dissent they suffered as a result of  repeated nuclear attacks meant that I ended up winning on the industrial track.  My diversity was low but my tech was high enough to secure me the win.  I was one level short of getting long range, nuclear tipped cruise missiles.  Maybe next game.

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Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: vyshka on May 09, 2022, 05:54:03 PM
Not really what's on the table, but curious what people are doing for their gaming tables as I'm easing back into wargaming for the 1st time really since the late 80s. Looking at a couple buffet tables 30"x72", and Lowes sells some 30x36 pieces of plexiglass that would fit on those nicely. Only bummer is living in the Phoenix area means no basement so I will most likely be setting up in the garage which could get miserable during the summer.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 09, 2022, 06:17:36 PM
Mine is a 3.5' x5.5' table with a removable top.  The recessed well is 3x5 and has 2.5" depth.  It's lined with a dual sided matt, similar to a mouse pad.  One side is blue, the other is burgundy.  It's got 4 rotatable drink holders but honestly, most people find they get in the way.  I wish I'd mounted them on a rail so they could slide.  It also has some slits cut into the tops of the tablewell edged so that people can put cards in them.  I lined them with felt but obviously not well enough because most of it ended up on the card edges during the first few months of use. 

As for being sweaty in summer.  I'm not 100% but I think it says in the bylaws that, as wargamers, we are required to be clammy or wetter at all times.  Brant can give you the legalese but I think you'll be good....and damp.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 10, 2022, 02:20:22 AM
I built my own with a sexton to the left for model building which can be use for "spillage"

It can take 35" x 60" (70" at a push)

Oh - and it works as a "work from home" place too
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 10, 2022, 02:51:52 AM
Great set ups

SDR - did you chart the construction of the table over at the place that shall not be mentioned or have I misremembered?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on May 10, 2022, 03:13:26 AM
Nope, not me.  Mine was a kit that I modified a bit after the fact.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 10, 2022, 06:30:38 AM
Great set ups

SDR - did you chart the construction of the table over at the place that shall not be mentioned or have I misremembered?

That was Gary Krockover, who goes by GJK
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on May 10, 2022, 07:37:29 AM
Mind like a steel trap
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 10, 2022, 10:33:20 AM
Just having a go at the smaller scenario's in 'Custoza'.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 11, 2022, 04:08:04 AM
The British have now been kicked out of Arnhem. Plenty of troops left, but the pressure is enormous now

30 Corps are still south of Grave... they need to get up and help the 82nd sort quick or their route through Nijmegen will be cut off

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on May 11, 2022, 09:27:33 PM
That is a tall order to retake Arnhem.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 12, 2022, 01:55:14 AM
Yeah. I have a sneaking suspicion the gig is up - but I'm determined to play this superb game to the end.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on May 12, 2022, 07:46:01 PM
Yeah. I have a sneaking suspicion the gig is up - but I'm determined to play this superb game to the end.

I think this is one of those games that is still fun to play to the end evening if it looks like its going one way.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 23, 2022, 07:44:17 AM
I was within a gnat's baw hair of giving up on this. It's sat on the table and I haven't played it since my last update (doing models and racing F1 on my computer)

I've just been thinking so much about Fields of Fire and the draw to get that back on the table is sooooo strong...

But I've decided not to. I'm half way through (turn 10 of 20) - so I'm going to slog it out.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 24, 2022, 05:35:45 AM
Nope. Couldn't do it. It's off the table.

Fields of Fire baby.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 24, 2022, 09:37:46 AM
 :applause:

At least you tried. I've yet to get my copy to the table. Meanwhile I added Salerno '43 and Normandy '44 to my collection a few months ago.  :idiot2:

I have Secrets of the Lost Station on my table right now; did an unboxing for it. I need to do one for my TMNT Adventure Game All The Loot bundle now too, but there's so much stuff to it, I don't know where to begin. More than anything I'm excited about the Stan Sakai pack (https://youtu.be/avc16Y126WQ) in there, which has a Usagi Yojimbo mini. :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 27, 2022, 04:22:32 PM
Nirvana

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Tolstoi on May 30, 2022, 05:46:31 PM
Nirvana

JD, is Fields of Fire like Up Front? The Korean scenarios sound interesting and challenging. I'm curious to get your thoughts on the game, or direct me to past posts in which you discuss it. Thanks!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 31, 2022, 02:23:32 AM
I've never played Up Front so I can't compare.

What I do know is Fields of Fire is my number one solitaire game. It's simply superb. The actual game mechanics are pretty easy - but in order to get them into your head,  you have a long fight with the manual. It's poorly written and poorly laid out imo. Everything is there, but there's no index (very badly needed for the game because you are constantly looking things up for fringe rules) and some things that you think should be referenced somewhere in the manual are referenced somewhere else.

Manual aside, it's superb. I think it comes in at £70 or there abouts, but there's a huge amount of gaming in there. 3 theatres and so much randomness in setup that you'll never play the same game again.

I posted recently on YT that I stayed away from this game for over two years because it was card driven and - worst of all - it had cards as maps. But those aspects actually ended up being two of the strong reasons why I look forward to playing it all the time.


Map
You randomly draw cards to layout your terrain. This is an excellent mechanic because you just never know what terrain your troops are going to be fighting on.

Each card has an inherent cover value (sometimes two - a higher value for a dark border and a lower value for a light border). They can also have values for vehicle movement and may be more dangerous for incoming artillery (for example woods - you'll be in extra danger in woods from artillery).

On top of that, each card has intrinsic cover. This cover your troops have to find by expending commands. Find some and life becomes a bit safer. Some cards have strong cover (villages, farms etc) others have softer cover (gully, bocage)


Command System
Genius.

From Battalion to Platoon, you get commands. Each step in the hierarchy gets the chance to pull a card for orders and then use those to pass down. In my game, the Company CO pulls a card for orders. There are two order values on the cards. A higher one (generally) for a unit activated by an HQ and a lower one used for when a platoon isn't activated and is operating on it's own initiative. It's depressing when you need to get so much done and your CO pulls a card with 1 command point on it.

Command is affected by experience. Green commanders get -1 command points to what has been drawn and Veteran get's +1. On top of that, if there's no contact they get an additional one and when in contact, they get one less. This was excellently explained in a video where the guy said the commanders have more time to think when not in contact (+1 command) and when in contact, are under pressure (-1).

An HQ will pull a card and get his (modified) commands. He will then use those to do something himself or pass those orders onto his subordinates (HQs and staff). They in turn will pull a card and get their modified commands and use those to order their platoons to do something...scout forward, attack an enemy, rally...there's a plethora of commands that can be issued.

On top of all that, there's an initiative phase where a card is pulled and the lower value is used for initiative. These orders can be assigned to any unit - in command or not - to do something. So that assault team you sent forward to scout an area who is now out of contact may use his initiative to find cover...or launch a grenade at a known enemy position.

It's an excellent system.


Enemy
You never know what enemy are going to show up on the map. The map - in my game - is covered with Potential Contact Markers. These have 3 different values - A, B and C with A being the deadliest and C being less so. As your units scout a map area with a Potential Contact Marker, you resolve it using a random number on the cards between 1 and 10. These can be incoming mortar or artillery, HMG Nest, Squads - they can even manoeuvre behind you if I remember correctly. They may show up on your map - but they often end up at maximum line of sight to the front, front left or front right. And Maximum LoS could be the extent of the map and even can extend the map...depending on the card borders (light border means you can see through that card etc).


Combat
Each enemy unit (as well as yours) exert a Volume of Fire...from light weapons to automatic weapons, heavy weapons and bombardment. They also exert a  Primary Direction of Fire (PDF) if they are not on your card. These combats take place simultaneously and use a Net Combat Modifier (NCM).

A NCM is worked out adding up the inherent cover, intrinsic cover, state of the troops and Volume of Fire. So for example I have a squad moved forward onto a map area. They are marked Exposed (-2) because they're moving. The area is a Gully (Inherent cover +2). They do manage to find intrinsic cover (standard cover +1). They are under fire from mortars (a forward Observer two cards away) with a VoF of -3. Because they are in a Gully, there's a modifier of -1 for burst VoF...and mnortars are most definitely burst VoF. So you add all those values together
Exposed -2
Inherent Cover +2
Intrinsic Cover +1
Mortar Fire -3
Burst Fire -1
You now have a NCM of -3. You pull a card and see what -3 means. Generally it's bad - but these cards are random and I've seen a +6 give a hit and I've seen a -4 give a pin. If you're pinned, you're no longer exposed but your pinned. If you're hit, you pull another card and see what the damage is.

One additional thing is if you're pinned, you get a +1 for your NCM next time - because you're hunkered down. You also get a +2 to your VoF (because your not really shooting with any degree of accuracy - you are spraying and hoping because you're hiding. Negative numbers are better for Volume of Fire - so pinned isn't great...but as I said, I've seen hits on +6 before - so they're not useless




There's so much more I could say. So much more to this game than I've managed to write here. Every card pull is full of tension when you're looking for that cover or you're launching a grenade attack or you're determining what enemy is present or you're seeing how many commands you can pass around.

It's simply an excellent game.

I'm on holiday this week but maybe when I come back, I'll do a detailed AAR of a turn to give an idea of how it plays.

I hope this helps. This guy does a four video short intro (4 turns) to the game and does an excellent job of explaining things...he fleshes out why he's doing what he's doing which shows the difficulties he comes across making decisions. He makes some mistakes and picks some up - but overall, he does an excellent job of relaying the game mechanics and most of all, the excitement of game play.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 31, 2022, 04:11:23 AM
To any literally scholars out there, I may have used intrinsic and inherent incorrectly. Don't be mad.


@ Tolstoi - regarding your question on Up Front and this, as I said I haven't played Up Front so I can't compare but I believe the game I have coming soon (hopefully) is a descendant from Up Front - it's called Point Blank V for Victory. You may want to look at that if you're looking for an Up Front game.

But I would urge anyone with £70 burning a hole in there pocket, who loves solitaire gaming and who doesn't mind a wee bit of extra brain activity to get this game when you can.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Tolstoi on May 31, 2022, 03:58:45 PM
JD, that was brilliant! Brant is right, you should be writing articles for ACD. Either that, or GMT needs to hire you to sell their products. After reading your post I started looking for the game.

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights and providing an overview of how Fields of Fire plays. I hope you have a wonderful holiday and yes, if you have time and are willing to write up an AAR for us, that would be much appreciated!  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on May 31, 2022, 05:09:09 PM
Absolutely I agree with that.  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on May 31, 2022, 05:12:10 PM
Thank you very much - I'm glad you liked it.

The videos I linked to are so good. Like I said - some errors, but honestly, there's so much stuff going on in the game, I think the designers would even make mistakes.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 01, 2022, 10:16:41 AM
I just received my preorder of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. It came via UPS very late last night, close to 10pm. Very odd but it's here at least.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Doctor Quest on June 01, 2022, 02:18:12 PM
I dunno. The timing sounds good for The Batman!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on June 01, 2022, 02:23:54 PM
Its almost that time of year again, so I'm waiting for this to arrive;

https://www.vaevictismag.fr/en/first-empire/210-waterloo-1815.html
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 01, 2022, 02:38:07 PM
Isn't Vae Victus in French, though?

I bought one from Fine Games recently, as it had a good-looking game in there that mirrorerd the helicopter assault on a Vietnamese village from 'Apocalypse Now.'

Imagine my surprise when the mag is completely in French.  :silly:

I dunno. The timing sounds good for The Batman!

Fair point!  :2funny:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on June 01, 2022, 03:11:45 PM
Isn't Vae Victus in French, though?

I bought one from Fine Games recently, as it had a good-looking game in there that mirrorerd the helicopter assault on a Vietnamese village from 'Apocalypse Now.'

Imagine my surprise when the mag is completely in French.  :silly:

I dunno. The timing sounds good for The Batman!

Fair point!  :2funny:

The magazines are all in French, but a lot of the stand-alone games, such as this one, have English rules versions. Note that this isn't a magazine game :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on June 20, 2022, 05:36:57 PM
My first attempt at a Korean scenario
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 25, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
JD, appreciate your coverage a few pages upthread on Enemy Action Ardennes. I've been wanting it for a while and finally got a copy at Noble Knight for a decent price (had some credit so why not).

I also got Steel Wolves. I'd recently re-acquired Silent War along with its IJN expansion in a trade. I know Compass is doing an upgraded/combined version but I am happy with this. Steel Wolves has been on my grail list for a while, too.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 26, 2022, 02:33:37 AM
Got in a face-to-face game of Star Wars: Rebellion on Friday.  First time I'd played it in quite a long while.  I ended up winning a narrow victory as the Rebels but the Empire blew up the Wookie homeworld out of spite.

We started a face-to-face, 3-player game of Stellar Horizons today.  Got about 7 hours in and we're about 1/3rd of the way through the grand campaign.  Hadn't played this one in quite a long time either so I ended up screwing up a fairly major rule that should've prevented crewed vehicles from exploring Venus as nobody had developed pressure hulls yet.  Oh well, hurt me the most as I'm playing Japan and they specialize in robotic explorers.  We're going to continue the game in a few weeks.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on June 27, 2022, 01:53:55 AM
That sounds like a good time, SDR (for both games).  :) 

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 27, 2022, 09:01:27 AM
I have Stellar Horizons, and each time I heft that box I wonder how daft I was to get it in the first place. I could work out with that damned thing.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on June 27, 2022, 09:29:39 AM
^ So, will that count as combining game playing with gym work?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 27, 2022, 10:10:32 AM
I have Stellar Horizons, and each time I heft that box I wonder how daft I was to get it in the first place. I could work out with that damned thing.

Don't you say that about every game though? 
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 27, 2022, 10:11:16 AM
It very well could!

I mean, I'm only doing running at the gym right now. I try to avoid the weight machines as people get...territorial over those things. Still, I have weight bands at home, and Stellar Horizons, now.  ;D

Don't you say that about every game though? 

As a sum total, yes.

But individually, this mother of a box is redonkulously heavy.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 27, 2022, 10:14:30 AM
It's not so bad.  It does eat up a lot of table space though.  It's very crowded on my 3.5' x 5'5' table and every player has a card table set up with their faction board and goodies on that instead of the main table. 

I think the physically heaviest game I own is Tide of Iron + 3 expansions.  That sucker has to be at least 30 lbs.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 27, 2022, 10:17:49 AM
That's a good point, re: Tide of Iron + expansions. I tried to sell my copies on Consimworld and nada, no takers, especially likely because shipping would have been a b*tch of a cost to eat. I ended up trading them to Noble Knight.

The table space is a concern, but eventually I'll have a dedicated, large board game table in my office. I'm just waiting on some side gigs to manifest.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on August 15, 2022, 02:25:06 AM
The boys and I visited Brant and Gamer's Armory a few weeks back. I picked up Hold the Line: American Civil War. I actually got it stickered in one evening. We broke out the game the next day and they commanded the forces at Bull Run. The photos are from the first couple of turns of our game a few weeks ago but the game will be back on the table soon. The Union forces did not upset history with their performance on this day.

Setting up the battle
(https://i.imgur.com/gXi5uaD.jpg)

Battle status at the end of turn 2 IIRC.
(https://i.imgur.com/IjkM3Le.jpg?1)

Really solid block game and great for young or new wargamers.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on August 15, 2022, 08:11:01 AM
w00t!

the boys had some fun with the terrain tables there, too :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 15, 2022, 09:30:04 PM
We tried out a 2 player session of boardgame version of Sniper Elite this afternoon.  It's surprisingly fun and quite tense.  We ended up playing 4 times.  I'm terrible at it, managing 1 win and 1 loss as the sniper and 2 losses as the defenders.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on September 04, 2022, 08:39:02 PM
Played Night Drop 2 solo this weekend. Its a fun light game and it looks great on the table.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 04, 2022, 09:26:03 PM
Was that the one from Battles Mag?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on September 04, 2022, 10:24:29 PM
Was that the one from Battles Mag?

Yup thats the one.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on September 05, 2022, 05:27:49 PM
The dudes (my boys) and I broke out Warhammer 40K for a free for all three-way battle. We each had a squad and a leader for this scrum. The objective, besides destroying each other, was to hold the cylinder thing in the middle of the board.

(https://i.imgur.com/BTOPa0q.jpg)

The Space Marines and Necrons went into an early melee resulting in the Necron Overlord being killed along with 3 Space Marines. The Necron warriors pulled back and took out 4 of my Aeldari guardians before leaving the field. The Space Marine captain charged my lines and took out another 4 of my guardians before being felled by lucky shots from my Farseer and remaining guardians. Old dad's forces held the field this day...if only barely.

(https://i.imgur.com/0q446bL.jpg)

I know, I know. My Aeldari have no paint on them. It will be rectified someday!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on September 05, 2022, 05:42:10 PM
At present, I'm oscillating between 'Assault '41' and 'OST Vol II'.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on September 07, 2022, 05:15:50 AM
WaW '85
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on September 10, 2022, 04:59:10 PM
Part 2 of the RPG the boy's made called The Adventures. It is a rules and story on-the-fly game loosely based on D&D, WH40K, a King Arthur movie, and the Magical Treehouse book series...We are in the Desert of Doom looking for the magical, but cursed, Star Crystal which is guarded by the army hordes of a Goblin King and a Zombie King. I play a medic who was allowed to have a medical kit, a bucket, and a knife. The Star Crystal was found in a cave that was guarded by a group of demons, who my wife destroyed with a powerful bow attack. We found the cave when investigating the source of a smoke cloud that was coming from a destroyed car.

(https://i.imgur.com/b5uwpvR.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 10, 2022, 06:24:57 PM
looks like fun!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on September 10, 2022, 09:30:49 PM
Part 2 of the RPG the boy's made called The Adventures. It is a rules and story on-the-fly game loosely based on D&D, WH40K, a King Arthur movie, and the Magical Treehouse book series...We are in the Desert of Doom looking for the magical, but cursed, Star Crystal which is guarded by the army hordes of a Goblin King and a Zombie King. I play a medic who was allowed to have a medical kit, a bucket, and a knife. The Star Crystal was found in a cave that was guarded by a group of demons, who my wife destroyed with a powerful bow attack. We found the cave when investigating the source of a smoke cloud that was coming from a destroyed car.

(https://i.imgur.com/b5uwpvR.jpg?1)

That's awesome! So cool to see the whole family involved. We just started my son with the Magical Treehouse books series so hopefully he is similarly inspired. :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on September 23, 2022, 11:39:15 AM
Had this one for ages. Got it to the table at last
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on September 25, 2022, 10:10:33 AM
And did not like it. I just could not get into it
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on September 25, 2022, 01:08:15 PM
What didn't you like? What keep you out of it?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on September 25, 2022, 02:08:04 PM
Not one thing. The rules didn't help me. My initial glance at them looked procedural and easy to follow...but they weren't particularly full. They seemed to be missing some little nuggets.

I didn't like the mechanics either. There was no real choice to make outside of rolling the dive. Your rangers stayed in one column. The number of times I was drawing event chits and event cards just seemed ludicrous.

I'm sure it's a great game for some people but I didn't like it. I spent two weeks reading the rules and then it was on my table for two days and I never got past turn 3...I kept resetting.

I think sometimes I buy games because they have different mechanics...but actually I just like hex games where there's movement involved and you can make decisions that affect you in combat

Also I was a bit pissed at the quality. The time track and VP tracks were on paper...and not even thick paper and everyone I undetected with it, it just pissed me off.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on September 25, 2022, 02:08:40 PM
So I've stuck this on the table
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on September 25, 2022, 03:57:10 PM
Well, not every game is for everyone.

I'm interested to hear what you think of Dark Summer, it has me intrigued as D-Day is one of my favourite battles to game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: TTC on September 25, 2022, 04:00:51 PM
On my table:

Enemy Action: Kharkov, game turn 6

A failed attack by the 40 Army to take Valky leaves me at 16 VP. The KG Popov attacks toward the southwest have run out of steam and some local German counteroffensives look likely to regain ground and end any hopes of my forces breaking out to the Dnepr.
With 17 VP required at this point, I fear a visit from an NKVD general…

(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307921426_765819251435249_6522343229240996856_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=8qzROoyGadQAX9uQOUR&tn=tL17RLkaZT_2GYN_&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_hgReNexwiQ9QDU6C2qyxaiBX3kXROhACjHBPA-jfMow&oe=63354DEF)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: TTC on September 25, 2022, 04:03:30 PM
I also have the map for MMP's Kingdom of Heaven that I am probably going to set up today.

For the other half of my game table, I am debating Navajo Wars or giving the new solo CDG system a try with C&C Ancients.

I am also itching to get Vietnam: 1965-1975 and GBOH: Julius Caesar to the table.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on September 25, 2022, 04:11:25 PM
I really liked Enemy Action Ardennes. The only thing stopping me getting Kharkov is cost
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: TTC on September 25, 2022, 04:30:36 PM
I really liked Enemy Action Ardennes. The only thing stopping me getting Kharkov is cost

It's a nice take on the EA system. The battle is a little more fluid and open than the Ardennes, and there is an earlier and stronger counteroffensive by the Germans. I really like the entire system, although I'll admit at times I spend too much energy on the mechanics and not enough on my own tactics.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on September 25, 2022, 06:24:25 PM
We played an epic 4 player game of Fistful of Lead's fantasy version MIght & Melee series. I love the Fistful of Lead ruleset. My plans are for a post-apocalyptic campaign game to bring my childhood dream of playing in a Thundar the Barbarian game to life. Heavy use of felt for the river, indicating the forest and rough terrain areas, the bridges. The table mat is a Cigar Box terrain mat I picked up at the Southern Front miniature convention last weekend. I made my own specially marked card deck with a permanent marker. Placed some books under the game mat for hills. I need to make some foam hills to smooth out the terrain for gameplay. All in all, I think it looks good and worked for us to have a lot of fun.

(https://i.imgur.com/XQkzouB.jpg?1)

Oldest Daughter: Orcs. The bloodthirsty trait ended up being her bane as her orcs were in constant hand-to-hand combat
(https://i.imgur.com/bqSvPXO.jpg)
Boy 1: Human adventures. He just spent the game hunting his sister's orcs.
(https://i.imgur.com/RsZOUGy.jpg)
Boy 2: Ogre and kobalds. The ogre tied up my dwarves all game until I finally slew him.
(https://i.imgur.com/e9h3wlE.jpg)
Me: Dwarves and a halfling. The slow movement trait was crippling as I tried so very hard to bypass the ogre, grab the treasure and leave the board. Although, I won by default as the humans and orcs slaughtered each other and the kobolds wanted in on the action.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on September 25, 2022, 07:13:22 PM
Looks great

I know a lot of people take scenery to professional standards but a good game with good people trumps  the books and boxes every time
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on September 25, 2022, 08:14:44 PM
Looks great

I know a lot of people take scenery to professional standards but a good game with good people trumps  the books and boxes every time

Yes, sir. I love good terrain and making it but it should not stand in the way of playing. I have a number of plans for projects big and small. But game systems like fistful of lead are great to get more time at the table and not be overwhelmed by the pile of unfinished projects.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on September 25, 2022, 08:17:12 PM
I really liked Enemy Action Ardennes. The only thing stopping me getting Kharkov is cost

Yeah that cost has kept me from getting these two games. I keep putting them on Christmas and bday list but I guess nobody in my family wants to spend that much for "a game" either  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on September 25, 2022, 08:18:27 PM
Looks great

I know a lot of people take scenery to professional standards but a good game with good people trumps  the books and boxes every time

Yes, sir. I love good terrain and making it but it should not stand in the way of playing. I have a number of plans for projects big and small. But game systems like fistful of lead are great to get more time at the table and not be overwhelmed by the pile of unfinished projects.

Great looking game and sounds like alot of fun.

Do you tend to make generic terrain that can be utilized in different games or do yo like making game/era specific terrain?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on September 25, 2022, 08:33:58 PM

Great looking game and sounds like alot of fun.

Do you tend to make generic terrain that can be utilized in different games or do yo like making game/era specific terrain?

It’s a great game system for young and old. Plus just use what you have for minis and with a figure count of 5-8 a side it’s not a huge cost of time or money. And the recommended game area for 2-player is 3x3 feet with 28mm models less if using smaller scale. So it’s also friendly that way too. We played on 6x4 with 4 players and honestly it felt a little too big. I think a game with more ranged attacks it would work great with all the room to maneuver.

Hard question. I like generic terrain. A tree, hill, stone wall, etc…can be used in any setting.  Also using felt like I have is great because it’s so abstract but clearly defines the area. For example, Green felt = forested . Difficult terrain, light cover, limited line of sight. Throw a model tree or two and it looks the part well enough for our table. The setting is irrelevant. Fantasy, historical, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic it’s a forest or woods. Maybe there’s radiation in the woods or something but that’s a rules or setting condition.

Buildings get a little more tricky because of associations of architecture with historical and geographic eras. I use our warhammer terrain for everything requiring a wall or ruin right now. No one notices but I don’t play at a club either. I have plans for buildings but yeah it’s harder to do generic and frankly buildings are used much less than good scatter terrain.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Undercovergeek on September 25, 2022, 08:45:00 PM
I’d much rather have scenery and scatter terrain than buildings - but then again I don’t play any games that utilise buildings like kill team or 40k

Just looking at a LOTR board with forest fences walls and an occasional farmhouse look great
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 25, 2022, 09:05:54 PM
you guys gotta start breaking some of these game-specific discussions into their own threads so we don't lose sight of them buried in here after they end up 8-10 pages in the rearview mirror :)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on September 25, 2022, 09:15:08 PM
Yes dad…  :'(.  ;D
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on September 26, 2022, 06:51:04 AM
Looks like fun! I also have that Pink Floyd tee-shirt :-)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: TTC on September 26, 2022, 09:07:20 AM
I also have the map for MMP's Kingdom of Heaven that I am probably going to set up today.

For the other half of my game table, I am debating Navajo Wars or giving the new solo CDG system a try with C&C Ancients.

I am also itching to get Vietnam: 1965-1975 and GBOH: Julius Caesar to the table.

I played the C&C Ancients last night with the CDG card-driven system.

The Battle of Baecula:
The Romans attacked the Carthaginians, slowly whittling away the Carthaginian center atop the ridgeline.

But the Roman attack on the right flank was repulsed by Hasdrubal himself and a small contingent of heavy infantry, who left their camp and in two turns destroyed three Roman medium infantry units.

The Carthaginian heavy infantry were devastating and led Carthage to a win with 8 banners to the Romans 4.

(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307939562_765980641419110_773828339495917731_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=49JflYeYU7wAX-Hh6Ka&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT-d0WtUcgf6qWXk5f9h4ySi2fb_09ib_Ehr-D4tNknDTg&oe=63363B4E)

(https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307701875_765980981419076_8203895877430994728_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=SGYszyqctTUAX-Rp6Rp&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8jMuXY5joWAgHxFcMLBEjNVYYNa_Jpv_fbrCfSw8nqkQ&oe=6336A034)

(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307741685_765980678085773_5583319639029424285_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Y8dCqIksqA0AX_CQo6H&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT-aAbl9GDa4ClI_fa9WS8Gjpfh_vYMQoKrXMuQtLfK-vg&oe=6335E737)

(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/307692338_765981094752398_6948952431688585316_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=g2aYSWP3cCYAX_8m643&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_B5DOzfDIiM065jmDw_Sk6Rn__xY_ZldXfpJdw4nIHMg&oe=63361582)

I am so intrigued by the system that GMT's For the People is now on my table.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on September 26, 2022, 08:26:46 PM
After you get some more plays with the CDG system let us know what you think.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 08, 2022, 04:50:49 PM
I really liked Enemy Action Ardennes. The only thing stopping me getting Kharkov is cost
Bought  :(
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2022, 05:02:17 PM
 ;D  :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 08, 2022, 05:03:31 PM
Well, not every game is for everyone.

I'm interested to hear what you think of Dark Summer, it has me intrigued as D-Day is one of my favourite battles to game.
Right off the bat,  the map coordinates should be more prominent. I think it took me 30 minutes LONGER to set up just because of how utterly useless the text in the hexes is.

Looks good so though. Reading the manual, it's got LOTS akin to the 'xx games by Mark Simonitch...so it's following good stock
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2022, 05:09:10 PM
i won't admit to how many times I've looked at this game. Having said that, Normandy '44 is a hard to beat game on the subject.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2022, 05:13:17 PM
i won't admit to how many times I've looked at this game. Having said that, Normandy '44 is a hard to beat game on the subject.

I bought both.  :-[
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on October 08, 2022, 05:15:45 PM
i won't admit to how many times I've looked at this game. Having said that, Normandy '44 is a hard to beat game on the subject.

I bought both.  :-[

Which is better? (You have, of course, played them…?)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 08, 2022, 05:37:32 PM
i won't admit to how many times I've looked at this game. Having said that, Normandy '44 is a hard to beat game on the subject.

I bought both.  :-[
Ditto and until now, I hadn't played either.

I don't know what made me put this on the table before Normandy '44 as I loved Holland '44. Maybe I stumbled onto a video of Dark Summer
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2022, 05:48:13 PM
I'm sure I have posted elsewhere in the past that Normandy '44 remains one of my most favourite games ever. I really wish that they would do an expansion to carry it on past those first 20-odd days.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 08, 2022, 06:29:43 PM
Which is better? (You have, of course, played them…?)


 :ROFL:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2022, 06:43:01 PM
Which is better? (You have, of course, played them…?)


 :ROFL:

Like you've played all of the games you own.  ::)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 08, 2022, 06:57:38 PM
Which is better? (You have, of course, played them…?)


 :ROFL:

Like you've played all of the games you own.  ::)

not even close!  And the laughter would've been totally appropriate had the question been posed to me, too!   :hug:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2022, 07:22:23 PM
It's okay. Barthheart is right there with us.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on October 08, 2022, 09:00:44 PM
All of the games in my house have been played at least once. All of them.  8)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on October 08, 2022, 09:25:41 PM
^ Did you play that copy of Jutland on your floor with all the measuring gauges and things?
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bbmike on October 08, 2022, 09:27:08 PM
All of the games in my house have been played at least once. All of them.  8)

(https://media.tenor.com/abe3oh9pbwMAAAAd/umm-ok-yeah-right.gif)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: GROGnadsUSA on October 08, 2022, 09:35:10 PM
^ Did you play that copy of Jutland on your floor with all the measuring gauges and things?
CGSB as WE-uns had an 'Hexagonal' card table so, you too should due likewise JUST as thus! It sure was 'exciting' for when nearby 'Fleets' shall "sail into the fray" and emerge as any's 'salvation'! It was also good for "Bismark II", "Chariot Races", etc. oh, "Star Fleet Battles"!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Barthheart on October 08, 2022, 10:44:08 PM
^ Did you play that copy of Jutland on your floor with all the measuring gauges and things?

 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Staggerwing on October 09, 2022, 11:29:29 AM
Awesome!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on October 15, 2022, 02:36:36 PM
It's not going fantastic. I wasn't really keeping in my head the Allied or German victory objectives and as such I've not maximised my first turn in terms of combat or movement for BOTH sides.

I know it's only the first turn, but I'm now kind of starting off on the back foot - but for both sides so maybe that will even shit out  :doh:

Turns are pretty fast on this. There's not a massive chit count (at least at the start) so the phases during the first turn have gone quite fast. I don't like the small counters or the fact the map coordinates are so small...but I'll live with it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Tolstoi on October 29, 2022, 04:09:54 PM
This should be, "what's on your friend's table". Trying Outer Rim this afternoon. I have Lando, so we'll see how well this goes.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Martok on November 03, 2022, 03:46:14 AM
Well the game looks nice, for sure.  How's it actually play? 


Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Tolstoi on November 05, 2022, 11:50:48 PM
Well the game looks nice, for sure.  How's it actually play?

It plays well, or at least I enjoyed it. Lando isn't that great at ground combat and he makes up for it by having skills such as influence, knowledge and piloting. He also has an ability to re-roll one die after you roll the dice for any reason, so that's nice. Players travel to planets, looking for jobs, cargo to deliver, or bounties to bring in and then they try to complete those tasks to earn fame points and credits. First player to 10 fame points wins. The credits are used for buying gear, ships, cargo and bribes, etc. There are also cards that represent, gear, weapons and crew you can collect to increase your chances of success. Players can also take actions to help or hinder other players. We mostly hindered each other and it lead to some fun situations. In many ways, completing a task, like delivering cargo, or collecting a bounty is like a small quest. Die rolls determine almost all the outcomes, so if random results isn't something you enjoy, you probably won't like this game. We played for about 5 hours, (we are still new to this game, so I'm guessing we played slower than people familiar with the game system) and didn't quite finish the game before we had to end.

The only negative criticism we have is about the cards. The font on the cards is way too small and the color of the font is too faint. One of the players has low vision and found the cards nearly impossible to read.

Best part was, I won! I had 8 fame points and two other players had 7 when it was time to stop. I'm attaching a pic of Lando's card plus ship to show what I'd accumulated over the course of the game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on November 07, 2022, 02:55:52 PM
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52484764770_3936627d1a_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nXU92q)

Honestly, much more enjoyable than I was expecting.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on November 19, 2022, 05:47:28 AM
BIG battle. 4 Stugs, 5 Fireflys and 5 Cromwells

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52510019285_40df2129e1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o18zj6)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 19, 2022, 11:45:01 AM
Outer Rim is a good game. The solo mode is my only experience with it, and the bot is merciless. I played it a few times but have yet to win it, lol.

I did get the expansion for it, but I've yet to try it.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: Bison on November 19, 2022, 01:13:14 PM
The older girls and I have been "battling" over who can create the greatest trade network in the Roman empire playing Concordia. It is a Euro but I like to pretend my colonies are fortresses and my colonists are armies. You know to wargame it up a little bit. Let me tell you the level of eye-rolling goes to an extreme when Dad starts to go off about Ceasar's armies conquering Iberia and Gaul...I should make a CRT for the game...

Next up is another Euro. Hansa Teutonica. It's a great game but much harder to makeup wargame sidebar imaginations for...
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 20, 2022, 09:28:19 AM
Finally have Nemesis on my table, with all my 3D printed upgraded pieces!
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: thecommandtent on November 20, 2022, 08:27:06 PM
Finally found time to get Salerno '43 to the table. The British establishing a nice beachhead.

Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 21, 2022, 05:59:22 AM
 :bigthumb:

Usually the Germans get there first and claim all the deckchairs.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: pixelgeek on November 21, 2022, 05:16:03 PM
No photos but I have next scenario in my Space Infantry campaign game ready to play and I am in the midst of playing the Out of the Mist scenario for World at War 85.

Thank goodness neither of them takes up a lot of space
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on November 22, 2022, 02:05:25 AM
I was casting my eye over Space Infantry just yesterday
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: pixelgeek on November 22, 2022, 08:35:40 AM
I was carrying my eye over Space Infantry just yesterday

It is one of the few solo games that I have in which I actually play the campaign game.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: bob48 on November 30, 2022, 03:59:11 PM
Now playing the 'Elchingen 1805' scenario from 'Three Days of Glory', one of the 'Jours de Gloire' series games from Vae Victis.
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: judgedredd on December 07, 2022, 03:51:41 PM
I mean...it's got something if it's on my table for 2 months AND I've played about 10 scenarios (repeating a few to try again)
Title: Re: Whats on Your Table?
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 08, 2022, 09:43:30 AM
Aliens: This Time It's War.

From Leading Edge Games, 1989.

Unpunched, to boot.

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Post by: Doctor Quest on December 08, 2022, 11:02:50 AM
Nice miniature guillotine in the background there.  :bigthumb:

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Post by: Barthheart on December 08, 2022, 03:07:36 PM
Nice miniature guillotine in the background there.  :bigthumb:

psst... it's a dice tower...
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Post by: Doctor Quest on December 08, 2022, 04:06:20 PM
Psst*2..........It was supposed to be a joke.

I should know better.
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Post by: Barthheart on December 08, 2022, 07:00:07 PM
 ;D
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Post by: judgedredd on December 18, 2022, 05:01:05 PM
I mean...it's got something if it's on my table for 2 months AND I've played about 10 scenarios (repeating a few to try again)
Well...I've now packed this away. Honestly...very impressed with it. There's issues with the rules but the gameplay is excellent.

I can understand its not everyone's cup of tea. It's sort of odd I guess to play one action at a time, activating one unit at a time.

But I really, really liked it.

Now into this
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Post by: bob48 on December 18, 2022, 05:04:37 PM
 :notworthy: :bigthumb:
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Post by: Barthheart on December 18, 2022, 07:22:54 PM
… to play one action at a time, activating one unit at a time.


That is exactly the way LnLT, OST, and several other games are played.
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Post by: judgedredd on December 19, 2022, 02:25:37 AM
… to play one action at a time, activating one unit at a time.


That is exactly the way LnLT, OST, and several other games are played.
Memory  :silly:
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Post by: judgedredd on December 23, 2022, 08:35:06 AM
I mean...it's got something if it's on my table for 2 months AND I've played about 10 scenarios (repeating a few to try again)
Well...I've now packed this away. Honestly...very impressed with it. There's issues with the rules but the gameplay is excellent.

I can understand its not everyone's cup of tea. It's sort of odd I guess to play one action at a time, activating one unit at a time.

But I really, really liked it.

Now into this
I'm second guessing my purchase of this. There's precious little in the way of activity on BGG for this...16 posts in total! No files. No interest? I often like to watch playthrough videos to help assimilate the rules - but there's literally nothing out there bar unboxings - and I am finding it a bit more difficult than normal to get the rules down.

Mind you, someone is watching the forums though because I made a post the other day and it got a response fairly quickly.
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Post by: bob48 on January 05, 2023, 05:05:11 PM
I mean...it's got something if it's on my table for 2 months AND I've played about 10 scenarios (repeating a few to try again)
Well...I've now packed this away. Honestly...very impressed with it. There's issues with the rules but the gameplay is excellent.

I can understand its not everyone's cup of tea. It's sort of odd I guess to play one action at a time, activating one unit at a time.

But I really, really liked it.

Now into this

 :whistle: ::)
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Post by: judgedredd on January 05, 2023, 05:13:26 PM
I mean...it's got something if it's on my table for 2 months AND I've played about 10 scenarios (repeating a few to try again)
Well...I've now packed this away. Honestly...very impressed with it. There's issues with the rules but the gameplay is excellent.

I can understand its not everyone's cup of tea. It's sort of odd I guess to play one action at a time, activating one unit at a time.

But I really, really liked it.

Now into this

 :whistle: ::)
Soon my friend - very soon  ;) ;)
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Post by: bob48 on January 05, 2023, 05:53:31 PM
..if you don't get distracted by all the shiny new games from Hexasim :-)
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Post by: BanzaiCat on January 06, 2023, 11:35:42 AM
Codeword Cromwell (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/57141/codeword-cromwell-german-invasion-england-8-june-1), hopefully...
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Post by: thecommandtent on January 07, 2023, 11:54:47 AM
This just arrived out of nowhere from their last Kickstarter. No shipping notification but glad its here :)  Guess I'll be looking at this soon. 

JD any suggestions on the best way to start tackling learning this game?
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Post by: judgedredd on January 07, 2023, 02:48:33 PM
I'm afraid not...it was quite some time ago I played it.

From what I recall the rules were a bit here and there and took some working out and deciphering...but hopefully they got that sorted in the reprint.

I don't remember it being overly complicated...it was the rules that made it hard.

I think you'll be fine with the first couple of scenarios breaking you in

Good luck. I remember having a blast
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Post by: thecommandtent on January 07, 2023, 03:02:31 PM
I'm afraid not...it was quite some time ago I played it.

From what I recall the rules were a bit here and there and took some working out and deciphering...but hopefully they got that sorted in the reprint.

I don't remember it being overly complicated...it was the rules that made it hard.

I think you'll be fine with the first couple of scenarios reading you in

Good luck. I remember having a blast

 :bigthumb:
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Post by: bob48 on January 07, 2023, 03:03:52 PM
Decision at Kasserine :-)
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Post by: TTC on January 07, 2023, 03:58:03 PM
I've got Spruance Leader on my table. It's my first "Leader" game and I'm really enjoying it.

(My current task force includes the USS Leyte Gulf, CG-55, which fired the Tomahawks in Top Gun: Maverick.)

I do want to finish my campaign in the next day or two because I want to get Thin Red Line's Deadly Northern Lights on the table next.
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Post by: judgedredd on January 07, 2023, 04:10:49 PM
This again.

I've just finished a monster scenario I knocked up myself...I decided to do a wee one before I took a look at the rules for Battle Hymn again.

I did an AAR on Battle Hymn way back but I never got to complete it...I had to remove it from my table so I wasn't too get back to it

I've played this game for about 10 weeks now which even beats my time on Combat! and Fields of Fire. That's impressive...and I'm so not bored with it yet either
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Post by: judgedredd on January 15, 2023, 06:44:43 AM
The Battle of Pea Ridge has begun
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Post by: bob48 on January 15, 2023, 06:53:14 AM
Looks good  :bigthumb:

Did you get your games from Hexasim yet?
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Post by: judgedredd on January 15, 2023, 07:20:53 AM
Yep  ;D
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Post by: bob48 on January 15, 2023, 07:22:00 AM
 :) Good stuff, innit!
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Post by: judgedredd on January 15, 2023, 08:05:42 AM
Aye...looks pertty
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Post by: bbmike on January 15, 2023, 08:23:16 AM
Fun scenario!  :applause:
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Post by: judgedredd on January 15, 2023, 01:54:54 PM
Fun scenario!  :applause:
It was your video that made me want to get it on the table
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Post by: judgedredd on January 16, 2023, 05:26:40 PM
The Confederates have grabbed Leetown but were pushed out...though it's still under Confederate control for the moment

The Union have put some blocking forces to the west and north of Welfley's Knoll and managed to hold back The Missouri State Guard and Price's Division at Elkhorn Tavern

The Confederate low morale is a bugger in this scenario. They're generally attacking at 1 or 2
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Post by: judgedredd on January 18, 2023, 05:24:48 AM
I think the Union have screwed up (and by the Union, I'm referring to me). I thought a dismounted cavalry unit and a horse artillery unit were enough to use as a blocking force. It wasn't and now the centre has opened up.

If the Confederates get the victory location on Telegraph Road, they'll have 2 victory locations on the first day and win...if they can hold them until 17:00 (it's currently 14:00) which is entirely another matter


I really, really love this game...but combat can get very, very messy and confusing
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Post by: bayonetbrant on January 18, 2023, 06:27:26 AM
JD, would you mind cross-posting the stuff over here so we can bulk up the Battle Hymn thread?

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?topic=4323.0


thanks!
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Post by: judgedredd on January 18, 2023, 11:33:04 AM
Done  :bigthumb:
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Post by: judgedredd on February 08, 2023, 05:52:54 AM
I got me some Russian counter offensive going on
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Post by: bob48 on February 08, 2023, 08:37:25 AM
Rules proofing and development for Assault Games -  'Assault - Sicily '43' at present, but on the PC I got the 'Skyrim' urge again so that has been getting a lot of play for the last few days.
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Post by: judgedredd on February 15, 2023, 02:10:27 AM
It's going slow for the Soviets. I actually don't know how I can meet the victory conditions on turn 4 of getting 12 or more VPs.

I didn't manage it...I only managed a meagre 9 points...starting again
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on February 18, 2023, 03:25:46 PM
I Kickstarted Fighters of the Pacific a couple of years ago.  My copy finally arrived this week so we're hopefully going to get a game in today.  I set it up last night and played through a few turns solo just to get comfortable with the rules.  It's a very simple rules set and it's fully deterministic.  No randomness at all.  It almost feels a bit like playing Go, but with pieces that move across the board.  I'm not sure if it's fully my cup of tea, but I'm intrigued to try it out.
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on February 19, 2023, 05:08:56 PM
We ended up playing a couple of scenarios. The first took place off Guadalcanal.  4 destroyers from the Tokyo Express are trying to get supplies through.  They have 9 A6M2 Zeroes flying cover.  The Americans send in an uncoordinated strike.  4 Wildcats start on the map with 6 mire showing up on tytn 4.  This is followed by 4 TBD Devastators arriving on turn 8 and finally 6 SBD Dauntlesses on turn 12.  The scenario lasts 20 turns or until all Japanese destroyers are sunk or have exited the map.

We played this one twice and switched sides for the 2nd playthrough.  The Americans lost all their planes both times.  They sank 2 destroyers and damaged one in the first scenario and sank 3 in the second.  The Jepanese eked out a narrow victory in both sessions.  35/32 points in the first and 38/35 in the second.

The ship's AA seems a bit too deadly and the rules for torpedoes need clarification as there's no mention in the rules for their total run time. 


We decided to try one without ships so we played the ambush of Adm. Yamamoto scenario.  6 P-38s try to knock down 2 G4M bombers being escorted by 6 A6M5 Zeroes.  The 20mm tailguns on the G4Ms is devastating.  The P-38s need to get in close to do real damage but in doing do, they get torn up really badly.  I think the key for the US player is to break formation and have each P-38 operate independently.  It'll cost the US the initiative but it's mire likely that a few of the P-38s will be able to slip past the Zeroes make slashing attacks against the bombers.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52699344695_3d48eba7e0_b.jpg)
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Post by: TTC on February 19, 2023, 09:08:32 PM
I am playing Inferno from the Levy & Campaign series.

I really enjoy the system, but the rules are godawful.

The Ghibeline forces from Siena attempted to lift the siege at Cortona. Instead, one lord (Provenzano Salvani) was routed from the field.
Then, when Cortona fell to the besieging Guelph forces, nearby Asinalunga revolted against the Ghibelines.



(https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/329636459_566454482205282_100164836843092654_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=e42sDZL4FSwAX8nv3KQ&tn=tL17RLkaZT_2GYN_&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=00_AfCR4rkFDXnnGZ1cOSZqy7RQFG6rKSJnCooSEllvliFvUQ&oe=63F7C275)
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Post by: bob48 on February 20, 2023, 05:56:53 AM
That looks interesting, though.
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Post by: thecommandtent on March 12, 2023, 09:15:02 PM
Learning game of ONUS! with my son.
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Post by: bayonetbrant on March 12, 2023, 09:21:57 PM
w00t!
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Post by: judgedredd on March 13, 2023, 12:47:53 PM
Fallen Eagles II Waterloo 1815 starter scenario
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Post by: TTC on March 13, 2023, 12:54:56 PM
I just finished soloing the campaign scenario in Inferno (Levy & Campaign) system.

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Post by: bob48 on March 13, 2023, 01:26:45 PM
JD -  :bigthumb:
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Post by: judgedredd on March 13, 2023, 05:55:30 PM
It's only a starter scenario - for combat/movement mechanics. There's no real decisions on leader activations etc
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Post by: JudgeDredd on August 01, 2023, 04:01:33 PM
Hello, old friend. I've missed you.
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Post by: JudgeDredd on October 03, 2023, 04:30:30 PM
Pacific theatre...first time ever
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Post by: W8taminute on October 05, 2023, 12:49:54 PM
Pacific theatre...first time ever

Nice!!

Let us know what you think.
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Post by: bob48 on October 08, 2023, 04:08:16 PM
'Kernstown' from Revolution Games. It used the excellent 'Blind Sword' system and covers both the first and second battles.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on October 09, 2023, 08:43:07 AM
Halls of Hegra
Legacy of Yu
Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery

Trying to learn them for the next episode(s) of Solosaurus, but didn't have as much time as I'd hoped this past weekend. Instead I think the next episode will be all about The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-1943 since it's top of mind due to the other podcast I'm getting ready to deploy.

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Post by: Putraack on October 09, 2023, 10:35:17 AM
My family (me, wife, daughter) had a rare opportunity to play an extended game together this weekend, and it had been a long time since we'd played Twilight Imperium-- possibly since before daughter was born, and the game was new (1997, according to the box)? We played about 3 hours on Saturday and the same on Sunday, and I won!  :party:

Meanwhile, the longer-running wargame on the basement table is my Weds. night crew learning our way through PQ-17. We've moved through 2 sessions so far, mostly meeting a new player and hashing thru the rules. I'm enjoying it, and we'll likely finish that off this week.

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Post by: TTC on October 09, 2023, 10:42:15 AM
I started Mr. President this weekend.

Mr. President, end of Activation Phase 1

Although my administration came into power with multiple domestic crises, early emphasis on those by my cabinet has quieted that front and left me with an approval rating of 54%.

Due to an energy crisis, the public demands an energy independence bill. My domestic situation is solid, as a bipartisan Congress appears ready to pass bills to make a difference.

While China has been saber-rattling in the Pacific, the energy crisis aligned China more with the US as they sought more energy resources from the West.

World crises seem under control, and then the Russians made a strong play for Eastern Europe.
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Post by: trailrunner on October 09, 2023, 10:54:06 AM
Spent four days at ASLOK.  Played scenarios from 1936 (Spanish civil war), 1941 (Finns vs Russians), and 1945 (Russians vs Germans), and a partisan scenario set in Yugoslavia (I think - don't remember).  Won 2, lost 2, had a great time.

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Post by: bayonetbrant on October 09, 2023, 10:55:54 AM
ASLOK always looks really cool, but I don't play ASL, and would be in well over my head
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Post by: bayonetbrant on October 09, 2023, 11:01:00 AM
Hey Trailrunner! Are you coming to town for the Fall Assembly?
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Post by: trailrunner on October 09, 2023, 11:38:55 AM
Hey Trailrunner! Are you coming to town for the Fall Assembly?

I've thought about it.  Looks interesting.  I'd like to join the fun, especially since I may be moving down to the Raleigh Durham area next year and it would be great to meet some locals.  (BTW, how's the ASL scene down there?)  I also have a friend from northern VA that moved down there that I could tag up with.

But I just spent five days at ASLOK, including 11-12 hours of driving.  Probably more limiting is that the week of the Fall Assembly is when we put on a big event at work, and requesting leave would not be in good form.  My current job is pretty flexible, but being onsite that week is just about mandatory.
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Post by: bayonetbrant on October 09, 2023, 12:33:12 PM
(BTW, how's the ASL scene down there?)
Actually really good, but they are going to lose one of the bigger local events starting next year b/c the host facility is getting torn down to the studs and renovated.  :-\


My current job is pretty flexible, but being onsite that week is just about mandatory.

Totally understand.  Maybe next year?  :hug:
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Post by: bob48 on December 13, 2023, 06:54:55 AM
Just got a late birthday/ early Christmas pressie in the form of 'Fate of the Reiters' by Hexasim.
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Post by: JudgeDredd on December 13, 2023, 08:16:00 AM
Noice
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Post by: trailrunner on December 13, 2023, 10:03:16 AM
Here's my obligatory ASL photo.

We played this scenario last weekend.  I chose it partly because it was set on 16 December 1944 on the opening day of the Bulge.  Pretty simple scenario with the Germans attacking the Americans in the woods.  American force isn't particularly strong, but the German force is pretty strong, with lots of squads.  The Germans have to take 4 out of 5 designated hexes, which I marked with red plastic circles. 

I set my defense up to be strong on my right side to discourage him from coming through the woods.  I was concerned that he could get close, blast me with his superior firepower, and then get into close combat with 2 or 3 squads against my 1 squad.  On the left, there is open ground, so I set up my two MMGs with good fields of fire, and I had a little mortar in a forward position.  Once the fight got into the woods, that mortar would be useless, so that half squad was a sacrificial speed bump.  Quite a few of my units in the photo are dummies, which will slow him down a bit.

On the first turn, my strategy seemed to work.  I set up two fire lanes in the open ground, and killed a full squad on my first shot.  The fire lanes discouraged him running down that side.  Plus my mortar got acquisition on a woods hex on the board edge, which also slowed him down.  So far, so good.

On the second turn, the Germans pushed down my left side.  I left that side a little too weak, and my shots were ineffective, so he got a foothold into the woods a little easier than I had hoped.  In the center and the right, he stalled, but then he shot two of my primary defenders in the woodline and broke them both with weak shots.  Oops.  But this illustrates why I don't like playing the Americans - they break easy.  That is usually offset by a good ability to rally, good firepower, and lots of support weapons, but they are still too fragile.

As the game progressed, the Germans kept pushing on all fronts.  The dice were not on my side during this game.  My units kept breaking.  Three times in a row I tried to rally a unit, only to roll boxcars, which results in casualty reduction (and no rally).  The last time that happened I just laughed and cried.  Every time I had a good shot, I'd nerf the shot.  After my initial kill, I think I only broke 3 of his German squads.  One of those I managed to kill by failure to rout.  I don't like to blame the dice, but they sure weren't on my side during this game.

Another challenge for the Americans is that the Germans had plenty of time, so I was constantly fighting a measured retreat.  As the noose collapsed on the last victory hex, I still had two good squads in position to defend it, but they couldn't survive the barrage of German firepower, and with a half-turn to go, both squads broke.  At that point, I only had a puny green half-squad to defend the hex against at least 8 full squads, so I conceded with a half-turn to go.

This weekend, I'll go from the snowy forests in Europe to the kunai of Thailand.  Our scenario is set in 1941, and has the Vichy French attacking the Thai Army.  The French have an FT-17 and will attack a hill.  Should be interesting.

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Post by: bayonetbrant on December 13, 2023, 11:43:47 AM
sounds like it was a good time!

What are the white counter-holders on the American side?
Are there any dummy counters under those "?"s ?
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Post by: trailrunner on December 13, 2023, 01:30:54 PM
What are the white counter-holders on the American side?

Those are stack guards, made by a fellow North Carolinian.  Those make it easy to move stacks around without spilling them.  That's especially important when trying to keep your units concealed under the ?.

Are there any dummy counters under those "?"s ?

You can have real units under a ?, so some are dummies, and some are real.  The ? counters hide the contents, plus they make it harder to attack them.  The basic effect is to reduce fire power on it by half.  It also helps in close combat.  Concealment can be an important part of a game, as it was for me on defense.  Typically, the attacker has to probe, either recon by fire, or by sending scouts (usually half squads) forward.  Making your opponent waste a turn shooting at dummies is not a bad thing.

One of the really fun aspects of hidden units in ASL is that guns (ordnance usually larger than around 20mm) can always be hidden unless otherwise specified.  That makes commanding tanks tense.  The scenario I played two weeks ago, I had 7 (yes, 7) Tiger tanks, but my opponent had 6 AT guns, all hidden.  Yeah, I found the hidden guns alright - when they shot at me at close range. 
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Post by: bayonetbrant on December 13, 2023, 03:36:47 PM
Yeah, I found the hidden guns alright - when they shot at me at close range.


Recon by death!
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Post by: JudgeDredd on December 13, 2023, 04:19:02 PM
Great War Commander
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Post by: bob48 on December 13, 2023, 05:38:46 PM
I do so like the look of it - very splendid! <twirls 'stache>
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Post by: JudgeDredd on December 14, 2023, 02:03:30 AM
It really is quite an excellent game...apart from the OpFire rule. And beautiful.

My French units in the top right of the map are about to perform an Offensive order...meaning they can move then fire. The Germans  are way ahead in points, but they're only 4 units away from Surrendering. So if I can get close enough to perform some melee, I might be able to nip it.

I'm really not having a problem playing both sides either...I just play "logically" for both sides, regardless of what I know about the other sides cards.
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Post by: bbmike on December 14, 2023, 08:05:46 AM
...

I'm really not having a problem playing both sides either...I just play "logically" for both sides, regardless of what I know about the other sides cards.


(https://www.aarcentral.com/pics3/force.jpg)
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Post by: bayonetbrant on January 07, 2024, 01:31:37 PM
https://twitter.com/ADragoons/status/1744062699825168848

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Post by: JudgeDredd on January 08, 2024, 09:06:07 AM
Exercise 1:Crossed Swords
The first exercise in the game Red Strike to show ground movement, combat, supply and ZoCs

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Post by: bob48 on January 10, 2024, 04:28:38 PM
Currently playing 'The Hill of Death - Champion Hill'. This is the first game in the 'Shattered Union' series from TBP, designed by the esteemed Mr. Hermann Luttmann.

i=PsC3Xs_dIyvF7sW4

Thank you, Mike!
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on January 14, 2024, 05:14:58 PM
We're going to try out our 1st game of Prime Minister today. 

I've gone through the rules a few times.  Mostly straightforward, I think but some of the scoring and timing rules seem a bit tricky.  I'm looking forward to it though.

We did a random draw for politicians.  The Liberals will start with the majority.  Earl Russel as PM with Palmerston waiting in the wings.  The Opposition leader will be the Marquess of Salisbury with Disraeli as backbencher.

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Post by: JudgeDredd on January 15, 2024, 06:47:21 AM
one does not approve  ;D
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on January 15, 2024, 10:43:20 AM
Vicky does look pretty stern on the board art.
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Post by: JudgeDredd on February 05, 2024, 04:15:47 AM
Taking a break from Red Strike

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Post by: bob48 on February 05, 2024, 05:52:41 AM
Its a really great game system!
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Post by: bob48 on February 08, 2024, 02:12:13 PM
Taking a break from Red Strike

How are you getting on with that, JD?